_volutions magazine spring 2005 contributors

manuel j. angulo Manuel was born in Andalusia; though he is still trying to find out if it is the one in Spain or Alabama – probably both. After graduating from the University of Seville, he went to UNC-Chapel Hill as an exchange student. He is now working on his master’s thesis on the (re)construction of deconstruction… this is taking too long and we are not going anywhere… So, Man Well: a) Likes: storms, chicken tenders on a stick, T-shirts, soap bars, gas stations, clean linen, the aesthetics of the polar (whatever it is), coffee in a mug, The Shins, hot water, kitsch, mullets, paper bags. b) Dislikes: sunny days, nail polish, shrimps, Beethoven, Vanilla Coke, eggs that stick to the bottom of the pan, crowded places, having to cough, cats, anything that has roots, pimples, the word rhododendron, bad toilet paper.

joaquín bueno joaquín became a "master" of spanish literature at unc-chapel hill and will begin work on his PhD at duke university in 2005, partly out of his fear of leaving the tobacco triangle. he is passionate about too many things to list here, but has been archived in the world of his arts for his critical writings dealing with archive and origin, and on this website for his photography done with a canon digital camera and a lot of curiosity. he would love to sit down and have some coffee with you while complaining about the state of the world. he also likes being passionate, short fictions, poetry, cooking, eating, mountain climbing, and biking. he is normally occupied in one sort of monkeyshines or another... (photo by matt levine)

david colagiovanni David Colagiovanni is currently completing his Master of Fine Arts thesis at UNC- Chapel Hill. His focus is in Performance and Video-sculpture. Two of his Video-sculptures are currently on view at the Ackland Museum of Art in Chapel Hill, NC and his piece 'flying' is on view until mid. June at Time-Base gallery in Kansas City, MO. for more information please visit his website at http://www.unc.edu/~colagiov/

ana isabel cornide

luis correa díaz      is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Georgia, and has research interests in Latin American & Spanish Poetry, Cultural Studies, and Cervantes in the Americas. He is the author of Una historia apócrifa de América: el arte de la conjetura histórica de Pedro Gómez Valderrama (Medellín, Colombia: Universidad Eafit, 2003).Todas las muertes de Pinochet: Notas literarias para una biografía crítica (Muncie, IN: Ball State University Press, 2000), and Lengua muerta: Poesía, post-literatura & erotismo en Enrique Lihn (Providence, RI: Ediciones INTI, 1996). His poetry books are: Diario de un poeta recién divorciado, Mester de soltería (both forthcoming), Divina Pastora (1998), Rosario de actos de habla (1993), Ojo de buey (1993), and Bajo la pequeña música de su pie (1990). Other publications include editions, book chapters, poems in anthologies, and articles, notes, reviews in several refereed journals, such as Hispanic Journal, Revista Iberoamericana, Mapocho, Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica, Anales Cervantinos, Revista de Estudios Colombianos, http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras, http://www.letrashispanas.unlv.edu.

david karsten daniels After receiving his Bachelors of Music from Southern Methodist University David Karsten Daniels continues to explore the various intersections of American folk music, 20th century so-called "classical" music, and the avant garde. He currently performs/records/tours solo as well as with various groups from the Bu Hanan Records roster, a Chapel Hill recording collective he helped found.

lauren etheridge If you put Thurston Moore, Harmony Korine, Kathleen Hannah, Punky Brewster, John Waters, a mad scientist, Yoko Ono, a kamikaze on the rocks, a banana, fennel, coriander, and H. Rap Brown into a giant meat grinder, formed a sausage with the ensuing mush, and cooked and ate that sausage, you would turn into Lauren, guaranteed. Lauren is the physical embodiment of the throes of passion. Lauren possesses a surreal beauty with her delicious strangeness, her detachment from the typical, and the sublimely aberrant, otherworldly music she creates through that experience.

