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| All files © Copyright 2007 The Sylvan Echo |
| Volume 1 Issue 2 ISSN 1934-1725 |
Kaitlin Powell Kaitlin is a commonly
misspelled name, so don't feel bad if you
misspell it; she’s used to it. Kaitlin currently
attends Appomattox Regional Governor's
School for the Arts and Technology in
Central Virginia. Her focus area is visual
arts. It's a long name for a school, but the
student body nicknamed it ARGS.
After teaching writing and literature in
college for twenty-five years, Wayne
Scheer retired to follow his own advice and
write. He's been nominated for a Pushcart
Prize and a Best of the Net. His work has
appeared in The Christian Science Monitor,
Notre Dame Magazine, The Pedestal,
flashquake, Pindeldyboz, Eclectica
Magazine and Triplopia. Wayne lives in
Atlanta with his wife, and can be contacted
at wvscheer@aol.com.
misspelled name, so don't feel bad if you
misspell it; she’s used to it. Kaitlin currently
attends Appomattox Regional Governor's
School for the Arts and Technology in
Central Virginia. Her focus area is visual
arts. It's a long name for a school, but the
student body nicknamed it ARGS.
After teaching writing and literature in
college for twenty-five years, Wayne
Scheer retired to follow his own advice and
write. He's been nominated for a Pushcart
Prize and a Best of the Net. His work has
appeared in The Christian Science Monitor,
Notre Dame Magazine, The Pedestal,
flashquake, Pindeldyboz, Eclectica
Magazine and Triplopia. Wayne lives in
Atlanta with his wife, and can be contacted
at wvscheer@aol.com.
Peter Bergquist is a native of Los Angeles with a BA in English from Princeton University. He
worked for many years in the Hollywood film industry, primarily in production. He is married
with two daughters, and is currently teaching English in the Los Angeles Unified School
District. He is also pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Antioch University. His
poems have been published in The New Verse News, The Chickasaw Plum, and On the
Outskirts: Poems of Disability.
C. J. Conner No biographical information provided.
worked for many years in the Hollywood film industry, primarily in production. He is married
with two daughters, and is currently teaching English in the Los Angeles Unified School
District. He is also pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Antioch University. His
poems have been published in The New Verse News, The Chickasaw Plum, and On the
Outskirts: Poems of Disability.
C. J. Conner No biographical information provided.
| Morning Light, Natural Christopher Woods |
| Morning Light Christopher Woods |
Kim Steutermann Rogers lives and writes on the island of Kauai in the Hawaiian archipelago. Her publishing
credentials include such magazines as Islands, Women's Adventure, Hawaii, Hawaiian Airlines' Hana Hou,
Backpacker, Running Times, Fitness, and Golf for Women. She holds a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the
University of Missouri and a Masters of Fine Arts from Antioch University Los Angeles. Kim is currently writing a
book about Mark Twain's visit to Hawaii in 1866 and a memoir about building a home in Hawaii. She also teaches
literary journalism at writers.com. You can read more of her work at www.kimsrogers.com.
Robin Throne is an Iowa native, and lives in Le Claire, Iowa, along that great river we all share in some
molecular form or another. Her poetry, essays, and reviews have been published in The Daily Palette, Slipshot: A
Journal of Literary Art, North Coast Review, Gypsy Cab, poetry motel, Mankato Poetry Review, Iowa Woman,
Minnesota River Review, Minnesota Women's Press, Minnesota Literature, The Corresponder, Connections, and
The Muse.
Davide Trame is an Italian teacher of English. His poetry collection, Re-emerging, is published as an email book
by www.gattopublishing.com. Davide has been writing exclusively in English since 1993.
Steven Trebellas is a recent MFA, whose darkurban poems which are all about Denver in the 80s where he
studied with the glorious but now dead Ginsberg at Naropa. Now, older, he tarries, unemployed and perhaps
unemployable, in Burlington Iowa, where it is always moldy and damp. He has appeared in Hiss Quarterly,
Innisfree, Poemeleon, Temenos, Ward 6, Dance to Death, and others. While at Southern Illinois University, he
drank far too often with Rodney Jones, who is his God. He is trying to get his chapbook out, just like all the other
pinheads in the world.
Wendy Vardaman, Madison, Wisconsin, has a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania. Her poems,
reviews, and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming in various journals, including Poet Lore, Main Street
Rag, Nerve Cowboy, Free Verse, Pivot, Wisconsin People & Ideas, Women’s Review of Books and Portland
Review Literary Journal. She has received several Pushcart Prize nominations and was runner up in 2004 for the
Council for Wisconsin Writers’ Lorine Niedecker Award.
