About the Contributors

When Frank Anthony got a MALS degree from Dartmouth in 1984, his mentor was Richard 
Eberhart. It was Eberhart's final year of teaching. He is 100 this year. Anthony prayed to the 
power, somewhere, to be able to write a poem every night from his dream world. It has 
happened so far...about seven thousand have materrialized and the "BRIK" form prevails 
(13 lines long by 22 characters/spaces wide). His ambition is to write at least ten thousand, and 
have one of those live on like those of Keats, Tennyson, or Eberhart. Anthony worked (taught) 
his way through the Ph.D. in poetry, under Professor David Kirby, at Florida State University, 
1990. Dr. Anthony and his wife are in their eighteenth year of sheparding New England Writers
and they live in a tired 1777 house in Windsor, Vermont. He is: "particularly appreciative of the 
integrity of Subjective Substance."

Aminat Yusuff is "presently a student, who has been home for over a year because of the 
university she chose has a problem but she's still very thankful for her life." Her poem, "Eye" 
shows gratitude to God Almighty. She believes "For everything that happens, there has to be
a reason we should be thankful for. She loves to write and hopes to make a career out of it in 
the nearest future."

Eyitemi Egwuenu was born in Nigeria and received his education as a Medical Doctor. "I have
always been enchanted by the written word. There is none I believe who is nobler than a man or 
woman gifted with original thoughts and the power of language to express them. Poetry is a winged 
thing, immortal...it is for me the ultimate form of expression. And my dream is to write (one day) 
poems that will truly live!"