Contributing
Authors
Yuan
Changming
an
8-‐time
Pushcart
nominee,
grew
up
in
rural
China,
started
to
learn
English
at
19
and
published
several
monographs
on
translation
before
moving
to
Canada.
Currently
co-‐editing
Poetry
Pacific
with
Allen
Qing
Yuan
in
Vancouver,
Yuan
has
poetry
appearing
in
1009
literary
publications
across
31
countries,
including
Best
Canadian
Poetry
BestNewPoemsOnline
and
Threepenny
Review.
Rus
Khomutoff
37
year
old
Brooklyn
poet
Gragi
Samanta
A
Post-‐Grad
student
of
English
Literature:
Interests
include
reading,
writing,
star-‐gazing…
and
of
course,
a
cup
of
hot
coffee
Danny
Shot
A
longtime
publisher
and
editor
of
Long
Shot
arts
and
literary
magazine,
which
he
founded
along
with
Eliot
Katz
in
1982
in
New
Brunswick,
NJ.
He
graduated
Rutgers
College
in
1980
with
a
B.A.
in
English.
Shot’s
poetry
has
appeared
in:
bum
rush
the
page
(Def
Poetry
Jam)
Aloud:
Voices
from
the
Nuyorican
Poets
Cafe
(Henry
Holt),
In
Defense
of
Mumia
(Writers
and
Readers),
The
Outlaw
Bible
of
American
Poetry
(Thunder’s
Mouth),
the
French
anthology;
Changing
America:
U.S.
Poems
of
Protest
1980-‐1995
(Le
Temps
des
Cerises)
Paris.
Shot
has
read
his
poetry
throughout
the
United
States,
also
appearing
on
television
(WNBC,
New
York)
as
part
of
Felipe
Luciano’s
Wordchestra.
He
is
proud
to
have
his
poetry
included
in
the
Occupy
Wall
Street
Poetry
Anthology,
as
he
is
to
have
his
words
included
in
phati‘tude,
as
well
as
being
one
of
the
organizers
of
Something
Old,
Something
New
(Jersey).
Mr.
Shot
lives
in
Hoboken,
NJ
(home
of
Frank
Sinatra
and
baseball)
where
he
happens
to
be
the
poet-‐in-‐residence
of
the
Hoboken
Museum.
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