Third Wednesday


	THIRD WEDNESDAY Editorial Board
Laurence W. Thomas larrywlarry.com	TW Editor, has been around long enough to know the sting of rejection and the salve of acceptance. His shelves are lined with his publications that nobody buys as well as the works of many poets who have fared better. He conducts a poetry critiquing group at Borders Books, lectures on poetry in the Ozarks every spring, and sits for hours in front of his computer directing traffic for Third Wednesday.
Paul Kingston	TW Assistant Editor and Design Editor, prior Editor-in-Chief and Art Editor of Now Here Nowhere, Paul is also President of Gravity Presses (lest we all float away), Inc. He used to write poetry but now only "prepares" for occasional performances and works too much.

Janann Dawkins	TW Associate Editor, has been writing poetry for more than half her life. She co-edited The Freehand Press, the literary magazine of Grinnell College, her alma mater. She also edited The Violet Isis, a literary magazine of her own creation (now defunct). She admires the work of James Tate and Wallace Stevens, among others. She lives and writes in Ann Arbor.

Carl Fanning	TW Associate Editor, has lived his entire life (save for a four year stint in the U.S. Navy) in Michigan. It was during long stretches out at sea that he developed a love for reading, which, in turn, lead to a fascination with writing. Unlike most poets, Carl does not write to be published (he does not handle rejection well). He prefers the warmth and immediacy of coffee shop poetry readings. He has worked in the past as a co-host for Crossroads and Poetry in Motion poetry venues. Carl received his undergraduate degree in English Literature and Language from Eastern Michigan University in 2000 and is half-way through his Master's program (which he may or may not complete). He presently works at the VA hospital in Ann Arbor, and has a two year old grandson who his teaching him how to dance.

Todd Maddock	TW Associate Editor, is 34 and lives in quaint Whittaker, MI, which was a strong consideration some 130 years ago for the University of Michigan as it had a rail stop. Now, it has a Post Office. Ahhhh, progress! Todd enjoys writing, card games of all sorts and good food and lives with his wife and three children, including a set of twins born last year, in relative peace.

Sophie Grillet e-poems.org sophiescartoons.com	TW art editor, was born in Cambridge, England. She studied at Central St Martins School of Art in London. Upon graduating, she became a freelance cartoonist until moving with her husband and babies to Ann Arbor in 1996. There, she set up e-poems.org website during Great Domain-name Frenzy of ‘99. Subsequently had to write for it, so joined the Third Wednesday poetry critiquing group. Currently, she is branching out as a painter, especially of portraits.

George Dila	George Dila's short fiction and essays have appeared in North American Review, Driftwood, Current, Traverse, Christian Science Monitor and other publications. His story collection "The End of the World" was published by Pure Heart Press in 2006. He is the Founder/Director of Ludington Visiting Writers. A native Detroiter, George now lives in Ludington.

Alex Cigale	Alex Cigale was born in Chernovtsy, Ukraine and has lived in New York City since 1975, excluding a six-year stint in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan where he earned an MFA and won a Hopwood Award. His poems recently appeared in Colorado and Green Mountains Reviews, Hanging Loose, and Mcsweeneys and are forthcoming in Café and Chiron Reviews, English Journal and Many Mountains Moving. His translations of contemporary Russian poetry are in the anthology Crossing Centuries: The New Generation in Russian Poetry, in Modern Poetry in Translation, Poetry New York, and Manhattan Poetry Review. During the 90s, he edited a magazine based on Found Art and called Synaesthetic.

Joe Ferrari leadfootpress.com	TW Publisher, grew up in the northern suburbs (farmland), but quickly made New Center Detroit his home and passion. He runs an alternative printing house called “Leadfoot Press” for poets and other sub-culture types, and invests the majority of his profits back into the city through volunteer work. He’s had the honor of printing authors as far as Connecticut, California and Hawaii. His biggest accomplishments include books for the Boggs Center for Peace Studies and the historic Broadside Press.

THIRD WEDNESDAY Editorial Board