David Shumate was nominated in 2001 for a Pushcart Prize. His poems appear in Mississippi Review, Louisville Review, Mid-Atlantic Review, River City, Worcester Review and many others. He lives in Indianapolis and teaches at Marian College.
On finding that first imprint of the Ur-feather in the lithographic limestone strata of Solnhofen, central Bavaria, those quarry workers and Stonecutters did not think of the Late Jurrassic but saw the hundred and fifty million year old solitary feather as ‘the remains of an angel’. As they continued to split the slate a sport of nature was disinterred, intermediate between the avian and the reptile, a sort of dino-bird, with scales and feathers which brought about unheard of revolutions in the field of Palaeontology
Alan Brunton has published ten books of poetry including the book-length poem Moonshine (Bumper, 1998) and Ecstasy (Bumper, 2001) plus a cd 33 perfumes of pleasure (Free Word Band, 1997). Co-editor with Murray Edmond and Michele Leggott of Big Smoke (Auckland UP, 2000; reviewed by Philip Mead in this issue of Jacket). Co-founder with Sally Rodwell of the experimental theatre troupe Red Mole (1974–) based in Wellington since 1988 and previously in New York, New Mexico, London and Amsterdam. Most recent theatre script Comrade Savage (Bumper, 2000); most recent video production Crazy Voyage (Red Mole, 2001).
Ilahuya Innocent Muhindi, student at Moi University taking a Bachelor of Education [BED Arts] degree. Six of his poems have been featured in the Imaginations of poets anthology, Pen power publishers, Nigeria, 2005. One poem has also been published in the: African Ecclesial Review {AFER} December 2003 –VOL. 45 by AMECEA GABA Publications, Kenya. Other poems are awaiting publication.