New Letters, Volume 69 Number 4

Poetry Society of America. She has finished a memoir about the McCarthy years entitled Burn, Bridges, Burn and lives in San Francisco with the writer Mel Fiske.
LANCE OLSEN is the author of 14 books of and about innovative fiction, including the novel Girl Imagined By Chance (Fiction Collective Two, 2002). His website is www.cafezeitgeist.com.
SIMON PERCHIK retired from his position as the assistant district attorney for Suffolk County in 1980 to pursue writing full time. He has since published numerous collections of poetry; his most recent books are The Autochthon Poems (Split.Shift, 2001) and Touching the Headstone (Stride Publications, 2000). He has three children and four grandchildren and lives with his wife in East Hampton, N.Y.
DAVID RAY's most recent books include The Endless Search, a memoir (Soft Skull Press), and One Thousand Years (Holy Cow!, 2002). He lives in Tucson, Ariz., with his wife, Judy. He is a former editor of New Letters. (A New Letters on the Air author.)
PAMELA SCHOENEWALDT lives in Knoxville, Tenn., where she is a writer-in-residence at the University of Tennessee. Previously she lived in Italy for 10 years, near the small town of Opi, the setting of her story here. Her one-act play in Italian, Espresso con Mia Madre, was produced at Teatro Cilea in Naples. She currently is writing a novel in the voice of a 12th-century Sicilian empress.
TIM SKEEN's poetry collection Kentucky Swami was the 2001 winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry awarded by BkMk Press. He lives in Prestonsburg, Ky., with his wife, Pam, and daughter, Iris. (A New Letters on the Air author.)
WARREN SLESINGER, in 1985, founded The Bench Press, which publishes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. In 2003, he was awarded the South Carolina Poetry Fellowship. He teaches poetry, fiction, and nature writing at the University of South Carolina-Beaufort.
TAYLOR STOEHR has had poems and translations in Agni, Nimrod, Compost, and others. He has edited several volumes of the writings of Paul Goodman and George Dennison, and he teaches English at the University of Massachusetts in Boston.
RENÉE STOUT's Readers, Advisors and Storefront Churches, a retrospective of her works from the John and Maxine Belger Foundation collection, is currently traveling to selected venues across the United States. She is working on a show of paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints and photographs that will be exhibited in September 2003 at the Hemphill Gallery in Washington, D.C., where she lives. (A New Letters on the Air artist.)
JODI VARON's essay here is part of a collection in progress. She has received several fellowships and awards, most notably the William Stafford Fellowship in Nonfiction from Oregon Literary Arts, first place in nonfiction from New Millennium Writing, and fellowships from the Fishtrap Foundation and Eastern Oregon University, where she teaches and edits the literary tabloid Calapooya.
ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987) is the celebrated late American artist and experimental film maker, founder and major practitioner of the pop-art movement, whose work often drew from images in the mass media.

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