David DeGooyer is a native of the Pacific Northwest. In addition to writing poems, he writes and performs songs while playing guitar, mandolin, piano, bouzouki and other instruments. David is a supporter of efforts to preserve the environment and encourages others to do what they can to help.

Photo Credit: L.M. Solonynko

Anna Evans’ poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Harvard Review, Rattle and Measure. She is the editor of the Barefoot Muse, and received her MFA from Bennington College. Her chapbook Swimming is available from Maverick Duck Press. For more information, visit the following links:
Poems
Barefoot Muse

Melissa Hansen lives in San Francisco where she writes poetry and stories, works at public libraries with the intent of upholding free and equal access to information, and is a co-editor of poetry for The Guild of Outsider Writers. She has published and forthcoming work in various literary zines. Visit Melissa at www.myspace.com/quicksecret.

Poet Vincent Quatroche has been writing and recording his sonic landscapes for the last 25 years. For more information on this artist's work, visit www.rubbereden.com.

Image credit: S.R. Moser

In 2006, veteran journalist and editor D.E. Kern uprooted himself from his long-time home in Pennsylvania to follow his passion in poetry. Kern is pursuing his Master's Degree in Fine Arts—Poetry—at San Jose State University, San Jose, California. He plans to seek a professorship upon completion of his MFA.

This poem was recorded in November 2007 from D.E. Kern's first book of poetry, Beside the Shallow Creek, published by Plan B Press.

A limited number of printed copies of Beside the Shallow Creek are available from the author. You may reach D.E. Kern at kerny44cuse@yahoo.com

Image Credit: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/475160

G. Emil Reutter is a Philadelphia-based, traveling poet, author and essayist. For more about G. Emil Reutter, including a list of writing credits and links to interviews he has done for the Mad Poets blog, visit his Web site at www.gemilreutter-author.com.

Note: The artwork for this poem was shot by G. Emil Reutter.

Ellen Peckham (who until 2000 signed her prints E. Stoepel Peckham) was born in 1938 in Rochester, NY. She is a poet and a visual artist and has read, published and exhibited across the U.S. and in Europe and Latin America. She frequently uses both art forms in a single work, the text decorating and explicating, the image illuminating.

She is co-founder, with her husband, Anson, of Atelier A/E, the first gallery to open in the Chelsea arts area and, both for the Atelier and for other organizations, has judged and curated many shows.

Her work has been published in Rattapallax, Visions, The Literary Review, The Amherst Review, Alehouse, Poetalk, The Christian Science Monitor and other publications in the US as well as in Great Britain, India, Switzerland and elsewhere. Both her visual art and writing are featured in Continuing Tradition: Doubly Gifted Artists, Ticket Stubbs and in Poem, Revised. She is a winner of the Maggi H. Meyer Memorial Prize in 2007 and a member of PEN. Additional biographical information is available in recent editions of Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World.

For more information or to contact the artist, please visit http://www.EllenPeckham.com.

In April 1955 David Blaine was born in a pizza patch in the Bronx, New York. His parents moved him to rural Michigan when he was 3. Dave still resides there, living and working with his wife, children and cat. His poems, prose, essays, reviews and interviews have appeared in anthologies, literary journals, newspapers and magazines. To contact Dave visit davidblaine.blogspot.com

Thanks to the morguefile for these great photos for the collage I created to accompany David Blaine's poem!

If you haven't come across the Guild of Outsider Writers, here's your personal invitation. David Blaine invited me to answer some questions about Poetry Live. Perhaps you'd like to hear the answers, too.

Follow this link (and feel free to browse around):
http://www.outsiderwriters.org/content/view/486/44/

Wayne Mason is a writer and factory worker in central Florida. His work has been published throughout the small press and he is author of one chapbook entitled Broken Zen. When he grows up, he wants to be Kannon. For more information or to contact Wayne Mason, please visit www.guerrillapoetics.com.

"Dead Poetry Gods" was performed on June 27, 2007 at the Infusion Tea House in Orlando, Florida.

The image above was adapted by S.R. Moser from sxc.hu photos 426439 and 841227.

G. Emil Reutter is a Philadelphia-based, traveling poet, author and essayist. For more about G. Emil Reutter, including a list of writing credits and links to interviews he has done for the Mad Poets blog, visit his Web site at www.gemilreutter-author.com.

Note: The artwork for this poem was shot by G. Emil Reutter.

Poet Vincent Quatroche has been writing and recording his sonic landscapes for the last 25 years. "Parallax Error" is taken from his 2003 CD . For more information on this artist's work, visit www.rubbereden.com.

Image credit: David Jones

With the increase in interest in Poetry Live (many thanks to those who have helped get the word out), here are the general guidelines for submitting your work:

• By submitting a work, you are stating it is your voice on the recording, you are the author of the poem being submitted, and you have the right to post your work in this format. You are are agreeing to grant Poetry Live one-time publishing rights; all rights revert to the author upon publication.


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• Also, if you submit a work that was recorded live, please credit the venue in some small way, as we have done for Marion Cohen. I can pull a single poem from several recorded at a venue, so don't let that deter you.

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Missing e-mails! Attachments truncated or not delivered!

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Mary Alexandra Agner writes of dead women, telescopes, and secrets. She makes her home outside Boston. She can be found online at www.pantoum.org.

Marion Cohen's latest book is "Crossing the Equal Sign" (Plain View Press, TX), about the experience of mathematics. Her previous book is "Dirty Details: The Days and Nights of a Well Spouse" (Temple University Press, PA). Visit her Web site at www.marioncohen.com.

This excerpt is from a May 2007 reading at the Penn Bookstore and is used by permission of the poet.—SRM

P.J. Harper lives with Greg, her life partner, in Oregon's beautiful Columbia River Gorge. In addition to poetry, P.J. is currently working on a novel and recording a CD of Native American stories. You can reach P.J. Harper at dreamweaver1313@msn.com.

Rhonda L. M. Tipton is an artist and writer born and raised in the hills of Kentucky. The image pictured above is one of her creations. E-mail the poet at r.l.tipton@gmail.com.

M. McGehee is a writer living in Cleveland, Tennessee. The photo was taken by the author on the John Muir Trail. To read more of M. McGehee's work, please visit http://www.geocities.com/somewherein72/.

G. Emil Reutter writes poetry and short stories and is published internationally with collections available on his Web site. He reads his poems for audiences in Pennsylvania and throughout the United States. Hear more by G. Emil Reutter: http://gemilreutter.podOmatic.com

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