Hudson View Poetry Digest Fall
2008

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Jeffrey Hanson

Jan Oskar Hansen

Karen Kelsay

R.W. Haynes

Stephanie Pope

Jacob Erin-Cilberto

Brett Beiles

Rumjhum Biswas

Priyadarshi Patnaik

Brian Anthony Hardie

Shreekumar Varma

Jim Fuess Art & Biography

Jesse Weiner
World Love Poetry Review

Santosh Kumar

Taylor Graham

Joan Rene Goldberg

Patty Mager

Pamela A. MacBean

Gona Pragasen Naicker

Ravi Naicker

Michael Lee Johnson

Easterine Iralu

Victoria Valentine

Dr. Rita Malhotra

Poet Biographies

Brett Beiles works as a copywriter in Durban, South
Africa. Also adjudicates festivals for the SA Speech & Drama
Association. Has been published in anthologies and journals in SA and
abroad, judged a few poetry competitions, won a couple of prizes, curated
and appeared in several festivals. Convened the Live Poets’ Society (LiPS)
in Durban 2001-7 (founded in 1995).

Rumjhum Biswas’s fiction and poetry have been
published across the globe. One of her poems was long listed in the
2006 Bridport Poetry Prize. She won third prize in the Unisun
Publishers’ poetry contest 2007-2008. For more about her
writing, visit: www.rumjhumbiswas.com

Jacob Erin-Cilberto is a poet & teacher. He has
been writing poetry & prose since 1970, and has taught English
composition and literature at John A. Logan College and at Shawnee
Community College since 1994. He enjoys teaching poetry workshops for the
Heartland Writers Guild in Sikeston, Missouri & the Southern Illinois
Writers Guild. His work has been published in numerous magazines &
journals. Received a Pushcart Poetry Prize nomination for 2006 & 2007.
He has recently published his 10th book of poetry, "against the
current".

Joan Rene Goldberg is a teacher who loves to read and
write poetry. Her poems can be visited on several online webzines
including Eclectica, Snakeskin and Millers Pond.

Taylor Graham is a volunteer search-and-rescue dog
handler. Her poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, The New York
Quarterly, Southern Humanities Review. She’s included in California
Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present. Her book The Downstairs Dance
Floor was awarded the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook
Prize.

Jan Oskar Hansen is a Norwegian poet residing in
Portugal. Published books: Murmur from the East, Homecoming, La Strada,
End of a Voyage, Letters from Portugal. See also Wikipedia.

After spending many years in San Diego, Jeffrey
Hanson and his wife Marilyn moved to Ohio where Jeffrey now teaches
English for Hocking College. Life is good, and his writing seems to be
going well. After graduating from Ohio University in 2007 with a PhD in
writing, Jeffrey’s goal to be published has taken on new
importance.

Brian Hardie is a
24-year-old writer from Portland. He’s been writing poetry since the age
of seven, and has been published in a number of small press journals
including The Pebble Lake Review (Austin, TX), Conceit
Magazine (San Fransisco, CA) and Angel Exhaust (UK). He has
also toured the West Coast and Midwest as a musician. You can hear his
music at www.myspace.com/farestandthefieldsoffrance. He’s currently in the
process of writing a book of abstract poetry.

R. W. Haynes writes
in Laredo.  His finest moments this year, so far, were on a pyramid
in Xochicalco and in the Viking Ship Museum. R. W. Haynes Associate
Professor of English Texas A&M International
University

Easterine Iralu is an internationally acclaimed poet
and writer. She belongs to Nagaland, from Northeastern India. Easterine
Iralu has written and published a number of short stories and anthologies
of poetry. She has been a guest of Norwegian PEN from 2005 to 2007 and
during this period has traveled and spoken extensively on the idea of self
exile, on writing in another country, on Naga literature and on the
conflict-torn state of Nagaland. Two of her books have been translated and
published in Norway.

