YOLANDA PANTIN (born in Caracas, 1954) studied letters at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. She was associated with the women poets known as "generación78" and was a member of the "Tráfico" group. She was one of the founders of the Editorial Pequeña Venecia and of the Casa de la Poesía, and has won many poetry prizes. In 2004 she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. She is the author of ten books of poetry; her work was collected in Poesía reunida 1981-2002 (Otero ediciones, Caracas, 2004). She has also published children's books.
BEN PASSIKOFF is a retired engineer returned to his first love: poetry. His pursuits are Bach, poetry and survival. His work has appeared in many magazines, among them The Quarterly Review of Literature, Harvard Review, Texas Review, Atlanta Review, Orbis, and Poetry International.
EDWARD D. PAUL, born in Hammond, Indiana, was a composer and country singer in his twenties. As "Entertainment Specialist" for the US Army, he wrote and performed in traveling special service shows. He received his M.A. from Boston University. For over 30 years, he was US School administrator in France, Italy and Germany. He is retired with his German-Italian wife in Bavaria. His poems have appeared in Southern Indiana Review, Orbis, Poetry Nottingham, among others. His first book of poems is entitled The One-Piece Tangerine Skin (Libri, 2003).
BRIAN LOUIS PEARCE was born in London in 1933, of Baptist parents. Married and living in Twickenham, he is a former college librarian. His books of fiction include London Clay (Stride, 1991), Tribal Customs, Victoria Hammersmith (Stride, 1987), St Zacchs, and The Goldhawk Variations. Collections of poetry: Leaving the Corner (1992), Gwen John Talking (1996) and Jack o' Lent (all Stride, 1991). His play The Widow of Gozo is based on the life of Barbara Greene. Poetry Salzburg have published Thames Listener: Poems 1949-89 (1993), The Proper Fuss (poetry with essay and checklist, 1996) and Varieties of Fervour (1996), lectures on the Victorian poets given at the National Portrait Gallery, London. A play on the life of Coventry Patmore and a study of Jack Clemo's poetry are in the press.
STEVEN PELCMAN is a poet and short story writer who has been published in small magazines such as Windsor Review and Paris Atlantic. He has spent the last ten years residing in Germany employed as an industrial language communications trainer while continuing his creative interests. He has recently completed his first novel, Riverbed, and travels extensively.
DANIEL PENDERGRASS grew up in rural North Alabama. His poems have appeared in Van Gogh's Ear, Snow Monkey, Upstairs at Duroc and The Chiron Review. His first book of poetry, 23 Istanbul Karabitsi, was published in 2006 by Arabesques Press. Unfortunately he passed away on 28 January 2007 at his home in Dubai. The cause of death was a heart attack.
COURTNEY PENDLETON is a medical student in Baltimore, MD. In addition to writing poetry she makes sculptures and photographs.
SIMON PERCHIK is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The New Yorker, Agni and elsewhere. His most recent collections are Rafts (Parsifal Editions, 2007) and Family of Man (Pavement Saw Press, 2008).
MARJORIE PERLOFF is Sadie D. Patek Professor Emerita of Humanities at Stanford University. She is currently Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she taught before going to Stanford in 1987. She is President of the MLA. She is the author of twelve books and a few hundred essays and reviews on twentieth-century poetry and poetics as well as on poetry and the visual arts. She has recently published a cultural memoir, The Vienna Paradox, and a collection of new essays Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy.
PAUL PERRY was born in Dublin in 1972. He received a BA in Comparative Literature from Brown University. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including Poetry Ireland Review, Cyphers, TLS and The Best American Poetry 2000. His first book, The Drowning of the Saints (2003) was published by Salmon. Wintering, his second book is going to be published by Dedalus Press in 2006.
PETER PESSL, born in Frankfurt/Main in 1963, lives in Vienna and is the author of eight books. He is a frequent contributor to ORF's Kunstradio. His most recent book is Der Brief mit der Aufschrift (Das fröhliche wohnzimmer, 2005). The English language translation of his book Blumarine is to be released by Twisted Spoon later this year.
