Dick Allen’s sixth poetry collection is The Day Before: New Poems (Sarabande Books; winner of the Sheila Motton Poetry Prize). It follows Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected , also from Sarabande. Allen has received poetry writing grants from the N.E.A. and Ingram Merrill Foundation, as well as numerous national poetry awards. His work recently has appeared in or is forthcoming in Poetry, The Nation, Boulevard, The Gettysburg Review, and The North American Review and in such anthologies as Poetry Daily: 366 Poems, Old Glory: American War Poems, Contemporary American Poetry: Behind the Scenes, and 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Everyday. He received a 2005 Pushcart Prize.

Greg Antonini is a student at Southern Connecticut State University where he was named Student Poet in 2003. He has won the Leo Connellan Poetry Prize, the Eve Cummings Prize for Poetry, and the Al Savard Memorial Award. His poems have appeared, or will appear, in Connecticut Review,Folio,Louisiana Literature, Caduceus, and Long River Run II. In 2004 he was named Connecticut Student Poet and toured for the Connecticut Poetry Circuit, reading at various Connecticut colleges including Yale, Trinity, Wesleyan, and Southern. He lives and works in Milford, Connecticut.

Jack Bedell holds B.A and M.A. degrees from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana, an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, and a Ph.D. in English/creative writing from the University of Louisiana-- Lafayette. He is a Professor of English at Southeastern Louisiana University where he also serves as Editor of Louisiana Literature. His work has appeared in several journals including Hudson Review, Connecticut Review, Texas Review, Kansas Quarterly, West Branch, Yarrow, Kentucky Poetry Review, Southern Humanities Review, Negative Capability, Short Story, and Critique. His first full-length collection, At the Bonehouse, won the 1997 Breakthrough Award for Southern and Southwestern Poets and was published by the Texas A&M Press Consortium. Is latest chapbook is titled Greatest Hits. Bedell is also a recipient of a Louisiana Division of the Arts Artist Fellowship.

Norma Ketzis Bernstock lives in Milford, Pennsylvania where she is a member of the Upper Delaware Writers Collective. Her poetry has appeared in Caduceus2, Connecticut River Review, Paterson Literary Review, Lips, Sensations Magazine, Comrades and most recently in the anthology, Paterson, the Poets’ City.

Deborah Brown is an editor, with Maxine Kumin and Annie Finch, of Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetics, forthcoming in October 05 from the University of Arkansas Press. A professor of English and Chair of the Humanities Division at the University of New Hampshire at Manchester, Brown has had critical essays in American Literature, Modern Language Studies, The Women's Review of Books and others. Her poems have appeared in the Connecticut Review, Prairie Schooner, The Alaska Quarterly Review, and others. A chapbook News from the Grate was published in 2002. Current projects include a manuscript of poems by Giovanni Pascoli in translation (with Richard Jackson and Susan Thomas) and a poetry manuscript Walking the Dog's Shadow.

Patricia G. Bullard spent 20 years moving fifteen times and traveling in Europe and the Middle East. This included living for two stints in England. Since 1968 she has settled in Guilford and written poetry and studied with Richard Raymond, Alice Mattison, Edwina Trentham and at Wesleyan University with Charlotte Currier. She is presently Co-chair of the Guilford Poets Guild, a member of the Shoreline Poets and the Guilford Peace Alliance. She takes great pleasure in reading at the annual Guilford High School celebration of Poet’s Day

r.g. cantalupo makes his living as a non-fiction writer, playwright and teacher. His work has appeared in over a hundred journals in the United States, England, and Canada, most recently appearing in The Wisconsin Review, the Southern Review, Rattle, and 2 AM among others. His books of poetry include: Involving Residence, Private Entries, The God Box, and The Far Reading. He has also written a non-fiction memoir, The Light Where Shadows End, and recently completed his first novel, You Don’t Know Me . His play Heart recently won first prize at the Western Regional of the American College Theater Festival and was presented at the Kennedy Center. He teaches at Mesa State University in Colorado.

Jonathan Chernoff is by day a Molecular Biologist at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. His poems have appeared in The Connecticut Review, Plainsongs, and The Patterson Review. The author's father, Dr. Hyman M. Chernoff, was a faculty member at the Yale University School of Medicine for many years.

