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TUMBLED DOWN Put my records on and ushered in a moment of clarity in this wired world It must be Wednesday or I‘ve had too much wine For 3 hours I thought of you today and now the cinnamon candle has left our season to linger in the air of the small room inside a big house won‘t let me forget clenched fists holding pieces of memory 142
io notes Ana Almurani is an alumna (2011) of the English Department‘s undergraduate major program (concentration: Creative Writing). / Rudy Baron earned his master‘s degree in English/Creative Writing at the Brooklyn Campus & then taught in the English Department for many years as an adjunct professor. He is a co-founder & former editor of Downtown Brooklyn. / Alicia Berbenick is working toward her MFA in the English Department‘s graduate creative writing program. / Wayne Berninger is an alumnus (MA, 1992) of the Brooklyn Campus English Department, where he now works as an administrator. He manages the Department‘s website & blog, serves as Registration Advisor for all undergraduate English majors, & teaches freshman writing & sophomore literature courses. With Barbara Henning & Rudy Baron, he co-founded Downtown Brooklyn in 1992 & has served as Editor since 1999. / An alumnus (B.A., English) of Florida Atlantic University, John Casquarelli is pursuing his MFA in the English Department‘s graduate creative writing program. Prior to attending LIU, he was employed by Health Communications, Inc., where he did editorial work in their book & magazine departments. He received the Esther Hyneman Award in 2010 for poetry. / Alane Celeste is an alumna (2010) of the English Department‘s undergraduate program in Creative Writing. Her thesis was a collection of poetry & fiction entitled When the Dust Settles. She is currently a graduate student in Long Island University‘s School of Business, working toward her master‘s degree in Public Administration with an Advanced Certificate in Nonprofit Management. / Nik Conklin is working toward his undergraduate degree with a double major in English & Media Arts. / Cynthia Maris Dantzic has been teaching in the Art Department at the Brooklyn Campus for many years. She was recently among the first group to be promoted to the University‘s newlycreated faculty rank of Senior Professor. Her most recent book is Alphabet City: Signs of New York. Following the successes of 100 New York Photographers & 100 New York Painters, she is now completing 100 New York Calligraphers for Schiffer Publishers. She is also at work on a textbook entitled Seeing Color, which will present the classic Josef Albers color studies to the current generation of art students. / Julián del Casal (1863-1893) was a Cuban poet whose early romanticism yielded to the influence of prevailing French aesthetics. He died young of tuberculosis, having published only two collections in his lifetime, Hojas al viento (1890) & Nieve (1892). Bustos y rimas (1893) appeared posthumously. / Wendy Eng is working toward her master‘s degree in the School of Education‘s Department of Teaching & Learning. / Christine Francavilla is an alumna (MA, Liberal Studies) of New York University & is currently pursuing a second master‘s degree in the Brooklyn Campus English Department‘s Creative Writing MFA program. Her work has appeared in The Tablet, Here‟s Brooklyn, BQE Magazine & Downtown Brooklyn. / An alumna (MFA, 2010) of the Brooklyn Campus English Department‘s Creative Writing program, Stephanie Gray is a poet & an experimental filmmaker whose Super-8 films have screened internationally, including at the Black Maria, Ann Arbor, Oberhausen, Chicago Underground, & Viennale fests. Her first poetry collection, Heart Stoner Bingo, was published by Straw Gate Books in 2007. Her poems have appeared in several publications, including Aufgabe, Sentence, The Brooklyn Rail, EOAGH, 2ndAvenuePoetry, Boog City Reader, & The Recluse. She‘s read her work with films in NYC at the Projections, Segue, Lungful!@Zinc, & Poetry Project Friday series. / Mary Kennan Herbert teaches literature & writing in the English Department at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University, where she is an adjunct professor in the English Department. She is a widely published poet & serves as an Editorial Advisor for Downtown Brooklyn. / Aimee Herman is working toward her graduate degree in the English Department‘s Creative Writing MFA program. A performance poet, she has been featured at various poetry festivals, salons, & on radio. Her work can be found in Cliterature Journal, Pregnant Moon Review, InStereo Press, and/or journal, & Uphook Press‘s latest poetry anthology, hell strung and crooked. She currently works as sections editor of erotica for Oysters & Chocolate. / Katherine 143
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Wendy Eng FOUND POEM: BEAUTY IS ART
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