Rio: A Journal of the Arts

 

Rio: A Journal of the Arts

copyright 2003 photo by Sandra Staas

Issue 13 (Summer 2003)

table of contents
 

student section
 

Angela Vogel received a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council in 1995. Her poems have appeared in The Cream City Review, Black Dirt, The Cape Rock, Evansville Review, & New Millennium Writings, and will appear soon in Jabberwock Review, Southern Poetry Review, The Valparaiso Review, and Green Hills Literary Lantern. She teaches College Composition and Literature.

 
Brad Buchanan has published poems in many of the most widely-read Canadian literary journals, including Grain, Canadian Literature, The Antigonish Review, Descant, The Fiddlehead, and Event. He has published in over 30 American journals, among them The South Dakota Review, RE:AL, The Portland Review, Icon, yefief, The Comstock Review, and Illuminations. He has just finished his Ph.D. at Stanford University.

 

Bruno Anthony: Vietnam-era vet; community activist; cyber-prole. Work published in various journals, including the Washington Review, Sulphur River Literary Review, Burning Bush (Ireland), Orbis (England), New Orleans Review, Brooklyn Review, and The Plaza (Japan). His e-mail is Bruno.Anthony@worldnet.att.net.
 

Charles Blackstone's fiction has appeared in a variety of electronic and print publications including M.A.G., Whet Magazine, Opium Magazine, and the Chicago Weekly News. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

 
Diana Sher has published in over sixty magazines including Kalliope, Potpourri, New Delta Review, and Descant. Her chapbook, After I Cut the Cord, will be released by Finishing Line Press in their New Women's Voices Series, Spring 2003. She teaches in the English Department of Metropolitan State College.
 

George Wallace is poet laureate of Suffolk County. He is editor of poetrybay.com, and his most recent books are swimming through water (la-finestra editrice 2002) and greatest hits (pudding house press 2003).
 

Gordon Massman's work in this issue are representatives of a life-long psychographic autobiography, numbered in the order written. His work has been published in journals across the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., including The Georgia Review, Harvard Review, and New York Quarterly. Two years ago, Pavement Saw Press published his book, The Numbers.

 
Jonathan Levant has seven dogs and seven turtles for double luck; he home schools his 11 year old, was born in Ithaca, NY, is in "exile in Ohio," and is, in his terms, "negotiating with the ghost of James Wright."
 
Lyn Lifshin has been called "America's most published poet" by the Washington Post. Her latest book is Another Woman Looks Like Me, available from Black Sparrow Press.
 
Rich Murphy's manuscript in progress, "Small Time," focuses on domestic living. Poems have appeared in Rolling Stone, Poetry, Grand Street, New Letters, Confrontation, Negative Capability, Slant, Seattle Review, International Poetry Review, Montserrat Review, Connecticut Poetry Review, Icarus, Natural Bridge, Alligator Juniper, and others.

 

Ruth A. Rouff has been published in Exquisite Corpse, American Writing, 360 Degrees, and the International Quarterly. She went to Vassar College.
 

Sarah Thomas - no bio available


Shanti Weiland is currently working on her Ph.D. at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her work is featured on/in diceybrown.com, Dicey Books, sevenseasmagazine.com, Steam Ticket, Product, and in upcoming issues of Poetry Motel, Mo'Jo Risin', and Great American Poetry Show.

 

Tony D'Arpino's poetry appears in The Bloomsbury Review, Branches, Crossconnect, Runes, and Pavement Saw, among others. Work is forthcoming in Blue Bottle Project (Smiling Dog Press) in which the poems are published in sealed bottles and set afloat. An excerpt from his novel, St. Bonaventure's Island, will appear soon in Terra Incognita (Madrid). He recently won a residency fellowship from Djerassi Foundation for the 2003 season.
 

PHOTOGRAPHY: Sandra Staas grew up in Scotland before moving to Spain where she resided for many years. She is a former adjunct faculty instructor of Spanish in the Pittsburgh area. In 2002 she won an award as Emerging Artist at the Three Rivers Art Festival, Pittsburgh. In 2003 her Polaroid Manipulation entitled HOT DOG won 3rd place out of 75 entries in the North Hills Art Center, Pittsburgh. Her website is www.weewindaes.com.

formerly on main page by Sandra Staas: Wickley House (polaroid)