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Number 6

"The Need For Carp"

Contributors

"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession." Robert Frost

  Ann McNeal poetry Ann McNeal lives and roams the hills near Amherst, Massachusetts.  She taught biology at Hampshire College for more than thirty years, and has just retired to pursue creative writing.  She has been a member of several Amherst Writers and Artists workshops.  Her poems have been published in A Moving Journal, Earth’s Daughters, Patchwork Journal, and White Heron.
Nancy Dymond poetry

Nancy Dymond studied accounting (a marketable skill) at Cedar Crest College. For the past two years Nancy has been a participating poet in the “Literary Evening” series of readings sponsored by the Wayne County Arts Alliance and other poetry events in northeastern PA and the Upper Delaware area of New York. Nancy has recently been invited to participate in the Northeast Photography Club’s Grant Project where photographers are paired with writers in order to give new voices to each other’s works. 

Helen Losse poetry

Helen Losse is a poet, free lance writer, and Poetry Co-Editor of The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature.  She has recent poetry publications or acceptances in Mastodon Dentist, Subtle Tea, Facets: A Literary Magazine,  Tacenda, TimBookTu,  Blink, Domicile, Alba: A Journal of Short Poetry, The Pedestal Magazine,  Sacramento Poetry, Art, and Music, Spillway Review, Adagio Verse Quarterly, Poets Against the War, Voices in Wartime, anthologies in the UK, and a micro-chapbook, Absolution, in the POEMS-FOR-ALL Series from 24th Street Irregular Press. Her chapbook, Gathering the Broken Pieces, is available through FootHills Publishing. She also writes book reviews for the Winston-Salem Journal.  Her work has appeared previously in Right Hand Pointing.

Jeffrey Ransdell poetry Jeffrey Ransdell, with this issue, has fulfilled his weeks-long dream of being published in Right Hand Pointing. We're guessing he's out of town this weekend and that's why we don't have his bio yet.
Susan H. Case poetry Susan H. Case is a college professor in New York City.  Recent work can be found in or is forthcoming in:  Animus, Eclipse, 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, Floating Holiday, Freshwater, Georgetown Review, Into the Teeth of the Wind, Karamu, Mad Poets Review, Slant, Stray Dog, Tar Wolf Review and The GW Review, among others, including the anthologies Yowl and Poems for the Mountains.  She is the author of The Scottish Café (Slapering Hol Press, 2002), which is currently being translated into Ukrainian and selections from which have been translated into Polish.  Find out more about her at http://iris.nyit.edu/~sgray/
  Paul D. McGlynn poetry Paul D. McGlynn is a retired professor of English and creative writing who has had poems accepted by 210 journals in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia, including The Ledge, Bogg, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Chiron Review, Poetry Motel, Clark Street Review, Sepia, Freexpression, and The Brobdingnagian Times. His chapbook, Magical Regression, was published by AlphaBeat Press. He has had three poems nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
Laurence Loeb poetry Laurence Loeb, now in semi-retirement, has taught at both undergraduate and graduate levels. A Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at  the Cornell University Medical College, he is also an Emeritus Adjunct Professor of Law at the Pace University School of Law.  He studied poetry with Marie Ponsot and Charles Martin and currently works with Molly Peacock. Some of his poetry has been published in The Mid-America Poetry Review, on the Sonnet Scroll of Poetry Porch, in The Pedestal Magazine,  and some work in The New York Times. and his translation of a Baudelaire poem appeared in American Imago.
Darrell B. Grayson poetry Darrell B. Grayson is chairman of Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty, an organization founded and operated by Death Row inmates. He resides on Death Row in Holman Prison, Atmore, Alabama. He edits and publishes Wings of Hope, the Project Hope newsletter, with primitive equipment in the prison. Darrell Grayson’s poetry which he defines as "a contagion of insecurities,” has appeared or is forthcoming in Axis of Logic, Right Hand Pointing, Wings of Hope, Birmingham Arts Journal and elsewhere.  His collection of poems, Against Time, will be published this year by Mercy Seat Press.
    Rolf Halvorsen   Dr. Rolf Halvorsen is a retired astrogeologist who takes and collects bad photographs.  Some have appeared in print magazines such as Dirt Water, The Bogus & The Mundane, Migraine Cheeses, Eliptical Tartar, Quarterly Journal of Seepage & Drainage, Condoleeza Raga, and Murphy Femur.  He is working on a process by which his photos will be printed on perishable breakfast foods, including waffles and toaster strudle.
Jeff Walker poetry Jeff Walker is a video artist living in Kampala, Uganda. He has been awarded artist residencies to Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, Blue Mountain Center, and Yaddo, and his video work has shown at the London Festival of Moving Images, the European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück, Germany, the Fringe Film and Video Festival in Edinburgh, Mediopolis/VideoFest Berlin, and the Dallas Museum of Art, among others.
John Grey poetry John Grey is an Australian born poet, playwright, musician.  His latest book is What Else Is There (Main Street Rag). His work has recently appeared in Terminus, Eclipse, and Hidden Oak.  This is his third appearance in Right Hand Pointing.
Stephanie Zultanky poetry Stephanie Zultanky is just about finished with her master's in writing and her thesis--a poetry chapbook. The last six years have been spent on two degrees from Rowan University. She works as an assistant editor at a medical publishing company, and although she lives in south Jersey now, home will always be in north Jersey where people say "cawfee." This is her first published creative work.
Robert A. Neimeyer poetry Robert A. Neimeyer is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Memphis.  He uses the arts in his workshops for helping professionals, and has published 20 books, including a forthcoming poetry chapbook with Finishing Line Press, entitled I Sing to the Earth.  Neimeyer edits the professional journal Death Studies, and has been recognized by the American Psychological Association, the Association for Death Education and Counseling, and the University of Memphis for his contributions to psychological research, teaching and practice.
  F. J. Bergmann poetry F. J. Bergmann's poems have appeared in the Beloit PoetryJournal, Blue Fifth Review, getunderground.com, Margie, the North
American Review, RealPoetik, Tattoo Highway, Wind
, and on asininepoetry.com as Easter Cathay. In 2003, she received the Mary Roberts Rinehart National Poetry Award.  Her manuscript Sauce Robert was a co-winner in the Pavement Saw chapbook competition.  In 2004, F. J.  won the Pauline Ellis Prose Poetry Prize. One of her pseudopodia can reach all the way from the bed to the refrigerator. 
  Kat Lemmons cover art Kat Lemmons lives in Northern California and is currently working toward a B.S. in Geology.  She loves to write, paint, play music, collect rocks, and laugh a lot. Her digital painting is on the cover of this issue, and Issue 5. See more at www.katalyst-for-kathexis.com

 

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