Marc Zegans is a poet, playwright and author. His current work explores waking dreams and the experience of human fragility in the post-industrial landscape. His spoken word Album Night Work was released by Philistine Records in August 2007. In February 2007 Marc premiered a performance piece entitled Women, Waking, Danger: An Experiment in Combination with multi-media artist Aki Onda. He also recently completed the manuscript for Pillow Talk: A Collection of Erotic Haiku to be released by G-Spot press. Presently, Marc is completing a book of poems entitled Danger and Abandon. In 2005 he began the “Question Book Project” which circulates hand-made books throughout the world inviting individuals to add an ever-growing web of questions to their pages. Noted graphic artist and foam-board engineer, Eric Edelman is developing nesting structures for the question books, so that they may grow in physical depth and complexity as they expand in content. Marc’s poetry appeared in broadside as part of The Art of Self and Recovery a 2007 exhibition in Great Barrington Massachusetts sponsored by the Elizabeth Freeman Center. His play Mum and Shah was the Boston Globe “Pick of the Week.”
Edwin Torres, from New York City, is a bilingualist rooted in the languages of both sight and sound. His performances intermingle the textures of poetry, vocal and physical improvisation and visual theater. His books include The PoPedology Of An Ambient Language (Atelos books), In The Function Of External Circumstances (Spuyten Duyvil Press) and The All-Union Day Of The Shock Worker (Roof Books). His debut CD Holy Kid (Kill Rock Stars) was included in The Whitney Museum Of American Art’s exhibition, The Last American Century. He has taught at Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program, Bard College, and St. Marks Poetry Project. He is currently co-editor of the poetry DVD journal Rattapallax.
Wanda Phipps is a writer/performer living in Brooklyn, NY, the author of Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems (Soft Skull Press), Your Last Illusion or Break Up Sonnets (Situations), Lunch Poems (Boog Literature), the Faux Press issued e-chapbook After the Mishap and CD-Rom Zither Mood. Her poetry has been published over 100 times in a variety of publications, including the anthologies Verses that Hurt: Pleasure and Pain From the Poemfone Poets (St. Martin’s Press) and The Boog Reader (Boog Lit). She has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Meet the Composer/International Creative Collaborations Program, Agni Journal, the National Theater Translation Fund, and the New York State Council on the Arts. As a founding member of Yara Arts Group she has collaborated on numerous theatrical productions presented in Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan and Siberia, as well as in New York City at La MaMa, E.T.C. She’s also curated several reading and performance series at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church as well as other NYC venues and written about the arts for Time Out New York, Paper Magazine, and About.com. For more info. check out her website: www.mindhoney.com.
Joel Schlemowitz has made over forty short experimental films, and numerous film installation pieces. He has received grants from the Jerome Foundation and New York State Council on the Arts. His work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, Anthology Film Archives, Millennium Film Workshop, Berks Filmmakers, and at various festivals including the London Film Festival, the Sydney Film Festival, the Chicago International Film Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Denver Film Festival, the New York Underground Film Festival, and elsewhere. His short film Reverie was broadcast on the Sundance Channel in the “Underground Shorts” series. Another short work, Moving Images - the Film-Makers’ Cooperative Relocates, received Honorable Mentions from the Thaw02 Film & Video Festival and NY Short Film Expo, and was awarded a silver plaque from the Chicago International Film Festival. He has received Best Short Documentary awards at the Chicago Underground Film Festival in 2004 and 2005. He teaches filmmaking at the New School, and is President of ACT-UAW, Local 7902, union of adjunct and part-time faculty at New School and NYU.