right hand pointing

Kat Lemmons has contributed both visual art and poetry to Right Hand Pointing and she made the cover for this  issue.  She exemplifies the multi-talented mojo which is RHP.  Her work is on the web here.

MFA graduate of Vermont College, and instructor of poetry workshops at The Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Kevin McLellan has recent or forthcoming poems in journals including: Barrow Street. BLOOM, Exquisite Corpse, Konundrum Engine Literary Review, Lodestar Quarterly, MiPOesias, three candles, and others.

Michael Kozlowski is currently a freelance writer living in New York City.  He has short stories and poetry published in upcoming issues of Red Wheelbarrow and Dispatch Literary Magazine.  He has a degree in English, is working on his second, and has a certificate in screenwriting from NYU.   Silence has held him captive for far too long.

Adam Dupaski teaches English to Poles, and occasionally Belorussians, in Krakow, Poland. Originally from Ohio, he lives near Stary Kleparz market, and is able to play drums about once every two weeks. This is his first publication. 

J. Michael Wahlgren's work has appeared in Flutter and will appear in Watching the Wheels: A Blackbird. He has a chapbook coming out from Maverick Duck Press in December 2007.

Lisa Zaran is a poet, essayist and occassional interviewer living in Arizona.  She has authored six collections (two full length, four chapbooks).  Her first collection, the sometimes girl, is currently the focus of a translation course in Germany.  Some current venues where her poetry can be found include Great Works, Ugly Accent, Mannequin Envy, Laura Hird, Soul to Soul, Unlikely Stories, the-Beat and others.  She is the founder and editor of the online poetry journal, Contemporary American Voices.

Jamie Parsley is the author of seven books of poems, including Paper Doves, Falling (1992), The Loneliness of Blizzards (1995), Cloud (1997), The Wounded Table (1999), no stars, no moon: new and collected haiku (2004), Ikon (2005) and Just Once, which was just published by Loonfeather Press in February, 2007. Jamie  received the MFA from Vermont College. In 2004, Jamie was named Associate Poet Laureate of North Dakota by current Poet Laureate Larry Woiwode.

Catherine Fleming is a Creative Writing student at Curtin University in Western Australia.  She has had poems published in Mundaring Sharing magazine and has an essay in Sitelines.

Aaron Belz writes poetry in his hometown of St. Louis, Missouri. His work has appeared in Boston Review, Fence, Painted Bride Quarterly, Black Clock and other places, and his first full-length book, The Bird Hoverer was published by BlazeVOX in 2007. Another of his manuscripts, Clementines, was selected as a runner-up for the 2006 Marsh Hawk Press contest by Denise Duhamel, who writes: "Aaron Belz is a gravely hilarious poet . . . his ferocious intelligence, his love of glitz, and his wry take on relationships (both human and animal) are irrestistable. His voice is bold, wise, inimitable."

Mark Sawyer lives and wanders in Western North Carolina. He is a husband, father, part time photographer, and writes when he can or when he must which ever comes first. He has been published in such places as Sour Grapes, Mad Swirl, Zygote in My Coffee, WAH, the Memphis University Helmsmen, and the BRCC annual poetry review.

Des Donnelly was born in Co Tyrone, Ireland in the middle of the last century. Working exclusively in the electronic domain Donnelly says;- "the evolving nature of technology is changing the relationship between writer and reader. It is written now - it is available now." Via poet.ie  drax.net http://hubpages.com/hub/Official_Hub_Poet  and desdonnelly.com a lot of his work is available now !

Karen Neuberg's work has been published in literature journals such as Barrow Street, Columbia Poetry Review, Elixir, Diner, and Phoebe, and on-line for Blue-Fifth Review, The Diagram, Toasted-Cheese, and others. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Eric Hevesy received his degree in English Lit. from the Ohio State University in Spring 2006.  He currently lives in Cleveland, Ohio.  IHe recently moved to China to teach English as a foreign language because he just spent lots of money in Barcelona while getting his TEFL degree and he figures he better use the degree for something.  He has aspirations to one day publish books of poetry titled After Rowing Juliet, Christopher Sings Columbus Songs, and The Eloquence of Spanish Guitar, however, he’s just started sending his poetry out with hope that he'll be published. 

Cathy Carroll lives and writes in Ontario, Canada. Her dream is to have her poetry appear in Right Hand Pointing.  We wonder what she'll dream about now.

andrea k. bennett lives in guelph, ontario.  she previously published a chapbook entitled notes from beside you on the bed. she's currently finishing up a prolonged degree, and reserves the use of capitals for special occasions.  (We think this may explain the delay in getting her degree--Editors.)

Emily Spreiser is currently a senior at Brandeis University outside of Boston and plans to attend law school.  When she is not at school she resides in California.  Emily is coeditor of Laurel Moon, a student literary publication at Brandeis.

Scott Garson has lived recently in Santa Cruz but was moving when we got his submission early this year.  His work has appeared lately in Hobart and Quick Fiction.

J. R. Salling is an antiquarian bookseller specializing in the history of science and medicine, a fact sometimes reflected in his written work, more often not. His writings have appeared in many publications including Pindeldyboz, Flashquake, Eyeshot, T-Zero, Thieves Jargon, Mad Hatters' Review, and Rose & Thorn.

Christine Surka is a student at Brandeis University majoring in
biology and biochemistry. She is planning a career in medical
research. She edits the Brandeis literary magazine Laurel Moon.
Outside of campus she has been published in BlazeVOX, Void Magazine, Words-Myth, elimae, Sugar Mule, and HiNgE. She also enjoys running, biking, travel, and photography.  We wished she lived near us so we could just yell out "Surka!!" if we needed her.  She is one of two Brandeis people appearing in this issue.

Nicholas Ripatrazone lives in New Jersey with his wife Jennifer and teaches literature and novel-writing at Bridgewater-Raritan Regional High School.  He has poetry forthcoming in Boston Literary Magazine and short-fiction forthcoming in Leaving Home: Stories of Coming and Going, published by Hourglass Books.

Timothy Gager is the author of Short Street and Twenty-Six Pack, both collections of short fiction and the e-book, The Damned Middle. His first book of poetry, The same corner of the Bar, is available through Ibbetson Street Press and his most recent, We Needed A Night Out, was released in 2006. His short stories appeared in Word Riot, Midnight Mind Magazine, Scene Boston, Theive's Jargon, The Insights Anthology, VerbSap, Swankwriting (83 Words), Story Garden and Write This Magazine. Timothy's poetry has been published in The Ibbetson Street Journal, Poems for All, Erato, Poetry Life and Times, Spare Change, The Somerville News, Generation X National Journal,High Horse, Third Lung Review, 63 Channels and Poesy XXIV. His poetry has been nominated for two Cambridge Poetry Awards.  Timothy lives in Dedham, Massachusetts and is employed as a social worker.  He had work in the Issue 14 of Right Hand Pointing.

Larry D. Thomas has published five collections of poems, the most recent of which is Stark Beauty (Timberline Press, 2005).  His sixth poetry collection, With the Light of Apricots (a web chapbook), is forthcoming from Lily Press, publisher of Lily Literary Review, in February 2007.  His work has received two Texas Review Poetry Prizes (2001 and 2004), the Violet Crown Book Award (Writers' League of Texas), and two Pushcart Prize nominations.  On April 19, Larry was appointed by the Texas Legislature as the 2008 Texas State Poet Laureate.