ELIZABETH PESSL-ROSSI holds a BA in Comparative Literature from the University of Illinois. Born in 1959 in Illinois, she has lived in Spain, Austria and now lives and writes in Heroldsbach, Germany. Moon Journal Press published her chapbook Suspended in autumn 2007.
PASCALE PETIT's latest collections are The Treekeeper's Tale (2008) and What the Water Gave Me – Poems after Frida Kahlo (2010, both Seren). She has had two collections shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and selected as books of the year in the Times Literary Supplement.
MARIO PETRUCCI, ecologist, physicist, essayist and poet. Royal Literary Fund Fellow, first ever poet-in-residence with BBC Radio 3 and the Imperial War Museum. Co-founder of ShadoWork and writers inc. Books: Shrapnel and Sheets (Headland, 1996), Bosco (Hearing Eye, 2001), Half Life: Poems for Chernobyl (Heaventree, 2004), Heavy Water: A Poem for Chernobyl (2004), Flowers of Sulphur (2007, both Enitharmon), and somewhere is january (Perdika Press, 2007). His book i tulips was published by Enitharmon in March 2010.
JOHN PHILLIPS's most recent publications are Language Is (Sardines Press, 2005), A Small Window (Longhouse, 2005) and Soundless (Punch Press, 2007); forthcoming is Spell (Kater Murr). He is to be featured in the forthcoming Sixth Series of Origin. Presently he is back living in St. Ives, Cornwall, after spending 10 years in Slovenia.
YANNIS A. PHILLIS was born in Nauplion, Greece, in 1950. He is Professor at the Production Engineering and Management Department at the Technical University of Crete in Chania. He has published three novels and five poetry collections in Greek and has won several literary awards in Greece as well as the Harry Kurnitz Award twice.
TOM PICKARD, born 1946, Newcastle upon Tyne, was an important initiator of the British Poetry Revival. From 1963 to 1972, he ran the Morden Tower Book Room, where he organised a series of readings by British and American modernist tradition poets. His most recent collections: Hole in the Wall: New & Selected Poems (2002), The Dark Months of May (2004), and Ballad of Jamie Allan (2007, all Flood Editions).
TODD JAMES PIERCE. The British edition of his new novel The Sky Like Tamara Blue was released in 2001 by Quintet Books. His work has appeared in over 40 magazines.
HELENE PILIBOSIAN was an editor at an Armenian-American newspaper; now she is head of Ohan Press. Her work has appeared in such magazines as The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Louisiana Literature, The Hollins Critic, North American Review, and Seattle Review. She has published Carvings from an Heirloom: Oral History Poems (1983), At Quarter Past Reality: New and Selected Poems (1998), and History's Twists: The Armenians (2008, all Ohan Press).
FREDERICK POLLACK was born in Chicago in 1946. He lives in Washington, DC, and teaches creative writing at George Washington University. He is the author of two book-length narrative poems, The Adventure (1986) and Happiness (1998), both published by Story Line Press. Other poems, reviews, and essays of his have appeared in Salmagundi, Hudson Review, Southern Review, Representations, and elsewhere. He is married to the Emmy Award-winning television producer Phylis Geller.
ESTILL POLLOCK was born in 1950 in Clark County, Kentucky. For a time, he lived and travelled in the American South working as an itinerant tradesman. His early poems were published in regional journals, and nationally in Poetry. Later, he emigrated to England with his family, where he has lived for twenty years as a British subject following the rescission of his citizenship by the US government. This period coincided initially with his decision to cease writing poetry, but after fifteen years, he wrote the sequence of poems Metaphysical Graffiti, published as a pamphlet in 1998. Constructing the Human (Poetry Salzburg, 2001) contains selections from earlier publications in the United States as well as poems published recently in England. This book is the first movement of the trilogy Decorative Initials for a Book of Hours.
