POETRY
by Charles P. Ries, Poetry Editor
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Charles P. Ries, Poetry EditorCharles P. Ries lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His narrative poems, short stories, interviews and poetry reviews have appeared in over one hundred and twenty print and electronic publications. He has received three Pushcart Prize nominations for his writing and recently read his poetry on National Public Radio's Theme and Variations, a program that is broadcast over seventy NPR affiliates. He is the author of THE FATHERS WE FIND, a novel based on memory. Ries is also the author of five books of poetry - the most recent entitled, The Last Time which was released by The Moon Press in Tucson, Arizona. He is the poetry editor for Word Riot (www.wordriot.org) and on the board of the Woodland Pattern Bookstore in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Most recently he has been appointed to the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission. You may find additional samples of his work by going to: http://www.literarti.net/Ries/ He is Poetry Editor for Passport Journal. You may write to him at charlesr@execpc.com
Sharon Auberle, PoetSharon Auberle writes and takes pictures in two of the most beautiful places in the world-the woods and waters of
Door County, Wisconsin and the mountains and deserts
of the Colorado Plateau. Her work has appeared in various publications and on-line magazines, and in a number of anthologies, including Woman Prayers, published by Harper San Fransisco and Literary Lunch, published by University of Tennessee Press.

A collection of poetry and photography may be found on her
website-Mimi's Golightly Caf
é at www.sharonauberle.blogspot.com

You may reach her by sea_poet@msn.com

Richard Fein

Richard Fein writes to us "I was Finalist in The 2004 Center for Book Arts Chapbook Competition. I  have been published in many web and print journals, such as Oregon East, Southern Humanities Review, Touchstone, Windsor Review, Maverick,Parnassus Literary Review, Small Pond, Kansas Quarterly, Blue Unicorn, Exquisite Corpse, Terrain and many others I also have an interest in digital photography and have published many of my photos.

Samples of my photography may be found on
http://www.pbase.com/bardofbyte   photo album.

You may email him:bardofbyte@aol.com

             

Gloria Mindock, PoetGloria Mindock is editor and publisher of Cervena Barva Press and editor of the Istanbul Literature Review based in Turkey. She is the author of 2 chapbooks, Doppelganger and Oh Angel and two poetry collections, Nothing Divine Here, by U Soku Stampa (forthcoming) and Blood Soaked Dresses, by Ibbetson St. Press (2007). Gloria has been published in numerous journals including UNU: Revista de Cultura and Citadela in Romania, Arabesques, Poesia, Phoebe, Poet Lore, Blackbox, River Styx, Bogg, Ibbetson St., and WHLR to name a few and numerous anthologies including Murmur of Voices by Cogito Publishing House in Romania. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was awarded a fellowship from the Somerville Arts Council.
From 1984-1994, she edited the Boston Literary Review/BLuR and was co-founder of Theatre S & S. Press, Inc. Gloria works as a Social Worker and freelances editing manuscripts and conducting workshops for writers. She moderates (part owner of one) two writing groups online based in the UK. You may email her at: midwesternglo@comcast.net
April Murphy, Poet

April Murphy currently lives in New York state, where she goes to school at the State University of New York at Fredonia, or SUNY Fredonia, for a BA in English and Philosophy. She is an international performance poet with performances in Ireland, Canada, and the US. She hopes to publish her first chapbook in the coming year. Her poetry has been featured in The Irish American Post. This is her first time in Passport Journal.

L B Sedlacek, PoetLB Sedlacek's poems have appeared in such publications as "Andwerve," "Coppertales," "Poet's Canvas," "X Magazine," "Re)Verb," "Circle Magazine," "HazMat Review," "ART:MAG," "Wisteria: A Journal of
Haiku, Senryu, & Tanka," "Spiky Palm," "Wild Goose
Poetry Review," "Dispatch," "Inkburns," "sidereality," and "Hurricane Review." L.B.'s short fiction has been published in "Skive Magazine," "SouthLit.com," "Southern Hum," and "Duct Tape Press." Chapbooks include "Average Bears" and "Alexandra's Wreck." L.B. has received two Pushcart Prize nominations. LB's website is www.lbsedlacek.com
T Kilgore Splake, PoetT. Kilgore Splake is the editor and designated "blog-master" for CLIFFS SOUNDINGS published by Vertin Press in Calumet, Michigan. Splake has published numerous poetry and prose chapbooks. A complete listing may be found at the Vertin Press web-site www.vertinpress.com
Richard Swanson, Poet

Richard Swanson, another first-timer for Passport Journal, gardens, reads, and writes in Madison, Wisconsin. His Men in the Nude in Socks won the Wisconsin Writers' Council Posner award for the best full-length collection for 2006. The book is available from Fireweed Press, 7320 Cedar Creek Trail, Madison, WI 53717

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