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Issue Two Contributors
THANKS TO ALL !
Arlene Ang is the author of four poetry collections, the most recent being a collaborative work with
Valerie Fox, Bundles of Letters Including A, V and Epsilon (Texture Press, 2008). She serves as a poetry
editor for The Pedestal Magazine and Press 1. She lives in Spinea, Italy. More of her writing may be
viewed at www.leafscape.org.
Seven Beckham has been tattooing just over four years. His style is ever changing, somewhere in the
labyrinth of realism and bold perspective work. Beckham is owner and sole artist of Zenart.LTD,
his private tattoo studio in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada--seventattoos.com.
Chris Belville was born and raised in Helena, Montana, and has always been involved in one kind of art
or another. She attended Western Montana College in Dillon, Montana, and graduated with a BS in Art
and Music Education in 1990. Belville played violin in the Helena Symphony in the 90s while also
teaching art and pottery full-time at Helena High School. In 2002, she left teaching to pursue yet another
form of art… tattooing. After fulfilling her two-year apprenticeship and another four years at a tattoo
shop in Missoula, Belville now has her own Tattoo/Art Studio, Ms B's Island Ink, where she now spends
all of her time creating body art that lasts a life time.
Tiffany Carpenter has been creating art since she can remember. This aspect of her life continues to
grow in many different forms. The piece on Gary Lundy's arm was created specifically for him, as he is
one of her dearest friends. Carpenter enjoys designing tattoo work, but mostly works with oils.
Donavon Davidson was born and raised in the Midwest. He holds an MFA from Goddard College, and his
poetry has been published in Quay: A Journal of the Arts, SNreview, and forthcoming in Evergreen
Review . He currently lives in Vermont where he is an adjunct professor at the Community College of
Vermont.
Michael Dickel is an international poet, photographer, and digital artist, who e-book of poetry,
photographs, and art is available from why vandalism? (WV) online literary & arts journal. Visit his blog
(with 16,000 plus views from more than 25 countries), http://blogs.myspace.com/MHDPoet, and his
home page, http://web.mac.com/Michael_Dickel.
Bob Dilworth has shown extensively, especially in Rhode Island, in both solo and group exhibitions. He
recently curated a large window installation consisting of 54 window displays at the Feinstein Building
and was in a two-person exhibition at the Gallery Space at Peerless Lofts--both venues in downtown
Providence, RI. In 2006, he had a one-person exhibition at the Newport Art Museum. His art has been
reviewed regularly in the New England press as well as in Florida, New York, Virginia, Illinois, Minnesota,
Missouri and Texas. Dilworth's work is widely collected from the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of
Design, Providence, to the Fairmont Hotel Corporation, San Francisco. He teaches painting, drawing,
design, and African American art history at the University of Rhode Island.
Cengiz Eyvazov was born on February 19, 1964, in Baku, Azerbaijan. He graduated high school and
learned how to tattoo by tattooing himself. Eyvazov is also a drummer.
Lane Falcon is pursuing her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. Her poems have been published
in 2 River View, 42 Opus, Quay, and elsewhere. Falcon lives in New York City.
Luba Goldina was born in Moscow, Russia, in 1973. She completed studies at Moscow School of Fine
Arts in 1990, Berlin School of Fine Arts in 1994, and started tattooing in 2005. Since then Goldina has
been creating art on the human canvas. Her Web site: www.lubagoldina.com.
Shotsie Gorman is a self educated world traveler, tattoo researcher, tattoo artist, and former publisher
of Tattoo Advocate Magazine. He is a life student and poet, and his work has appeared many times in
print including Newsweek, The New York Times, and The Village Voice and numerous contemporary
books and periodicals on tattooing. His Web site: http://www.shotsiesoulsigning.com.
Peter Joseph Gloviczki lives in Minnesota. His recent poems appear in The Christian Science Monitor,
32 Poems, Modern Haiku, Margie, and elsewhere. Gloviczki's chapbook, Drinking River Water,
appears online from Poetry Midwest (2008).
Kathryn Good-Schiff holds an MFA from Goddard College and a BA from Hampshire College. She works
as an editor (among other things) and leads workshops for new and returning writers of all ages. She
was born in Maine, grew up in the ecotone between country and city in southeastern Pennsylvania, and
now lives in western Massachusetts. She blogs about poetry and creativity at Dragon's Meow.
Seth Jani is a young poet from Rangeley, ME. He lives and works all over the country, leaving his poems
on mountain tops and slipping them surreptitiously into the shelves of commercial bookstores.
