“Agrigento, Sicily (July 17, 1943)”

Bruce Lader is the author of the full-length book, Discovering Mortality. His poems have appeared in Poetry, New York Quarterly, International Poetry Review, Harpur Palate, New Millennium Writings, Poetry Salzburg Review, and other international journals. A former writer-in-residence at the Wurlitzer Colony, he is the founding director of Bridges Tutoring, an organization educating students from diverse cultures. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Abraham Linik
“Night”

Abraham Linik is a retired school principal. His poems have been published in Pudding, Georgetown Review, Edgz, Midstream, Nimrod International Journal, Art Times, and Black Buzzard Review. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts.

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Jesse Loren
“The Boots Must Shine in the Apocalypse”

Jesse Loren is a graduate of U.C. Irvine, and an M.F.A. graduate of U.N.O. Her poetry can be found in Exquisite Corpse, Yawp, and New Virginia Review. She recently co-edited two anthologies, Mourning Sickness, a collection about miscarriage and infant loss, and Bombshells: War Stories and Poems by Women on the Homefront, a collection of homefront tales spanning World War II to the present. Her first poetry collection, Screamin’ Meme, will be released by Lavender Ink in 2009.

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Vincent F. Maher
“Memorial Day”
“Memorial Day 2”

Vincent Maher is a poet and college professor (law, ethics and health care management) at Iona College, New York. He has worked as a nurse and ethicist. He lives in the Bronx, New York.

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“Blasted”

Eileen Malone has published poetry in over 400 literary journals and anthologies and has twice been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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James McGrath
“My Winter Soldier”

James McGrath has two poetry collections published by Sunstone Press. He was U.S.I.S. Arts America poet-artist in residence in Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and the Republic of Congo in the 1990s. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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György Rába
“The War Correspondent”

György Rába was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1924. He is a poet, translator, and literature professor, also serving as the head of the Hungarian Philological Society. His most recent poetry volume was entitled Földlakok (Earth Dwellers, 2006). He lives in Hungary.

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“The Gods Of Hate Were Always Human”

Doren Robbins teaches creative writing and literature at Foothill College in California. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Sulphur, Willow Springs, Harper’s Ferry, and New Letters. He has published one short prose collection, Parking Lot Mood Swing: Autobiographical Monologues and Prose Poetry (Cedar Hill Press 2004). His recent collections of poetry, Driving Face Down (2000 Blue Lynx Award) and My Piece of the Puzzle (2008) are published by Eastern Washington University Press. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.

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“Rasputitsa”

Stephen Rogers has written over 500 poems and stories appearing in more than 200 publications. He lives in Buzzards Bay, Maine.

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Adrienne Ross
“The Night Before The First Gulf War”

Adrienne Ross has written poems and essays appearing in Fourth River, Tikkun, Under the Sun, EarthLight, Many Mountains Moving, Cezanne’s Carrot, Slow Trains, An Intricate Weave: Women Write on Girls and Girlhood, Just Like A Girl: A Manifesta!, the American Nature Writing anthology series (1996, 1997, and 2000 editions), Bridges, Poets On:, and other print or online publications. She received a 1996 Seattle Arts Commission literary award and the 2001Artist Trust Literature Fellowship. She lives in Seattle, Washington.