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James
Masao Mitsui is
a Seattle poet who has recently moved to Sun City Grand. He received
an M.A. in English at the University of Washington, where he studied
under William Stafford and Richard Hugo. His graduate advisor was
David Wagoner. The latest of his four books, From a
Three-Cornered World, was published by the University of
Washington Press in 1997. Jim, a 1976 recipient of a N.E.A.
Fellowship, writes about his family, Japanese-American relocation,
landscape, travel and love. He currently teaches a poetry writing
class at Arizona State University West. His favorite poets are James
Wright and Pablo Neruda.
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Nadine
Kachur has
taught English since 1988, most recently at Phoenix and Cochise
colleges. She was a staff writer with Sun Tennis Magazine, a
copywriter in radio and an editor for everything from marketing
research to metaphysical manuscripts. Kachur earned graduate degrees
in English and in counseling from Arizona State University. In June
2003 and 2004, she received scholarships from Sarah Lawrence College
(Bronxville, N.Y.) to study with Thomas Lux. Her poems appear
regularly in many southwest publications and she is currently on an
editorial board compiling a regional anthology of women's poetry.
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Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow’s
poetry has appeared in The
American Poetry Review,
ACM (Another Chicago
Magazine), Chelsea,
Full Circle Journal,
Jewish Women’s Literary Annual - New York,
Square Lake and the Emily
Dickinson Awards Anthology (Universities West Press).
She was a past prizewinner to the
National Poetry Competition and a finalist in
Inkwell Magazine’s 2002 Poetry Competition. She was first place
prizewinner of the 2002
Arizona
State Poetry Society’s 32nd Annual Poetry Competition.
She has new poetry appearing in
Barrow Street and
The Chiron Review and poetry forthcoming from
The Litchfield Review and
Willow Review, from whom she was awarded the 2004 Willow Review
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Chase
Twichell
quit her teaching job at
Princeton
University in 1999 to found Ausable Press, which publishes
contemporary poetry. She is the author of five books of poems and
co-editor of The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises From
Poets Who Teach. Her poems have appeared in many journals and
magazines, including Antaeus, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Paris
Review, Ploughshares and
Poetry.
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