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Writers and Artists... whose work has appeared in TOH
(in alphabetical order by last name)
Matthew Abuelo NWS (poem "Red Light District of the Soul" 2/1/09)
Annette Ackerson- lived her entire life in NY, now in NJ NWS ("Family Missed" 10/08/07)
Alessander- Los Angeles, CA NWS (writing exercise "Challenge Yourself" 6/9/10)
Elizabeth Alexander NWS (excerpt of "Praise Song for the Day" 2/1/09)
Jeffrey Alfier- Arizona (poem "Wartime Photographs" 4/1/10)
Kazim Ali ("Poetry is Dangerous: Professor Recycling is Suspect" 12/01/07)
Jan Allsopp (photo of "chatterbox" 7/5/08)
William L. Alton- OR (prose poem "Because He Promised" 2/1/10)
Cindy Amrhein- Perry, NY NWS (review of her co-authored book "Bread & Butter" 3/1/08)
Amy Ng- Malaysia (3 images from her art zine "Lost" 1/11/10)
Anonymous "Aranee" on Writerscafe- Singapore NWS (fiction "Those Warm Hands" 6/9/10)
Arlecchina NWS ("Gift Note" 1/5/09)
Robert Baker (poem "Wind" 3/1/09)
Simona Balas- Orlando, FL ("Winter Eggs", "Bugs 2" 12/16/08)
Lora L. Barnhiser (quote "The Leaf", artwork "Letter T", "Leaf" 10/6/08)
Richard Beale- Geneseo, NY NWS ("3 from Polar Drift" 01/05/07, "When the heron lifts from the moonlit lake" 02/07/07, "I am the shoe" 10/08/07, )
Melissa Beardsley- Pike, NY NWS (memoir "Why I Live Where I Do Now" 6/8/09)
Gary Beck- New York, NY NWS (poem "Sneak Attack" 10/14/09)
Jolene Beckman- Batavia, NY ("Rose II" painting with poem and artist's statement 08/04/07)
Guy R. Beining NWS (poem "muzzle 2." and drawing "earning sight" 8/10/09, poems "Gone 7." and "Gone 8." 11/7/09)
Valerie Belsky (drawing "Pail on Fence" 7/5/08)
Eric Bennett- Costa Rica (flash fiction "Atom Bomb" 10/14/09)
Victoria Bennett- UK NWS (a bit about her book "Anchoring the Light" 7/6/09)
Don Black- Allegany, NY NWS (poem "Beastly Dream" 9/3/09)
C. L. Bledsoe- MD (flash fiction "The Waiter" 12/9/09)
Regina M. Brault- Burlington, VT NWS ("At Either End of the Web" 2/4/08)
Eric J. Brinovec- NM NWS (poem "Frozen apples fiercely flaming" 12/9/09)
Randall Brock- WA NWS ("Untitled (4 poems)" 2/1/09, "Untitled (2 poems)" 9/3/09)
Buddy- NY NWS (poem "Wind Borne" 3/1/09)
Vesna Budzevski- formerly of Rochester, NY and now in Macedonia NWS ("Ethos of Life" 02/07/07, "I Wanted Poetry, Now I Want Prose" 04/18/07)
Emily Burns- KY NWS (prose "On Life and Laundry" and "Growth Charts" 8/10/09)
Bethany Butler- Perry, NY NWS ("Confetti words scatter" 11/01/07, "Haiku" 2/1/09)
Salvatore Buttaci- W. Virginia (prose "Kansas Winds" 3/1/09, poems "Sunflowers", "Rivulets of Ink" 4/1/09, prose poem "My Father's Promises" 3/6/10, poem "Green" 5/8/10)
Kelly Campbell- Virginia (spine and ribs photo 10/6/08)
Peter Chapman (poems "Inventing Terror", "Hand-Fed Lovebirds $40" 1/5/09)
Ira Cohen NWS (poem "Morning Meditation" 7/5/08)
Jim Cohn- formerly of Rochester, NY ("I Write My Poems" 01/05/07)
Gwynne Collins ("Pop Flowers" and "Many Flowers" 12/1/07)
Evan Commander ("Poem" 04/18/07)
Tommy Conley- Rochester, Ny NWS ("What I Have Learned From Writing" and "contrition" 11/01/07, "cost of living" 7/6/09)
CrimethInc ("Off the Map" excerpts 06/10/07)
Michael Czarnecki- Kanona, NY ("After the Solstice" 01/05/07, "Half a Year Gone" 06/10/07, article about his "Palm of the Hand Memoir Writing" Workshop 6/1/08, article & haiku "The Spoken Word Series" 10/6/08)