He runs a small, primarily online press where he publishes the work of many talented minds.
His newest collection "Desert Psalms" written over an 8-month period while residing in the Mojave
Desert will be available this summer. He encourages all to visit Seven CirclePress and help support
grass-roots literature.
Pamela Johnson Parker is a certified medical language specialist and creative writing instructor at
Murray State University. She is a current nominee for the Pushcart Prize. her poem “Ulysses: Uxoria”
was featured in the April 2009 Switcheroo of Broadsided. Johnson Parker’s poetry and essays have
recently appeared or are forthcoming in qarrtsiluni, Pebble Lake Review, Anti-, Muscadine Lines, A
Journal of the New South, and The Other Journal. Finishing Line Press will publish her chapbook, Other
Four-Letter Words, in January 2010. She blogs at Pamela’s Musings, www.chisenbop.blogspot.com.
Christine Klocek-Lim’s poems have appeared in Nimrod, OCHO, The Pedestal Magazine, Terrain.org,
and the anthology Riffing on Strings: Creative Writing Inspired by String Theory. She was a finalist in
Nimrod’s 2006 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry and received the 2008 Ellen La Forge Memorial Prize in
poetry. She is editor of the online journal Autumn Sky Poetry and her Web site is www.novembersky.
com.
Maxime Lanouette feels that art can only be expressed through sincere passion and creativity. When
talent calls upon one, thus one shall answer the call. That is why Lanouette chooses to devote his life
and build a career around a fashionable yet personalized form of art. Growing up in a family of tattoo
artists and being taught by some of the best of our time, Lanouette is a true artist who travels through
his pursuit of creation. To see or to become a living part of his artistic expression, visit
www.carmtattoo.com.
Daphne Lazarus was born in Singapore. She received her BA (Hons) in Arts Management from LASALLE
College of the Arts in Singapore, 2009, her thesis on tattoos. Lazarus writes for www.horinaka.com in
collaboration with tattoo artist Shane Tan. She has curated several contemporary art exhibitions,
featuring emerging Singaporean artists and was one of the event organizers for Singapore’s first body
suspension show in conjunction with Singapore's first tattoo convention. Lazarus’ passion is writing
about art and tattoo culture, and she has articles featured in Praxis Press and Flash Ink. She wants to
spend her life going on Bohemian holidays, YouTubing, writing, and making kitsch art.
Jee Leong Koh is the author of Payday Loans and Equal to the Earth (both from Poets Wear Prada
Press). His poetry has appeared in Best New Poets 2007, and Best Gay Poetry 2008. Born in Singapore,
he now lives in New York City and blogs at Song of a Reformed Headhunter.
Donnelle McGee is a Jimi Hendrix freak and wishes he could dunk a basketball. He earned his MFA from
Goddard College . His work has appeared in Controlled Burn, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Home
Planet News, Iodine Poetry Journal, Permafrost, River Oak Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review,
and The Dirty Napkin, among others. His work has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Marie-Elizabeth Mali received her MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has appeared
in Calyx, Lumina, and MiPOesias, and was nominated by The Acentos Review for a Pushcart Prize in
2008. For more information: www.floweringlotus.com.
Colleen Mills is an MFA Creative Writing graduate of Goddard College, who resides in New York's
Hudson Valley Region. She is also a certified NYS English high school teacher. She is particularly
interested in the long poem, the sequence poem, and the sectional poem and is deeply upset that there
are so few literary venues for such long poems to call home.
Erika Moya is a working writer living in Los Angeles. Her work has previously appeared in the University
of California Riverside's Mosaic: Art and Literary Journal, Qaartsiluni, and the Toronto Quarterly. Moya
will be attending the MFA program at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington this coming fall.
Rhonda Palmer is a hospice nurse/writer living and working in Columbus, Ohio. In 2008 she has had
poetry and essays published in The Comstock Review, Heartsong, Main Channel Voices and Ars
Medica. She received the 2008 William Redding Award in Columbus.
Siimon Petkovich is a 46-year-old published poet (has been writing since 1977, published since 1980,
most recently a 19-poem foldout--www.longhousepoetry.com/longhouse2008.html--and in Holly Rose
Review Issue #1). He is married and with his wife and two sons lives in Melbourne, where he works as a
Croatian interpreter. Comments welcome on siimonpetkovich@hotmail.com.
