Tilla Brading “Unravelling the skein”

Susan Johanknecht from “Plates 1-4,” “Figures 1-3,” and “Advice to Miss Buswell & Miss Ripley on Drawing Fossils”

Jane Joritz-Nakagawa   “The boatman,” “Ordinary dread,” “News report,” “How i feel about you,”and “Woman with scarf and bundle”

Christine Kennedy “Dusting the Mae West Memorial Library”

Karen Mac Cormack “Statement,” “Reversible Destiny,” and “FOUR IN TWO”

Hermine Meinhard “Planet,” “The Messengers,” and “L'Opera”

Mary Michaels “A Passion,” “Czech Slapstick,” and “Mute”

Geraldine Monk Notes on “Opus Anglicanum” and “Opus Anglicanum”

Sina Queyras from “LEMONHOUND,” “With Or Without Rivets” and “Moments Ripe As Cherries”

BIO: Frances Presley was born in 1952 in Chesterfield, and now lives in London. Her first collection of poems and prose was The Sex of Art (North and South, 1988), followed by Hula Hoop (Other Press, 1993), and in 1997 Oasis Books published Linocut. She has collaborated with the artist Irma Irsara on a multi media performance about women's clothing and the fashion trade, Automatic Cross Stitch, (Other Press, 2000). She has also been involved in an email collaboration and performance with the poet Elizabeth James, Neither the One nor the Other (Form Books, 1999). Somerset Letters (Oasis, 2002) explores community and landscape in a dialogue with other British women poets. She has written various reviews and essays and is on the editorial board of How2. Her current project, Paravane , originated with discussions on the How2 editorial board post 9/11, and is published in her new and selected poems (Salt, 2004).