Jay Verrone grew up in Kinnelon, New Jersey, and attended Ithaca College. Jay's paintings are mixed media on
canvas. Jay uses fabric dye with oil pastels and acrylic paint, as well as just about anything else that will stay on
the canvas.
Robert Villanueva is an award-winning Kentucky author and former award-winning journalist. His poems, short
stories, and essays have been featured in several print and online publications, including The Cherry Blossom
Review, The Flask Review, Flutter Poetry Journal, Contemporary Rhyme, The Summerset Review, The Square
Table, C/Oasis, The Heartland Review, and the disaster-relief anthology, Stories of Strength, among other places.
Ross Walenga was born during the blizzard of '78 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and currently resides in
Richmond, Virginia. His goal is to create work that pushes him to grow as a human being. The process of making
decisions in the creation of a painting often teaches him how to take risks, when to push forward and when to
step back, and how to make his thoughts more coherent. He often find that the lessons he learns over the
course of a painting lead to growth in other areas of his life. It is his belief that in a successful piece this progress
manifests itself in such a way that others can read it, either on a conscious or subconscious level. His hope is
that the viewer can then take something positive from it as well.
Pushcart Prize nominee Ann White’s poems have appeared in various journals including Triplopia, Blue Fifth
Review and Swell. Ann works at a community college in North Florida, where she is currently launching a
multicultural student anthology called Envoy. She is a candidate in the MFA program at Antioch University Los
Angeles, and in her spare time writes reviews and commentary in her blog, The Red Hibiscus.
Christopher Woods is the author of a prose collection, Under A Riverbed Sky (Panther Creek Press), and a
collection of stage monologues for actors, Heart Speak (Stone River Press). His plays have been produced in
Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. He lives in Houston and in Chappell Hill, Texas.
J. W. Young is a California high desert native and graduate of The University of Mississippi's MFA program,
where she edited The Yalobusha Review. Currently she lives with her husband in Bonaire, Georgia, and is an
Assistant Professor at Middle Georgia College. She has published fiction and memoir in several journals, and
her work has appeared recently in Bare Root Review and Random House's anthology Twentysomething Essays
by Twentysomething Writers.
credentials include such magazines as Islands, Women's Adventure, Hawaii, Hawaiian Airlines' Hana Hou,
Backpacker, Running Times, Fitness, and Golf for Women. She holds a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the
University of Missouri and a Masters of Fine Arts from Antioch University Los Angeles. Kim is currently writing a
book about Mark Twain's visit to Hawaii in 1866 and a memoir about building a home in Hawaii. She also teaches
literary journalism at writers.com. You can read more of her work at www.kimsrogers.com.
Robin Throne is an Iowa native, and lives in Le Claire, Iowa, along that great river we all share in some
molecular form or another. Her poetry, essays, and reviews have been published in The Daily Palette, Slipshot: A
Journal of Literary Art, North Coast Review, Gypsy Cab, poetry motel, Mankato Poetry Review, Iowa Woman,
Minnesota River Review, Minnesota Women's Press, Minnesota Literature, The Corresponder, Connections, and
The Muse.
Davide Trame is an Italian teacher of English. His poetry collection, Re-emerging, is published as an email book
by www.gattopublishing.com. Davide has been writing exclusively in English since 1993.
Steven Trebellas is a recent MFA, whose darkurban poems which are all about Denver in the 80s where he
studied with the glorious but now dead Ginsberg at Naropa. Now, older, he tarries, unemployed and perhaps
unemployable, in Burlington Iowa, where it is always moldy and damp. He has appeared in Hiss Quarterly,
Innisfree, Poemeleon, Temenos, Ward 6, Dance to Death, and others. While at Southern Illinois University, he
drank far too often with Rodney Jones, who is his God. He is trying to get his chapbook out, just like all the other
pinheads in the world.
Wendy Vardaman, Madison, Wisconsin, has a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania. Her poems,
reviews, and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming in various journals, including Poet Lore, Main Street
Rag, Nerve Cowboy, Free Verse, Pivot, Wisconsin People & Ideas, Women’s Review of Books and Portland
Review Literary Journal. She has received several Pushcart Prize nominations and was runner up in 2004 for the
Council for Wisconsin Writers’ Lorine Niedecker Award.