erica fontes I have been a Teaching Assistant at the Department of Romance Languages (Portuguese) at UNC-CH for five years. I hold an M.A. in Luso-Brazilian Literature from this Department (2003) and a B.A. in English and English Literatures from Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (1999). I will defend my dissertation on May 03, 2005. My major interests are Twentieth Century Portuguese and Lusophone Prose and Theater, Performance of Literature, Latin American Cultural Studies and Contemporary Latin American Literature.  I concentrate my teaching and research on Brazil, Lusophone Studies, and Performance of Literature. I am currently writing an article on how the use of performance in the literature classroom can improve learning.

rafael galiñanes Rafa, a graduate student at an unnamed university of Virginia, does not wish to furnish any biography other than: discipulo de la ironia ironica.

claire hamilton Hailing from Chico, California, Claire Hamilton currently resides in her hobbit hole situated in the lovely, tree-shaded hills of South Austin.  Her songs ride along a sunny highway, one hand hanging in the wind from the vintage convertible that is her band The Breathers.  _volutions magazine’s current selection of her songs come from a series of demos made in preparation for the long-awaited follow-up to 2003’s Work and Sleep.  When not playing music or slanging barbecue down at Art’s Rib House, Claire enjoys stretching her body and mind through yoga and relaxing with Dusty, her eccentric but loveable cat.

daniel hart Daniel Hart is the skinniest chimpanzee of underground music in the Triangle. He plays lots of instruments with his hands and feet, sometimes delicately (like the violin), sometimes badly (like the drums). When he's not busy singing his halfway decent mating calls out into the trees, he drives people through the streets of Chapel Hill on a bus. A real bus. With wheels that go round and round. Alex Lazara produced these tracks and he is the gosh darn shoot. This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps.

mark horowitz mark horowitz is a graduate student in environmental engineering at  UNC-Chapel Hill, and is interested in water resources planning and policy  for developing countries.  He volunteered for a few NGOs in India during  February-July 2004, and took several photos while he was working. He'll be  going back to South Asia (Bangladesh) this summer for research, and hopes  to take more photos there.

brian howe                                  Brian Howe is a freelance writer from Carrboro, North Carolina. He is a contributing writer at Pitchforkmedia.com, a contributing editor at Paste Magazine, the managing editor of The Crutch, and a senior editor at Sup Magazine. His poems/fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Eratio, Pedestal, The Raleigh Hatchet, and The Village Rambler, and he reviews books for About.com. Howe is a member of the Lucifer Poetics Group.

laura hughes   laura hughes is a denverite by birth and a texan by fluke of time. she spends much of her social life with a seven-year-old. she writes and reads, sometimes in foreign languages. always on the lookout for new lightbulbs, she hopes to spend next year in paris. fingers crossed.

astrid larson Astrid Larson works at American University in Washington, DC and studies international communication. She is an artist and recently had a stencil piece on exhibit at the David Adamson Gallery. She has also shown in Portland, OR and Madison, WI and currently has a handmade book on exhibit in the Netherlands. Her poems have been previously published in Musings literary magazine.

y.s. maciel Y. S. Maciel is a graduate student at UNC-CH in the department of Comparative Literature.

ryan mackey ryan mackey was raised in Chagrin Falls, OH on the east side of Cleveland. At age 22, he received his BA in English from the University of Dayton, then spent three years in San Diego. Presently, Ryan lives in Arlington, VA and is finishing up his MFA degree in writing at George Mason University. His interests include golfing, fishing, and lying about how well he golfs and fishes.

rita martin A poet, fiction writer and essayist, Rita Martin was born and raised in Havana, Cuba. R.M. received a Bachelor Degree in Philology, with a major in Cuban Literature in 1986 from the University of Havana. She was employed as a literary researcher at the Institute of Literature and Linguistics of Academy of Sciences of Cuba, and also worked as an Adjunct Professor for the Department of Cuban Literature of University of Havana. Once in United States, she earned a Master of Arts from Florida Atlantic University, 2000. With a Ph.D. in progress on Romance Languages at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, R.M is writing her dissertation on the Cuban author Virgilio Piñera under the direction of Dr. María A. Salgado. R.M. has been the recipient of Dana Drake Summer Dissertation Fellowship from the Department of Romance Languages at UNC-Chapel Hill, and Mirta Aguirre Award from the College of Arts and Letters of U of Havana. She is the author of two collections of poetry: Estación en el mar (1992) and El cuerpo de su ausencia (1991); a collection of short stories, Sin perro y sin Penélope (2003) and several articles of literary and cultural criticism. Her work has been included in numerous literary anthologies.

