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issue 89, featuring:
cover: angela caporaso
geoffrey aitken
alex carrigan
mark d cart
ian chapman
harley claes
bart edelman
beau farris
j.i. kleinberg
zainab kuyizhi
francesca leader
kate lunn-pigula
amy marques
corey mesler
ilias tsagas
cover: angela caporaso
geoffrey aitken
alex carrigan
mark d cart
ian chapman
harley claes
bart edelman
beau farris
j.i. kleinberg
zainab kuyizhi
francesca leader
kate lunn-pigula
amy marques
corey mesler
ilias tsagas
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biographies - issue 89
Geoffrey Aitken
Geoffrey Aitken writes in Adelaide, on unceded Kaurna land, an awarded industrial minimalist poet who communicates his ‘lived experience disability’ for publishers [AUS] and [UK, US, CAN, Fr & CN]. Recent poetry at ‘Sparks of Calliope’, ‘Impspired Mag’ & ‘StepAway Magazine’ [UK], ‘Maya’s Micros’ & ‘Panoplyzine Magazine’, [US], and ‘unusual work’ [AUS]. Nominated for the annual Best of the Net anthology in 2022.
Mark D Cart
Mark D Cart's 7th book lesser case was brought into the world by Nixes Mate Books.
Angela Caporaso
Angela Caporaso was born in 1962. A visual artist from Caserta (Italy), she began to take an interest in figurative arts in the eighties, exhibiting repeatedly both in Italy and abroad. Angela Caporaso's art has always been characterized by a constant research and experimentation. Since her first exhibitions she has revealed a constant strain towards new expressive languages. This constant research led Angela to contaminate sign with colour, font with image, literature with painting, as though one single medium was not sufficient to express her complex imaginative world. Angela Caporaso is focusing on artists’ books and visual poetry, working with the mediums of collage, trash-art and, more recently, digital formats. Many of her works are part of both public and private collections.
http://www.angelacaporaso.com
Alex Carrigan
Alex Carrigan (he/him) is a Pushcart-nominated editor, poet, and critic from Alexandria, VA. He is the author of Now Let’s Get Brunch: A Collection of RuPaul’s Drag Race Twitter Poetry (Querencia Press, 2023) and May All Our Pain Be Champagne: A Collection of Real Housewives Twitter Poetry (Alien Buddha Press, 2022). He has appeared in The Broadkill Review, Sage Cigarettes, Barrelhouse, Fifth Wheel Press, Cutbow Quarterly, and more. Visit carriganak.wordpress.com or follow him on Twitter @carriganak for more info.
Harley Claes
Harley Claes is a writer and entrepreneur from Detroit, Michigan. Her work is oftentimes anachronistic, surreal, philosophical and holy erotic. She also happens to run the Beat-inspired press ANGELICAL RAVINGS. Her work has appeared 50+ times in literary magazines. You can find her at https://linktr.ee/harleyclaes and on twitter @vilecherubium
Ian Chapman
Ian’s first short story was published back in 1998 and since then he’s had a play performed and won a poetry prize as part of his MA in Creative Writing. An edition of Dream Catcher magazine included his short story Moving On and he completed a PhD in Creative Writing at Lancaster University in 2012. He lives in Kendal and when he’s not drumming with a local samba band or walking in the Lakeland Fells, he reads some of his poetry at the Brewery Arts Centre.
Bart Edelman
Bart Edelman’s poetry collections include Crossing the Hackensack (Prometheus Press), Under Damaris’ Dress (Lightning Publications), The Alphabet of Love (Ren Hen Press), The Gentle Man (Ren Hen Press), The Last Mojito (Ren Hen Press), The Geographer’s Wife (Ren Hen Press), Whistling to Trick the Wind (Meadowlark Press), and This Body Is Never at Rest: New and Selected Poems 1993 – 2023 (Meadowlark Press). He has taught at Glendale College, where he edited Eclipse, a literary journal, and, most recently, in the MFA program at Antioch University, Los Angeles. His work has been widely anthologized in textbooks published by City Lights Books, Etruscan Press, Fountainhead Press, Harcourt Brace, Longman, McGraw-Hill, Prentice Hall, Simon & Schuster, Thomson/Heinle, the University of Iowa Press, Wadsworth, and others. He lives in Pasadena, California.
Beau Farris
Beau Farris is an experimental writer from Colorado, currently receiving his MFA at CU Boulder. He believes in the indelible transaction that a reader can have with a page visually, and that this transaction can be amplified ten-fold in the digital age. His work attempts to make the mundane magical. In his spare time, he enjoys making mixtapes no one will ever listen to.
