right hand pointing

Joanne Lowery’s poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including Birmingham Poetry Review, 5 AM, Passages North, Atlanta Review, One Trick Pony, and Poetry East. Her chapbook Diorama was the winner of the Poems & Plays 2006 Tennessee Chapbook Prize. She lives in Michigan.  We're pleased to feature her work in this issue.

Carl Brush has been writing since he could write, which is quite a long time now. His work has appeared in The Summerset Review and Flashfiction.net. He has participated in the Napa Valley Writers' Conference, the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and will attend the Sewanee Writers' Conference in July of 2006. Carl lives with his wife in Oakland, California, where he enjoys the blessings of nearby  children and grandchildren. 

Manfred Gabriel moved to the U.S. in 1997. He divides his time between Western Massachusetts and New York City, where he works as a lawyer.  This is the third time his writing has appeared in Right Hand Pointing.

Shanna Karella works as a volunteer coordinator, and volunteers her time as cohost of The New Cafe's literature writing forum (formerly Cafe Utne), and as a poetry editor at The Hiss Quarterly. Publishing credits include Ink Pot, The Ester Republic, and The Hiss Quarterly. She placed first in the June 2004 Interboard Poetry Competition.

Antonios Maltezos has numerous stories online and in print, which is the same as saying "google me." He was the guest editor for the Spring issue of Flashquake. He is presently completing his novel told entirely through flash.

Claudia Ryan is a graduate student in art at the University of South Florida. She likes to write and to draw things. She remembers the Cuban missile crisis.

Francis Raven is a graduate student in philosophy at Temple University. His first book of poems, Taste: Gastronomic Poems (Blazevox, 2005) and novel Inverted Curvatures (Spuyten Duyvil, 2005) were recently published.  His poems have been published in Mudlark, Conundrum, Chain, Big Bridge, Le Petite Zine, Caffeine Destiny, and Can We Have Our Ball Back? among others. His critical work can be found in Jacket, Clamor, The Emergency Almanac, The Morning News, The Brooklyn Rail, Media and Culture, In These Times, The Fulcrum Annual, Rain Taxi, Sauce, and Pavement Saw.

Eric Burke lives and works as a computer programmer in Columbus, Ohio.  He has recently had poems in elimae and Poems Niederngasse Online.

Steven J. Dines (b.1975) lives in the granite city of Aberdeen, Scotland.  His short fiction has appeared online and in print in Voices from the Web, Gold Dust, Skive, The Beat, Blue Almonds, Dark Tales, Buzzwords, The Writer’s Post Journal, 63Channels, Word Riot, Noo Journal, Underground Voices, Rumble, Zygote in My Coffee, Wild Child, Double Dare Press, Outsider Ink, The Quiet Feather, Eclectica, Escaping Elsewhere, Cherry Bleeds, and in forthcoming issues of Delivered, The Hurricane Review, Shadowed Pathways, Peeks & Valleys, Stranger Box, The Rose & Thorn, TQR, and Menda City Review.  His story, "Unzipped", was recently selected as one of the Notable Stories of 2005 in storySouth’s Million Writers Award. Website: www.sdines1975.demon.co.uk

Cleo Kocol has recently been published in Black Widow's Web of Poetry, Poetalk, Blue Collar Review, and Poetry Depth Quarterly. She is now coordinating A Summer Showcase to be presented August 6.  The poetry event showcases poets from the Gold Country and the San Joaquin Valley of California.  We've been pleased to have her work previously in Right Hand Pointing.

Helen Losse is a poet, free lance writer, and Poetry Co-Editor of The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. Her poetry appears in Mastodon Dentist, Blue Fifth Review, Southern Hum, Adagio Verse Quarterly, The Centrifugal Eye, and ForPoetry.  She has a chapbook, Gathering the Broken Pieces, available from FootHills Publishing.  Her second chapbook, Paper Snowflakes, is forthcoming from Southern Hum Press. The poems published in this current issue of RHP are from a work-in-progress that blurs the distinctions between prayer, dreams (daydreams and night dreams), and memories.  Helen is a regular contributor to RHP.

Chris Major lives in Staffs, England. His poetry has appeared in a number of print UK magazines and on line recently at Zygote, Snakeskin, High Horse, Poetry Kit, Lily, Stirring, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, Out of Order, Spent Meat, and others.

Monte Davis's work has appeared in Leading Edge, Zahir, NFG, Space & Time, and others. He had a story in Issue 4 of Right Hand Pointing.

Laura LeHew received her MFA in writing from the California College of The Arts (CCA). Poems have appeared or are forthcoming in PMS, Tiger's Eye, Pearl Magazine, Elysian Fields Quarterly, The San Francisco Reader and The Peralta Press. She received a writing residency from Soapstone in 2006. She received the new poet's prize from Oregon State Poetry Association (2005).

Suchoon Mo is a former Korean Army Lieutenant and a retired academic living in the semiarid part of Colorado.   His poems and essays appeared in such publications as Riverside Poetry, Religious Humanism, East and West, Dissident Editions, Bitter Oleander, Thunder Sandwich, Snakeskin, The Surface, Poetic Voices, Above Ground Testing, Adagio Verse Quarterly, Tryst, Verse Libre Quarterly, Spillway Review, Subtle Tea, Quill and Ink, Full Moon, Stylus Poetry Journal, Malleable Jangle, Sage of Consciousness, The Blue House, Underground Window, Sentinel Poetry, Centrifugal Eye, Word Riot, and Words Myth.