Martin Arnold is a poet of the most refined sensibility. He likes long, slow kisses, massages, and taking moonlit walks on the beach. He just may be the Muse's illegitimate son.
Robert A. Ayres has contributed poems to anthologies including Is This Forever or What (Greenwillow Books), Four Way Reader #2 (Four Way Books), Urban Nature, and Outsiders (both by Milkweed Editions). His poems have appeared in The Marlboro Review, Drought, The Cumberland Poetry Review, Southwestern American Literature, and The Texas Observer. He lives with his wife and their two daughters in Austin, Texas where he writes poems and looks after a couple hundred crossbred cows.
Joshua Beckman is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Your Time Has Come (Verse Press). He lives in Staten Island, New York.
Paul Benton works as a security guard at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. He has been writing, or attempting to write, what he believes is poetry for quite some time. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Quercus Review, Main Street Rag, The Wisconsin Review, HazMat Review, and Poetry Motel.
Jenny Browne lives in San Antonio, Texas in a neighborhood named for a cow. She has recent or forthcoming poems in Another Chicago Magazine, Skanky Possum and crossconnect. Her first collection, At Once, was published by the University of Tampa Press in Fall 2003.
Paula Cisewski's chapbook, How Birds Work, appeared in 2002 from Fuori Editions. Her poems have appeared in the Black Warrior Review, the SHADE Anthology, Spinning Jenny, Swerve, and Conduit, among others. She lives in Northeast Minneapolis and is currently finishing her MFA at Vermont College.
Evan Commander is an Ohio student from Georgia who bought a car in Kentucky. He thinks two line bios are strange.
Darcie Dennigan wrote to Forklift, Ohio to inquire about the handling and/or mishandling of some industrial lighting. She is confused yet delighted to see her questions published here as a poem.
Russell Dillon renounced his position as an alternate on the U.S. Olympic Forklift Team after learning that scandal and greed had corrupted the very moral fiber conducive to industrial safety. He has since gone into exile leaving nary a trace, though unconfirmed rumors place him somewhere in San Francisco. At bedtime, he wears steel pajamas and a bright orange hard-hat. Of this much, we are certain.
Ben Doyle lives in Granville, Ohio. You can see some more of his recent poems for free online at Web Conjunctions and Octopus. His first book was Radio, Radio—try your local library for a free copy of that one (along with many other fine volumes). If that doesn't work, millions of books are available online at discount rates.
Melanie Dusseau is a part-time teacher, all-time waitress from Toledo, Ohio. Recent poems appear or are forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, River Styx, and Heliotrope.
Rachel Contreni Flynn teaches poetry and practices law and can't help the look on her face. She was awarded a 2003 Illinois Artists Fellowship and has new work appearing in Epoch, Puerto Del Sol, Washington Square, and The Spoon River Poetry Review. Her first collection of poems, Ice, Mouth, Song, is being published by Tupelo Press in 2005.
Sara Fraser is better than torn paper. And now that she's been there, she thinks Italy's the greatest place on earth.
Shauna Hannibal now resides in Chicago. Her work has appeared in 88, jubilat, and Spinning Jenny.
Thomas Heise's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Slope, Gulf Coast, Ploughshares, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, and elsewhere. He holds, in his right hand, an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of California at Davis and soon will hold, in his left, a Ph.D. in Literature from New York University. He weighs 168 lbs. and has a nice furry coat in the winter.
Sarah Hollis is a painter and writer living in Cincinnati, OH. She likes buffalo in strange habitats, classic patterns, squiggles, and wind farms. Everything she touches turns to flame.
Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis' work has appeared or is forthcoming in: Colorado Review, Hotel Amerika and Glimmer Train. She lives and works in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Laura Kasischke's most recent book of poems, Dance and Disappear, received the Juniper Award from the University of Massachusetts Press. She has a new collection, Gardening in the Dark, forthcoming from Ausable Press.
Amie Keddy is a writer and artist living and teaching in Deerfield, Massachusetts. She is a graduate of Bennington College's Writing Seminars Program. Her poems have appeared in canwehaveourballback, Breakwater, and The Bennington Review.
Dana Levin's first book is In the Surgical Theatre (Copper Canyon, 1999). Her next book, Wedding Day, is due out from Copper Canyon in Spring 05. A recent Pushcart Prize winner, she is a 2004 Witter Bynner Fellow at the Library of Congress.
Brendan Lorber is the editor of LUNGFULL! Magazine & curator of The Zinc Bar Talk/Reading Series. He lives in an old Brooklyn farmhouse that he rebuilt into a cleverly disguised fully-operational spaceship. He's the creator of several chapbooks, most recently Dash (Situations, 2003) and text/image objects like Corvid Aurora (LHB, 2002) and, with Tracey McTague, Book of the New Now (The Gift, 2002). A longer operation, Welcome Overboard, is under the steely gaze of an editor right now. He's taught several workshops, has poems & essays in journals from canwehaveourballback to The Chicago Tribune and has also been translated into several languages.
Sarah Manguso is the author of The Captain Lands in Paradise and co-editor, with Jordan Davis, of the anthology Free Radicals: American Poets Before Their First Books. She teaches in the New School's M.F.A. program.