Shulamith S. Chernoff is Professor of Education Emerita at Southern Connecticut State University. She has translated a holocaust survivor’s memoirs; her translation was published in a collection of such memoirs entitled We Remember (1994). In November, 2000 she was awarded the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award for Poems on the Jewish Experience in the Emergent Poet category. The Rosenberg Award is given annually by the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley, California. She has had poetry published in the Connecticut Review and Louisiana Literature. Shula’s late husband Dr. Hyman M. Chernoff was director of the EKG department of Yale-New Haven hospital and an Associate Professor of Medicine. The Hyman Chernoff lectures in cardiology were held once a year at the medical school for more than twenty years.

  Susan A. James Clark lives in Madison, Connecticut, is married and has two children and one grandchild.   Her work has been in violence prevention and she currently is the program manager for the Madison Community Emergency Response Team (CERT).  She  holds a Master of Arts degree in criminal justice from Vermont College of Norwich University, and serves on the Vermont College Alumni Board.  

Elizabeth Cleary (Eli) lives and works in Hamden, Connecticut with her extended family. A member of the performance poetry troupe, Shijin, her poetry tends toward lyrical reflection based on the natural world found in and around her garden. Her work has appeared in the Connecticut River Review.  

Cortney Davis is a nurse practitioner working in women’s health in Danbury, Ct.Her most recent poetry collection, published by University of Nebraska Press in 2004, is Leopold’s Maneuvers, winner of the 2003 Prairie Schooner Poetry Prize. Her other collections are Details of Flesh (Calyx Books, 1997) and The Body Flute (Adastra Press, 1994). She has also published a non-fiction account of her work in women’s health, I Knew a Woman (Random House, 2001 / Ballantine Books, 2002). Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Bellevue Literary Review, Lancet, JAMA, Poetry East, Witness, The Sun, and other journals. She is co-editor of two anthologies of poetry and prose by nurses from University of Iowa Press, Between the Heartbeats and Intensive Care.  

Lynn Tudor Deming is the author of the chapbook “Heady Rubbish”, winner of the 2005 Philbrick Poetry Prize, selected by Robert Pinsky and published by the Providence Athenaeum. Her work has received other awards, including an International Publication Prize and second place award from Atlanta Review in 2004. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in a number of journals, including Atlanta Review, Connecticut River Review, Dogwood, and GSU. Lynn Tudor Deming is a clinical psychologist who now lives in Connecticut.

Audrey Fitting is a retired office worker and part time photographer, and poet. Today she resides in North Branford. Audrey is passionate about her children and Grandchildren. She has had photos and poetry published in the Martha’s Vineyard News. Audrey has been writing poetry since she was 12, and is a working member of the Guilford Poets Guild. She has been published many times including, The Guilford Anthology, the CT Review, and the first two issues of Caduceus. Audrey has self published two books of poetry that sold in local stores.

Tony Fusco, Editor , has a Masters Degree in Creative Writing from Southern Connecticut State University. He is the 2005 editor The Connecticut River Review the journal of the Connecticut Poetry Society. He has been editor of the Southern News and the poetry anthologies High Tide and Sounds and Waves of West Haven. His work has appeared in: the Connecticut Review, Louisiana Literature, the Red Rock Review, The South Carolina Review, The Paterson Review, Freshwater Review, Folio, Elm, Long River Run, Twilight’s Ending, Laurels, Beanfeast, Vintage, Chiron, Lips and the Orphic Lute. He is the author of Jessie’s Garden published in 2004 by Negative Capability Press and 3 Chapbooks. His poetry has won prizes in several contests including: The Sunken Garden Poetry Prize, The Alan Ginsberg Poetry Contest, The Eve Cummings Poetry Prize, The Leslie Leeds Contest, The Southern Connecticut Graduate Poetry Contest, The Joseph Brodine Contest, The Wallace W. Winchell Contest, The Al Savard Poetry Contest, The Pete Hamill Writing Challenge, The Trumbull Arts Festival, The Milford Fine Arts Council, West Haven Council of the Arts, Poets of the Vineyard. He is a member of the Connecticut Poetry Society and the New England Poetry Club. Tony produces West Shore Poets a television poetry series at CTV. His poem “Harvest” was nominated for a Pushcart Award. Tony works for the Yale Medical Group and lives in West Haven.