Jay Verrone grew up in Kinnelon, New Jersey, and attended Ithaca College. Jay's paintings are mixed media on
canvas. Jay uses fabric dye with oil pastels and acrylic paint, as well as just about anything else that will stay on
the canvas.
Robert Villanueva is an award-winning Kentucky author and former award-winning journalist. His poems, short
stories, and essays have been featured in several print and online publications, including The Cherry Blossom
Review, The Flask Review, Flutter Poetry Journal, Contemporary Rhyme, The Summerset Review, The Square
Table, C/Oasis, The Heartland Review, and the disaster-relief anthology, Stories of Strength, among other places.
Ross Walenga was born during the blizzard of '78 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and currently resides in
Richmond, Virginia. His goal is to create work that pushes him to grow as a human being. The process of making
decisions in the creation of a painting often teaches him how to take risks, when to push forward and when to
step back, and how to make his thoughts more coherent. He often find that the lessons he learns over the
course of a painting lead to growth in other areas of his life. It is his belief that in a successful piece this progress
manifests itself in such a way that others can read it, either on a conscious or subconscious level. His hope is
that the viewer can then take something positive from it as well.
Pushcart Prize nominee Ann White’s poems have appeared in various journals including Triplopia, Blue Fifth
Review and Swell. Ann works at a community college in North Florida, where she is currently launching a
multicultural student anthology called Envoy. She is a candidate in the MFA program at Antioch University Los
Angeles, and in her spare time writes reviews and commentary in her blog, The Red Hibiscus.
Christopher Woods is the author of a prose collection, Under A Riverbed Sky (Panther Creek Press), and a
collection of stage monologues for actors, Heart Speak (Stone River Press). His plays have been produced in
Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. He lives in Houston and in Chappell Hill, Texas.
J. W. Young is a California high desert native and graduate of The University of Mississippi's MFA program,
where she edited The Yalobusha Review. Currently she lives with her husband in Bonaire, Georgia, and is an
Assistant Professor at Middle Georgia College. She has published fiction and memoir in several journals, and
her work has appeared recently in Bare Root Review and Random House's anthology Twentysomething Essays
by Twentysomething Writers.
Shome Dasgupta's fiction and poetry have appeared in Magma Poetry, The Quiet Feather, The Meadow, The
Chickasaw Plum, The Fifth Di, and Si Senor. Forthcoming publications include appearances in Verdad Magazine,
The Fifth Di, and Poetic Voices Without Borders 2, a poetry anthology. He is currently a student at Antioch
University Los Angeles, pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing. His bowling record is 153.
Boyd Fletcher graduated from Metropolitan State College of Denver with a B. A. in Journalism and English
Literature. Boyd enjoys live music, writing, picking bluegrass on his mandolin, snowboarding, and restoring his
'77 VW Bus from his home in Denver, Colorado, where he lives with his dog, Disco. Boyd also works as a
journalist and photographer for a suburban newspaper, where he covers local schools and hospitals.
Chris Jones lives in Central Virginia with his family. Photography is one of his many hobbies.
Carlo Moretti is a sculptor who mostly works with wood, trying not to corrupt/distort/denaturalize the raw
material. The surface remains therefore raw, rough, painted with an extremely simple/basic palette aiming at
applying the two aesthetic principles governing Haiku poetry namely Wabi (simplicity, freshness or quietness) and
Yugen (deep and mysterious). As for Japanese poetry giving the titles to sculptures, subjects are taken from
natural world: simple objects, but with multiple meanings. The result is an open composition, a non verbal, yet not
less interesting, haiku zen. Carlo Moretti was born in Suzzara (Mantova) Italy, on 18 October 1963. He has had
over 170 one-man and collective exhibitions.
Rachel Mosier is a Park Ranger, an Environmental Education specialist, and a Naturalist. She lives and works
in the foothills of Colorado with her husband, Dave, and dog, Ringo.
Kent D. Nielsen was born and raised in Nebraska. He graduated from the University of Nebraska-Kearney with a
B.A. in English, Speech and Drama. He is veteran teacher, having taught on the high school level for over ten
years. He received his M.A. in poetry from Florida State, and is a recent graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing
Program at Antioch University Los Angeles. His poems have appeared in Mental Horizon Poetry Review,
Gertrude Press and KNOCK magazine, and his chapbook was a finalist in the 2006 Annual Poetry Chapbook
Contest at Gertrude Press. He currently teaches English at Arizona State University.