Francesca Leader
Francesca Leader is a self-taught writer and artist originally from Western Montana. She has poetry published or forthcoming in Hooligan, Broadkill Review, Frost Meadow Review, Door is a Jar, Stanchion, Nixe’s Mate, Bullshit Lit, Cutbow Quarterly, Literary Mama, Poetry New Zealand, and elsewhere. Learn more about her at inabucketthemoon.wordpress.com.
Kate Lunn-Pigula
Kate Lunn-Pigula has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Nottingham. Her work has been published by Litro, Clover and White, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Idle Ink, The Honest Ulsterman, Other People’s Flowers, Bunbury Magazine and Thresholds, amongst others. You can find her at http://katelunnpigula.wordpress.com and on Instagram @katelunnpigula.
J.I. Kleinberg
An artist, poet, and freelance writer, J.I. Kleinberg lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA, and on Instagram @jikleinberg. Her poems have been published in print and online journals worldwide and chapbooks of her visual poems, how to pronounce the wind (Paper View Books) and Desire’s Authority (Ravenna Press Triple Series No. 23), were published in 2023.
Zainab Kuyizhi
Zainab Kuyizhi is a Nigerian poet and a spoken word artist. Her work explores the dynamics of life and its entirety, especially, love, pain, and anger, and it’s appeared in OneBlackBoyLikeThat Review, Tilted House Review, The Ayanfe Magazine, The Tower Magazine and elsewhere. She's on Twitter & Instagram @yar_kuyizhi.
Amy Marques
Amy Marques has been known to call books friends and is on a first name basis with many fictional characters. She has been nominated for multiple awards and has visual art, poetry, and prose published in journals such as Streetcake Magazine, South Florida Poetry Journal, MoonPark Review, Bending Genres, Ghost Parachute, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Gone Lawn. She is the editor and visual artist for the Duets anthology and has an erasure poetry book coming out in 2024 with Full Mood Publishing. More at https://amybookwhisperer.wordpress.com.
Corey Mesler
Corey Mesler has been published in numerous anthologies and journals including Poetry, Gargoyle, Five Points, Good Poems American Places, and New Stories from the South. He has published over 45 books of fiction and poetry. His newest novel, Cock-a-Hoop, is from Whiskey Tit. He also wrote the screenplay for We Go On, which won The Memphis Film Prize in 2017. With his wife he runs Burke’s Book Store (est. 1875) in Memphis.
Ilias Tsagas
Ilias Tsagas is a Greek poet writing in English as a second language. His poems have appeared in journals like: Apogee, AMBIT, Under the Radar, Poetry Wales, SAND, Tokyo Poetry, Plumwood Mountain and elsewhere. Ilias will be an Artist in Residence at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2024.
Geoffrey Aitken
Geoffrey Aitken writes in Adelaide, on unceded Kaurna land, an awarded industrial minimalist poet who communicates his ‘lived experience disability’ for publishers [AUS] and [UK, US, CAN, Fr & CN]. Recent poetry at ‘Sparks of Calliope’, ‘Impspired Mag’ & ‘StepAway Magazine’ [UK], ‘Maya’s Micros’ & ‘Panoplyzine Magazine’, [US], and ‘unusual work’ [AUS]. Nominated for the annual Best of the Net anthology in 2022.
Mark D Cart
Mark D Cart's 7th book lesser case was brought into the world by Nixes Mate Books.
Angela Caporaso
Angela Caporaso was born in 1962. A visual artist from Caserta (Italy), she began to take an interest in figurative arts in the eighties, exhibiting repeatedly both in Italy and abroad. Angela Caporaso's art has always been characterized by a constant research and experimentation. Since her first exhibitions she has revealed a constant strain towards new expressive languages. This constant research led Angela to contaminate sign with colour, font with image, literature with painting, as though one single medium was not sufficient to express her complex imaginative world. Angela Caporaso is focusing on artists’ books and visual poetry, working with the mediums of collage, trash-art and, more recently, digital formats. Many of her works are part of both public and private collections.
http://www.angelacaporaso.com
Alex Carrigan
Alex Carrigan (he/him) is a Pushcart-nominated editor, poet, and critic from Alexandria, VA. He is the author of Now Let’s Get Brunch: A Collection of RuPaul’s Drag Race Twitter Poetry (Querencia Press, 2023) and May All Our Pain Be Champagne: A Collection of Real Housewives Twitter Poetry (Alien Buddha Press, 2022). He has appeared in The Broadkill Review, Sage Cigarettes, Barrelhouse, Fifth Wheel Press, Cutbow Quarterly, and more. Visit carriganak.wordpress.com or follow him on Twitter @carriganak for more info.
