Contributors
Rachel Bunting is a born and bred South Jersey girl currently living between the Delaware River and the Pine Barrens. Her poems can be found in Mad Poets Review, Edison Literary Review, Journal of New Jersey Poets, and Wicked Alice. She likes sushi, gets acupuncture, and is a terrible dancer. Learn more about her by visiting her website and her blog.
Eileen D’Angelo, Director of the Mad Poets Society, is a paralegal by day and a Mad Poet by night. She has been nominated for a Governor’s Award in the Arts and a Pushcart Prize in Poetry. Her manuscript, True Tales from the Home Front, was a finalist in both the University of North Carolina’s Palanquin Press Chapbook Competition and Byline Chapbook Competition. A two-time finalist in the Allen Ginsberg Competition sponsored by the Paterson Literary Review, Eileen has been the Director of the Mad Poets Society since 1988 and has coordinated hundreds of events, over 60 poetry readings per year since 1990. She has served as Editor of the Mad Poets Review since the first issue in 1990, and has been a Contributing Editor for the literary journal, HELLAS, A Journal of Arts and Humanities. You can read Eileen’s full profile on the Mad Poets main page.
Anna Evans is a British citizen but permanent resident of NJ, where she is raising two daughters. She has had over 100 poems published in journals including Verse Libre Quarterly, The Absinthe Literary Review, Tattoo Highway, Measure and The Evansville Review. She has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize and was a finalist in the 2005 Howard Nemerov sonnet award. She is editor of the formal poetry e-zine The Barefoot Muse and is currently enrolled in the Bennington College MFA Program. Her first chapbook Swimming is available from Maverick Duck Press. She occasionally dreams in Iambic Pentameter. You can learn more about Anna on her personal website.
Autumn Konopka is the Mad Poets web czar and host of the monthly poetry series at Barnes & Noble in Bryn Mawr. Autumn’s poems have been published, or are forthcoming, in Crab Orchard Review, Mad Poets Review, Up & Under: The QND Review, Re)Verb, Ekphrasis, Birmingham Poetry Review, and Hinge Online, among others. Her manuscript, What the Postwoman Left, was a semifinalist in the 2007 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition. You can learn more about Autumn on her personal website and her personal blog.
Ashraf Osman was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon, and has been living in Philadelphia since 2002 where he works as an architect. His interest in memory and forgetting carries over from architecture to poetry, a medium he finds in many ways to be more apt for the subject matter. Ashraf has been engaged in poetry blogging since his move to Philly. His poetry blog, called arch.memory, has been featured on Blinq, the blog of the Philadelphia Inquirer; voted amongst the Best of the Web Blogs for poetry, and he was selected as one of 100 Blogging Poets on the web. In addition to his blog, Ashraf has started a website of Philadelphia poetry links and calendars called PhillyPoetry.com. His poetry has been featured in the Mad Poets Review, Schuylkill Valley Journal and Islamica magazine. Ashraf’s poetry has also been selected for inclusion in several anthologies including Queering Language, Outside Voices 2008 Anthology of Younger Poets, and The Other Voices International Project.
G Emil Reutter is an author/essayist and traveling poet currently hailing from Lower Bucks County Pennsylvania. His poetry, short fiction and essays have been published widely in the small and electronic press. He has presented his poetry at numerous venues in the Mid-Atlantic, Northeast and Southwest areas of the