G. Neal McTighe Neal McTighe (Geoffrey Neal Cassady McTighe; yes, named after the beatnik poet, Jack's best friend) parla italiano and likes the beach. McTighe = figlio del poeta. His poems -- composed here at UNC -- are meant to put you under a spell. After all, spelling is such an important part of poetry. Explore: www.unc.edu/~mctighe

ariel mckinstry

andrea mirabile Andrea Mirabile was born in Lodi, Italy. He earned a PhD in Italian Literature at the University of Milan and he's currently a Teaching Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He's interested in literary theory and ekphrasis.

marco de oliveira Marco Alexandre de Oliveira (a.k.a. da truebadour; a.k.a. gringocarioca) is a graduate student in Portuguese at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and will soon be entering the PhD program in Comparative Literature. He was born in Columbia, S.C. and completed his undergraduate degree in Religious Studies at the University of South Carolina. Before moving to Chapel Hill, he lived for two and a half years in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His interests include, but are not limited to: Poetry and the “Poetics” of Song; Concrete Poetry; Música Popular Brasileira; Intersemiotic and Multimedia Art; Questions of identity, language, and culture. As a poet he attempts to incorporate certain elements of vanguard aesthetics and “pop” art with visually oriented poetry and the spoken word.

eduardo ramos eduardo ramos is a poet and word artist who frequently overlaps with other entities in the pursuit of a poetic voice. amongst his many obsessions, we find his search for origin and the sacred pre-words of the universe, as well as an implacable pining for a place of rest. he is also interested in insignification and the strata of memory that form our conscious thought. eduardo ramos loves wildlife, especially wolves, and is vehemently opposed to any form of autobiographical paragraph written for him.

john d. ribó     john d. ribó plays music and studies comparative literature all the live long day,  performing under the moniker kapow! music as part of the bu hanan records collective in chapel hill, longing to return to his guitar alongside deborah and jon smith chez odette in bordeaux, attempting to catalyze steiner’s mysterious fourth movement in the hermeneutic motion of translation and scribbling poetry plagued by an incoherent surplus of dependent clauses. la di da, la di da

paul rogers Paul came to this country as a refugee from Belize, one of eastern South America's most expensive cities. After years of physical therapy, he developed the dexterity of his paws to such an extent that he took up the brush and started painting. His accelerated physical development was soon followed by a mental renaissance; during a catnip-induced trip he became an advanced PhD student in French Literature. In addition to enjoying tummy rubs, catnip, and tuna fish, Paul is content in his role as the _volutions magazine expert panda-trainer.

crystal rozier            Crystal Rozier is a recent graduate from UNC-Chapel Hill with a degree in Communication Studies. Her passions are music and writing and looks forward to pursuing a career in these areas. She is honored that her work is a part of _volutions magazine.

ryan shah Ryan Shah is a drummer and percussionist who experiments in many musical areas. He has studied in both the United States and India, where he is currently residing. more of his work can be see at: www.TimeSpy.net and www.TimeTravil.com

amy wentworth Amy Wentworth is a poet living in Charlottesville, Virginia. She is getting her PhD in Spanish and Latin American Literature at The University of Virginia where she teaches Portuguese and Spanish Translation. Amy's poems have most recently been published in Icon, Barbaric Yawp, and The Washington Square Literary Review. Her poem, "The Buttons of Helen," has been nominated for a Pushcart prize. In her free time, Amy likes to tapdance and go to the movies.