Harley Claes
Harley Claes is a writer and entrepreneur from Detroit, Michigan. Her work is oftentimes anachronistic, surreal, philosophical and holy erotic. She also happens to run the Beat-inspired press ANGELICAL RAVINGS. Her work has appeared 50+ times in literary magazines. You can find her at https://linktr.ee/harleyclaes and on twitter @vilecherubium
Ian Chapman
Ian’s first short story was published back in 1998 and since then he’s had a play performed and won a poetry prize as part of his MA in Creative Writing. An edition of Dream Catcher magazine included his short story Moving On and he completed a PhD in Creative Writing at Lancaster University in 2012. He lives in Kendal and when he’s not drumming with a local samba band or walking in the Lakeland Fells, he reads some of his poetry at the Brewery Arts Centre.
Bart Edelman
Bart Edelman’s poetry collections include Crossing the Hackensack (Prometheus Press), Under Damaris’ Dress (Lightning Publications), The Alphabet of Love (Ren Hen Press), The Gentle Man (Ren Hen Press), The Last Mojito (Ren Hen Press), The Geographer’s Wife (Ren Hen Press), Whistling to Trick the Wind (Meadowlark Press), and This Body Is Never at Rest: New and Selected Poems 1993 – 2023 (Meadowlark Press). He has taught at Glendale College, where he edited Eclipse, a literary journal, and, most recently, in the MFA program at Antioch University, Los Angeles. His work has been widely anthologized in textbooks published by City Lights Books, Etruscan Press, Fountainhead Press, Harcourt Brace, Longman, McGraw-Hill, Prentice Hall, Simon & Schuster, Thomson/Heinle, the University of Iowa Press, Wadsworth, and others. He lives in Pasadena, California.
Beau Farris
Beau Farris is an experimental writer from Colorado, currently receiving his MFA at CU Boulder. He believes in the indelible transaction that a reader can have with a page visually, and that this transaction can be amplified ten-fold in the digital age. His work attempts to make the mundane magical. In his spare time, he enjoys making mixtapes no one will ever listen to.
Francesca Leader
Francesca Leader is a self-taught writer and artist originally from Western Montana. She has poetry published or forthcoming in Hooligan, Broadkill Review, Frost Meadow Review, Door is a Jar, Stanchion, Nixe’s Mate, Bullshit Lit, Cutbow Quarterly, Literary Mama, Poetry New Zealand, and elsewhere. Learn more about her at inabucketthemoon.wordpress.com.
Kate Lunn-Pigula
Kate Lunn-Pigula has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Nottingham. Her work has been published by Litro, Clover and White, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Idle Ink, The Honest Ulsterman, Other People’s Flowers, Bunbury Magazine and Thresholds, amongst others. You can find her at http://katelunnpigula.wordpress.com and on Instagram @katelunnpigula.
J.I. Kleinberg
An artist, poet, and freelance writer, J.I. Kleinberg lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA, and on Instagram @jikleinberg. Her poems have been published in print and online journals worldwide and chapbooks of her visual poems, how to pronounce the wind (Paper View Books) and Desire’s Authority (Ravenna Press Triple Series No. 23), were published in 2023.
Zainab Kuyizhi
Zainab Kuyizhi is a Nigerian poet and a spoken word artist. Her work explores the dynamics of life and its entirety, especially, love, pain, and anger, and it’s appeared in OneBlackBoyLikeThat Review, Tilted House Review, The Ayanfe Magazine, The Tower Magazine and elsewhere. She's on Twitter & Instagram @yar_kuyizhi.
Amy Marques
Amy Marques has been known to call books friends and is on a first name basis with many fictional characters. She has been nominated for multiple awards and has visual art, poetry, and prose published in journals such as Streetcake Magazine, South Florida Poetry Journal, MoonPark Review, Bending Genres, Ghost Parachute, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Gone Lawn. She is the editor and visual artist for the Duets anthology and has an erasure poetry book coming out in 2024 with Full Mood Publishing. More at https://amybookwhisperer.wordpress.com.
Corey Mesler
Corey Mesler has been published in numerous anthologies and journals including Poetry, Gargoyle, Five Points, Good Poems American Places, and New Stories from the South. He has published over 45 books of fiction and poetry. His newest novel, Cock-a-Hoop, is from Whiskey Tit. He also wrote the screenplay for We Go On, which won The Memphis Film Prize in 2017. With his wife he runs Burke’s Book Store (est. 1875) in Memphis.
Ilias Tsagas
Ilias Tsagas is a Greek poet writing in English as a second language. His poems have appeared in journals like: Apogee, AMBIT, Under the Radar, Poetry Wales, SAND, Tokyo Poetry, Plumwood Mountain and elsewhere. Ilias will be an Artist in Residence at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2024.