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Cynthia Arrieu-King is a volunteer at the tomato aquarium. Her work has
appeared in Prairie Schooner, Diagram, and Margie, etc.

Joshua Beckman, tour organizer and featured poet on the Wave Books 2006
Poetry Bus Tour was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of five
books, including Shake, Your Time Has Come, and Something I Expected to be
Different. He has appeared on NPR’s “The Next Big Thing” and his 2002 tour
with fellow poet and collaborator Matthew Rohrer garnered praise and national
attention from The Village Voice and Time Out New York. The recipient of
numerous awards, including a NYFA fellowship and a Pushcart Prize, he is an
editor for Wave Books and lives in Seattle and New York.

Heather Christle grew up in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. Her poems have
appeared in Octopus & LIT and may soon be found in Third Coast & Verse. She
lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Paula Cisewski is the author of Upon Arrival (BlackOcean, 2006) and the
chapbook How Birds Work (Fuori Editions, 2002). Her poems are forthcoming or
have appeared in literary magazines such as Swink; Konundrum Engine; Conduit;
Spinning Jenny; Forklift, Ohio; Black Warrior Review; Crazyhorse; SHADE; swerve
and Hunger Mountain. She lives in Minneapolis.

Adam Clay lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan. His first book, The Wash, is
forthcoming from Parlor Press, and a chapbook, Canoe, is available from Horse
Less Press. He co-edits Typo Magazine and is a PhD candidate at Western
Michigan University.

Kathy Fagan's most recent collection is The Charm (Zoo, 2002). She
teaches in the MFA Program at Ohio State where she also edits The
Journal.

Sean Flanigan is completing his MFA at The Ohio State University. He
recently retired from a side job at The Home Depot. Presently, he is
working on a series of poems about his experiences in the home improvement
industry. He is happy to have the first of these efforts appear in
Pilot.

Karla Kelsey is the author of Knowledge, Forms, the Aviary (Ahsahta Press). The
poems in this issue of Pilot are from her new manuscript, Iteration Nets, based on
the sonnet form. The sonnets presented here sample lines from Gerard Manley
Hopkins, Paul Celan, Emily Dickinson, Noah Eli Gordon, and EE Cummings.

Friedrich Kerksieck was born in Dubuque, Iowa, a city frequently referred to as
"river city," perhaps due to its inhabiting a rocky clutch against a bank of the
greater Mississippi River, perhaps because that is what his father called it. FK is
fond of postcards, collage, forests, horses (not ponies), bicycles, chin-ups (not push-
ups), & blissfully hot summers. He just snaked his way down to Tuscaloosa,
Alabama, where he resides in the shadow of a football stadium & is grasping
toward an MFA in Poetry. The main-page image was taken from one of his
handmade postcards.

Ron Klassnik was born in the stomach of a fish and popped out in a Las Vegas
fountain. His wife polished him for years. He drinks beer and vodka tonics and
considers his friends a bad influence. He likes tennis and golf but sucks at both.
He's plenty young still but he's careful walking down stairs. He still believes, in
spite of it all.

Aaron James McNally was born in Waterloo, IA, to an auto-body repairman and
a paralegal. He is currently working on his MA in English Lit at the University of
Northern Iowa. He has contributed reviews of contemporary poetry to Rain Taxi
and The Cream City Review.

Alex Phillips lives in the village of Lake Pleasant and teaches creative writing at
the University of Massachusetts. His chapbook, Under a Paper Trellis, is available
from Factory Hollow Press.

David Rivard is the author of Sugartown, Bewitched Playground, and Wise
Poison, all from Graywolf. Wise Poison won the James Laughlin Prize from the
Academy of American Poets, and was a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book
Award. He teaches at Tufts University and in the M.F.A. program at Vermont
College.

Andrew Michael Roberts grew up in Elma, Washington, home of the Slug
Festival. He now studies and teaches in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he is a
Juniper Fellow at the University of Massachusetts. His work appears or is
forthcoming in The Iowa Review, LIT, Gulf Coast, Pool, and Mississippi Review,
among others.

Anthony Robinson lives and works in western Oregon. He is the
co-author (with Andrew Mister) of Here's To You, and is an editor
for The Northwest Review and The Canary.

Matthew Rohrer thinks Electric Light Orchestra is great. And he has since 1978
when he first got OUT OF THE BLUE and DISCOVERY (disco-very, get it?) on
cassette tape at Sound Warehouse in Norman Oklahoma. Sadly, that is where he
lived. Now he lives in Brooklyn, with a 3 and a half year old son who also loves
ELO and drums along to them every day. That is not an exaggeration. Every day.
Matthew Rohrer has now listened to ELO in the past 6 months more than he did
the rest of his life put together. And they still hold up. Except for the song about
the whale. That’s just dreadful.

Jeremy Schmall has had work in Tastes Like Chicken, Canon Magazine, and Juked.
com. He is also the editor of Agriculture Reader, an arts magazine. He lives in
Brooklyn. See more of his work, be his friend: myspace.com/flying_jay.

Zachary Schomburg's chapbook, Abraham Lincoln's Death Scene, will be
published by H orse L ess P ress in late 2006 and his first book of poems, The Man
Suit, will be published by Black Ocean Press in early 2007. 5 of the following 8
things are true: 1. He lives in Lincoln, NE. 2. He is a PhD student in poetry. 3. He
currently starts at first base for the New York Mets. 4. He co-curates the Clean
Part reading series. 5. He lives with four females. 6. He no longer has the clap. 7.
He co-edits Octopus Magazine & Octopus Books. 8. He is in your kitchen.

Lori Shine received an MFA from UMass, Amherst, where she was a Jacob Javits
fellow and received the Academy of American Poets Award. Her poems have
appeared in Boston Review, The Canary, Conduit, Crowd, New American Writing,
and other magazines, and in Isn't It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger
American Poets. She is Managing Editor of Wave Books and lives in western
Massachusetts.

Peter Yumi is a multi-media artist. He lives in rural Pennsylvania with his wife
Karla Kelsey.

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