lived in San Francisco for five years where he attended New College but didn't
graduate and worked at Good Vibrations. He recently moved
to Manitou Springs, Colorado with his wife Marina Eckler and
their ten month old baby, Ursen. He's interested in and writes about the rights
of transgender/transsexual people, and is currently publishing a small series
of chap books called Angry Dog Midget Editions. His books are November to June
(Surf Zombie Press), Night Falls/ Under Days, & This Is The Strange Part (Old
Gold Press). For information write: darksandal@hotmail.com




is the author of, most recently, Earliest Worlds (Coffee House Press, 2001). She is
presently a Seeger Fellow writer-in-residence at Princeton University.




is currently a Fellow at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. He is
the author of To Collect the Flesh (New Rivers Press, 1996), the upcoming
Red Suburb, and teaches American literature and creative writing at Carleton College.




published GAS, Blue Book, Augustus Truhn's Magazine, Cleavon Little's
Magazine, and Joe Brainard's Magazine. He is the author
of the recent full-length book of poems Like Rain (Angry Dog Press, 1999) and
Beach Blanket Massacre (Smog Eyes Press, 2001).




Beth Lisick is the author of "Monkey Girl" and "This Too Can Be Yours," out on Manic D Press.




is the author of Goodnight Nurse (Angry Dog Press, 2001) and his work has appeared
in The Blind See Only This World: Poems for John Wieners, Blue
Books, Mungo Vs. Ranger, San Jose Manuel of Style, Pressed Wafer, 6 x 6,
The Attached Document, and A Plywood Press Primer.




has worked at a golf course since 1987. He lives in Northeast
Minneapolis. Smokey Robinson is his favorite poet.




Courtney E. Martin was born and bred in the heart-
land of America and the wasteland of suburbia: Colorado
Springs, Colorado. After debuting with her signature poem, "Ode to M&M" in Highlights
Magazine she has gone on to represent the Nuyorican National Team in 2001, Columbia
University in the intercollegiate slam, and her own damn self all over
New York City. You can find her work in Roots & Culture Magazine; her own
chapbook, in between; and now, in the mastermind
of a Martin, Puppy Flowers.



Rosebud grew up with the somberness of Yom Kippur and paper-
machê calaveras (skulls), as faith proved itself spontaneous
and unofficial: one year, Shabbat and El Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) fell
on the same weekend. Her roots of Andalusian gypsies, of Sephardic
Jews and of Mexican migrant workers helps to create for her world
of informality and revision
of traditions, both national and religious.




Here, we have a man. More than a man, a boy.
brandon, a 90's guy. the pedestrian, a rapper.
But more than a rapper, a schlepper of rap CD's at Amoeba Records in Berkeley.
Further: an English tutor at Laney SuperSaver College in Oakland.
What?!, you say, will the razor-rimmed tracks of this rap-roarin'
scholastic roller coaster ride that is brandon's workweek ever end?

Well, yes, but not without a poetry-a-minute romp through the heart
of something (like "modern" or maybe "post-terrorist") America.

Starring my nearly mid-twenties and THE LIFELONG LIQUIDATION SALE!

The epic memoist, the financial firm form letter poet.
The view over a vacant parking lot renter/romantic. And so on.

Keep it real, I beg you.




made TV: The Movie, directed TV: The Movie:
The Movie (Bench Press, ZOO!) and is the brawny monkey
wrench inside Puppy Flowers! He even writes
his own autobiographical blurbs. I am currently working on my blurb,
and some new books!




was born in the corner of a cardboard box. There were several kitty
cats present. If you pay an undisclosed sum to various inquring
emailites you can find out anything you want to. In these times
of doomed personal freedom and surveilance cameras, all is laid out except personals
senses of self (sigh) so please read poems by me and my friends.




's background is in visual art, mostly
drawing and bookmaking. She has a book coming
out from Angry Dog Press and has some writing
published in The Attached Document.




Living among the gentle people of San Francisco, Chris edits
Bench Press books & Puppy Flowers: the webjournal. He is the wayward
author of Flex, Regarding the Uncertain Distinction Between Art &
Hat, and The Smallish Lever, all Bench Press, 2001. He is currently
labcabincalifornicating with DJ No Friends on what promises to be the dopest new
age album in weeks.




An anemic, malcontented shut-in, Jeni Olin lives
in the Chelsea Hotel where she subsists on chickpeas and Black Russians.

 

 

 

 

 

Extra special thanks to Mr. Jason Merciless Engdahl for providing
the puppies and flowers used in this issue.

Jason is currently designing antiques in New York City, New York, USA.