American Polymath 8 - March 2010

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C.J. Charbonneau


C.J. Charbonneau is a writer from Burlington, Vermont. Currently, he resides in Fort McMurray, Alberta.

Drivers Education


Daniel Davis


Daniel W. Davis was born and raised in Central Illinois. His work has most recently appeared in Juice Box: A Journal of the Ordinary, Foundling Review, SUSS: Another Literary Journal, Eastown Fiction, and the Foliate Oak. You can follow him at www.danieldavis.blogspot.com.

Saturday


Mike Gormly


Mike Gormly is a writer who resides in Burlington, Vermont.

Caterpillar
If You Read This, The Communists Win: An Evening with Glenn Beck
The Decade in VH1


Kevin P. Keating


Kevin P. Keating is a writer who currently teaches at Baldwin-Wallace College in Cleveland, Ohio. His stories have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Story South's Million Writer's Award, and the Ben Hoffer/Best New Writing Award. His essays and fiction have been appeared in numerous literary journals, including Brink, The Identity Theory, The Stickman Review, Mad Hatter's Review, Underground Voices, Smokebox, Fringe, Perigee, Megaera, Plum Ruby Review, Fiction Warehouse, Fifth Street Review, Juked, The Oklahoma Review, Slow Trains, Numb Magazine, Exquisite Corpse, and Thunder Sandwich.

Antiquing


Paul Lewellan


Paul Lewellan is a writer from Bettendorf, Iowa. His story, "The Queen of Bass Fishing in American," received Special Mention in the 2010 Pushcart Prize anthology. His latest novel, Casualties, is about a hostage crisis on the anniversary of the shootings at Columbine. Paul is an Adjunct Professor of Speech Communication and Business Administration at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois.

The Key to Paradise, Wisconsin


Denton Loving

Denton blogs for Writers' Community

Denton Loving lives on a farm near the historic Cumberland Gap, where Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia come together. He works at Lincoln Memorial University, where he co-directs the Mountain Heritage Literary Festival. He is also an editorial staff member of the online journal Smokelong Quarterly. His work has appeared in Birmingham Arts Journal, Appalachian Journal, Somnambulist Quarterly, Heartland Review and in numerous anthologies including the forthcoming We All Live Downstream: Writings about Mountaintop Removal (Motes Books, Louisville, Kentucky, 2009).

Kingdom Come


Noah Mulligan


Noah Milligan is an MFA candidate in creating writing at the University of Central Oklahoma. His work has appeared in New Plains Review. He is the co-founder and fiction editor of Arcadia.

Altogether Fitting and Proper


Ryan Napier


Ryan Napier was born in 1988 and he lives in Plant City, Florida.

American History


Patrick Nevins


Patrick Nevins is an Assistant Professor of English at Ivy Tech Community College. His fiction appears in Freight Stories and Gander Press Review.

Humility


Ian Pounds


Ian Pounds began his education sailing around the world with Semester at Sea, a shipboard campus devoted to global studies. He acquired his B.A. in creative writing from The Evergreen State College, and later studied Elizabethan literature at Oxford University. He was a scholar at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, where he served twelve years on the admissions committee and coordinated the Bakeless Literary Prizes. He has recently completed a memoir, The Hippie and the Marine: an American journal. He hails from Ripton, Vermont.

Start Again: An American Volunteer in an Afghan Orphanage


Mark Powell


Mark Powell is the author of the novels Prodigals and Blood Kin. He teaches in the English Department at Stetson University of DeLand, Florida.

Selling the Apocalypse: The Rise of Premillennialism from Fringe Belief to Growth Industry


Jocelyn Rousey


Jocelyn Rousey is an editor for American Polymath and a student at Boston College where she studies English and Economics.

The Inclusive Nobel


Terry Sanville


Terry Sanville is a retired urban planner and a writer who lives in San Luis Obispo, California with his artist-poet wife and one skinny but affectionate cat. He may be contacted at tsanville@scglobal.net.

Cats


Michael Schindel


Michael Schindel lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He studied creative writing at Stetson University.

Room Service
The Eighteenth


Jon Sealy


Jon Sealy grew up in upstate South Carolina and holds an MFA from Purdue. His fiction has appeared in Freight Stories and is forthcoming in the South Carolina Review.

Fighting


Ken Sieben


Since 1988, eighty-three of Ken Sieben's stories have appeared in a variety of literary magazines, including Pig Iron, Words of Wisdom, The Crucible, AIM, Skylark, and Sensations Magazine. One of his stories was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 1997. Ken's first novel, Joanie M, was published in 2007. Ken served as fiction editor of Northwoods Journal from 1993 to 2002.

Time for a Change


Joseph Souza


Joseph Souza worked in South Boston during Whitey Bulger's criminal reign. He has a degree in from Northeastern and once worked in the Organized Crime division of the DEA. His award winning short fiction has published in various literary journals throughout the country. In 2004 he was awarded the Andre Dubus Award in short fiction from the University of Southern Maine for his short story "Loss Prevention." His most recent short story, "The Devil's Dumping Ground" was featured in Quarry: Crime Stories by New England Writers. He lives in Portland, Maine with his wife and two children.

Losing Julia




Barry Trutor

Email: Barry Trutor

Barry Trutor is a writer from Burlington, Vermont. He is working on a memoir about his experiences during the Vietnam War.

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The Decade in Super Bowl Halftime Shows


James R. van Houtte


James R. van Houtte writes FROM THE CRANK FILE, a regular American Polymath column. He lives and works within a 500 mile radius of Chicago, IL, and that's too damn close. Under no circumstance will James R. van Houtte read your emails.

FROM THE CRANK FILE: An American (polymath) In (disneyland parc) Paris
FROM THE CRANK FILE: I'm Shipping Down to Philly
FROM THE CRANK FILE: The Pitfalls of On Demand Service