Uphook Press Poets
Originally a
painter, Theo
Coates showed
at Green Mountain Gallery in
Since 1995, writing
has been Theo’s main creative medium. Through reading at The
Cornelia Street Café, The Back Fence, A Gathering of the Tribes,
Hydrogen Jukebox, The Saturn Series and
other venues, she became exposed to the
Pete Dolack is a poet, essayist, photographer and activist who increasingly tinkers with different styles but often integrates a story-telling style layered with satire that is sometimes subtle, sometimes caustic and sometimes both, with a range of voices and characters to burrow into the fault lines of contemporary society and the inside of his head. He is a 2000 Pushcart Prize nominee and his poetry chapbook, And Now a Word From Our Sponsors, is in its second printing. As an activist, he has worked with several groups, including the Brooklyn Greens, the No Spray Coalition, New York Workers Against Fascism and the National People’s Campaign.
Pete is now at work on a historical/political science nonfiction book examining the socialist experiments of the 20th century for lessons that can be adapted for future sociopolitical change.
As well as his chapbook,
Acrobat,
Bob Hart
has been included in anthologies put together
by Bruce Weber and Bertha Rogers, online at
Poetz.com,
and in print in Nomad's Choir, Stained Sheets and
Poets Wear Prada.
After leaving the army, Bob worked at Grace Line and attended art
school at night. For a change of pace from drawing and painting, he
wrote some poetry considering it “an easy way to get a picture
across”. Many years later, in 1972, Bob started writing poetry again
in the mailroom where he was now working and also going to readings.
He has been writing and performing ever since.
Ice
is a spoken word and visual artist who performs in and around
Ice’s work combines poetry
and photography. Her one-woman show and DVD presentation showcased
at The Cornelia Street Café in 2006. “ICE”, is a CD collection of
six poems she wrote and created a musical backdrop for. Publication
credits include
Rogue Scholars,
Poetz.com and Medicinal Purposes.
Brant Lyon has--in increasing order of difficulty--eaten a guinea pig beside Macchu Picchu, climbed the Himalayas to catch a sunrise, driven a New York City cab, taught himself Arabic to open a cyber cafe near the great Pyramids, tickled the ivories at Carnegie Hall, and… written poetry for the past decade or so! He’s got some printed in Rattle, Lullwater Review, Medicinal Purposes, BigCityLit, and other journals, other of it anthologized in The Company We Keep (Poet Warrior 2003), and in his chapbook, Your Infidel Eyes (Poets Wear Prada 2006), now in its second printing.
Brant otherwise conflates poetry with music, as a composer and performer, both in his ‘jazzoetry’ reading series, Hydrogen Jukebox, and in his newly released poemusicCD, Beauty Keeps Laying Its Sharp Knife Against Me (Logochrysalis 2008).
Jane
Ormerod was born on the south coast of
Her poetry has appeared in
numerous US and UK print and online publications including 21
Stars Review, Arsenic
Lobster, eratio postmodern
poetry, failbetter,
Ginosko, Night Train, Unpleasant Event Schedule,
Whatever Literary Journal, and Word
Riot. A spoken word CD,
Nashville Invades Manhattan, was released in 2007. Jane performs
regularly on both east and west coasts as well as at venues in
Jane's chapbook 11 Films is published by Modern Metrics in October 2008.
Frank Simone declares, "All creative adventures
are the highest form of compliment to humanity." He is a poet and
painter and runs his own production company. His work has been
anthologized in In the Arms of Words (Sherman Asher
2006), and Heal (Clinique Books, 2005), voted one of
the top nine books of 2005 by about.com. His work also appears
in the French publications, Decharge and Klaxon, in
Avenue Be Magazine, and many other journals.