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Dave Andrews

Dave Andrews is a professional writer and an amateur photographer. He has taught writing and literature at the State University of New York and Chicago State University; he currently teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The author of the book Aestheticism, Nabokov, and Lolita (Edwin Mellen, 1999), Andrews has critical essays, reviews, author interviews, poems, and short stories in the current and upcoming issues of The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Nabokov Studies, Bridge, Hunger, Indefinite Space, and Serpentine, respectively. He is now working for the Dalkey Archive Press on two book-length studies of the work of Gilbert Sorrentino; sometime next year, the Fire Box Press will publish his first book of poetry. His greatest ambition is to understand the enduring appeal of intrinsic aesthetic value, which, along with the idea of intrinsic human value, he considers one of history's great mirages.

Regarding 'Aphilosophy' & Other Works : these poem-photograph combinations might seem designed, but they are not. Like everything else, they are an extension of accident. Ultimately, I hope my accidents are enjoyable, but if not, oh well. Accident is what we have.

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Robert Del Principe

Robert Del Principe lives in Brooklyn, NY. His next attempts to remake the world include "A Day Without 'bush'" and "You Are What You Eat."

Michael remembers: "Robert asked if I'd offer up my site in the name of an artistic stand against AIDS . He described the concept, I raided an online dictionary, we monkeyed around with a bit of HTML. Let's hear if for the manifestation of an idea and the end of AIDS."

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Michael Gates

A resident of New York City since 1993, Michael escapes the grime and grind of urban decay by taking to the open road of his mind. He'd like to thank the following people for making this particular trip possible:

States of Mine is projected as a series of 50 poems representing these united states. Viewed from automobiles or their conspicuous absence, a visceral landscape of personal and public imagery addresses the possibility that the machine which unified a nation is responsible for its unraveling. The poems are not meant as a critique of car culture; rather they are intended as a sliding scale against which prejudices for speed or stasis, isolation or communication, consumption or preservation, may be considered.

What more can I say that hasn't been said before? I'm a lazy artist surpassed only by my laziness as a writer.

The Internet is an artform of the intangible. In the process of building this website I've stumbled over the intricacies and quirks of a half dozen graphics programs. Rather than discard the erratic results I find my fancy has come to rest on the automatic art of fixed palette conversions; something only a person who's spent too much time in front of a monitor would say. These "trashy" files have in turn become source material for Digimages .

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Tim Gerken

Tim Gerken lives in NYC. He got his Olympus OM-10 twenty years ago, and it still works.

These tobacco barns are in Glastonbury CT, which is right outside of Hartford. I photographed here for the first time two years ago, and I keep going back. This area gets great light, and that's what I am interested in. I am really only concerned with color and light, so I don't focus on the barns. The soft focus keeps the concentration on the form, color, and light.

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Rebecca Hanger

My eye along the line of the lid is the same length as my nose from bridge to tip and my mouth from corner to corner when relaxed and closed. I have liked this about myself for many years but have only just now realized that this is also roughly the length between the two joints of my thumb.

My intent is to enable myself to continue researching an area -- coastal Georgia -- that fascinates me by assimilating into sonnets the distracting and unavoidable overflow of emotional connections I make between raw facts and my own sensual experiences.

The author is seeking publication of her sonnets in a print format and has therefore requested that her poems be removed from this site. The editor would like to thank Rebecca for her contribution and for fulfilling the spirit of Them Press as a staging ground before distribution to a wider audience.

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Wendy Hoopes

Wendy Hoopes is an actress and a writer who lives in New York City. She moved to New York 11 years ago to attend New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently working on a book of poems and prose with pictures.

Miss Hoopes hopes to create a somewhat chronological journey using pictures accompanying poems and prose both new and old written over the past 22 years, the effect being a visual journey both through words and pictures that would chronicle childhood into adulthood and the often amusing and touching stumblings we can encounter as we grow up. Them Press has very generously enabled Miss Hoopes to organize and develop her ideas for this book.

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Liana Scalettar

Liana moved to New York in 1989 and again in 1996. She is approaching the age at which a lady begins to care for her complexion.

Tint Book began as a way of thinking about a character who, as a painter, associates her memories with pigments rather than with scenes or stories. But in the process of writing these paragraphs, I found that they and their alleged 'owner' had become detached from one another. The 'front' pages will encompass a full spectrum of color eventually. They seem to be more grounded in daily life. The 'back' pages – those that stretch horizontally out and repeat themselves – will provide a sort of memory bank. In them, the imagination – fantasy, memory and image mingled – gets to play.

The author is now seeking publication for this work in a print format and has requested that it be removed from this site. The editor would like to thank Liana for her contribution and for the collaborative spirit she brought to the graphic presentation of her work.

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Toby Vann

A compelling photographer in his own right, Toby was an invaluable participant in the existence of M2 , during both the collection and editing of raw material (digital photos) and the assemblage and debugging of the interactive site (javascripting).

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Rob Zverina

Despite fervent attempts to avoid kindergraten conscription, Robert Zverina's social conditioning began when he was 5 years old. He sat quietly in alphabetized rows (in back because Zv...), walked in whispering lines arranged by height (in front because he was tall), and excelled in dodgeball because he could duck, catch, and throw.

After that it all gets kinda hazy. He currently resides in Seattle, where the air is clean and the mountains are good company. In addition to trying to finish novels about sensory deprivation, he makes music, reads, and grossly distorts the facts of his existence at Picture of the Day, an ongoing photo memoir online since 1997.

I intend to finish this thing , one way or another.

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