Maria Mazziotti Gillan is the Founder and the Executive Director of the Poetry C enter at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, NJ She is also the Director of the Creative Writing Program and a Professor of Poetry at Binghamton University-State University of New York .She has published eight books of poetry, including Where I Come From, Things My MotherTold Me, and Italian Women in Black Dresses(Guernica Editions). She is co-editor with her daughter Jennifer of four anthologies : Unsettling America, Identity Lessons, and Growing up Ethnic in America(Penguin/Putnam)and ItalianAmerican Writers on NewJersey( Rutgers).. She is the editor of the Paterson Literary Review. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, The New York Times, Poetry Ireland, Connecticut Review, LIPS, and Rattle, as well as in numerous other journals and anthologies. She has won the May Sarton Award, the Fearing Houghton Award, New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowships in Poetry, and the American Literary Translator’s Award through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Kathleen M. Grieger has just finished a book of 130 pages of poetry. Her work has appeared in many publications including Free Verse, Women’s Writes, NPR, Avocet, Blood and Thunder: Musing on the art of Medicine.Valient Desperados has been pre published in Free Verse

Alice-Anne Harwood serves as co-host for multiple reading venues, host of Long Wharf Theatre’s GHOSTLIGHT poetry series, holds a seat on the executive board for PoeTs, Inc. and is a member of Shijin, a Connecticut based performance troupe. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including X Magazine, Pen works, the Connecticut River Review and the up-coming Underwood Review.  

Norbert Hirschhorn, M.D . is a physician, lecturer at the Yale School of Public Health (Global Health Division), and published poet (A Cracked River, Slow Dancer Press, UK, 1999). In 1994 he was cited by President Bill Clinton as “An American Health Hero” for work he has done. Officially retired, he works pro bono on tobacco control: research, teaching and advocacy. Dr. Hirschhorn currently resides in London, England.

  Will Hochman’s next book of poems, Freer, is due out later this year from Pecan Grove Press. He is the poetry editor of War, Literature & the Arts and a professor of English at SCSU  

Co-chair of the Guilford Poets Guild and member of the Shoreline Poets.Margaret Iacobellis earned a BA in Literature from Charter Oak College, Hartford, Connecticut. Her poetry has been published in Caduceus, An Anthology of Guilford Poets, Long River Run II, and the Spring 2004 issue of Octagon. Her poems have been selected for the 2003 Al Savard Memorial Prize and the 2005 Winchell Prize of the CT Poetry Society. For the past several years she has joined other Shoreline Poets in presenting poetry seminars to English classes at Guilford High School and participating in poetry readings for the Guilford Second Thursday Poetry Series. 

Joan Ellen Ketrys is president of the Connecticut Poetry Society. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including Connecticut River Review, Connecticut Review, Caduceus, and Common Ground. She is an avid advocate for the arts, and—oddly related—cats.

Lee Keylock, originally from Essex, England settled in the U.S. in 1990. He holds a BA & MS from Southern Connecticut State University and is currently working on a second Masters in Creative Writing. He is a teacher of English at Newtown High School, Sandy Hook CT. His poetry has previously been published in Connecticut River Review.

Elizabeth M. Kudlacz is currently a full-time scientist and part-time poet living and working in Groton, Connecticut. Some of her previous publications have appeared in Cicada, Aurorean, Connecticut River Review and Bellowing Ark (as well as American Journal of Transplantation, Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and Science).

Suzy Lamson’s poems have appeared in a number of small-press magazines throughout the United States. She is a member of Artemis Rising, a nine-woman poetry workshop group. Her book, A Rose Between Her Teeth, was published by Hanover Press. She lives in Waterford Connecticut.

Mary Elizabeth Lang teaches English at Southern Connecticut State University. She is a fellow of the Connecticut Writing Project and a member of the Quinnipiac River Watershed Association. She has previously published poems in The Prose Poem; War, Literature and the Arts; Underwood Review; Connecticut Review; Connecticut River Review; and other journals. She has a BA from Barnard College and an MAT from Yale School of Graduate Studies; she is currently working on the Master of Fine Arts in poetry at Bennington College.

