Caketrain Issue 06

By Jennifer Jean, Janis Butler Holm, Michael Kimball, and more

2008

First Published

4.09

Average Rating

264

Number of Pages

8H01M

Audio Length

Part of Series

Caketrain

Series · 7 books

By Jeanne Stauffer-Merle, Marc Kipniss, Michael Trocchia, and more

Avg Rating

4.09

Number of Ratings

5 STARS

36%

4 STARS

36%

3 STARS

27%

2 STARS

1 STARS

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Authors

Jennifer Jean

Author · 1 books

I am the author of the poetry chapbook In the War (Big Table Publishing Co., 2010) My poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including: North Dakota Quarterly, Denver Quarterly, Endicott Review, Awakenings Review, Santa Clara Review, Southern California Review, Caketrain, Relief Quarterly, The MOM Egg, The Wilderness House Review, and Megaera. I'm a regular contributer to Art Throb (http://www.nsartthrob.com), an online arts and lifestyle magazine—and have recently begun a monthly feature column for Art Throb, called "POETRY: Fascinations & Occasional Reviews." I co-direct Thursday’s Theatre of Words & Music artist’s reading and performance series in Salem, MA. As well, I teach literature and writing at Salem State College, Montserrat College of Art, The Peabody Institute Library, and as a freelance poetry workshop facilitator.

Michael Kimball's third novel, DEAR EVERYBODY, will be published in the UK, US, and Canada this year. His first two novels, THE WAY THE FAMILY GOT AWAY (2000) and HOW MUCH OF US THERE WAS (2005), have both been translated into many languages. He is also responsible for the art project Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (on a postcard) and the documentary film, I Will Smash You.

Jayne Pupek

Author · 3 books

Jayne Pupek is the author of the newly released novel "Tomato Girl" (Algonquin Books, 2008) and a book of poems tiltled "Forms of Intercession" (Mayapple Press, 2008). Her writing has appeared in numerous literary journals. A Virginia native, Jayne has spent most of her professional life working in the field of mental health. Read more about Jayne on her blog "Notes on the Writing Life". http://jaynepupek.blogspot.com/

Eric Baus is the author of Scared Text (Center for Literary Publishing, forthcoming 2011), The To Sound (Verse Press/Wave Books), Tuned Droves (Octopus Books) and several chapbooks. He co-edits Marcel Press chapbooks with Andrea Rexilius and lives in Denver. Reviews of The To Sound: Double Room Rain Taxi Bookslut Octopus Reviews of Tuned Droves: Jacket Publishers Weekly Cambridge Book Review Oranges & Sardines Poetry Project Newsletter Black Ocean Blog American Poet Galatea Resurrects Interviews Jacket PFS Post Links Pennsound Author Page To The Sound (audio blog) Minus House Chapbooks Tiny Tour

Brian Foley’s first collection of poems, The Constitution, is forthcoming from Black Ocean. He’s authored several chapbooks including Going Attractions (Greying Ghost, 2012) & TOTEM, out soon in jeans from Fact-Simile Editions. Recent poems have appeared in Boston, Review, The Paris American, IO: A Journal of New American Poetry, ILK, Sixth Finch, The Volta, Denver Quarterly, Aesthetix, The Destroyer, and elsewhere. With Julia Cohen he co-edits Saltgrass and w EB Goodale, he runs Brave Men Press. He lives well in Western Massachusetts.

Kim Chinquee's fiction, nonfiction and poetry have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies including The Nation, Ploughshares, Storyquarterly, Indiana Reveiw, Noon, Denver Quarterly, Conjunctions, Mississippi Review, New Orleans Review, Fiction, Willow Springs, and others. She is the recipient of three Pushcart Prizes and a Henfield Prize. Her collections OH BABY, PISTOL, VEER, SHOT GIRLS, WETSUIT, SNOWDOG and her novel PIPETTE were published by Ravenna Press; her collection of prose poems, PRETTY, was published by White Pine Press. She is an associate professor of English and creative writing at SUNY-Buffalo State University, Associate Editor of Midwest Review, Senior Editor of New World Writing and Chief Editor of ELJ (Elm Leaves Journal)..

Karyna McGlynn is the author of Hothouse (Sarabande Books 2017), I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl (Sarabande Books 2009), and several chapbooks. Her poems have recently appeared in The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Black Warrior Review, Ninth Letter, Georgia Review, Witness, and The Academy of American Poet’s Poem-A-Day. Karyna holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan, and earned her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston where she served as Managing Editor for Gulf Coast. Her honors include the Verlaine Prize, the Kathryn A. Morton Prize, the Hopwood Award, and the Diane Middlebrook Fellowship in Poetry at the University of Wisconsin. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Oberlin College, where she teaches poetry, translation, and humor writing. Find her online at www.karynamcglynn.com.

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. Norman Lock has written novels, short fiction, and poetry as well as stage plays, dramas for German radio, a film for The American Film Institute, and scenarios for video-art installations. His plays have been produced in the U.S., Germany, at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival, and in Turkey. His work has been translated into Dutch, German, Spanish, Turkish, and Japanese. He received the Aga Kahn Prize, given by The Paris Review, the Literary Fiction Prize, given by The Dactyl Foundation of the Arts & Humanities, fellowships from the New Jersey Council on the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and from the National Endowment for the Arts. (source: http://www.normanlock.com/)

Anne Heide

Author · 1 books

Gretchen E. Henderson

Author · 2 books

Gretchen E. Henderson is a lecturer in English at Georgetown University and an affiliated scholar in art history at Kenyon College. Her recent books include The House Enters the Street and Galerie de Difformité.

Elizabeth Winder is also the author of a poetry collection. Her work has appeared in the Chicago Review, the Antioch Review, American Letters, and other publications. She is a graduate of the College of William and Mary and earned an MFA in creative writing from George Mason University.

Kristen Orser is the author of Winter, Another Wall (blossombones); Folded Into Your Midwestern Thunderstorm (Greying Ghost Press); Wilted Things (Scantily Clad Press); Squint (Dancing Girl Press); and E AT I, illustrated by James Thomas Stevens (Wyrd Tree Press). She writes about culture, food, and drink in various places including Sprudge.com, The Rumpus, and Poor Taste. She is certain about being uncertain and she might forget to return your phone calls.