Jayne Pupek is the author of the novel, Tomato Girl (Algonquin Books), and a book of poems titled
Forms of Intercession (Mayapple Press). She resides near Richmond, Virginia. Pupek's Web site: www.
jaynepupek.com.
Edwin Wilson Rivera was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. An excerpt from his novel, "Sun Street, Moon
Street," will be published by the White Whale Review in July. Formerly employed as a laborer and
dockman for a major port company, he currently resides in New York City.
Kathrin Schaeppi lives in Basel, Switzerland. She is the author of two chapbooks: Cancer Mon Amour
and A Frog Jumps In (dusie press). She has just completed a full-length ekphrastic work on Swiss
poète-peintre "Sonja Sekula." Schaeppi's creative and critical work has appeared in Interim, Jacket,
Sous Rature, Tarpaulin Sky, OSL Verlag and is forthcoming in ON: Contemporary Practice. She also is
the editor of ellectrique press which recently issued Spell/ing ( ) Bound, a collaborative objet d’art, in a
limited edition. The press' Web site: www.ellectriquepress.com.
Martha Silano is the author of Blue Positive and What the Truth Tastes Like. Her as-yet unpublished
collection, "The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception," was a 2008 finalist for the New Issues
Poetry Prize and a semi-finalist in Tupelo Press’s 2009 Dorset Poetry Prize. Individual poems have
appeared or are forthcoming in the Paris Review, Poetry Daily, TriQuarterly, AGNI, and in The Best
American Poetry 2009. Her work has also been published in over a dozen anthologies, including Not for
Mother’s Only (Fence Books) and American Poetry: the Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon). A six-time
Pushcart Prize nominee, Silano teaches at Bellevue College. Her blog: Blue Positive.
Soul Expressions Tattoo Studio, 27326 Jefferson Ave. #15, Temecula, CA 92590:
www.soulexpressionstattoo.com.
Shane Tan is a tattoo artist based in Singapore and Zurich. He tattoos and works at Galaxy Tattoos,
Singapore, and Ink Tank, Zurich. He has been featured in several international tattoo publications. His
Web site: www.horinaka.com.
Thomas Woodruff is an artist and illustrator who has had more than 20 one-person exhibitions. For
more information on Woodruff, please visit thomaswoodruff.com.
www.free-tattoodesign.blogspot.com has many wonderful photos of tattoos that can be used for free.
THANKS TO ALL !
Arlene Ang is the author of four poetry collections, the most recent being a collaborative work with
Valerie Fox, Bundles of Letters Including A, V and Epsilon (Texture Press, 2008). She serves as a poetry
editor for The Pedestal Magazine and Press 1. She lives in Spinea, Italy. More of her writing may be
viewed at www.leafscape.org.
Seven Beckham has been tattooing just over four years. His style is ever changing, somewhere in the
labyrinth of realism and bold perspective work. Beckham is owner and sole artist of Zenart.LTD,
his private tattoo studio in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada--seventattoos.com.
Chris Belville was born and raised in Helena, Montana, and has always been involved in one kind of art
or another. She attended Western Montana College in Dillon, Montana, and graduated with a BS in Art
and Music Education in 1990. Belville played violin in the Helena Symphony in the 90s while also
teaching art and pottery full-time at Helena High School. In 2002, she left teaching to pursue yet another
form of art… tattooing. After fulfilling her two-year apprenticeship and another four years at a tattoo
shop in Missoula, Belville now has her own Tattoo/Art Studio, Ms B's Island Ink, where she now spends
all of her time creating body art that lasts a life time.
Tiffany Carpenter has been creating art since she can remember. This aspect of her life continues to
grow in many different forms. The piece on Gary Lundy's arm was created specifically for him, as he is
one of her dearest friends. Carpenter enjoys designing tattoo work, but mostly works with oils.
Donavon Davidson was born and raised in the Midwest. He holds an MFA from Goddard College, and his
poetry has been published in Quay: A Journal of the Arts, SNreview, and forthcoming in Evergreen
Review . He currently lives in Vermont where he is an adjunct professor at the Community College of
Vermont.
Michael Dickel is an international poet, photographer, and digital artist, who e-book of poetry,
photographs, and art is available from why vandalism? (WV) online literary & arts journal. Visit his blog
(with 16,000 plus views from more than 25 countries), http://blogs.myspace.com/MHDPoet, and his
home page, http://web.mac.com/Michael_Dickel.