Anthony McCann lives in Brooklyn NY where he teaches English as a second language to mostly Russian-speaking immigrants from various states of the former Soviet Union. He is the author of one full length collection, Father of Noise, published in May 2003 from Fence Books and Saturnalia Books and of one chapbook, In Praise of Reason, from Pine Press of Vilnius, Lithuania. He hopes to put his new forklift operator's license to work as soon as possible. With this purpose in mind he's got his eyes on the one down the block that almost runs him over with alarming regularity on his way to the subway—and which he has seen, on more than one occasion, left unattended.
Amy McNamara writes poems when she is not having children. When she is not playing Witch with her daughter (& scaring her daughter's friends), she can be found floating in the kiddie pool with a book. When she is not in the kiddie pool, she is running. When she is not running, she is baking. When she is not baking, she is driving. When she gets pulled over for speeding, she gets let off with a warning. ALWAYS. Her poems can be seen in such august journals as Conduit, Spork, The Laurel Review, and others.
Ander Monson lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he edits the New Michigan Press and the magazine DIAGRAM. He has two books forthcoming in May 2005: Other Electricities, stories, from Sarabande Books, and Vacationland, poems, from Tupelo Press.
Mel Nichols' poems have recently appeared in Gargoyle, Ixnay, PipLit, and Anomaly. She is an editor of ://englishmatters and teaches at George Mason University. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
Ethan Paquin is the author of Accumulus (Salt, 2003) and the forthcoming The Violence (Ahsahta, 2005). He is editor of Slope and Slope Editions, and directs the undergraduate creative writing program at Medaille College in Buffalo, NY. He is a native of New Hampshire.
Pablo Peschiera (though having had his Michigan Forklift Operator's License revoked for spinning doughnuts in the warehouse at Major Wholesale) is honored to appear in this issue of Forklift and to receive a new Forklift Operator's License. He has written reviews and interviews for various publications, and his poems have appeared in LitRag, Pleiades, The Poetry Miscellany, and others.
Chris Salerno is living in Raleigh, NC. He teaches, via the subliminal message, at North Carolina State University. His poems have been in LIT, Barrow Street, Spinning Jenny, GoodFoot and others. His chapbook, Waving Something White is probably not worth it, but his book-length manuscript, Whirligig, was a finalist at Winnow Press, and might be decent.
Jason Schneiderman holds an MFA from NYU and is in the Ph.D. program in English at The Graduate Center at CUNY. He teaches Creative Writing at Hofstra University. His poetry has appeared in The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, Tin House, Grand Street, Story Quarterly, and Parlor Games and many other places. His translations have appeared in Verse and Modern Poetry in Translation. His essays have appeared in Teachers & Writers and Frigate. He is a senior editor at Painted Bride Quarterly and has received fellowships from Yaddo and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He has twice been head-waiter at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Vermont. He is the winner of the Poetry Society of America's Writer Magazine Emily Dickinson Award. His first collection of poems, Sublimation Point, is forthcoming from Four Way Books, November 2004.
Zachary Schomburg's favorite and most recent poems of his can be found in Mid American Review, Madison Review, and Good Foot. He co-edits Octopus.
rachel m simon grew up in Dallas but has lived in Maine, Chicago, Buffalo, and D.C. She loves Cleveland but currently resides in Yonkers, NY. rachel holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and teaches at SUNY Purchase College. She thinks garlic and chocolate are always a good idea.
Shane Sullivan lives outside of Bloomington IN with his wife, Karen and his newborn, Luise Mae Sullivan. He has three dogs and three cats&emdash;creatures who populate not only his life, but his poems. Shane is a Ph.D. student in composition and rhetoric at Ball State University. His advice: stay off the grid.
Tony Tost co-edits Octopus Magazine (www.octopusmagazine.com) and lives in Chapel Hill, NC. His first book, Invisible Bride, was selected by CD Wright for the 2003 Walt Whitman Award and will be published by LSU Press in April, 2004.
F. Keith Wahle is the author of two poetry collections, A Choice of Killers (1998), and Farewell to Happy Town (2004). His poems and prose poems have appeared recently in Cincinnati Review, Inscape, Lake Effect, and Pudding Magazine. He is also active in performance art and alternative theater in Cincinnati. In June 2004, he took part in CICADA: The Musical, which played to standing-room audiences and received national publicity.
Patti White was a probation officer in Colorado before turning to academic life. Her poems have appeared in Arts Indiana, the Hopewell Review, RedRiverReview, The MacGuffin, the Mississippi Review, DIAGRAM, The Common Review, and Nimrod. A short film based on her poem Tacklebox has been winning awards at independent film festivals worldwide (see tackleboxthemovie.com).
G.C. Waldrep's first book of poems, Goldbeater's Skin, won the 2003 Colorado Prize for Poetry, judged by Donald Revell. His work has also appeared recently in Gettysburg Review, Seneca Review, Hambone, Tin House, Conduit, Colorado Review, Quarterly West, and other journals. He currently divides his time between North Carolina and Iowa.
Wm. Vandoren Wheeler was born with his umbilical cord wrapped around his neck in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Things started to look up when his poems appeared in Scribendi, The Rocky Mountain Review, Swink, and The Southern Poetry Review. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon, and is absolutely terrified of neck ties.
Dean Young lives in a house on a hill. He rides a polka-dot horse.
Jason Zuzga grew up in New Jersey and now lives in Tucson, AZ with Tracy the cat. He was a recipient of a 2001-2002 Fine Arts Work Center residency. His poems have been published in Fence, Volt, LIT, jubilat, Provincetown Arts, The Yale Review, and Spork. His flipbook Chocolate Milk Puzzle is available by request.
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