My Esquire piece, “Notes on Contributors,” landed on the magazine’s website Saturday. You can also see the real, live print version in the current November issue - Halle Berry on the cover - on page 170.
The editors chose eight “Notes” but I’d submitted a bunch more. Here are the rest:
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- Paul Gaggerns and his wife live in a gully outside Houston where they raised three children and enjoy pot roast. In earlier times he trained ferrets and cats to get along better; more recently he’s made his living juggling turnips at the Houston Zoological Gardens and has taken to wandering about.
- Geoff Hachis is an editor and fisherman. His Poetry for the Shower in English (translated by Crane W. Holler and Mike Toops) is forthcoming. Hachis is the founder and managing director of the Slippery, Sweaty Bicycle Seat Foundation in central Latvia. The purpose of the Foundation is to study the entire written historical record of the bicycle seat with the goal of making them less sweaty and slippery.
- Carlotta Ixelsh co-edits the online poetry review, BloodFireTwighlightTwighlightFireBlood. Ixelsh visited Bolivia once, where she contracted typhoid. She has photos of herself, passed out drunk in the Cochabamba bus station, strangling a cat. In 2005, she organized a festival in her hometown of Jacksonville, Fla. celebrating Bolivia’s agreement to supply 2 percent of the antimony for China’s cable sheathing industry.
- Maude Mish has finally purchased something she thinks she’ll wear more than once. Her forthcoming collection of collected collections will be collected next year by The Collections Collective (London, Mumbai). Sometimes a poet, always a dialectical behavior therapist in private practice, Mish lives in Rathdrum, Idaho with her two puffins, Ollie and Smacker.
- Sarah von Neaden, of the famous Skyler Chronicles Poets, is 88 and specializes in beading and poetry. She has earned a PORP and has taught by invitation at 11 universities and 28 writing labs. She is presently building a fiction workshop in Bisbee, Arizona with lumber donated by Bisbee High School writing students. She is also writing four books: Snails in the Copper Pot (fiction), What Do You Think Of My Toenail Polish? (poems), Rabbit Hole Roundhouse: Quantum Mechanics and Superstring Theory in the Post Cohen-Tannoudji Age (2-vol. set) and Skin Feels Freda, a memoir of her days siphoning gasoline from rental cars at the Avis off S. Garfield Ave. in Orange County.
- Bill “Wetlands” Omat received his M.F.A. a long time ago. He has served on the Mayor’s Council for Friendly, Non-Controversial Art in Charlotte since 1997. His poetry collection, Numb is Night, Feel is Day, is available at Carolina Taco Source and carolinatacosource.com.
- Ronnie Pupples teaches Dreamscapeture at Mollysapp Community College on the edge of western Vermont where he’s also maintained a watertaxi business for the last 14 years. He is a British citizen and is a regular contributor to British Writers Quarterly, British Writing Is Better and Would That We All Were British. Pupples has seen his verse published in Tapioca Review, Liver and Sue Baten’s Shorts. He lives on a radish farm where he continues his lifelong study of ponds.
- Marge Radael’s chapbook, Feel It In All The Ways won the 2001 Skooch Prize for Chapbook Brilliance from the Greater Metropolitan Fresno Chapbook Association. She teaches writing and sentence diagramming at Fresno City College. Last year, she was one of seven chapbookists chosen to read before Dwayne L. Hortense, founder of the Kaliope Stuttgart School of Chapbook Arts.
- Rory Riverlovely credits an early-career dalliance in low-cost prostitution with her ability to bring disparate interests together around a focused goal - attaining a high score in Galaga, for instance. Riverlovely’s essays and photographs have been published primarily in Skintag and The Bad Mamma Jamma Review. Besides a serious interest in kale and other kinds of cabbage, she enjoys zephyrs and a good rubbing.
- Simon Romazzle has published poems and short stories in Kiddiepool, The Delano Journal of Wheat, Shiver Me Timbers, Kyle is Wrong and Pickle Farm. As Lyman Tompazzle, he publishes and edits batpatio.com, a website for those hoping to attract more bats to - and around - their patios.
- El-Ando Sorel submitted her novel, Velvet Rattles You And Again, for a Pulitzer Prize for “distinguished fiction by an American author” in 1981. She was not a finalist - and, come to think of it, never got a return receipt confirming delivery - but the award did go to a dead person that year, so she felt better about that. One of her private journal entries, May 17, 1994, has been staged as musical theater.
- Joan Crispee Tille’s most recent CD, a compilation of curling sounds called Violate the Hog Line, was released in January 2003 to tremendous critical acclaim. Between 1974 and 1992, Tille took a notation each time she fell down. The collected notations, Down (Calf Creek Zipperman) won the 1997 Pardon Low Johnston Wonderfully Rich Notes Award.
- Cara Ulish is co-director of the Florence L. Shipplebottom Institute for Writing Excellence in Pencil at the University of Guelph-Humber. Most recent works are published in The Scaly Fish Review, Moral Voice for Californian Little People, Spaghetti: Journal of Pasta and Sauce, and Spaz’hole. Her chapterbook, Follow Me, Dear One, Into the Darkest Corners of My Chevy Lumina, was awarded third place by the National Society of Crime Writers for Peace Contest, Ontario Chapter.