Bob Dilworth has shown extensively, especially in Rhode Island, in both solo and group exhibitions. He
recently curated a large window installation consisting of 54 window displays at the Feinstein Building
and was in a two-person exhibition at the Gallery Space at Peerless Lofts--both venues in downtown
Providence, RI. In 2006, he had a one-person exhibition at the Newport Art Museum. His art has been
reviewed regularly in the New England press as well as in Florida, New York, Virginia, Illinois, Minnesota,
Missouri and Texas. Dilworth's work is widely collected from the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of
Design, Providence, to the Fairmont Hotel Corporation, San Francisco. He teaches painting, drawing,
design, and African American art history at the University of Rhode Island.
Cengiz Eyvazov was born on February 19, 1964, in Baku, Azerbaijan. He graduated high school and
learned how to tattoo by tattooing himself. Eyvazov is also a drummer.
Lane Falcon is pursuing her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. Her poems have been published
in 2 River View, 42 Opus, Quay, and elsewhere. Falcon lives in New York City.
Luba Goldina was born in Moscow, Russia, in 1973. She completed studies at Moscow School of Fine
Arts in 1990, Berlin School of Fine Arts in 1994, and started tattooing in 2005. Since then Goldina has
been creating art on the human canvas. Her Web site: www.lubagoldina.com.
Shotsie Gorman is a self educated world traveler, tattoo researcher, tattoo artist, and former publisher
of Tattoo Advocate Magazine. He is a life student and poet, and his work has appeared many times in
print including Newsweek, The New York Times, and The Village Voice and numerous contemporary
books and periodicals on tattooing. His Web site: http://www.shotsiesoulsigning.com.
Peter Joseph Gloviczki lives in Minnesota. His recent poems appear in The Christian Science Monitor,
32 Poems, Modern Haiku, Margie, and elsewhere. Gloviczki's chapbook, Drinking River Water,
appears online from Poetry Midwest (2008).
Kathryn Good-Schiff holds an MFA from Goddard College and a BA from Hampshire College. She works
as an editor (among other things) and leads workshops for new and returning writers of all ages. She
was born in Maine, grew up in the ecotone between country and city in southeastern Pennsylvania, and
now lives in western Massachusetts. She blogs about poetry and creativity at Dragon's Meow.
Seth Jani is a young poet from Rangeley, ME. He lives and works all over the country, leaving his poems
on mountain tops and slipping them surreptitiously into the shelves of commercial bookstores.
He runs a small, primarily online press where he publishes the work of many talented minds.
His newest collection "Desert Psalms" written over an 8-month period while residing in the Mojave
Desert will be available this summer. He encourages all to visit Seven CirclePress and help support
grass-roots literature.
Pamela Johnson Parker is a certified medical language specialist and creative writing instructor at
Murray State University. She is a current nominee for the Pushcart Prize. her poem “Ulysses: Uxoria”
was featured in the April 2009 Switcheroo of Broadsided. Johnson Parker’s poetry and essays have
recently appeared or are forthcoming in qarrtsiluni, Pebble Lake Review, Anti-, Muscadine Lines, A
Journal of the New South, and The Other Journal. Finishing Line Press will publish her chapbook, Other
Four-Letter Words, in January 2010. She blogs at Pamela’s Musings, www.chisenbop.blogspot.com.
Christine Klocek-Lim’s poems have appeared in Nimrod, OCHO, The Pedestal Magazine, Terrain.org,
and the anthology Riffing on Strings: Creative Writing Inspired by String Theory. She was a finalist in
Nimrod’s 2006 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry and received the 2008 Ellen La Forge Memorial Prize in
poetry. She is editor of the online journal Autumn Sky Poetry and her Web site is www.novembersky.
com.
Maxime Lanouette feels that art can only be expressed through sincere passion and creativity. When
talent calls upon one, thus one shall answer the call. That is why Lanouette chooses to devote his life
and build a career around a fashionable yet personalized form of art. Growing up in a family of tattoo
artists and being taught by some of the best of our time, Lanouette is a true artist who travels through
his pursuit of creation. To see or to become a living part of his artistic expression, visit
www.carmtattoo.com.
Daphne Lazarus was born in Singapore. She received her BA (Hons) in Arts Management from LASALLE
College of the Arts in Singapore, 2009, her thesis on tattoos. Lazarus writes for www.horinaka.com in
collaboration with tattoo artist Shane Tan. She has curated several contemporary art exhibitions,
featuring emerging Singaporean artists and was one of the event organizers for Singapore’s first body
suspension show in conjunction with Singapore's first tattoo convention. Lazarus’ passion is writing
about art and tattoo culture, and she has articles featured in Praxis Press and Flash Ink. She wants to
spend her life going on Bohemian holidays, YouTubing, writing, and making kitsch art.
