New Works Review

		Poetry
		Rebecca Seiferle was awarded a Poetry Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation in 2004. Her fourth poetry collection, Wild Tongue (Copper Canyon, 2007), has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and a Pushcart Prize. Her previous collection, Bitters (Copper Canyon, 2001), wonthe Western States Book Award and a Pushcart prize. Her translation of César Vallejo's The Black Heralds was published in 2003 by Copper Canyon Press, and translations of several Cuban poets are forthcoming in The Entire Island, edited by Mark Weiss (University of California Press, 2009). She is the founding editor of the international poetry journal, The Drunken Boat, www.thedrunkenboat.com. She is New Works Review's poet of the month for the Spring 2008 edition. Visit Rebecca's New Works Review poetry page.
		Graham Burchell was born in Canterbury, England. His first poetry collection, From the Right Side of the Pond (Sun Rising Press), and two chapbooks, Vermeer’s Corner (Foothills Publishing) and Ladies of Divided Twins, will be published in 2008. He also has a children’s novel published as an e-book by Calderwood Books in 2007 with the sequel due to be released this year. He won the 2005 Chapter One Promotions Open Poetry Competition, the 2006 Hazel Street Productions Poetry Contest, and was nominated for a 2006 Pushcart Prize. He is editor of the quarterly poetry magazine, Words-Myth. Visit Graham's New Works Review poetry page.
		Jina Ortiz was born and raised in Harlem, New York City, and currently lives in Worcester, MA. Her poetry has appeared in a diverse group of journals, including Sahara, Afro-Hispanic Review, Calabash, Poui, New Millennium Writings, The Caribbean Writer, Red Hawk Review, and The Worcester Review. She has received fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), the Ragdale Foundation, the Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow, the Can Serrat Residency in Barcelona, Spain, and the Worcester Cultural Commission. Visit Jina's New Works Review poetry page.
		Judith Werner lives in Brooklyn Heights and works as the Grants and Gifts Manager for Habitat for Humanity-New York City. Previously Senior Editor for Rattapallax, she teaches a poetry workshop at Caring Community and has had poems published in many literary magazines and several anthologies, the most recent being A Fierce Brightness, Calyx’s anthology of women’s writing. Her awards include the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, The Academy of American Poets Prize, a Breadloaf Writer’s Conference Fellowship, and nomination for the Pushcart prize. Her poems have been published recently or are forthcoming in The Lyric, Chatauqua Literary Journal, Blue Unicorn and The Hypertexts. Visit Judith's New Works Review poetry page.
		Kathryn Rantala’s poetry has appeared in The Denver Quarterly, Field, Iowa Review (web), New Orleans Review, 3rd bed, elimae, Fiera Lingue, Locus Points, Avatar Review, Archipelago, Painted Bride Quarterly, Portland Review, Tarpaulin Sky, Oregon Review, Notre Dame Review, and many other places since the 1970’s. She is the author of The Plant Waterer and other things in common (Ravenna Press, 2006), Missing Pieces, a coroner’s companion (Oceanview Press, 1999, Lee Ballentine, editor), and a chapbook, The Dark Man (Longhouse Press, 1975). She founded Ravenna Press and the magazines Snow Monkey (now edited by John Burgess) and The Anemone Sidecar, which she continues to edit. Visit Kathryn's New Works Review poetry page.
		Michael Cleary has poems in journals such as Texas Review, Seattle Review, Poet Lore, and Louisiana Literature and received Florida Arts Grants in Poetry in 1986 and 1999. His poetry collections are Hometown, USA, selected for the 1992 American Book Series Award (San Diego Poets Press), and Halfway Decent Sinners (Word Tech Communications, 2006). Cleary was the 2005 wiinner of Farmingdale State’s Paumanok Poetry Award. He teaches English, Creative Writing, and Film at Broward Community College in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Visit Michael's New Works Review poetry page.
		Over the past year, Ron Singer’s writing has appeared in about twenty publications. His essay-review, “O Ti Lo Wa Ju (‘You Have Gone Past All’)”: The Caine Prize for African Writing,” is in the Summer 2007 Georgia Review, and three poems are slated for the anthology, Poetic Voices Without Borders-2. His chapbook A Voice for My Grandmother (see Laurel Johnson’s review in this issue) was published in 2006 by Ten Penny Players, Inc./Bardpress Chapbooks (Staten Island). Singer is now retired from Friends Seminary, a K-12 Quaker school in New York City, where he taught for over thirty years. Visit Ron's New Works Review poetry page.