Uphook Press Poets
Eric Alter has been published in Spectrum, the Brooklyn Paramount, Downtown Brooklyn, and By the Overpass.
Todd Anderson is a poet by way of Minnesota, Chicago, New York, and Tokyo. Todd likes to set up his typewriter next to flower shops and give his poems away
Through uncanny, drunken luck at hurling
fifteen-cent word magnets onto her fridge, Seraphime Angelis
continues to "earn" her publication in anthologies, journals, and
blogs worldwide.
Judith Arcana lives in an apartment upstairs of her neighborhood library. she writes, poems, stories, and essays, and is widely published in print and online. For a good time, visit juditharcana.com
Maggie Balistreri is the author of The Evasion-English Dictionary (Melville House), and There Was a Young Lady Who Swallowed a Lie (Em Dash Group).
Greg Bem is co-curator of the acclaimed Breadline performance series in Seattle. He volunteers for the Columbia City Library, the Rainer Valley Food Bank, and the Northwest Spoken Word Lab. Blog
Andrew Boston is studying English Lit at NYU and is the author of the chapbook Elvis at 21.
Ryan Buynak is a very good-looking young man who happens to be the future of American poetry. Website
Lauren Marie Cappello is working to achieve her B.A. in Creative Writing with a Dual Minor in Psychology and education at CUNY CSI.
Poet, playwright, and performer, Peter Carlaftes, is the author of Triumph for Rent, Drunkyard Dog, and A Year on Facebook—all published by Three Rooms Press.
Works by J. Crouse have appeared in The Columbia Review, The Tower Journal, and E·ratio.
Peg Duthrie works in Nashville as a calligrapher and indexer.
Among many other achievements, Rich Ferguson has shared the stage with Patti Smith and David Thomas of Pere Ubu, been published in the LA Times, studied poetry with Allen Ginsberg, and won Opium Magazine's Literary Death March, LA.
Maureen Flannery’s latest book is
Tunnel into Morning (Puddin'head Press, 2011). Her
poems have appeared in numerous literary journals including
North American Review,
Atlanta Review, Birmingham Poetry Review,
and
Poetry East.
Joseph Fritsch received his B.F.A. in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College in 2010 and currently interns at Poets House.
Writer, musician, photographer, and model, Brad Garber, has published poetry in Cream City Review, Oysters & Chocolate, and MindFuck Fiction.
Joan Gelfand's books include A Dreamer's Guide to Cities and Streams (SF Bay Press, 2009), Here & Abroad (2010 Cervena Barva Award winner). Her spoken word and music CD is entitled Transported. Website
Sheila Hageman is currently completing her memoir, Stripping Down, extracts of which have appeared in Salon, Conversely, and Maxie. Blog
Deborah Hauser is the author of the poetry collection Ennui: from the Diagnostic and Statistical Field Guide of Femine Disorders (Finishing Line Press, 2011)
Karen Hildebrand has been published in numerous journals. She is also co-author and performer of a poetic play, The Old In and Out.
R. Nemo Hill is editor of EXOT BOOKS, and author of Pilgrim’s Feather (Quantuck Lane Press, 2002), The Strange Music of Erich Zann (Hippocampus Press, 2004), and Prolegomena To An Essay On Satire (Modern Metrics, 2006). Blog
Matthew Hupert enjoys working with musicians to create psychedelic visual environments. His first collection of poetry, Ism is a Retrovirus, was published by Three Rooms Press in 2010.
Jen Karetnick is the author of six books. A freelance food-travel writer, she also directs creative writing for Miami Arts Center.
Molly Kat has a knack for getting concussions in strange ways, is prone to fits of giggles, and loves nothing more than a good book, a bubble bath, and a glass of cheap red wine.
David Lawton was a finalist for the 2010 Arts $ Letters Prize. During his twenty-five plus years in NYC, he has acted Off-Broadway, written plays for Off-Off Broadway, and sung backing vocals for the band Leisure Class.
Wayne Lee lives in Sante Fe NM, where he teaches at the Institute of Contemporary Indian Arts. He is the author of two poetry collections with a third, Vortex, forthcoming from Red Mountain Press.
Laura LeHew loves zombies, Dexter, Anne Carson, and never sleeps. She is the editor at Uttered Chaos.
Eliel Lucero has served as co-editor of Acentos Review, been an Urban Word mentor, a facilitator with the Alzheimer's Project, and Production Manger at the Bowery Poetry Club.
Christopher Luna is a poet, visual artist, and the host of a popular open mic in Vancouver WA. His latest publication, To Be Named and Other Works of Poetic License, is a collaborative travelogue and art book. Blog
Victoria Lynne McCoy's work appears in The November 3rd Club, PANK, Mudfish 17, and Union Station Magazine. She lives in Brooklyn.