Jee Leong Koh is the author of Payday Loans and Equal to the Earth (both from Poets Wear Prada
Press). His poetry has appeared in Best New Poets 2007, and Best Gay Poetry 2008. Born in Singapore,
he now lives in New York City and blogs at Song of a Reformed Headhunter.
Donnelle McGee is a Jimi Hendrix freak and wishes he could dunk a basketball. He earned his MFA from
Goddard College . His work has appeared in Controlled Burn, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Home
Planet News, Iodine Poetry Journal, Permafrost, River Oak Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review,
and The Dirty Napkin, among others. His work has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Marie-Elizabeth Mali received her MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has appeared
in Calyx, Lumina, and MiPOesias, and was nominated by The Acentos Review for a Pushcart Prize in
2008. For more information: www.floweringlotus.com.
Colleen Mills is an MFA Creative Writing graduate of Goddard College, who resides in New York's
Hudson Valley Region. She is also a certified NYS English high school teacher. She is particularly
interested in the long poem, the sequence poem, and the sectional poem and is deeply upset that there
are so few literary venues for such long poems to call home.
Erika Moya is a working writer living in Los Angeles. Her work has previously appeared in the University
of California Riverside's Mosaic: Art and Literary Journal, Qaartsiluni, and the Toronto Quarterly. Moya
will be attending the MFA program at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington this coming fall.
Rhonda Palmer is a hospice nurse/writer living and working in Columbus, Ohio. In 2008 she has had
poetry and essays published in The Comstock Review, Heartsong, Main Channel Voices and Ars
Medica. She received the 2008 William Redding Award in Columbus.
Siimon Petkovich is a 46-year-old published poet (has been writing since 1977, published since 1980,
most recently a 19-poem foldout--www.longhousepoetry.com/longhouse2008.html--and in Holly Rose
Review Issue #1). He is married and with his wife and two sons lives in Melbourne, where he works as a
Croatian interpreter. Comments welcome on siimonpetkovich@hotmail.com.
Jayne Pupek is the author of the novel, Tomato Girl (Algonquin Books), and a book of poems titled
Forms of Intercession (Mayapple Press). She resides near Richmond, Virginia. Pupek's Web site: www.
jaynepupek.com.
Edwin Wilson Rivera was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. An excerpt from his novel, "Sun Street, Moon
Street," will be published by the White Whale Review in July. Formerly employed as a laborer and
dockman for a major port company, he currently resides in New York City.
Kathrin Schaeppi lives in Basel, Switzerland. She is the author of two chapbooks: Cancer Mon Amour
and A Frog Jumps In (dusie press). She has just completed a full-length ekphrastic work on Swiss
poète-peintre "Sonja Sekula." Schaeppi's creative and critical work has appeared in Interim, Jacket,
Sous Rature, Tarpaulin Sky, OSL Verlag and is forthcoming in ON: Contemporary Practice. She also is
the editor of ellectrique press which recently issued Spell/ing ( ) Bound, a collaborative objet d’art, in a
limited edition. The press' Web site: www.ellectriquepress.com.
Martha Silano is the author of Blue Positive and What the Truth Tastes Like. Her as-yet unpublished
collection, "The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception," was a 2008 finalist for the New Issues
Poetry Prize and a semi-finalist in Tupelo Press’s 2009 Dorset Poetry Prize. Individual poems have
appeared or are forthcoming in the Paris Review, Poetry Daily, TriQuarterly, AGNI, and in The Best
American Poetry 2009. Her work has also been published in over a dozen anthologies, including Not for
Mother’s Only (Fence Books) and American Poetry: the Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon). A six-time
Pushcart Prize nominee, Silano teaches at Bellevue College. Her blog: Blue Positive.
Soul Expressions Tattoo Studio, 27326 Jefferson Ave. #15, Temecula, CA 92590:
www.soulexpressionstattoo.com.
Shane Tan is a tattoo artist based in Singapore and Zurich. He tattoos and works at Galaxy Tattoos,
Singapore, and Ink Tank, Zurich. He has been featured in several international tattoo publications. His
Web site: www.horinaka.com.
Thomas Woodruff is an artist and illustrator who has had more than 20 one-person exhibitions. For
more information on Woodruff, please visit thomaswoodruff.com.
www.free-tattoodesign.blogspot.com has many wonderful photos of tattoos that can be used for free.
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