Charles Davenport- formerly of Perry, NY and now living in Michigan NWS ("Half-Mast" 12/01/06, "Elni Lake" 06/10/07)
Teri Davis- Maryland ("Chasing Butterflies" 2/1/09)
Janann Dawkins- Ann Arbor, MI (prose poem "Roles" 4/1/10)
Holly Day- MN NWS (poem "Old Loves" 2/1/10)
Susie Dent NWS (review of her book "The Language Report" 3/1/08)
Patricia Dixon- Hummelstown, PA NWS (poem "Urban Struggle" 7/6/09)
Nicole K. Docimo- Davis, CA (cartoon "value your time more than your money" 11/8/08, "Hopscotch", "Good Morning Sleepeyes" 2/1/09)
William Doreski- New Hampshire NWS (poem "Something Collapsed" 6/9/10)
Mark Doty (mention of poem "A Display of Mackerel" from "Souls on Ice" 1/5/09)
Jessica Doyle (art "Learning to Stand on One Foot", "Feeling Disconnected","What Does the Hand Mean?", "The Sitting Oxymorons" 6/8/09)
D. J. Duncan- NY NWS ("The Illumination of Moonchild" excerpt 05/12/07)
Camron Dunn (prose "Dancing in Her Sleep" 2/1/09)
Nicholas DuPont NWS (essay "The World vs. America" 10/14/09)
Dave Eggers (excerpt from novel "You Shall Know Our Velocity" 8/10/09)
Kate Eisenberg NWS (poem "Narrowing the Line" 11/8/08)
Emily Elizabeth NWS (prose poem "There Was Something" 10/14/09)
Louise Erdrich NWS (excerpts "The Painted Drum" 6/8/09)
Krissy Erkmann (PaperSchmaper)- MO (online community project "Happiness Is" article, text from letterpress print of same title 2/1/10)
Adel Eyes- Rochester, NY NWS ("A Woman's Soul" 05/12/07)
Cathy Feiss- San Francisco, CA ("Waffles" ceramic tile 09/01/07)
S. P. Flannery- Madison, WI NWS (poem "Narnia" 10/14/09)
Vic Fortezza- NY (story "Colors of the Day" 10/14/09)
Jim Fuess ("Confrontation", "Confrontation 2" 1/5/09)
Gracie NWS (poem "You're No Sheik, Honey" 2/1/09)
Christel Grady (poem "Always" 4/1/09)
Gordon Graves- Seaside, Oregon NWS (story "Dance Class" 9/3/09)
Emma Green- England NWS (fiction "Companion Planting" 5/8/10)
Anthony Grooms- GA NWS ("The Geckos" 10/14/09)
David Groulx- Moose Creek, Ontario NWS ("Brown Medicine Woman Ceremony" poem 4/1/10)
Katie Haegele (The La La Theory) (feature of zines 5/5/08, review of zine "This Was Before You Were Born" incl. excerpts 6/1/08, mention of zine "Obsolete" 8/6/08, poem "Earth and Other Mothers" 5/8/10)
HaggisVitae- PA (photo "I Carry You With Me" 12/9/09, 2 other images 12/0/09)
Christine Hamm ("Children Having Trouble With Meat" and "Gretel Dreams With Her Eyes Open" 09/01/07)
Victor Hammond NWS ("Education", "Untitled VII" 12/16/08)
Edmond Hare- California NWS (prose "We Call Him the Dancing Queen" 5/8/10)
Joy Harjo NWS (article, poem "The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window" 8/6/08)
Jeff Harrison NWS ("Monumental" 02/07/07)
Niels Hav- Copenhagen ("Deepest Inside All" 09/01/07, "Visit From My Father" 01/04/08, poem "Epigram" 8/6/08, "A Little Self Irony" 12/15/08, "The Widow" 3/1/09, "You Know- It" 10/14/09)
Andy Havens ("Why Write Poetry" article 3/1/08, "Metaphor Mix-Up" 5/5/08, "Meaning to Mean" 9/8/08, "The Delicate Pattern" fiction 3/6/10)
T. R. Healy NWS ("Deep in the Hole" fiction 4/1/10)
C. J. Heck (Review of her poetry for children book "Barking Spiders")
Caroline D. Henry- CA (prose "Of Breezes and Botany" 10/14/09)
Joan Herrmann- Prospect, NY NWS ("Nature Tweaked" artwork in 03/05/07 issue)
Virginia Lee Hines- Rochester, NY NWS (Her "Woman Poet" column appears in most issues; Poems "Spring Sonnet" 4/18/07, "Quilt" 11/1/07)
