Biographies and Recommendations:

   Janet I. Buck

Janet Buck teaches writing and literature at the college level. Her essays and poetry have appeared in The Recursive Angel, The Melic Review, Conspire, Gravity, Allegory, Kimera, The Oracular Tree, Green Cross, Moonshade Magazine, Revolution, Flaming Flag, Calliope, In Motion, Idling, Poetfest, Sapphire, The Astrophysicist's Tango Partner Speaks, Maelstrom, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, and dozens of other periodicals. Janet's poetry sites on the web have received more than thirty awards, including the distiguished "Predators and Editors: Author's Site of Excellence" and "The Circle of the Muses Award of Inspiration." "Writing," she says, " is a tuba in a long parade that chases pain and sorrow to its dissolution."

Recommendations:

DreamSpinner's World
Rivers of Thought
Cyber Whispers
Black Elvis
Ugly Coyote's Lair

   Klaus Gerken

Klaus Gerken, born Cuxhaven, Germany, 1949. Came to Canada age 9, 1958. First published work, Dynasty 1968. Since then over 100 titles, Poems, Plays and Novels. Many available on this site. Co-founder, with Paul Lauda, of the Centipede Network. Editor and Founder of Ygdrasil , A Journal of the Poetic Arts (both 1993). Residence: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Recomendations:

Igal Koshevoy's Ygdrasil Home Page and Poetry
Pedro Sena's Home Page and Poetry
Milan Georges Djordjevich's Home Page


   Karen Alkalay-Gut

Karen Alkalay-Gut teaches poetry at Tel Aviv University. She has also launched her career as an artist with an installation about body sculpture that coincides with the completion of her tenth book of poetry, "The Love of Clothes and Nakedness." Living in Israel and publishing in a language foreign to most of the inhabitants, she has found various strategies of coping ­ founding the Israel Association of Writers in English, making friends with Hebrew translators (who are responsible for the publication of three books), working with other media such as music and art, and enjoying the Internet as a window to the world.

   Kucinta Setia

I'm a Chinese Singaporean whose religious background follows identically to the Jewish practice. I attend church service on Saturdays (Shabbat) and I visit the local synagogue Maghen Aboth at least once a year. Reading Israel Review, Ariel help me understand Jewish culture and adapt elements of Jewish culture into my poems. My Shabbat poems hence depict elements of Christianity and Judaism. As for odes, I was a stranger to this poetry genre. An ordinary letter to the local English newspaper The Straits Times in July 1996 which includes a poem (later on, the editor named it as an ode) shoots me to press fame which was unexpected. However it encourages me to start analysing and composing odes. I never expect that in short three years, I have written almost 50 over poems including Mandarin ones. The English poems had been published by Redfrog, Dawn's House Of Poetry, The Poetry Billboard, Ygdrasil, SSW Digest (Singapore) and Christ In Human Culture. My Mandarin poems were published on Bukit Timah Literature and May Poetry Journal, two local prestigious Chinese poetry half-yearlies. My first book-bound poetry anthology will be launched in Adelaide, Australia, in 1999.

Poetry, to me, is a spiritual gift from God, other than the Bible. It induces me to think. I have never expected to receive and promote it.

Recommendations:

Pablo Neruda
Dawn Evans - Dawn's House of Poetry
Lan Andrian Yin Yang
Marshall Beeber

   Maryann Hazen

" I'm the mom of two teenage daughters, Heather and Rachel, and the wife of a very, wonderful man named Michael, living in NYS. I'm a Medical Transcriptionist and college student. I enjoy Renaissance Fairs, Science Fiction/Horror/Fantasy, gardening, needlepoint, painting birdhouses and poeting-more-than-anything-else. I do not enjoy cleaning the kitchen, driving for more than an hour, gnats, flip-flops or thong underwear. :o) Good fortune has seen my works published in more than fifty magazines, both in print and electronically, during the past year. Poetry is simply a passion. "

Recommendations:

J. Kevin Wolfe
Holly Lalena Day
Wasted Space