Joan Malerba-Foran is vice-president of the Connecticut Poetry Society and a teacher at Hillhouse High School, New Haven. Her poetry has appeared in a variety of journals such as the Journal of the American Medical Association, Connecticut River Review, and Caduceus. She won the NotaBene 1999 Award and the Edna Meudt Scholarship for poetry, and a scholarship from the English Speaking Union to study Shakespeare at Exeter College, Oxford University, England.

Laura Manuelidis, M.D. is a physician who has published on the shapeliness of DNA in chromosomes. She also continues to investigate the causes of dementia, as well as the evanescent interface between the arts and sciences. Samples of her poetry can be found in The Nation, in several web publications such as forpoetry.com, and forthcoming in the Connecticut Review. She is currently preparing an audio disk for broadcast in collaboration with the musician and composer Paul Jordan. She works at the Yale Medical School as Professor and Section Chief Surgery (Neuropathology).

Leslie McGrath has worked as a psychotherapist, an options trader and an artist’s model. Her poems have appeared in The Formalist, The Connecticut Review, Nimrod and Black Warrior Review. Her reviews have appeared in The Cortland Review and Poet Lore. She is the winner of the 2004 Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She received her MFA in literature and poetry from the Bennington Writing Seminars.

Valerie B. McKee is a graduate student at Southern Connecticut State University and a public school teacher. She is the winner of the 2005 Southern CT State University Graduate Student Award. She is a native Tennessean, but considers herself an adopted child of New York City. Valerie currently lives in New Haven, Connecticut with her husband.

Rennie McQuilkin is the founder of Antrim House Press and was for many years the director of the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. He has published several books of poetry including Passage and Learning the Angels. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Poetry, The Yale Review, Yankee, The Hudson Review, The Southern Review, Crazyhorse, The Gettysburg Review, The Christian Science Monitor, The North American Review, The American Scholar, and many other publications.

Alison D. Moncrief has a Master's degree in English Literature from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where she studied poetry under the mentorship of John Burnside and Kathleen Jamie. She taught literature and poetry for three years at Suffield Academy and currently teaches drama at the Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School in New Haven. Alison's poems have appeared in Images Magazine and Soul Fountain, and she has given readings with the Friends and Enemies of Wallace Stevens, Yale University and Hamden Hall Country Day School. She attended the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference last August and was a resident writer at Vermont Studio Center. Alison is currently studying for a second Master's degree at the Bread Loaf School of English and plans to earn her Master of Fine Arts in poetry.

Jane Muir has been a writer most of her life but a poet in only the last decade. She worked as an advertising copywriter in New York before and after her marriage, during which time she had three nonfiction books published. She has been a journalist and newspaper editor. After moving to Guilford ten years ago, she began writing poetry. Her poems have been published in Caduceus and several other journals. She is a member of the Guilford Poets Guild and The Shoreline Poets.

Sheila A. Murphy graduated from Albertus Magnus College. She has taught English and Latin, grades 7 through college, and now teaches poetry and memoir writing to senior citizens. Two of her grandchildren, Cianan and Cecilia, died of Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Type 1. Her seven living grandchildren include twin girls born on May 11, 2005, at Yale-New Haven Hospital. With Marilyn Nelson, she is co-editor of a forthcoming book of essays in memory of poet Leo Connellan. Her poems have appeared in Shifts of Vision, Getting the Knack, Peregrine, Long River Run II, and The Litchfield Review.

Originally from New England, Jane Mushinsky is an English professor at MiraCosta College in Oceanside, California.

Robert Obie is a marketing communications writer who lives in Wallingford, Conn. He has studied poetry writing with Cameron Gearen at the Arts and Literature Laboratory in New Haven, in addition to workshops at the Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington. Robert has had several poems published in the MeridenRecord-Journal newspaper.

Norah Pollard was born in Pasadena, California, into race track life. After graduating from college, she lived and worked in Hook-by-Warsash, England, and Izmir, Turkey. She’s held various jobs as a waitress, nanny, teacher, solderer, and calligrapher in a print shop. She now works as a secretary in a Bridgeport steel company. She holds an MA in English from the University of Rhode Island, and received the Academy of American Poets prize from the University of Bridgeport. She is the author of two books of poems, “Leaning In” (Antrim House, 2003) and “Report From the Banana Hospital” (Antrim House, 2005).

