c o n v e r g e n c e:
an online journal of poetry & art


SPRING 2011 ISSUE


EDITORS


Rain Ananael

Rain Ananael is a conservation biologist whose fieldwork has primarily focused on botany, herpetology, chiropterology, ichthyology, and watershed-level preservation initiatives.  She has an MA in English. Her writing passions include folklore, ecology, new myth and memory: specifically the role emotion, experience and knowledge (ontology and epistemology) play in structuring myth and memory.

Tim Kahl

Tim Kahl is the author of Possessing Yourself (Word Tech, 2009). He is a professor, translator, and poet whose work has been published in Prairie Schooner, American Letters & Commentary, Berkeley Poetry Review, Notre Dame Review, the Spoon River Poetry Review, the Texas Review, and many more. He also appears as Victor Schnickelfritz at the poetry and poetics blog The Great American Pinup and at the new poetry and multimedia blog, Linebreakstudios. He is also the editor of Bald Trickster Press and the forthcoming book-length renga poem on the subject of the city of Sacramento to be published by Sacramento Poetry Center Press.

Cynthia Linville (Managing Editor/Designer)

Cynthia Linville teaches writing at California State University at Sacramento and frequently reads at and hosts local poetry events. She regularly contributes her poetry to the Sacramento News and Review, the Song of the San Joaquin, the Ophidian, Medusa's Kitchen and WTF. A music aficionado with a theater background, she is usually out and about supporting the arts.

Scott Weiss

Scott Weiss earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from California State University at Sacramento. He lives in Sacramento where he writes poetry and fiction in his spare time. His work has appeared in Poetalk and the Electronic Poetry Review.




CONTRIBUTORS


Myles Boisen

Myles Boisen is a recording engineer, album producer, professional musician, teacher and writer who lives in Oakland, California. His photography has appeared in print publications and on fashion and music websites. He regularly shows his work in Bay Area galleries. View more of his photos at www.flickr.com/photos/21341545@N00/ and find out more about his work at www.MylesBoisen.com.

Lynn Crounse

Lynn Crounse is an explorer whose inspiration comes from all directions and sources. She says:
I make do with what crosses my path. I love the lives and places I encounter and document the world as I see it, striving only to capture the beauty in all of my subjects.
She also does assignment and commercial photography work. She is currently based in Virginia but travels frequently. You can view more of her work at www.lynncrounse.com.

Shundra M Williams Grubb

Shundra M Williams Grubb is a poet who is in love and is expecting her first child.

Hilary Harper

Hilary Harper is a writer and photographer. She is currently an MFA student at Queens University of Charlotte in both the fiction and nonfiction programs. She has recently been published in Toasted Cheese.

Lauren India Henley

Lauren India Henley is currently a graduate student at Pacific University of Oregon, in the low-residency MFA program. Her work has been published in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Eclectica, White Pelican, Projector Magazine, WORK, Breadcrumb Scabs, Cloudbank, The Delinquent, and others. She lives in Arcata, California, and her favorite poets are currently Phillip Levine, Larry Levis, and Eugenio Montale.

Patricia Hickerson

Patricia Hickerson is a Barnard College graduate with further degrees from San Francisco State University and the University of Southern California. She has worked as a Warner Bros. dancer, a teacher, reporter, copy editor and Penthouse writer. Her broadside At Grail Castle Hotel and chapbook Dawn and Dirty are available from Rattlesnake Press. Her poetry has appeared in Echoes, Choices, Waterdrinkers, Convergence, Medusa's Kitchen, Rattlesnake Review, The Ophidian, WTF, Poetry Now, Presa, Passager, Catfishgringoriver and The Yolo Crow.

Kelly Nelson

Kelly Nelson teaches Interdisciplinary Studies at Arizona State University. Her poetry has appeared in Bellowing Ark, Blue Guitar and nibble and is forthcoming in Dirty Napkin. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2010. She has lived in metro Phoenix without a car for eleven years.

Simon Perchik

Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The New Yorker and elsewhere. For more information, including his essay “Magic, Illusion and Other Realities” and a complete bibliography, please visit his website at www.simonperchik.com.

Oliver Rice

Oliver Rice’s poems have appeared widely in the United States and abroad. An interview with Creekwalker was released in January 2010. His book of poems, On Consenting to be a Man from Cyberwit, is offered on Amazon. His online chapbook, Afterthoughts, Siestas and his recording of his The Institute for Higher Study went up on Mudlark in December 2010.

Allyson Seconds

Allyson Seconds is a singer, musician and physical culturist with an artist's mind. She discovered photography studying sculpture at UC Davis and has since shot for several publications, bands, record labels, and gallery shows. She likes messing with the precision of digital photography, tousling its perfect hair-do. You can contact her at alnational1@gmail.com.

Brent Wiggans

Brent Wiggans is a photographer, drummer, writer and certified daydreamer undercover as a substitute teacher. He lives in Sacramento with his intrepid wife Michelle and the occasionally valiant greyhound Samwise.

Brenda Yamen

Brenda Yamen is a Health Scientist and amateur photographer currently residing in Washington DC. She has loved photography since the age of 15 and goes nowhere without her trusty sidekick, Nigel the Nikon. Brenda's interest in photography occasionally crosses paths with her love of great music; her photos have been used by some of her favorite musicians. In addition to concert photography, Brenda enjoys landscape and nature photography, and travels extensively searching for her next photo op. Her collection can be seen at www.flickr.com/photos/bjy/.






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