Michael Lee Johnson is a poet and freelance writer
from Itasca, Illinois.  He is the author of The Lost
American:  from Exile to Freedom,
www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-46091-7  He
has also published two chapbooks available at:
http://stores.lulu.com/poetryboy.  He is presently looking for a
publisher for two more chapbooks.  He has been published in USA,
Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Scotland, Turkey, Fiji, Nigeria, Algeria,
Africa, India, United Kingdom, Republic of Sierra Leone, Israel, Nepal,
Thailand, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Finland, and Poland internet
radio.  Michael Lee Johnson has been published in more than 240
different publications worldwide.  Audio MP3 of poems are available
on request.

Karen Kelsay grew up near the Pacific, and loves
writing poetry about the sea.

At the same time, she has written narrative, romantic,
and fairy-theme poems that were created with other backgrounds and foreign
lands in mind. Her first book, Collected Poems, was published in June
2008, and a chapbook called "A Fist of Roots" will be published this year
by Puddinghouse Press.

Santosh Kumar (b. 1946) is a poet, short-story writer
and an editor from UP India; DPhil in English; Editor of Taj Mahal
Review and  Harvests of New Millennium Journals.

Pamela A. MacBean lives in the North Country of New
Hampshire on 48 acres of land affectionately called Go-Pher Wood
Farm with her husband and daughter.  Pam is a cancer survivor of
one year.  Two books Postscripts in Time
Foothillspublishing.com and In the Great North Woods
PublishAmerica.com are out in print.  Pam has been a Pushcart Prize
nominee.

Patty Mager is a banker and investor
who has been writing poetry
for ten years.   Patty has been published in
literary anthologies including The Elms, Literary House
Review, Skyline Magazine, SpinningS Intense
Tales, Skyline Review, and Bottlecap
Magazine. The Webster-Kirkwood Times recently did an
article on Patty and four of her poems were featured. She has
also been published in both the American and Fort Worth Haiku
Society Journals.

A Mathematician by profession, Dr Rita Malhotra is
also a poet and essayist, translator. She is currently a part of the Post
Graduate Faculty at the Department of Mathematics, South Campus, Delhi
University and "HOD Mathematics" at Kamala Nehru College, University of
Delhi. She is a PhD. in Mathematics from Delhi University and has been a
Post-Doctoral Fellow in Mathematics at The University of Paris IX,
Dauphine on a French Government Fellowship. She has published several
research papers in India and abroad and has presented them at various
International Conferences.

Gona Pragasen Naicker is an activist and a poet based
in Durban, South Africa. A Hindu traditionalist, his poems have the
consciousness of an Indian in South Africa.

Ravi Naicker is a teacher in English at a school in
Durban, South Africa. He writes about the first and second generation of
Indians brought by ship to work in sugar cane plantations and their
tenacity to make lives better for future generations.

Priyadarshi Patnaik (b. 1969) is Associate Professor,
Department of Humanities & Social Sciences,  Indian Institute of
Technology, Kharagpur, India. He has two anthologies of poems  to his
credit. He writes poems, short fiction and  essays. He also paints
and does photography. He is  currently interested in exploring poetry
and painting together.

Stephanie Pope, A teacher, author, poet and
mythologist, Stephanie has a BA in education from Walsh University and a
master’s degree in mythological studies from Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Stephanie has established mythopoetry.com to explore myth-logical
possibilities with the language of cyber space, to see from within what
images see and to make her poetry-making an e-vocation. A poet who lives
and works off the grid, surfacing occasionally in Arizona and New
York.

Victoria Valentine is an author who founded
Skyline Publications in 2001, publishing writers, poets &
artists in three print publications & online several literary
websites. www.waterforestpress.com and www.nightwindpublishing.com are the
latest editions to the Skyline family, designed to help authors
publish & promote their poetry collections, short story collections,
novellas and novels. Victoria’s own published books: At The Stroke Of
Midnight, 24 tales of terror & The Cutest Little Duckie
children’s novella.

Shreekumar Varma is a playwright, poet, children’s
writer and columnist. He is an internationally renowned
novelist.  He is an adjunct professor in Creative English at the
Chennai Mathematical Institute. He lives in Chennai, South India, with his
wife Geeta and sons Vinayak and Karthik. He welcomes visitors to
www.shreevarma.com.

Jesse Weiner is an American poet, a lawyer, the
former co-editor/publisher of Salonika and the author of several books of
poetry, all now out of
print.