Charles Rafferty’s The Man on the Tower was published by the University of Arkansas Press in 1995 after winning the Arkansas Poetry Award, and Where the Glories of April Lead was published by Mitki/Mitki Press in 2001. During the Beauty Shortage is forthcoming from M2 Press. In addition, he has placed poems in The Formalist, TriQuarterly, The Southern Review, Quarterly West, Massachusetts Review, DoubleTake, Louisiana Literature, Connecticut River Review, The Laurel Review, Poetry East, and Connecticut Review, as well as in an anthology published by Carnegie Mellon University Press—American Poetry: The Next Generation. Recent awards include the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry, the River Styx International Poetry Prize, and a grant from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. He currently teaches American literature and writing at Albertus Magnus College and works as an editor for a technology consulting firm and lives in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, with his wife and two daughters.

Anna Reisman practices general internal medicine and teaches at Yale and the Connecticut VA. She is the Deputy Editor of Creative Writing at the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Her essays, poems and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Hotel Amerika, 2RiverView, Moonwort Review, Science and Spirit, Hastings Center Report, Lahey Clinic Medical Ethics, and various medical journals. Several poems are forthcoming in an anthology (BOA Press) about training to become a physician.

Bessy Reyna , is the author of the poetry chapbooks The Battlefield of Your Body (Hill-Stead Museum Publications) and She Remembers, (Andrew Mountain Press, Hartford, CT, 1997.) Her poem Memoir, was awarded the first prize in the 21 st Annual Joseph E. BrodinePoetry Contest sponsored by the Connecticut Poetry Society. She is an op-ed columnist for the Hartford Courant and her work has been published in numerous anthologies in the U.S. and Latin America

Mark Saba’s work has appeared in magazines such as Fiction, U.S. Catholic, Under The Sun, Confrontation, and Louisiana Literature, as well as anthologies such Essential Love (Grayson Books) and Poetic Voices Without Borders (Gival Press). He is the author of a novel, The Landscapes of Pater (The Vineyard Press, 2004) and has recently directed a poetry video, “He Was a Poet and When He Died,” which is based on one of his poems. Mark is also a graphic artist who has designed this and all our Caduceus covers.

Maria Sassi, Poet Laureate of the town of West Hartford, Connecticut, is a playwright as well as a poet. Her book of poems, Rooted in Stars, now in its second printing, is in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. Another collection of hers, What I See, is a folio of prizewinning poems about art. Her poetry video, Five Ocean Poems, was produced with a grant from The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and three of her poems have been choreographed and performed on national television. She has conducted workshops in poetry in New York and Connecticut and at The Hartford College for Women, University of Hartford.

Ravi Shankar is poet-in-residence at Central Connecticut State University and founding editor of the international online journal of the arts, Drunken Boat <http://www.drunkenboat.com>. His first book of poems, Instrumentality, was published by Cherry Grove in 2004 <http://www.cherry-grove.com/shankar>. He coordinated the 2005 CSU Writing Conference, has published work or has work forthcoming in such places as The Paris Review, Poets & Writers, Time Out New York, The Massachusetts Review, Blackbird, Catamaran, Fulcrum, The Iowa Review, Smartish Pace, and the AWP Writer's Chronicle. Shankar has been a commentator on Wesleyan Radio and NPR, received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Atlantic Center for the Arts, has given readings at such venues as the National Arts Club, the Asia Society, and Columbia University, and is currently editing an anthology of South Asian, East Asian, and Middle Eastern poetry. As a youth, he was once forced to conjure silken scarves from an empty hat as his father's, Sam the Super's, magician's apprentice .

