Glenn W. Cooper is a 33 year old living in Tamworth, Australia. His influences include Raymond Carver, Charles Bukowski, Philip Levine and Arthur Rimbaud, among others.

Duane Locke, Doctor of Philosophy in English Renaissance literature, Professor Emeritus of the Humanities, was Poet in Residence at the University of Tampa for over 20 years. Has had over 2,000 of his own poems published in over 500 print magazines such as American Poetry Review, Nation, Literary Quarterly, Black Moon, and Bitter Oleander. Is author of 14 print books of poems, the latest is Watching Wisteria (to order write Vida Publishing, P.O. Box 12665, Lake, Park, FL. 33405-0665, or Amazon or Barnes and Noble). Since September 1999, he became a cyber poet and started submitting on-line, and since September 1999 he has added to his over 2,000 print acceptances with 1,559 acceptances by e-zines.
He is also a painter. Now has exhibitions at Thomas Center Galleries (Gainesville, FL) and Tyson Trading Company (Micanopy, FL). Recently a one-man show at Pyramid Galleries (Tampa, FL).
Also, a photographer, has had 116 of his photos selected for appearance in e-zines. He photographs trash in alleys. Moves in close to find beauty in what people have thrown away.
He now lives alone in a two-story decaying house in the sunny Tampa slums. He lives isolated and estranged as an alien, not understanding the customs, the costumes, the language (some form of postmodern English) of his neighbors. The egregious ugliness of his neighborhood has recently been mitigated by the esthetic efforts of the police force who put bright orange and yellow posters on the posts to advertise the location is a shopping mall for drugs. His alley is the dumping ground for stolen cars. One advantage of living in this neighborhood, if your car is stolen, you can step out in the back and pick it up. Also, the burglars are afraid to come in on account of the muggers.
His recreational activities are drinking wine, listening to old operas, and reading postmodern philosophy.

Chris O'Carroll is a writer, actor, and comedian. His poems have appeared in the print edition of 3rd Muse as well as in Thunder Sandwich, Eclectica, The Melic Review, and his own www.anticdisposition.com website. He is author of the forthcoming collection Shakespeare's Marijuana and Other Poems the Authorities Don't Want You To Read. In November and December, he will be playing Scrooge in A Christmas Carol at Festival Theatre in St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin.

Sandy Steinman writes poems, essays, one-act plays and short stories. Returning to Marin County, CA, after ten years as Adjunct Professor of Fine Art Photography at Fairfield University, Connecticut, she's produced four short plays. Little Things, her last, won second place in a Bay Area Critic's Short Play Competition at Dominican University. A short fiction, Don't Be Nervous, is in a recent issue of Bust Out Stories along with a few of her photographs. Then and Now, a book of poems and prose was self-published in 1998 along with poet Larry Drake. Recent work has appeared in Amarillo Bay, The Writer's Choice Literary Journal, Mentress Moon, Stirring, Big Bridge, Pulse, and The Adirondack Review.

R.L. Swihart: Though I am many, I'll be contented to spotlight only my quadruplicate-self which, like a nested Matryoshka doll, consists of me and the-family-within: RLS (I'm shy, so until we're more intimate the initials will do), Ania (the devoted wife), Katia (started kindergarten in September), and Nadja (quite the fledgling at 2 yrs). I read heavily. Imbibe moderately. Work when I have to (math teacher). Am hounded by all nine muses at once.
One of many favorite quotes: "You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What answer would suffice? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against other words. Long did I hate you, long did I fear you. I might--" (C. S. Lewis).
Poetry is just another word for creative writing. I have a long list of literary heroes, mostly dead guys: Samuel Beckett, Thomas Mann, Vladimir Nabokov, T.S. Eliot, Zbigniew Herbert,…