Anonymous "The History Sleuth" on WritersCafe- Perry, NY NWS ("The Conspiracy Against Christmas" excerpt 12/1/06)
Lotte Hobbs- U.K. (art "Have Hope" and "Green and Growing Things" 5/8/10)
Herbert Muller Hopkins NWS (review of old book "Poems- Hopkins" incl. poem "The Prison Builders" 12/16/08)
Steven Huff NWS ("Second Coming in Northern PA","Boarding a Bus" 4/1/08)
Caleb "Kbob" Hunter NWS (story "A Moment of Forever" 2/1/09)
Sarah Hutt ("My Mother's Legacy" Bowls 08/04/07)
Jham NWS (poem "Aye Yo, Langston"7/6/09)
Jobin (art in adv. "Birds" 3/1/09)
Halvard Johnson- traveling NWS ("Poem #42" 11/01/07)
Valerie Jones- Belleville, NJ ("Favorite Words" writing exercise 08/04/07)
Andre Jordan (art in adv. "Am I still in the doghouse?", "The early bird", "Terrible Mistake" 3/1/09)
K. Jospe NWS (essay "Rites of Writing: Why I Write Poetry" 4/1/09)
Frank Judge ("Moonlight and You 05/12/07, 'ITalian Bread" 09/01/07)
Peycho Kanev- Chicago, IL ("The dogs" 4/1/10)
Scott Keeney- Connecticut NWS ("Thought" 07/02/07)
Cindy Kelly- Amsterdam, OH NWS (poem "Second Street Pilgrimage" 6/8/09)
Aijung Kim- Rochester, NY ("We Carry Each Other" poem in book format 2/4/08, mention of interview 11/8/08)
Barbara Ann Kipter, PhD NWS (review of her book "Word Nerd" 7/5/08)
Ted Kooser NWS (mention of "The Poetry Home Repair Manual" 9/8/08)
W. K. Kortas NWS (poem "The Unreliability of Portents" 4/1/09, prose poem "The State Historical Marker at Coreorgonel" 3/6/10)
Kara Emily Krantz NWS ("Translucence" 2/4/08)
Missy Kulik ("poem from "Yoohoo Haiku!" 12/01/07)
Deborah Lai (prose "Oh, Orange!" 7/5/08)
Marissa Landrigan ("Prose Pendants" 04/18/07)
C. Lawless- Perry, NY but at Champlain College NWS (poems "Haiku" 10/08/07, "Circle of Arms" 12/01/07, "Wicker Bottomed Women" 8/10/09, "Muddy Pair Still Missing" 10/14/09)
Carey Lenehan (poem "Space Before Thunder" 4/1/09)
Ruth Lepson- Cambridge, MA NWS ("Moon" 05/12/07, "Spoon" 09/01/07)
Lyn Lifshin (poem "Summer Night Near the Pond" 9/3/09, poems "Before Any Snow" and "Thurday, Walking Past the Pond Near Midnight" and prose "Nutley Pond" 11/07/09)
Estelle Lipp ("Home For The Holidays" 1/4/08)
Sheryl de Jonge-Loavenbruck- Holley, NY (article "Joy Harjo's Famous Poem - How Music & Poetry Belong Together" 8/6/08, article "R. C. Gorman", poem "Gracias" 3/1/09,poem "The Hoarder" 6/8/09, article "Duende and Federico Garcia Lorca" 12/9/09, poem "The Cabin in the Mountains" 12/9/09)
Ellaraine Lockie (poems "She Reads Virginia Woolf" 2/1/09, "Walt Whitman Today" 8/10/09, "Short-Shorts on Midlife Legs" 2/1/10)
Carin Loeffel- NJ (art "Think Outside the Box" and "Fate" 3/6/10)
Theresa Lopez NWS (story "Prowl" 10/6/08)
Federico Garcia Lorca NWS (article about his "Duende" and sample poems "Casida of the Lament", "Casida of the Dark Doves" 12/9/09)
Andy Lyons (drawing "Shatter" 11/8/08)
Louis Maistros NWS (excerpts/review "The Sound of Building Coffins" 2/1/09)
Bob Marcacci- currently in Beijing, China NWS ("Who are you" 02/07/07)
Fran Marie- Paris, KY NWS (poem "Autumn Winds" 3/1/09)
Marion Maxson- Geneseo, NY NWS ("Daisy Chains" 02/07/07)
Chris McCann- Scotland (story "The Circus of the Smile" 10/14/09)
James McCormack- Scotland (story "Loch Lomond" 10/14/09)
Tara McDaniel NWS (story "Biography of the Bride" 2/1/09)
Debra A. McIntyre- Linwood, NY (story "Dragon Song" 9/3/09)
