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The new Perihelion features work by poets living and working on the West Coast.
 

David Alpaugh’s work has appeared in over fifty literary magazines,journals  and anthologies, including Exquisite Corpse, The Formalist, Poet &Critic, Poetry, and ZYZZYVA.  His first collection of poems, Counterpoint, won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize and was published by Story Line Press.  He teaches poetry writing and appreciation at the University of California,  Berkeley Extension and operates Small Poetry Press, a chapbook design and printing company for self-publishing poets.

Richard Beban lives in Venice, California,  where he and his wife, the poet/novelist Karen Kitchell, run a weekly reading series with three other poets at Venice's Rose Café.  He and Karen also teach a unique workshop called Living Mythically at venues like The Esalen Institute.  A poet since 1994, he has been published in eight national anthologies, more than twenty print and online magazines, and maintains a poetry website.
 

In spite of taking on a full-time corporate role in the less than poetic world of data research,  Nancy Cherry still attempts to write poetry. While her work has not made any of the Fortune 500 mags, she is proud to say it has appeared in Poetry Flash, Poets On:, The Sycamore Review, Puerto del Sol, Whetstone, Sou'wester, Northeast Corridor, Green Fuse and other publications. Her poetry newsletter, Fish Dance,  has been in publication for four years and now appears on the Web at:

http://www.concentric.net/~nowheart

Current collections of her work appear in book form from Redfruit Press: Paper & Ash,  Not Rain and Anywhere.  E-mail for information at nowheart@concentric.net. 

Ruth has been published in Shenandoah, Negative Capability,  Poet & Critic,  Kansas Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly,  Atlanta Review,  Poet Lore, Tikkun,  as well as in "E" zines including Mudlark and Recursive Angel.  Her latest poetry collections are Between One Future And The Next (Papier-Mache Press, 1995) and About A Year (Small Poetry Press, 1996).  Ruth has won "The Eve of St. Agnes Poetry Award" (Negative Capability, 1993) and recently, the "Ann Stanford Poetry Prize," 1997 (University of Southern California Anthology).  Poems from her latest poetry collection "Between One Future And The Next" (Papier-Mache Press, 1995). 

Oliver de la Paz is a faculty associate in the Department of English at Arizona State Universtiy where he teaches writing.  He has published in anthologies and  journals, including Cimarron Review, The Literary Review, Hayden's Ferry Review,  Asian Pacific American Journal, and The Crab Orchard Review, among others. 

Forrest Hamer's first  book of poems, Call & Response (Alice James, 1995)  won the Beatrice Hawley Award.  He is also co-author of a collaborative chapbook, Terrain, with Dan Bell  and Molly Fisk.  Forrest lives in Oakland, California.

Jacqueline Kudler, currently serving on the Board of Directors of the Marin Poetry Center, teaches classesin writing and literature at theCollege of  Marin in Kentfield. Her poems have appeared most recently in Barnabe Mountain Review,  Beside the Sleeping Maiden, Americas Review, and The Birmingham Review.

Kathleen Lynch has published poetry, fiction, essays and B&W art photographs. Her "How to Buildan Owl" won the Select Poet Series Award from Small Poetry Press. Her poems have been published in many journals, including Poetry East, Poetry Flash, Poetry Northwest, Sycamore Review, Spoon River Poetry Review,  The Midwest Quarterly, Quarterly West and Chariton Review.  She has work forthcoming in Poetry, Nimrod, The English Journal, The Laurel Review, Slipstream and Disquieting Muses.  She lives in Loomis, California,
where she studies clay sculpture, works as a free lance writer &conducts writing workshops. 

Lisa Sitkin is a Bay Area native. She studied literature at Yale University and U.C. Berkeley, and is currently practicing law, writing, swimming and dancing in San Fracisco.  She has given readings in several Northern California venues, including Cody's Books, Diesel Books and Notes from the Underground.

Guggenheim award-winner RobertSward teaches at UC Extension in Santa Cruz. Chosen by Lucille Cliftonto receive a Villa Montalvo Literary Arts Award, he is the author of 16 books including Four Incarnations,  New & Selected Poems (Coffee House Press). Contributing Editor to eZine "Blue Moon  Review," he has just completed a new collection, Portrait of an L.A. Daughter & Other Poems. Sex & TV with Aunt Em, Sward's Web Del Sol Mini-Chap, can be seen at:

http://www.webdelsol.com/LITARTS/Robert_Sward

   Susan Terris

Susan Terris' book Curved Space was published by the La Jolla Poets Press in January, 1998. In 1999, she had two new poetry books published: Eye of the Holocaust (Arctos Press) and Angels of Bataan (Pudding House Publications). Other recent books are: Killing in the Comfort Zone (Pudding House Publications) and Nell's Quilt (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).  Her work has been published in such magazines as The Antioch Review, The Midwest Quarterly,  Painted Bride Quarterly,  Nimrod, and The Southern Poetry Review. Online, her work has appeared in The Blue Penny Quarterly,  Blue Moon Review, In Vivo, Kudzu, among others.