ANZHELINA POLONSKAYA was born in Malakhovka, a small town near Moscow where she still lives. Her first book of verses, Svetoch Moy Nebesny [My Heavenly Torch], appeared in 1993. Since then, she has published Stikhotvoreniia [Verses] (1998), Nebo glazami riadovogo [The Sky in a Private’s Eye] (1999), and Golos (2002; A Voice (Northwestern UP, 2004)). A Voice was shortlisted for the 2005 Corneliu M. Popescu Prize for European Poetry in Translation. She had work published in Beloit Poetry Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Poetry NZ, and Stand. She has been translated into Dutch and Spanish.
BORIS POPLAVSKY was born in Moscow in 1903 but settled in Paris after the Revolution. He belonged to the younger generation of the first emigration of Russian poets. He was regarded as one of the most talented of these younger poets when his life was cut tragically short in 1935. A fellow drug addict intent on suicide managed to poison both himself and Poplavsky. During his life he published only one book Flags (1931). His posthumous collections include Snowy Hour (1936), From a Garland of Wax (1938) and Airship of an Unknown Direction (1965). He also completed one novel, Apollo Unformed, and started another, Home from the Heavens, along with writing extensive journals.
CLAIRE POWELL teaches in the English Department at University of Wales, Swansea. She has recently completed a Ph.D. on the work of the experimental poet Bob Cobbing. She is a regular contributor to the literary magazines of Wales.
LARSON POWELL is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Before he taught at Texas A&M University, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Fordham University.
FRANCES PRESLEY lives and works in London. Her publications include: Neither the One Nor the Other, a collaboration with the poet Elizabeth James (Form Books, 1999; CD version also available), Automatic Cross Stitch, a collaboration with the artist Irma Irsara (The Other Press, 2000), Paravane: New and Selected Poems 1996-2003 (Salt, 2004), and Myne: New and Selected Poems and Prose 1976-2005 (Shearsman, 2006). She has written about innovative poetry, particularly by women poets, in a number of essays and reviews.
HÉLÈNE PRIGOGINE died in 1988 and was the first wife of the Nobel-prize-winning chemist, Ilya Prigogine. Her titles include: Sang lointain (1953), Ici commence un autre temps (1958), Ponts suspendus (1975).
PATRICIA PRIME is a teacher and writes reviews, poetry, and articles. She is co-editor of the New Zealand haiku magazine, winterSPIN. Her most recent publications are a collection of poems, Accepting Summer, and two collaborative collections of haiku: Every Drop Stone Pebble and Deuce. She recently edited an anthology of New Zealand poetry called Something Between Breaths.
ROBERT PRINGLE, Scottish, metal worker, consultant to The Muse Machine, Dayton, Ohio. One chapbook: Cold Front (Pudding House, 1998).
OLEG PROKOFIEV, poet, sculptor and painter, was born in Paris, the youngest of two sons of the composer Sergei Prokofiev. At the age of seven he moved to Moscow with his parents. He studied at the Moscow School of Art, and under the non-conformist artist Robert Falk. Defecting to Britain in 1971, he became a visual artist with an international reputation until his death in 1997. He began writing poetry while still at school under the encouragement of Pasternak, a close friend of his mother, but abandoned it for art and returned to it only at the age of thirty. He was close to such poets as Evgeny Kropivnitsky, Genrikh Sapgir and Igor Kholin, and shared their elements of deliberate primitivism and surrealism. His poetic output, all written in Russian, is substantial, and a certain proportion has appeared in Russia and in France. However, only one collection has so far been translated into English - The Scent of Absence (Keele University, 1995).
HEIDELINDE PRÜGER. Scholar, editor, translator, poet. Born in Vienna in 1973. She has published six books. In 1999, The Righteousness of Life was nominated for the Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year Award. In 2001, she received her Ph.D summa cum laude sub auspiciis praesidentis from the University of Salzburg and was awarded the Theodor-Körner-Förderungspreis. Her PhD-thesis Journey Without Ending: The Journals of William Soutar was published by Poetry Salzburg. Read more about Heidelinde Prüger on our homepage.
GLYN PURSGLOVE teaches English at the University of Wales in Swansea. He has published a number of works on English poetry, chiefly that of the Seventeenth Century. He is editor of The Swansea Review and reviews editor of Acumen.