Jim Meirose- NJ NWS (story "Mary and Kenneth" 2/1/10)
Jennifer E. Merring NWS (poem "Selling Myself" 2/1/09)
Patti Monaghen (photo "Secrets" 5/5/08)
Tate Morgan- Marion, OH NWS ("Character" 3/6/10)
Natalia Moroz- N.C. ("W. H. Auden" linocut portrait 11/01/07)
Rodney Nelson NWS (poems "Gunnar Widforss' Canyon" and "Late-Reported Incident" 4/1/10)
Marjorie Norris NWS (poem "Coming Into Life" 9/8/08)
The NY Writers Workshop NWS (review of book "The Portable MFA in Creative Writing" incl. wr. ex. "Poem, Dream, Conflict" 5/5/08)
Amanda Oaks- Cherry Tree, PA ("You left me a stem" collaged poem 02/07/07, "in the small hours of morning" 11/01/07)
Anonymous "Omily" on Writerscafe- St. Louis, MO NWS (fiction "Exile of Eden" 6/9/10)
Wendy Owens (art "Sea Dreams" 3/1/09)
Mari Paul- Perry, NY (article "National Novel-Writing Month" 11/7/09)
Peggy NWS (writing exercise "Dividing Your Lines" 12/16/08)
Amanda Persons NWS (poem "There Is Terror Here" 10/14/09)
Anonymous "Phantom Heart" on Writerscafe- Coal City, IL NWS (poetry "Watching Green" 5/8/10)
Micci Piraino- Livingston County, NY NWS ("Big Surf" 05/12/07)
Randall W. Pretzer- TX NWS (story "Home is Where Your Heart Is" 10/14/09)
Rick Puetter NWS (poem "Ascension" 4/1/09)
Sudie Rakusin (two drawings of "empowered womyn" 8/6/08)
Cayanne Ramuten- NC(essay "Langston Hughes' Blues" 5/11/09, poem "Child Turned to Ice" 10/14/09, poem "Words Become a Sentence" 1/11/10)
Lea Redmond (prose "Everyday Artifacts: The Pencil", pencil scroll, 'human being' calling card 11/8/08)
Joseph Reich- Massachusetts NWS ("Joe" prose poem 4/1/10)
Edward J. Reilly- MA NWS (haiku "following the moon" and "mending fences" 2/1/10)
Philippa Rice- London (seven images from "100 Things To Do" 7/6/09)
T. F. Rice- Perry, NY (Articles: "Ready to Receive the Gifts of Georgia O'Keeffe" 11/1/06, "Can Fiction Be Truer Than We Tend To Be?" 12/1/06, "1000 Journals or Writing For Yourself" 04/18/07, "Feeling Stuck? Take a Trip Online!" 06/10/07, "Use of Text in Art: A Gallery of Words" 08/04/07, "Change Your Hat" 10/08/07, "Before There Were Words" 01/04/08, "Writing Contests as Motivational Tools" 02/04/08, "Writing Every Morning" 04/01/08, "Readers Favorite Sentences" 6/1/08, "Word Nerd" 7/5/08,"The Relevancy of Old Poetry and New Art- For Difficult Times" 12/15/08, art "Plant a Cemetery", book review "Weird Love: The Sound of Building Coffins" 2/1/09, art "Chimes on the Wind" 3/1/09, "On Prosody", "SFS Kids: Fun With Music" 5/11/09; article "Doing Time to Cleanse My Mind" 7/6/09, article "Are You Generic" 10/14/09, "The Drabble" 01/11/10, article "Happiness Is?" 2/1/10, article "The Reader's Eyes" 3/6/10, book review "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" 4/1/10; Writing Exercises: various)
India Richer ("Thought" watercolor on rag paper 1/4/08)
Edward J. Rielly- Maine ("Words, Then More Words" poem 4/1/10)
Kelly Rae Roberts ("Wear Red Shoes" collage art 08/04/07)
John Roche- Avon, NY ("1/1/00" 01/05/07, "All Hallow's Eve" 11/1/07, "Bowl of Fire" 01/04/08)
Henry Rollins NWS ("Alone in a small room" from book "Smile, You're Traveling" 8/6/08)
Dilys Rose ("Moody Trudy" review of "When I Wear My Leopart Hat: Poems for Young Children" 10/08/07)
Jim Scallan (poem "Touch Not" 4/1/09)
Kellie Schneider (artwork "Daydream, Part 2" 9/8/08)
Amir S-Fard- London, England NWS (poem "Take This Flag" 10/14/09)
