Tree Riesener has published poetry and short fiction in the United States, Scotland and England. Her achievements include the Semi-Finals of the Pablo Neruda Competition, the Authors in the Park Short Story Competition, a double first for the Short-Short Story and the Literary Short Story at the Philadelphia Writers Conference, the William Van Wert Fiction Award and a Hawthornden International Writers Fellowship at Hawthornden Castle, Scotland. Two short stories have been staged by the Writing Aloud Series at InterAct Theatre, Philadelphia. She is Managing Editor of The Schuylkill Valley Journal and the author of Liminalog (The Inmates Run the Asylum Press, 2005), a chapbook of ghazals and sijo.

For samples of Riesener’s work, browse these links:

• Her own Web site, where you will find lots of poems, a short story called “Airdwellers” & two excerpts from her novel-in-progress, Panopticon
• “Owed to Thanatopsis Gardens” in the Spring 2006 issue of The MAG (Muse-Apprentice Guild journal)
• “At Night,” “For Me,” “Moonlight” & “Tionning” in Issue 8 of the 2006 Ghazal Page
• “Let Us Consider Time” & “Thinking About It” in Set 2 of the 2005 Ghazal Page
• Three poems in the October 2003 issue & another three poems in the October 2001 issue of HiNgE Online

To purchase Riesener’s chapbook, order it by mail from her Web site.

Peter Krok is the editor of The Schuylkill Valley Journal since 2001 and Humanities/Poetry Director of the Manayunk Art Center where he has coordinated a literary series since 1990. Because of his identification with row house Philadelphia, he is often referred to as “the red brick poet.” His poem, “10 PM at a Philadelphia Recreation Center,” was selected for inclusion in Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets On Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005).

For samples of Krok’s poems, visit these sites:

• “My City” (for Osip Mandelstam) in both text & audio as part of the Broadside Series of Blue Fifth Review
• “The Garden of Earthly Delights” in Issue 78 of Poems Niederngasse
• “Coincidence” in Issue 71 of Poems Niederngasse
• “That Departure” in The Pedestal Magazine
• Three poems in the Summer 2003 issue of Muse Apprentice Guild

To purchase a copy of the anthology of Pennsylvania poets in which Krok’s work appears, use this shopping link:

• Common Wealth (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005)
  

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