Sharon Mesmer's most recent poetry collections are The Virgin Formica (Hanging Loose, 2008) and Annoying Diabetic Bitch (Combo Books, 2008). She is a member of the flarf collective.
Nancy Carol Moody lives in Eugene OR. The author of Photograph with Girls (Traprock Books, 2009), her poetry may also be found in Bellevue Literary Review, The New York Quarterly, and Carolina Quarterly. Website
Rick Mullin's poetry has appeared in American Arts Quarterly, Measure, and The Flea. He is the author of Aquinas Flinched (Modern Metrics/EXOT Books, 2008), and Huncke (Seven Towers, Dublin, Ireland, 2010).
Puma Perl is a founding member of DDay Productions, which showcases female poets and performance artists. Widely published, she is the author of Belinda and Her Friends and knuckle tattoos (Erbacce Press, 2008 and 2010). She lives in New York City. Blog
G. L. Pettigrew is a science educator, naturalist, music reviewer, performance poet, and photographer based in Miami FL.
Kelly Powell is a poet from Long Island.
Gabriella Radujko is a librarian who also writes about culture for the New York online art listings magazine Artcards.cc.
Francis Raven's books include Architectonic Conjunctures (Silenced Press, 2010), Provisions (Interbirth, 2009), and 5-Haifun: Of Being Divisible (Blue Lion Books, 2008). He lives in Washington DC. Website
C. Marie Runyan lives, writes, grows, runs, and reads in Tucson AZ.
Ken Saffran has had poems published in Ambush, Nerve Cowboy, and Haight Ashbury Journal. Raised in the Midwest, he now lives in San Francisco.
Roberto F. Santiago writes placing pen to paper and fingertips to QWERTY, all as an act of translation. He also writes and produces music, and has been known to dance until he rips his pants.
One of four poets in Gaston OR (pop. 625). Mary Slocum worked as a shipyard electrician for seventeen years. Her work appears in Stanza, Upper Left Edge, and Carcinogenic.
Elliott D. Smith's writing tackles issues of gender, sexuality, and family, and is greatly influenced by the people and places he loves.
Charlene Monahan Spearen is a full-time faculty member in the Department of English at Allen University, Columbia SC, poet-in-residence at the Columbia Museum of Art, and is Associate Director of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative.
Singer-songwriter and poet Truth Thomas was born in Knoxville TN, and raised in Washington DC. He is author of three poetry collections including Bottle of Life (Flipped Eye Publishing, 2010), with a fourth Speak Water, out shortly.
John J. Trause is the Director of Oradell Public Library and co-founder of the William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative in Rutherford, NJ. He has performed with Steven Van Zandt, Anne Waldmen, and Karen Finley for the City Lights books celebration at the Poetry Project, NYC.
Emily Kagan Trenchard is co-curator of the renowned louderARTS Project Reading Series in NYC. A featured performer at numerous venues, she was also a part of Def Poetry Jam's seasons 3 and 4.
A 2009 graduate of Brooklyn College, Jacob Victorine has won aweds for both his poetry and literary criticism. he is a member of the 2011 New Jersey Slam Team. Website
George Wallace is the author of twenty poetry collections including Poppin' Johnny (Three Rooms Press, 2010) and Jumping Over The Moon (Boone's Dock Press, 2011).
Mark Wisniewski's second novel, Show Up, Look Good, is published by Gival Press in fall 2011. His poetry has appeared New York Quarterly, Tribeca Poetry Review, and Poetry.
One of Liza Wolsky's proudest moments was being in a World War III exhibition and strolling past her own work while Allen Ginsberg read to a packed house.
R. Yurman has been committing poetry for more than fifty-five years depite numerous cease and desist notices.
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Lenore Balliro works in adult literacy programs in Boston, MA. She is a past recipient of the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Award for Literature.
Samantha Barrow is a poet, writer, performer, and activist who is currently pursuing her M.S. in Narrative Medicine to fortify her work writing with survivors of sexual assault. Website
Paul M.L. Belanger is a world traveler, teacher, storyteller, and poet who has taught, published and performed his work in countries including Australia, South Korea, and the U.K.
Alex O. Bleecker recently spent a year abroad writing online pro-Tibetan independence propaganda for The Tibet Post International. He lives in Seattle.
Meredith Devney's poems have appeared in
The Coe Review,
The Cherry Blossom Review,
Sawbuck, and the anthology
titled Double Lives,
Reinvention and Those We Live Behind (Wising Up Press).
Deborah Hauser lives in Babylon, NY. Her work appears in publications including Long Island Sounds, Mobius, The Wallace Stevens Journal, and Crab Creek Review.
Suzanne Heagy is fiction editor of the literary journal, Kestrel. She writes and teaches in West Virginia. Her creative work has appeared in Untamed Ink, Dos Passos Review, Poetry Southeast, and other journals.