Vivian Shipley , Editor of Connecticut Review, teaches creative writing at Southern Connecticut State University and is the Connecticut State University Distinguished Professor. In 2003, she won the Hart Crane Poetry Prize from Kent State University, the National League of American Pen Women DeAnn Lubell Poetry Prize and was awarded a grant from the Connecticut Commission of the Arts. Her tenth book, When There Is No Shore, won the 2002 Word Press Poetry Prize and was the Finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize. Her latest book Hardboot was published in 2005. She has also won numerous prizes and awards including the 2004 Julia Peterkin Poetry Prize from Converse College in Spartanburg, S.C. and the River Styxx Poetry Prize. Her most recent chapbooks are Echo & Anger, Still (Southeastern Louisiana University Press, 1999) and Down of Hawk (Sow’s Ear Press, 2001.) Her books of poetry include Crazy Quilt (Hanover Press, 1999), Finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize, and Fair Haven, (Negative Capability, 2000), nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, Gleanings: Old Poems, New Poems (Southeastern Louisiana University Press, 2003) won the 2004 Paterson Poetry Prize for sustained Literary achievement. She also is winner of the CT Center for the Book 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award.

Joan Seliger Sidney is Writer-in-Residence at the University of Connecticut's Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, and Lecturer in the Department of English. She also facilitates "Writing for Your Life," an adult writing workshop. Her dream-come-true job was teaching creative writing at the Université de Grenoble, France. Her published works include Body of Diminishing Motion: Poems and a Memoir (Cavan Kerry Press, 2005) and two chapbooks, Deep Between the Rocks (Andrew Mountain, 1985) and The Way the Past Comes Back (The Kutenai Press, 1991). Her poems have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Massachusetts Review, Louisville Review, Kaleidoscope, and Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the

Connecticut Commission on the Arts, the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her poems published in 2003 were nominated for a Pushcart Prize XXIX. She lives in Storrs, Connecticut , with her husband. Their four adult children, daughter-in-law and granddaughter are thriving.

 Lisa L. Siedlarz of New Haven Ct, has a BA in English from Albertus Magnus College and is pursuing a Masters in Creative Writing at SCSU. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Breakwater, Skyline, Ten Thousand Poem Project, Caduceus II , Connecticut River Review, and Louisiana Literature. In 2003 she received an honorable mention in the Al SavardMemorial competition. She is the winner of the 2005 Southern CT State University Graduate Student Award. She is an Editorial Assistant for Connecticut River Review, and founding member of Elm City Poets.

GARY SOTO , born and raised in Fresno California, is the author of ten poetry collections for adults, most notably NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, a 1995 finalist for both the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the National Book Award. His recollections LIVING UP THE STREET received a Before Columbus Foundation 1985 AMERICAN BOOK AWARD. His poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including The Nation, Plouqhshares, The Iowa Review, Ontario Review and most frequently Poetry, which has honored him with the Bess Hokin Prize and the Levinson Award and by featuring him in Poets in Person. He is one of the youngest poets to appear in The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. He has received the Discovery-The Nation Prize, the U.S. Award of the International Poetry Forum, The California Library Association's John and Patricia Beatty Award [twice], a Recogniton of Merit from the Claremont Graduate School for Baseball in April, the Silver Medal from The Commonwealth Club of California, and the Tomás Rivera Prize, in addition to fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts (twice), and the California Arts Council. For ITVS, he produced the film The Pool Party, which received the 1993 Andrew Carnegie Medal. For the The Los Angeles Opera, he wrote the libretto for an opera titled Nerd-landia.  In 1999 he received the Literature Award from the Hispanic Heritage Foundation, the Author-Illustrator Civil Rights Award from the National Education Association, and the PEN Center West Book Award for Petty Crimes.  He serves as Young People's Ambassador for the California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA) and the United Farm Workers of America (UFW). He lives in Berkeley, CA.

Dr. Linda Spock has been a psychologist since 1976 and has been in private practice since 1981. She has written a collection of poems called “Witness” which has been inspired by her work. As a therapist, she is “awed by the human desire to find meaning in life. Even in the face of sometimes unspeakable tragedy and loss, there is always the opportunity for growth and self discovery. Her patients have taught her so much about how to reclaim dignity and self respect, even when it has been injured or taken away. She has watched personal strength being built on a daily basis and has been present for many triumphs. Sometimes there are no words to describe what is shared in these conversations, but the connection is always heartfelt. Her poetry is born from these moments of truth and she felt these stories deserved to be told one more time. ” Dr. Spock has been married for 32 years, and has two sons, one who is a medical student, and another who is an aspiring opera singer in his senior year of college.

