13 Knights of the Apocalypse
A new poetry anthology from Mystery Island Publications.
Edited by Lucy Hell.
AVAILABLE NOW! Official release date: 11/24/07.
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13 KNIGHTS
GERALD NICOSIA
"Sunday Morning in Maui"
Bio: Gerald Nicosia received a B.A. (1971) and an M.A. (1973) in English and American Literature, with Highest Distinction in English, from the University of Illinois in Chicago. In the late 1970s, Mr. Nicosia traveled the United States and Canada, interviewing over 300 people who knew Jack Kerouac. His biography of Kerouac, Memory Babe (Grove Press, 1983), earned the Distinguished Young Writer Award from the National Society of Arts and Letters while still a work-in-progress in 1978. Upon publication, it garnered over 200 reviews worldwide, and has generally been recognized as the definitive book on Kerouac’s life and work.
JOHN BENNETT
"Gang Member"
Bio: Like Celine, John Bennett pisses on it all from a considerable height--it's the fate of the ostracized. His motto is: "Come on baby let the good times roll like a steamroller right over my puckered lips." (T-shirt available, cheaper by the dozen.) Mr. Bennett has just completed the first draft of a novel dealing with parallel worlds, childhood, and an entity indifferent to good and evil that (again, with indifference) devours Nothingness, i.e. the Void, i.e. the Universe, i.e. God. One of the above statements is false. One is partly true. One is all true. Arrange the statements in an order ascending toward absolute truth, send to dasleben@eburg.com with a mailing address, and if you haven't bungled it, you will receive a free t-shirt.
KARL KOWESKI
"Greyhound"
Karl Koweski is a displaced Chicagoan now living on top of a mountain in Alabama where the losses of past Cubs games continue to haunt him. His latest chapbook, Diminishing Returns is available from www.sunnyoutside.com.
DOUG DRAIME
"What She Said on the Phone When She was Too Drunk to Stop Crying"
Doug Draime's latest collection is Next Exit:Three (w/Misti Rainwater-Lites) from Kenra Steiner Editions. Forthcoming: "Dancing On The Skids" Tainted Coffee Press.
BRADLEY MASON HAMLIN
"Babylon" (for Gary Aposhian)
Bio: Bradley Mason Hamlin was born and raised in Los Angeles, educated at the University of California at Davis, and currently lives in Sacramento with his beautiful wife and crazy children. His short stories, articles, and poems have appeared in several small press books, magazines, and literary journals in print and on line. Hamlin also writes the ongoing Secret Society [action/adventure] series: Intoxicated Detective, available from Mystery Island.
ALEATHIA DREHMER
"Toxic Honey"
Bio: Aleathia writes because she has to. Her work has previously been published in Zygote In My Coffee, Cerebral Catalyst, Lunatic Chameleon, Haggard & Halloo, High Contrast, and Flutter. She will be in Laura Hird’s Showcase this spring and will be the featured writer for the Mailer .2 at Rural Messengers Press.
JUSTIN HYDE
"Behind the Times"
Bio: My name is Justin Hyde. I live in Iowa.
D.B. COX
"Friday Night in the Drunk Tank"
Bio: DB Cox is a blues musician/writer from South Carolina. His writing has appeared in Underground Voices, Thunder Sandwich, Dublin Quarterly, Aesthetica, Bonfire, Gator Springs Gazette, Heat City Review, Snow Monkey, Southern Hum, Southern Gothic and others. He has had three books of poetry published: Passing For Blue (Rank Stranger Press), Lowdown and Ordinary Sorrows (Pudding House Publications). Main Street Rag Publishing will soon publish his first full-length collection, Empty Frames.
SCURVY BASTARD
"Pissy John"
Bio: Scurvy Bastard was born and bred in the South Bronx. At 16, as a runaway, he squatted the disused projection booth of the Filmore East. The following years found him as a NYC construction worker (World Trade Center, Yankee Stadium), a top London club DJ (Dingwalls), concert organizer (Live Aid Wembely '84, Nelson Mandela Wembely '90) and among many other things, "elephant roadie" for Indian superstar Sridevi ... Irish musician Ron Kavana (The Pogues, Shane Magowan and The Popes) wrote in his liner notes for Alien Alert, "Scurvy Bastard, one of the world's great roadies and party animals." In the graphic comic series The Preacher (optioned as a HBO series), he was the model for the character of Si, the serial killer (Gone To Texas). He currently resides in Northern California with his longtime partner Rose, longtime daughter Melanie and assorted longtime neuroses.
F.N. WRIGHT
"The City of New Orleans"
Bio: F.N. Wright is a Vietnam Veteran. He lives in a small trailer somewhere in the mountains of California. His published works include two novels and the poetry chapbook Piss on the Pope, published by Mystery Island Publications. Several of Fred's paintings have also been published by Mystery Island.
A.D. WINANS
"Dead Fly on the Keyboard"
Bio: A. D. Winans was born in San Francisco and graduated from San Francisco State College (now University). He returned home from Panama in 1958 to participate in the North Beach Beat movement. Mr. Winans is the author of 35 books of poetry and prose including The Holy Grail: The Charles Bukowski and Second Coming Revolution.
OWEN ROBERTS
"Sinking"
Bio: Owen Roberts lives in Toronto/Canada. CANADA'S FINEST POET will be released by Bottle of Smoke Press in 2008.
GARY APOSHIAN
"My 9"
Bio: Gary Aposhian created the poetry newspaper FreeThought in Sacramento, California and established 12 Gauge Press in San Clemente, California. He was a father, writer, and publisher. In the early 90s Gary was a key member of the Sacramento Tribe, wherein, they set the record for permanently destroying bad poetry readings -- and getting the zombies who controlled them -- 86'd forever. Aposhian's poetic influences ranged from d.a. levy and Charles Bukowski to Whitey Ford and the Frito Bandito. Gary died on August 24, 2007. This book, dedicated to Gary Aposhian, contains Gary's final poem.
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