10.30.05: LARRY SAWYER & LINA RAMONA

Larry Sawyer is a poet and editor of www.milkmag.org along with his wife, the poet Lina Ramona. His poetry and critical reviews have appeared in publications such as Jacket (Australia), Exquisite Corpse, Coconut, Versal (Holland), Tabacaria (Portugal), moria, can we have our ball back?, Shampoo, NY Arts Magazine, Van Gogh's Ear (France), 88, The Prague Literary Review and elsewhere. His work was published in Shamanic Warriors Now Poets (R&R Publishing, Scotland) alongside the work of poets such as David Meltzer, Will Alexander, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Diane DiPrima. As editor of www.milkmag.org, Sawyer has published the work of Charles Bernstein, Wanda Coleman, Sheila E. Murphy, Thurston Moore, and Michael McClure among many others. His chapbooks include A Chaise Lounge in Hell (aboveground press, Canada) and Poems for Peace (anthology, Structum Press).

Sawyer also co-curates the Myopic Reading Series with Chuck Stebelton.

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Lina Ramona:

B.A. in English: Creative Writing. Loras College (1995) M.A. in English: Composition and Rhetoric: Creative Writing. Wright State University (2000)

Co-edits online literary/visual arts magazine, milk.

Perfected the art of "near-miss medical traumas" twice with retinal detachments in either eye, (1996, 2000) and a breast lumpectomy (2003).

poetry chapbooks:
Shooting Dead Films with Poets (Fractal Edge Press, 2004)
The Meanest Man Contest (mother's milk press, 2000)

poetry anthologies:
the elements (Down In The Dirt Press, 2002)
Poets Against The War (online)

poetry publications:
Van Gogh's Ear, Rampike (University of Windsor), The Prague Literary Review, The Chicago Review, 5_Trope, Unpleasant Event Schedule, Echolocation (University of Toronto), canwehaveourballback?, La Petite Zine, Drunken Boat, Shampoo, Snow Monkey, Mudlark, Big Bridge, AUGHT, Cokefish, JACK, After Hours, ZuZu's Petals, Newtopia, Yalla (Montreal), Tin Lustre Mobile, 3 AM Magazine, Bridges (The Lithuanian-American Journal), Sidereality, ambulant, In Posse Review Multi-Ethnic Anthology (Ilya Kaminsky, editor), Gargoyle (Arts & Letters Broadsheet, Linnean Street), Poetry Plaza (92 Buffet of Lithuanian Poets, Japan), The Outlet, and ChicagoPoetry.com.

short fiction:
The Mississippi Review, The Wisconsin Review, Lituanus (Lithuanian Quarterly Journal), Hubris Magazine, Del Sol Review (featured writer), Mudrock (featured writer).

awards:
Carson McCullers Award, STORY Magazine (Honorable Mention, 1999)
Cleveland State University Open Poetry Series (Semi-Finalist, 2002)
DES Journal Competition (First Place, 1996)

forthcoming work:
Paper Tiger (Australia), Skanky Possum

upcoming projects:
Failed Star Spawns Planet/Star (under submission)
The Range of Your Amazing Nothing (under submission)
Opaque Lunacy (spoken word CD)
Lithuanian Translation Project (pending)

readings
Woodland Pattern Bookstore, Milwaukee, WI (10/2005)
DvA Gallery (11/2004, 06/2005, 07/2005)
Around The Coyote Arts Festival (9/2004)
Myopic Books Poetry Series (6/2004, 11/2004, 7/2005)
Chicago Poetry Festival (8/2004)
Santara-Sveisa Lithuanian Arts, Literature, and Political Conference (9/2003, 9/2004)
ChicagoPoetry.com's Poetry Crams I & II (3/2004, 7/2004)
milk magazine marathon (3/2004, 09/2005)
Charlie Newman's Poetry Circus at The Café (ongoing)

collaborations:
Night of the Living Tounges (experimental poetry/art collaborative)

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