Arlene Ang (issue three & five) is involved in a new zine, Press 1 and has a blog at http://arleneang.blogspot.com/

Robyn Art's (issues two & five) poetry/photographs collaboration with the artist Robin Barcus entitled Dear American Love Child, Yours, The Beautiful Undead will be published by dancing girl press in winter 2008. The Stunt Double In Winter will be released soon by Dusie Press and her chapbook Scenes From The Body is now available (as well as an older chapbook) from dancing girl.

Nick Courtright has found homes for a slew of poems since his appearance in issue two. The comeuppance is that his work will appear within the next six months in The Iowa Review, The Florida Review, Redivider, Identity Theory, Massachusetts Review, Ninth Letter, Cincinnati Review, Barrelhouse, Parthenon West, Flyway, and American Poetry Journal, and has turned up in the last six months in New Orleans Review, Denver Quarterly, Harpur Palate, Kadar Koli, The Portland Review, and Salamander. He's written some books, but they don't exist yet.

Bruce Covey's (issue two) book, Elapsing Speedway Organism, can be found at www.notellbooks.org/elapsing

Mark DeCarteret's (issues three and four) book, (If This Is the) New World (ISBN 1-59661-059-X; March Street Press) goes for $9.

Jehanne Dubrow's book of Holocaust poetry, THE PROMISED BRIDE, was recently published by Finishing Line Press in July 2007. All three of her Shulamith poems, which Siren first published in Issue Three, appear in this chapbook. She has been named a Sosland Foundation Fellow at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (in Washington DC) and will do research at the Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies for four months. Jehanne is also working on a novel-in-poems about second and third generation trauma.

Ira Joel Haber has a new blog at http://wwwirajoelcinemagebooks.blogspot.com/ and has art on the cover of the June 2007 The Fifteen Project. His art also appears in recent issues of Paradigm Magazine, The Externalist, at http://www.lilylitreview.com/4_8muslim.html, and Literary Fever. Four of his always-interesting collages appear in the October 2007 issue of Foliate Oak at http://www.foliateoak.uamont.edu/october-07/copy_of_art/ira-joel-haber/ira-joel-haber.

Matt Hart's (issues one & five) new sonnet sequence/chapbook, SIMPLY ROCKET, is just out from Lame House Press. See it here. Beyond this, he is finishing up a new manuscript, tentatively titled TODAY IS THE DAY IS THE ROCKET. Matt says he has no idea if anyone will be interested in publishing it, but it's just about finished.

David Hernandez (issue one): His excellent collection, Always Danger (SIU Press, 2006), was the winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry.

Amy King (issue one) has a new book, I'M THE MAN WHO LOVES YOU, available on Amazon. Her new book is reviewed by Nick Piombino at fait accompli and by Thomas Fink at Galatea Resurrects. Amy is the editor of the magazine MiPOesias, and the author’s page is at http://www.amyking.org/blog “A Ghost is Born,” the first poem in her new book, made the “hits list” of Verse Daily on the 26th of March. Check it out here: http://www.versedaily.org/2007/aboutamykingitmwly.shtml

Dorianne Laux (issue two), whose fourth book of poems, Facts about the Moon (W.W. Norton, 2005) received the 2006 Oregon Book Award and was short listed for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for the Best Book of 2006, has a new collection, Superman: The Chapbook, which was released by Red Dragonfly Press. Her first book, Awake, introduced by Philip Levine, was reprinted in July by Eastern Washington University Press. Professor Laux also has a new poem in thepedestalmagazine.com , and an interview in the Summer Issue of The Smoking Poet, at http://myspace.com/thesmokingpoet. For her Events Schedule go to: http://www.myspace.com/doriannelaux.

Keep up with Diana Magallón (issue 4) at http://cipollinaaaaa.blogspot.com

Kiki Petrosino (issue two) manuscript, Fort Red Border, was a finalist for the 2008 Fence Modern Poets Series. She also has two poems forthcoming in Alimentum, and two forthcoming in La Petite Zine.

Dan Raphael (issue two) has a new book, Breath Test (from nine muses), which is available by contacting him at raphael@aracnet.com, and can also be found at some small bookstores in Portland, OR.

Since appearing in issue four, Elizabeth Volpe won the Robert Watson Chapbook Contest. She also has new poems forthcoming in River Styx, Crab Orchard, Tar Wolf, Epicenter, and The Connecticut Review.

**In August (2007) Siren's editor nominated the following for the Best of the Net 2007:

• Robyn Art, "Weltscherm" (issue 2)
• Jenny Boully, "Kafka's Garden" (issue 1)
• Stephanie Dickinson, "Unity Cloud" (issue 4; fiction)
• Jehanne Dubrow, "Shulamith Writes Fuck You" (issue 3)
• Matt Hart, "How Can We Fail in Our Mouths" (issue 1)
• Amy King, "A Ghost is Born" (issue 1)
• Erin Martin, "Admiral Benbow" (issue 2)
• Kathryn Rantala, "The Hall of Bird Cries" (issue1)

 

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