Issue No. 2, 2008-09. Contributors’ Notes

Matthew Capodicasa is a senior in the Tisch School of the Arts. His play, Animal Cruelty, premiered at the Experimental Theatre Wing in December

Jesús Adam Esparza is a senior in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. He was born in Pasadena, California.

Johnny Gall is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Science. He has had copious works published in various composition notebooks, all of which have met spectacular failure in the market. Regarding his poem, “Beth Israel,” he writes, “Homeless people are a lot of fun to hang out with. I recommend it.”

Lucas (Luke) “Meir” A. Gerber is a freshman in the College of Arts and Science. His favorite book is What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver.

Joseph Knight Haldeman is a sophmore in the College of Arts and Science. His favorite book is A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.

Maggie Hall is a senior in the College of Arts and Science. Her favorite book is East of Eden by John Steinbeck.

Ernest A. Hartwell is a junior in the College of Arts and Science. His work has appeared in the Beaver Island Newsletter, MOLDEOnline Magazine and NYUin Buenos Aires Exemplary Texts. His collection of poems, Council Trees, was self-published with the Peter Greensky Press in May 2008. On his poem “Grandma Marian teaching my sister to set the dinner table,” he writes, “My grandmother and her mother before her ran a country restaurant, the Red Fox Inn, between 1919 and 1973 in the home where I find myself every summer in Horton Bay, Michigan. This poem is theirs.”

Jason Jiang is a junior in the College of Arts and Science. He hopes to become a filmmaker like Luis Buñuel or Eric Rohmer. He is currently producing a feature-length film called The Evangelist for Dependent Films, a production company that his close friend started in 2008.

Amanda J. Killian is a junior in the College of Arts and Science. Her favorite book is The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein.

Joe Koplowitz is a senior in the Tisch School of the Arts. His post-graduation plans include snorting rockers, avoiding AIDS, siding with Cam over Juelz and Jimmy, Shower Shows at Roxy’s, loving his mom, and a fifth year of college.

Jason Lee is a January 2009 graduate of the Tisch School of the Arts. He is teaching during spring semester. Over the summer, he plans on road-tripping with a trunk full of books, pens and paper. He’ll be going to Iceland to study the Eddas.

Lisa Martens is a senior in the College of Arts and Science. She expects to graduate in January 2010. After that, she hopes to survive with moderate success and happiness.

Daniel Mehrian is a freshman in the Tisch School of the Arts. His favorite book is Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan. He writes that his poem “comes from the tastiness of grapes.”

Eileen Myles [Guest Contributor] has written thousands of poems since she gave her first reading at CBGB’s in 1974. Bust magazine calls her “the rock star of modern poetry” and The New York Times says she’s “a cult figure to a generation of post-punk females forming their own literary avant garde.” Her books include Sorry, Tree (2007), Skies (2001), on my way (2001), Cool for You (2000), School of Fish (1997), Maxfield Parrish (1995), Not Me (1991), and Chelsea Girls (1994). She’s a frequent contributor to Book Forum, Art in America, The Village Voice, The Nation, The Stranger, Index, Open City and Nest.

Kathryn Mitchell is a junior in the College of Arts and Science. Her favorite book is Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Alexander Fontanez-Ordonez is a senior in the College of Arts and Science. His favorite book is Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.

Carmen Petaccio is a junior in the College of Arts and Science. His favorite book is Who’s Afraid of a Large Black Man? by Charles Barkley

Ben Radding is a freshman in the Liberal Studies Program. He is a contributing columnist to the Washington Square News. He has fenced since the age of twelve and is on the varsity fencing team. On his poem “Moving from Indiana to Massachusetts in June,” Ben writes, “The poem was inspired, obviously, by my family’s move, as well as a night alone with a Robert Lowell book.”

Umar A. Riaz is a senior in the College of Arts and Science. He would like to thank his parents, sisters, Nina D’Alessandro and Sassy Ross for encouraging him to write.

Ryan Stechler is a junior in the College of Arts and Science. His work has appeared in Jacket magazine. He will be graduating a year early, and after graduation he plans on attending a Master of Fine Arts program in New York City.

Caitlin Steever is a senior in the College of Arts and Science. Her favorite book is Puddin’ Head Wilson by Mark Twain.

Soren Stockman is a sophomore in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study. He wrote his poem “Flowers” in Mexico.