teaches writing and literature at the college level.
Her essays and poetry have appeared in The Recursive Angel,
The Melic Review, Conspire,  Gravity, Poetry Motel, New
Thought Journal, The Artful Mind, Medicinal  Purposes, Mind
Fire, 2Rivers View, Allegory, Kimera, The Oracular Tree,
Green Cross, Moonshade Magazine, The Poet's Edge, Ariga,
SeekeTr, Asylem, Woven Soles, The Free Cuisinart, Pif, The
Waterloo Review, Illya's Honey, Fires of Autumn, Ygdrasil,
Ascent, Indie Journal, Orbital Revolution, Flaming Flag,
Calliope, In Motion, Idling, Poetfest, Sapphire Magazine,
Southern Ocean Review, The Rose & Thorn, Perihelion, Zen
Rubies, Creative Ooze, The Astrophysicist's Tango Partner
Speaks, Maelstrom, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, and dozens of
other periodicals.  

Janet's poetry sites on the web have received more than
thirty awards, including the distiguished "Predators and
Editors:  Author's Site of Excellence" and "The Circle of
the Muses Award of Inspiration." "Writing," she says, "is
a tuba in a long parade that chases pain and sorrow to its
dissolution."

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is an internationally recorded and released songwriter
and is a partner in the Internet Marketing firm NetProfit
2020 Inc. He also provides copy writing and  complete
advertising services including corporate music production
via his TrademarkeT company and he is a for-hire freelance
writer.

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is a self proclaimed Internet artist. The nude and partially
clothed female figures pictured in his "Woman in Motion"
exhibit were derived in part from the landmark study on "Human and
Animal Locomotion" (1887) by the American photographer Eadweard
Muybridge. More of Rick's impressive work can be found at these
links below:

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began his teaching career in the late Sixties. Since that time he
has been involved with a host of interesting endeavors including the
ALPHA Project, a pioneering research group on the nature of 
consciousness, whcih he led; the International Conference on the Study
of Shamanism and Alternate Modes of Healing; the establishment of the
Musart Label and in 1997, he left Musart to begin his own company,
Leikam Entertainment. In so doing, he became involved with 
IllusionQuest, LLC of which he is the current CEO.

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is "an average joe with some artistic inclinations...poetry, music,
art." He is 43 years old, lives in Northern California and began
seriously writing in June of 1998. He considers his "work to fall
within the category of folk art...[and]...see[s] the pursuit of
poetry/prose as a way of interjecting some creative contentment
into an otherwise unsettled and dysfunctional life..." 

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