Patrick O'Neil, writer, former artist, reluctant musician – San Franciscan, a holdover from the punk rock days of
yesteryear. Still dressed in black with nowhere to go. His last piece of public art – graffiti scrawled on his
neighbor's front door. His last musical venture – tune hummed while waiting for the bus. Last published writing –
"There's a Crackhead at My Window," Blood Orange Review vol. 2.3 June 2007. Mr. O'Neil also attempts to
maintain, although somewhat haphazardly, his literary blog Full Blue Moon Dementia where, publicity whore that
he is, shamelessly exploits himself for all to see.
Paul Pekin was a cop and now he's not. Was a writer, still is. His work has appeared in dozens of literary
magazines (South Dakota Review, Other Voices, Sou'wester, The Macguffin, etc) several newspapers (The
Chicago Reader, The Chicago Tribune) and a couple of anthologies(Best Sports Writing of 1991, Houghton
Mifflin, Paraspheres by Omnidawn Publishing.) This story was accepted for an anthology of police writing, but the
anthology never went to press, and the author thanks The Sylvan Echo for offering it another chance at life.
Chickasaw Plum, The Fifth Di, and Si Senor. Forthcoming publications include appearances in Verdad Magazine,
The Fifth Di, and Poetic Voices Without Borders 2, a poetry anthology. He is currently a student at Antioch
University Los Angeles, pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing. His bowling record is 153.
Boyd Fletcher graduated from Metropolitan State College of Denver with a B. A. in Journalism and English
Literature. Boyd enjoys live music, writing, picking bluegrass on his mandolin, snowboarding, and restoring his
'77 VW Bus from his home in Denver, Colorado, where he lives with his dog, Disco. Boyd also works as a
journalist and photographer for a suburban newspaper, where he covers local schools and hospitals.
Chris Jones lives in Central Virginia with his family. Photography is one of his many hobbies.
Carlo Moretti is a sculptor who mostly works with wood, trying not to corrupt/distort/denaturalize the raw
material. The surface remains therefore raw, rough, painted with an extremely simple/basic palette aiming at
applying the two aesthetic principles governing Haiku poetry namely Wabi (simplicity, freshness or quietness) and
Yugen (deep and mysterious). As for Japanese poetry giving the titles to sculptures, subjects are taken from
natural world: simple objects, but with multiple meanings. The result is an open composition, a non verbal, yet not
less interesting, haiku zen. Carlo Moretti was born in Suzzara (Mantova) Italy, on 18 October 1963. He has had
over 170 one-man and collective exhibitions.
Rachel Mosier is a Park Ranger, an Environmental Education specialist, and a Naturalist. She lives and works
in the foothills of Colorado with her husband, Dave, and dog, Ringo.
Kent D. Nielsen was born and raised in Nebraska. He graduated from the University of Nebraska-Kearney with a
B.A. in English, Speech and Drama. He is veteran teacher, having taught on the high school level for over ten
years. He received his M.A. in poetry from Florida State, and is a recent graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing
Program at Antioch University Los Angeles. His poems have appeared in Mental Horizon Poetry Review,
Gertrude Press and KNOCK magazine, and his chapbook was a finalist in the 2006 Annual Poetry Chapbook
Contest at Gertrude Press. He currently teaches English at Arizona State University.
Patrick O'Neil, writer, former artist, reluctant musician – San Franciscan, a holdover from the punk rock days of
yesteryear. Still dressed in black with nowhere to go. His last piece of public art – graffiti scrawled on his
neighbor's front door. His last musical venture – tune hummed while waiting for the bus. Last published writing –
"There's a Crackhead at My Window," Blood Orange Review vol. 2.3 June 2007. Mr. O'Neil also attempts to
maintain, although somewhat haphazardly, his literary blog Full Blue Moon Dementia where, publicity whore that
he is, shamelessly exploits himself for all to see.
Paul Pekin was a cop and now he's not. Was a writer, still is. His work has appeared in dozens of literary
magazines (South Dakota Review, Other Voices, Sou'wester, The Macguffin, etc) several newspapers (The
Chicago Reader, The Chicago Tribune) and a couple of anthologies(Best Sports Writing of 1991, Houghton
Mifflin, Paraspheres by Omnidawn Publishing.) This story was accepted for an anthology of police writing, but the
anthology never went to press, and the author thanks The Sylvan Echo for offering it another chance at life.
| All files © Copyright 2007 The Sylvan Echo |