Anas Shafqat- Hyderabad, Pakistan (story "Home is Not Home Without You!" 10/14/09)
Dawn Shimp (article & poem pendants"Without Qualification" 11/8/08)
S. D. Simon- Willingboro, NJ (article based on food zine "My Mansion on the Hill" 5/5/08)
Bobbi Sinha-Morey- California ("A Summer Coolness" poem 4/1/10)
Hal Sirowitz- Pennsylvania NWS ("A Natural Orbit" poem 5/8/10)
Carol Smallwood- MI NWS (article "Brooding" 1/11/10)
J. D. Smith ("Garfish" 07/02/07)
Jessica Smith- Charlottesville, VA ("Sidewalk" a visual poem 10/08/07, article about her "Shifting Landscapes" in 3/6/10)
Mr. Scribbles! a.k.a. Michael Sparling- Perry, NY ("You and me-- we're trees" 11/1/06; Comics in 1/5/07, 5/12/07, 6/10/07; Custom clip art in 11/1/07, article "Poetry in Motion" 4/1/08, poem "Wyoming County Man" 11/8/08, sketch "Two Potatoes" 2/1/09, "Squeezebox Johnny" 6/8/09, 3 comics 10/14/09, Words-worth comic 4/1/10)
Spence- Northeast England NWS (poem "Ethical Philosophy vs. Capitalist Entropy" 10/14/09)
Mary Speranza- Geneseo, NY NWS (mention of murder mystery "Pookie" 5/5/08)
Marie Starr- Rochester, NY (poem "Epiphany on Anality" 4/1/09)
Carl Stilwell NWS (poem "A Bible Belt Polonaise" 3/1/09)
Dr. Charles A. Stone (poem "This and Nothing More" 5/8/10)
Lynae Straw (mention "Ceramic Poem Pendants" 5/11/09)
Robert Swiatek- NY (article on "I Don't Want to be a Pirate, Writer Maybe" 11/8/08, story "The Black Bean Soup Caper" with Mousse recipe 12/9/09)
Syke NWS ("Snow" 1/5/09)
Angela Szczepaniak- Buffalo, NY NWS ("Was in love with a" 02/07/07, "loveletters" artwork in same issue)
Kadie Taggart- Michigan NWS (story "Her Name Was Summer" 8/6/08)
Kyler Thomann- Lawrence, Kansas NWS (poem "I Got Rhythm" 5/11/09)
Callie Thompson- who is always on the move ("Eat Florida" 09/01/07)
Gary D. Timothy- Wyoming, NY ("Hope Springs Eternal" excerpt 11/1/06)
C. M. Ulmer- Florida NWS (poem "Summer Grass" 7/6/09)
Caroline Colon Vasquez (mention "Paloma's Nest" 4/1/09)
Phibby Venable- Virginia NWS (prose "Blue Cold Morning", "On White Top" 1/5/09)
Joseph Verrastro NWS (photo collage 11/8/08)
Isaiah Vianese- formerly of Nunda, NY (poem "Dust and Other Stuff" 4/1/10)
Brian K. Walters- Michigan NWS ("Morning Bliss" 2/4/08)
Diane Webster- CO NWS (poem "Pumpkin Once" 12/9/09)
Diane Weisbeck NWS (article "Water Spirits" 7/5/08)
Amber J. Wellington- Edinboro, PA NWS (poem "Holly" 2/1/09)
Sueann Wells- Pittsford, NY NWS ("Vehicular (Nature and Hu)Man Watcher" 10/6/08, "What do you think?")
Nathan Wheelings NWS (poem "Doing Time to Cleanse My Mind" 7/6/09)
Kanisha Williams- Chicago, IL (art "On/plugged", "Happy", "Off/unplugged", "Purdue Flaxwood", "Felix Flaxwood" 4/1/10)
Meredith Sue Willis ("A Dull Writing Prompt" 4/1/09)
Willy-age 7 (review of his zine "The Bees Knees" 4/1/08)
Virginia Winters- Lindsay, Ontario Canada (fiction "Freddie's Athabaska" 4/1/10)
Gabriel S. Witkus- Denver, CO NWS ("Lightning Bugs" 2/4/08)
LaDonna Witmer (review of poetry/art book "Secrets of Falling", poem "Seque" 5/5/08)
Alex Wrekk (Brainscan) ("to get a letter, write a letter" 8/6/08)
Rosanna Young NWS (story "Snapped" 10/14/09)
ryki zuckerman- Buffalo, NY ("The Show" 05/12/07, "Broken Ice" 1/5/09, "bees in her bonnet" 10/14/09)
NOTES: NWS=No web site available at the time of publication
Last updated 6/20/10 (July 2010 issue's contributors included)
