LA REATA

“Midway this way of life we’re bound upon
I woke to find myself in a dark wood,
Where the right road was wholly lost and gone.”

Dante Alighieri, 1307
la reata issue 2 front cover

LA REATA #2

SUMMER 2004

CONTRIBUTORS

Jessica Pancoast

was born in Siam in 1904
She lives in the Spanish Territory of the New World

Nate Pritts

was born in Syracuse, New York
He lives in Natchitoches, Louisiana
www.swanniganandwright.com

Ariel D. Beller

was born in Portland, Oregon in 1976
He lives in London.

Roger Whitson

was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1952
He lives in Kingston, New York

Stephen Oliver

was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1950
He lives in Sydney, Australia
http://people.smartchat.net.au/~sao/

Susan H. Case

was born in New York in 1950
She still lives there
www.SusanHCase.com

Geert Verbeke

was born in Kortrijk, Belgium in 1948
He lives in a small village somewhere on Earth

Lynne Elke

was born above pizza box pyramid, NE USA
when fire sun spit watermelon seeds now in the metamorph moth mouth

Lawrence Carradini

was born in New York in 1953
He lives in Lowell, Massachusetts
Lawrence_Carradini.tripod.com

Klipschutz

was born in Indio, California in 1956
He lives in San Francisco

Dean K. Farrow

was born in Adelaide, Australia in 1961
He lives in South London

Gilles Peter

was born in Strasbourg, France in 1977
He lived in North London at the time
www.gillespeter.com

Matt Gale

was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1974
He lived in Portland, Oregon in 2004

Sandra Turnbull

lives in North London
www.sandraturnbull.com

Alfred Heligan

was born in London in 1945
He lives in New Orleans

John Donne

is dead

Emile Martyn

was born in Surrey, England in 1964
He lives in South London

Cover design by Gilles Peter and Ariel Beller

Photography by Gilles Peter (front cover, p.19)
Photography by Matt Gale (p.31)

Artwork by Sandra Turnbull – “Girl on Prawn” (p.3)
watercolour, acrylic, ink on canvas. “Stripper and the
Hardman” (p.18) acrylic wash, ink on paper. “Little Man”
(p.25) felt tip, acrylic on paper. “XXXI” (p.15) acrylic, ink,
texture on canvas

Artwork by Emile Martyn – “Portrait of the Editor” (back cover) oil on board
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