The Aurora Review
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Winter/Spring 2005 |
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Bridgette Alyce is an Employment Specialist in San
Bernardino County, California. Her poetry has appeared in X-Magazine and SpinDrifter Literary Journal. Bridgette Alyce’s first book of poetry, Come, Joy!
is due to be released in the summer of 2005. Alyce, who is also a musician, lives with her
family in Hesperia, California. Roy Bearden-White lives in Southern Illinois with his wife, son, mother-in-law, 27 fish, one dog, 19 cats, a canary, and three raccoons who claim they are “just passing by.” His poetry has been published by Grassroots, True Poet Magazine, Three Cup Morning, and Once Upon A Time. C. L. Bledsoe grew up on a rice farm in eastern
Arkansas and attended the University of Arkansas. He is currently an M.F.A.
student at Hollins University, where he works as an editor for the Hollins
Critic, as well as Ghoti Magazine. His publications include Margie, Nimrod, Natural Bridge, Story South, Snow Monkey and Eyeshot. Amy Bouse lives in Los Angeles and shows her work throughout the
United States. In July 2005 she will have a solo show at the International
Gallery of Contemporary Art in Anchorage, Alaska. Avik Chanda, a management consultant by profession, has had features, art
reviews, and short stories published in a number of dailies. Poetry publications include
Black Bear Review, Three Candles, Morpo Review, Reflections, The Heard, Other
Poetry, Richmond Review, Adirondack Review, Poetic Depth Quarterly, Rearview
Quarterly, Eclectica, Ascent, Slant, Kimera, Brittlestar, andWolf Magazine. Current or forthcoming publications include Spork, Shearsman,
Fire, Stride Magazine, Octavo, Coffee House Poetry, Orbis, and Poet’s
Canvas. Ione Citrin is an avant-garde artist whose artistic expression takes fantastic shape through her diverse oil and watercolor paintings, bronze sculptures, found object collages, and mixed media assemblages. Her paintings and sculptures – all visionary interpretations from her imaginative soul – range from abstract to realistic to impressionistic. Jeff Foster, who was greatly influenced by Theodore Roethke, Raymond Carver, and Joni Mitchell, tries to create nebulous pictures of spirituality with his poetry. His poetry appears in Tamafyr Mountain and Poetry Motel.
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Abeer
Hoque, born in Nigeria to Bangladeshi parents, moved to America when
she was in high school. She has a B.S. and an M.A. from the Wharton
School and an M.F.A. in Writing from the University of San Francisco.
Her work has been published in Prose Ax, Pittsburgh Post
Gazette, ZYZZYVA, and Switchback. She lives in San
Francisco.
Peter Schwartz has a B.A. in Literature and Creative Writing, is a world traveler, and is half of the band ear. His work has appeared in Porcupine, Poetalk, Anthology, Barbaric Yawp, Freefall and Writers’ Journal to name a few. He is an honorary member of the International Association of Paradoxism and of the Academy of American Poets. His poetry can be read online at: www.listentoear.com. Kimberly Simms is the director of Wits End Poetry. She is currently working with the Metropolitan Arts Council’s arts integration program, The Tanglewood Project. Her work can be found in From the Page to the Stage, the 2003 National Poetry Slam Anthology and in Quintet, a book of poems by five young poets from South Carolina.
Jeremiah Stansbury, a Memphis-based artist, is primarily concerned with what
he calls the “autobiographical” image: the integration of the inner and outer worlds by integrating one’s own understanding of the visual world with one’s art.
His work has been exhibited at the Midtown Artists Market, the Painted
Planet Art Space, and the Universal Art Gallery, all in Memphis.
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