John Allman has recently completed his seventh poetry collection, Lowcountry, part of which is 
currently featured as an electronic chapbook in Mudlark. The entire Lowcountry collection will be published by New Directions in early 2008. His other books of poetry include Loew's Triboro (2004), Curve Away from Stillness (1989), Scenarios for a Mixed Landscape (1986), and Clio's Children (1985), all from New Directions; Inhabited World: New & Selected Poems 1970-1995 (The Wallace Stevens Society Press, 1995); and Walking Four Ways in the Wind (Princeton, 1979).
Christina Carroll holds a B.A. in Studio Art/Design and Art History from Connecticut 
College, where she was introduced to monotype printmaking at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum School in Boston. Carroll's upbringing in California’s rustic canyons invited her to look closely at nature’s behavior and rhythms. Her creative expression in response to nature closely presented itself in both image and words, and the monotype process triggered a delightful synthesis of perception and temperament.
prose poems
For Jay Meek and Peter Johnson
Attractions
Black Crows, Mints, Gum, Lucky Strikes
Bones
Crows
Drums
Evergreens
Grackles
Grain Dust
Ice
Le Chant D’Amour
Mud
Pebbles
Spare Parts
Species
Spraying the Chickens
Stars
The Bridge of Sighs
The Flow
The Fountain
The Golden Fleece
The Singer
Tomatoes
White Ruff Collars
October 2006