Jennifer Steele is a native of Middletown, CT. In 2002, she was selected as a Fresh Voice for the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival sponsored by Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, CT. She is a two time county winner for the IMPAC Literary Awards for Young Writers. In 2005, she represented Howard University at the annual Mt. Vernon Poetry Festival sponsored by George Washington University. Her work has been published in Fresh Voices, as well as, Africans in the Americas: Our Journey Throughout the World by Sabas Whittaker. Currently, she is a graduating senior at Howard University pursuing a B.A. in music.

Guss Stepp Jr is a retired electrical engineer and human resources executive. He is the treasurer of the Connecticut Poetry Society. Guss has been published in the Anthology of New England Writers, Connecticut River Review, Long River Run 1& 2, Poetry Emerging and many other anthologies and journals. Guss is the winner of the Robert Penn Warren Poetry contest for 2006, sponsored by the New England Writers.

Jodie Stewart-Moore was born and raised in New Haven, CT. Jodie has been employed at Yale University for ten years. She has two daughters, Jennifer and Angela. She has had one of her poems published in The American Anthology of Poetry, and several poems illustrated in paintings

Ian Strever teaches at Danbury High School in Danbury, Connecticut, where he coordinates an annual poetry festival. He has previously published or forthcoming poems in Connecticut Review, English Journal, Mad Poets Review and Cimarron Review. He was the recipient of the Leslie Leeds Poetry Prize from Connecticut Review.

Marilyn Terlaga is a part-time librarian and creative writing student at Southern Connecticut State University. She is delighted to have these two poems - "Tell Me We're Happy, Love" and "The Father" published in Caduceus.

Chris Tusa was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He holds an M.F.A. from the University of Florida. His poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Texas Review, New Delta Review, The New York Quarterly , Passages North, South Dakota Review, Spoon River, The Louisville Review, Tar River Poetry, Story South, The Southeast Review , and others. With the help of a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, he was able to complete his first chapbook of poems, Inventing an End, which was published in May of 2002 by Lone Willow Press. His first full-length collection of poetry, The Drowned Light, is currently under consideration. Presently, he teaches in the English Department at Louisiana State University.

Gail Waldstein, M.D., pediatric pathologist for thirty-five years, has work in Nimrod, Explorations, New Letters, Alligator Juniper, High Plains, The MacGuffin,Carve, Bayou, Kaleidoscope,Harpur Palate, Blueline, Asphodel. Pushcart. nominee; finalist in Hemingway, Faulkner, Hackney, New Century, H.E. Francis, Writer’s Digest. Pearl, MacGuffin, Potomac Review, So to Speak, Zone 3, Iowa Review accepted for 2005. Winner Milton Kessler 2005 (Harpur Palate.) First poetry chapbook, Strong Medicine, Plan B Press late 2005. To Quit this Calling, firsthand tales of a pediatric pathologist, nonfiction finalist Bakeless 2004; published Ghost Road Press, 2005. Colorado Council for Arts 2001; Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, 2002; Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute 1997/98.

Marylou Walsh is a member of the Guilford Poets Guild, the Shoreline Poets, and the Connecticut Poetry Society. She attended Barry College, the University of Connecticut, and Fairfield University, concentrating in English and creative writing. Her work has been published in Northeast Magazine, Freshwater, Tidelines, Connecticut River Review, and first and second editions of Caduceus. She has read her poetry at the Blackstone Library, Dudley Farm Second Friday Series and Barnes and Noble. In 2003, she created a series of Haiku, which accompanied the Iceberg Exibit at Bowdoin College Art Gallery in Maine. This year, she received a Certificate of Merit, and was awarded first place in the annual National Federation of State Poetry Societies contest. Her books include OK Manger, and Passwords and Other Words.

Tiffany Washington grew up in rural Barkhamsted and later received her BA in Writing from Messiah College in PA. Her works have appeared in The Minnemingo Review and The Helix. Currently she is a proud Hartford English teacher at Lewis Fox Middle School.

A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Medical School, Kelley White, has been a pediatrician in inner-city Philadelphia for twenty-five years.