Ellen Davis's poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared in AGNI, The Anthology of New England Writers, Borderlands, Boston Review, The Brownstone Review, Defined Providence, The Emily Dickinson Journal, and Harvard Review. She lives in the Boston area with her husband, the artist Donald Aquilino.
The two poems of Dennis Finnell's included in this issue are sections of a long poem-in-progress which is based upon Paul Gaugin's painting "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?" Two other sections appeared in last issue of BMR. Finnell's books are Red Cottage and Belovéd Beast. He lives in Deerfield, Massachusetts.
Pamela Gemin teaches at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh. Her poems have appeared widely in print journals, including Calyx, Spoon River Poetry Review, Green Mountains Review, and Prima Vera, as well as the anthology Family.
Brent Goodman lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where by day he works in an office, and by night he plays guitar in a band. Three of his poems were featured in the previous issue of BMR. Others have appeared in many journals, including Poetry, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry East, and Green Mountains Review.
Taylor Graham is a volunteer search-and-rescue dog handler in the Sierra Nevada. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in America, Borderlands, The Iowa Review, The NewYork Quarterly, Passages North, Southern Humanities Review and elsewhere. His latest collection is Casualties: search-and-rescue poems (Coal City, 1995).
Janet Holmes is author of The Physicist at the Mall (Anhinga, 1994) and The Green Tuxedo (forthcoming from University of Notre Dame Press). Her work has twice appeared in The Best American Poetry collections, as well as in Georgia Review, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and online in Crania. She teaches at Macalester College, the University of Minnesota, and The Loft, a writing center in Minneapolis.
John Kusch is a 26 year-old 'jack of all trades' currently living in Tampa, Florida with his partner Ken. He began writing in Milwaukee, WI in 1986 and in the past eleven years has been heavily involved Milwaukee's vibrant community of performance poets. He has been published in such off- and on-line periodicals as The Sheperd Express, The Wicked, PIF, and UW-Green Bay's Sheepshead Review. He is the editor of Island Life, an on-line quarterly of freeverse.
Darren Lauzon works and writes in Ottawa, Ontario. His poetry has appeared in PoetryInk and is forthcoming in other Web e-zines. He is finishing his first collection of poems tentatively entitled Flammable Snowflakes, from which "Strauss in August" is a selection.
Terry Savoie has been published in more than eighty literary journals, anthologies and small press publications, including The American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares and The Black Warrior Review. Others will be found in recent or forthcoming issues of Last Tango, Slant, The Green Hills Literary Lantern, Midwest Quarterly, and Many Mountains Moving. A full-length manuscript, Reading Sunday, is in search of a publisher.