Aimee Herman spends her time counting rats in subway stations, searching for the (in)significance of push-up bras and girdles, and disemboweling the meaning of sexuality.
R. Nemo Hill is the author of Pilgrim’s Feather (Quantuck Lane Press, 2002), The Strange Music of Erich Zann (Hippocampus Press, 2004), and Prolegomena To An Essay On Satire (Modern Metrics, 2006).
Vicki Iorio is a native Long Island poet whose work has appeared in numerous publications.
Kit Kennedy has been published widely in anthologies and journals including Arsenic Lobster, CLWN WR, Origin, and Van Gogh's Ear. She hosts the monthly Gallery Cafe reading series in San Francisco. Blog
Stephen Kopel, teacher, cyclist, art collector, and blatant wordsmith, is the creator of the Word Painters poetry events held at various San Francisco libraries.
David Lawton is originally from Woburn, MA. During his twenty-five years in New York City, he has acted, written plays, poetry, and sung backing vocals in the underground band, Leisure Class.
Richard Loranger is a writer, performer, visual artist, and all-round squeaky wheel, currently residing in Oakland. CA.
Nancy Carol Moody is the author of the full-length poetry collection, Photograph With Girls (Traprock Books, 2009). She lives in Eugene, OR. website
E. K. Mortenson is the author of Dreamer or the Dream (Last Automat Press, 2010), and was the 2008 recipient of the Leslie Leeds Poetry Prize.
Puma Perl is a writer and performance artist living in New York City. She is the author of knuckle tattoos (Erbace Press, 2010).
John Marcus Powell
has been concentrating on writing poetry for the last three years—a
lot of it about being queer in a queer world.
Seraphime Rhyianir—and
her inanimate, clumsily formed conjoined twin, Lemuel—have
together wheedled their way into the likes of
AMASS Magazine,
Ur Vox, and examiner.com.
Elliott D. Smith spent the first 18 years of his life in Louisville, KY, but has since resided in Oxford, Cincinnati, and Yellow Springs, OH. He now lives in Brooklyn.
Francesca Sphynx, from Glen Rock, NJ, revels in trouble of all nature and variety.
Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino’s work has appeared in publications including OCHO, Barrow Street, The Café Review, jubilat, and Xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics. He is editor of the online poetry journal Eratio.
Charles F. Thielman has worked as a corrections counselor, a truck driver, bus driver, shoe salesman, and Left-Coast Sandcastler. He is one of thirty-six writers who are shareholders in an independent, lefty bookstore in Eugene, OR.
Andrew Topel is often brief.
John J. Trause is the Director of Oradell Public Library in New Jersey and is the author of two chapbooks, Seriously Serial, and Latter-Day Litany.
Geoffrey Kagan Trenchard has performed poetry on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, at universities throughout the United States, and in numerous detention centers.
Stephanie Valente's work has appeared in Nano Fiction, Italics Mine, and Bust Magazine. One day, she would like to be a silent film star.
Jacob Victorine, has received awards for both his Shakespearean literary criticism and for his poetry. He has slammed at the Nuyorican Poets Café, the Bowery Poetry Club, Bar 13, and at the annual SoundBites Poetry Festival.
Ocean Vuong was born in Saigon, Vietnam, and currently resides in New York City. His poems appear in Word Riot, the Kartika Review, SOFTBLOW, North Central Review, and Asian American Poetry, among others.
Bruce Weber is the author of five books of poetry, including The Break-up of My First Marriage (Rogue Scholars Press, 2009). He performs throughout the New York area, both alone and with his group, the No Chance Ensemble.
Laura Madeline Wiseman is the recipient of the 2009
Academy of American
Poets Award from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her chapbook
My Imaginary (Dancing Girl Press, 2010) was a finalist in
four national contests.
Website
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Judith Arcana writes poetry, fiction, and essays. Her most recent poetry collection is 4th Period English (Ash Creek Press, 2009). She lives in Oregon. Website
Samantha Barrow is a poet, writer, performer, and activist who is currently pursuing her M.S. in Narrative Medicine to fortify her work writing with survivors of sexual assault. Website
Paul Belanger is a world traveler, teacher, storyteller, and poet who has performed his work in countries including Australia, South Korea and the U.K.
Alex O. Bleecker recently spent a year abroad writing online pro-Tibetan independence propaganda for The Tibet Post International. He lives in Seattle.
Tony Burfield lives in Boulder, Colorado. When not running wild in the hills, he writes, pounds on his bongos, and edits an online poetry review.
Patrick Cahill has published fiction and poetry in TriQuartely, Reed Magazine, and North Beach Beat, amongst others. He launched a literary and arts review, Ambush, in the summer of 2010.
Thomas Fucaloro was born in Brooklyn, grew up in Staten Island, and now resides in Harlem. Of his poetry habit, Thomas says, "This is what I want to do with my life. Mom and Dad are not happy."
