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Notes on Contributors
Ric Amante lives in Melrose, Massachusetts. His poetry last appeared The Cenacle | 58 | June 2006. Few
words describe the pleasure in featuring his poems again in recent issues. What Ric brings to these
pages is the art & life of one who has named his demons, learned to live with them or overcome
them, and through it all kept singing true like the birds he so loves & admires.
Nemo Boko lives in Eugene, Oregon. He grew up in Miami, Florida, and studied politics, religion and East Asian
studies in college. A visionary experience had while living in Boulder, Colorado, set him on the path of art
where he began to reintegrate his political aim of diplomacy with his aesthetic love of tribal and magickal
images. His aesthetic vision can be found online at http://www.nemo.org.
Emmanuelle Brochier lives in Eugene, Oregon. An abstract expressionist artist, originally from Lens,
France, she met Nemo Boko and eventually wed him and moved to the United States. Kassi and I
were lucky enough to travel to Eugene one recent weekend and visit with her and Nemo. Their house
is full of their art, full of their ferment, full of her smart, dandy laugh.
George Dorn lives under cover in Seattle, Washington. He has tasted the edges of some greater Weirdness,
and finds himself to be simultaneously thrilled and confused by life. He can be found haunting the
cafes of Seattle, or appearing out of nowhere with his video camera and a crazed look in his eye.
Fnord.
Judih Haggai lives at Kibbutz Nir Oz in Israel. Her poetry last appeared The Cenacle | 58 | June 2006.
There was a night recently when I came home from the world’s withering troubles so gone of hope,
run in with fear, wishing something fucking good would happen for everyone, everywhere. My yawp
that night went to Jude, who has for years now listened to me, and pined for the same thing.
Dr. Timothy Leary was born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1920. Dr. Leary was a controversial figure
throughout his life, advocating the use of LSD and other psychedelic sacraments, and tirelessly
working for a worldwide expansion and elevation of consciousness, one the world still awaits. Dr.
Leary died in Los Angeles, California, in 1996. His words were last featured in these pages in The
Cenacle | 54 | April 2005.
Carson McCullers was born Lula Carson Smith in Columbus, Georgia in 1917. She published weird and
wonderful novels and short stories until her death in New York in 1967. Scriptor Press originally
reprinted this issue’s story as Burning Man Books | 48 | 2006. She once told a critic: “Writing, for
me, is a search for God.”
Kassandra Soulard lives in Seattle, Washington where she attends college and tries to live like the world is
better than it sometimes appears to be. One night we were walking in the city, crossing a heavilytrafficked
street corner, and a blindly speeding, cellphone-distracted driver almost hit her. This issue
before you would not exist if my grabbing hand and the Universe had not intervened. Thank you,
Universe . . .
Raymond Soulard, Jr. lives in Seattle, Washington, a city at the edge of the Empire, but it may be that very
soon there will be no more Empire, just a nation-state, like many others, looking again to occupy a
sane place at the world’s table of nation-states, and maybe one day there will be no more nationstates
and one hand reaching toward you in kindness will be as much kin as any other . . .
The Cenacle | 58 | June 2006