Newsletter
Holiday 2001
Vol. VII No. I

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Dear Poet, Writer and Reader,

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David Barnes, our first of three Features this month is Editor of Poetry DownUnder of Australia: http://www.aceonline.com.au/~db/.
Recently he was published in the Paris/Atlantic, an International Journal of Creative Work. Spring issue: 2000. Recently some of his works were published in an Anthology released in Perth, W.A., Australia November 2000, with further publication of his work in Firefly Magazine, Tennessee, U.S.A Volume 29 - 2001. Further works of David are published in Perth, Western Australia in another Anthology released in November 2001.

Grace Marie Grafton has two books out, ZERO from Poetric Matrix Press, and VISITING SISTERS from Coracle Books. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including third coast, syllogism, convolvulus, Poetry Flash and Xanadu. Her poem, Her sisters' proximity, won first prize in The Bellingham Review's poetry contest, and she has been a finalist in Nimrod's poetry contest. Her work has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

For many years, she has taught in California Poets In The Schools, and has been awarded numerous CA Arts Council grants for her teaching program, which introduces elementary school students to the writing process. In 1998, she was awarded Teacher of the Year by the River Of Words youth poetry contest, co-sponsored by former US Poet Laureate, Robert Hass.

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Publications:
poetry and prose, selected listing:
London Magazine (England), The Paumonak Review, Parchment (Canada), Women's Studies Quarterly (CUNY, New York), The Jerusalem Review and The Tel Aviv Review (Israel), ARC (Israel), Voices (Israel), Gaspereau Review (Canada), Taproot Literary Review (USA), Canadian Literature (University of British Columbia), Kamaru (University of Eastern Illinois, USA), Midstream (New York), Kimera, Runes, Eclipse, The Acorn, WIN.com, PoetryMagazine.com, The Paumanok Review.com, The Adrenak Review, Minnesota Women's Press, Pedestal Magazine.com, The Drunken Boat.com, Ariga, Artivilla.com.

Our third Feature, Rochelle Mass of Israel has poetry in two collections: published 2001, Aftertaste (Ride the Wind Press), Where's My Home? Premier Poet's Series, Rhode Island. She is Editor of Kibbutz Trends (quarterly of contemporary cultural/political issues); she is also a translator, and text writer.

Alicia Ostriker is a current poet and will be a
Feature in the fall. There is, in this
edition a group of poems from Alicia
Ostriker's forthcoming book THE VOLCANO
SEQUENCE (due from University of Pittsburgh Press
in February).

The poetry of Forrest Hamer and Cynthia Hogue
will be Featured in February's edition.
Forrest Hamer is the author of Call & Response
(Alice James, 1995), winner of the Beatrice
Hawley Award; Middle Ear (Roundhouse, 2000),
winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association
Award; and Terrain (Hip Pocket Press, 1998)
with Dan Bellm and Molly Fisk, both of whom
appear as Features on these pages in previous
editions.

Cynthia Hogue will also be Featured next month. Of her
powerful new collection, Flux (New Issues Press,
March 2002), David St. John observes that “Hogue
summons both fable and cultural dream-life to help
address the otherwise precarious nature of a life's
passage. Precise yet expansive, this is an exhilarating
collection of poems.”  Of her previous collection,
Alicia Ostriker writes, “Hogue’s The Woman in Red
(Ahsahta Press, 1990) was very savvy, sharp,
crisp—language with an edge. Hogue has been
awarded NEA, NEH, and Fulbright fellowships

It is also nice to see past
Feature Taylor Graham joining us again in
the pages. Salvatore Amico M. Buttaci,
the Editor of our Children’s editions and a
former Feature is also in this edition.
Buttaci has several books out and is included
in an Anthology from the computer of Hidden
Brook Press - Richard M. Grove 412-701 King
Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5V 2W7 
Email -writers@hiddenbrookpress.com
Hidden Brook Press home page -
www.hiddenbrookpress.com.
100% of the profit from the sale of this book
is going to the Canadian Red Cross
September 11th relief fund.

John Sokol, a former Feature has a full-length
collection coming out from Ludlow Press, in
NYC, March, 2002. Here's the link about the book:
"In The Summer of Cancer"
http://ludlowpress.com/brilliant_sokol.htm

Sincerely,
Mary Barnet

Editor-In-Chief:
Mary Barnet
Associate Editors:
Doug Tanoury
Feature Editor:
Andrena Zawinski
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