Christian Georgescu
Thomas Gibney is thomasgibney.com
Gary Hanna has received fellowships in poetry from the Delaware Division of the Arts, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. His work appears widely in literary journals and anthologies.
Robert Harris lives in New York City. His poems have been published in journals including Barrow Street, Crested Myna, and Spillway.
Suzanne Heagy is fiction editor of the literary journal, Kestrel. She writes and teaches in West Virginia. Her creative work has appeared in Untamed Ink, Dos Passos Review, Poetry Southeast, and other journals.
Aimee Herman spends her time counting rats in subway stations, searching for the (in)significance of push-up bras and girdles, and disemboweling the meaning of sexuality.
Kit Kennedy has been published widely in anthologies and journals including Arsenic Lobster, CLWN WR, Origin, and Van Gogh's Ear. She hosts the monthly Gallery Cafe reading series in San Francisco. Blog
Joan Payne Kincaid has published ten books of poetry and is a painter, avid birder, gardener, and former opera-concert artist, living in Long Island. Joan's book, Blue Eyes Wise and Dancing, co-authored with Wayne Hogan is forthcoming.
Laura LeHew's chapbook Beauty was published by Tiger's Eye Press in 2009. Her work also appears in such anthologies and journals as Eating Her Wedding Dress (Ragged Sky Press, 2009), A Cappella Zoo, and Untamed Ink. Website
Richard Loranger is a writer, performer, visual artist, and all-round squeaky wheel, currently residing in Oakland. CA.
G. L. Pettigrew is an educator, writer, photographer, and naturalist from South Florida. His poetry and essays appear in Red River Review, Taj Mahal Review, Terain.org. and Red Ink.
Sarah Sarai lives in New York City. The Future is Happy, her first poetry collection, will be published in 2009 by BlazeVOX Press. Blog
Thandiwe Shiphrah collaborates with her husband, Daniel Arite, in the jazz-blues-folk-etc. performance duo, The Bosch Institute. She lives in Nashville.
Michael Shorb's work reflects an abiding interest in myth, history, and the lyrical form, as well as a satirical focus on present day trends and events. His poetry can be found in over one hundred magazines and anthologies.
Karin Spitfire's performance poems include "Incest: It's All Relative," "Corpus Callosum," and "Can I Get You Another Cocktale." She is a former Poet Laureate of Belfast, Maine.
Charles F. Thielman has worked as a corrections counselor, a truck driver, bus driver, shoe salesman, and Left-Coast Sandcastler. He is one of thirty-six writers who are shareholders in an independent, lefty bookstore in Eugene, OR.
Geoffrey Kagan Trenchard has performed poetry on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, at universities throughout the United States, and in numerous detention centers.
Joanna Valente is currently completing her bachelor's degree in Creative Writing and Literature from SUNY Purchase College. She enjoys ginger tea and listening to Billie Holiday.
Stefanie Wielkopolan is a native of Michigan who dreams of having her own show dedicated to sarcasm on NPR. Her essays and poetry appear in Confluence: The Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies, Zaum Press, Coe Review, and Miranda Magazine.
Laura Madeline Wiseman is the recipient of the 2009
Academy of American
Poets Award from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her chapbook
My Imaginary (Dancing Girl Press, 2010) was a finalist in
four national contests.
Website
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Theo Coates began as a painter. Since 1995, writing has been her main creative medium and she has read at numerous New York City poetry venues. Theo was the original spark for the creation of Uphook Press and "A Cautionary Tale" reflects her enthusiasm and artistic sensitivity.
Pete Dolack is a poet, essayist, photographer and activist. He is the author of the chapbook And Now a Word From Our Sponsors.
Bob Hart's
poetry can be found in his chapbook Acrobat, in the anthologies put
together by Bruce Weber and Bertha Rogers, as well as
Poetz.com,
Nomad's Choir, Stained Sheets, and
Poets Wear Prada.
Ice Gayle Johnson
is a multimedia artist living between
Brant Lyon's work can be found in his chapbook Your Infidel Eyes (Poets Wear Prada, 2006), the CD Beauty Keeps Laying Its Sharp Knife Against Me (Logochrysalis 2008), and in numerous journals. He hosts the "jazzoetry" reading series, Hydrogen Jukebox. Website
Jane Ormerod performs regularly on both east and west coasts plus everywhere in- between. She is the author of Recreational Vehicles on Fire (Three Rooms Press, 2009), 11 Films (Modern Metrics, 2008), and the CD Nashville Invades Manhattan. Website
Frank Simone declares, "All creative adventures are the highest form of compliment to humanity." He is a poet and painter and his work has been anthologized in In the Arms of Words (Sherman Asher 2006), and Heal (Clinique Books, 2005).