A Small Garlic Press begun on 25 August 1995. Its on-line and in-print poetry magazine, Agnieszka's Dowry (AgD) ISSN 1088-4300, was unveiled on 8 March 1996. The magazine is edited by Marek Lugowski and katrina grace craig. The web site, http://www.enteract.com/~asgp, is maintained by jen jensen, with help from Marek and consulting by Rene Rivera. In addition to the press catalog, page of links, and information, ASGP has a Broadsides section which contains free typset poetry pamphlets and links to other poetry installations. There is no advertising. ASGP is a nonprofit corporation registered in Illinois. Its staff is entirely part-time volunteers. ASGP runs no contests and does not charge reading fees. ASGP-AgD staff mostly communicates via email and file exchange via ftp and http. The typset materials are exchanged using PDF files over the web. The on-line magazine is slanted towards providing access to all browsers and to allow fast textual and meaningful vision-impaired browsing using Lynx. The ASGP staff is technically savvy (computer professionals, all) and recognizes the various trade-offs in providing markup and content.

President and Co-Editor: Marek Lugowski -- ILEF Member

Committee on Literary Ethics
Committee for Digital Archiving

Marek Lugowski programs at Northwestern University. His work in Java and network programming is aimed at classroom use. Born in Warsaw, Poland, Marek arrived in the USA at the age of 14. He studied graduate computer science and semiotics at Indiana University (MS and post-graduate) under Douglas Hofstadter and others, and has worked in artificial intelligence and artificial life. Marek writes poems in English and translates Polish poetry, particularly Halina Poswiatowska's.

Vice President and Co-Editor: katrina grace craig -- ILEF Member

katrina grace craig lives in Issaquah, Washington with three tattooes, too many plants, one cat, one man and soon, one baby. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, she is hoping to write more poems once she is done growing the baby. In co-editor Marek Lugowski's view, katja is the axis mundi of Agnieszka's Dowry -- if katja doesn't love it, it can't possibly get in.

Vice President and Webmaster: jen jensen -- ILEF Member

Committee for Technical Web Assistance
Committee on Literary Ethics

jennifer jensen is a haiku poet and former technical writer living in Northern California. Her technical manuals grace the shelves of many British Columbian corporations. Her haiku has appeared in Frogpond, Haiku Canada Newsletter, Acorn, and evening thunder, A Small Garlic Press broadside. jennifer's work was recently included in "A New Resonance: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku", a Red Moon Press publication.

Vice President: Rene Rivera -- ILEF Member

Committee for Technical Web Assistance

Rene Rivera is a native of Puerto Rico and has a MS in computer science. He is a workaholic computer programmer at a well-known computer games manufacturer. Before his current job, Rene spent several years programming at Northwestern University's Institute for the Learning Sciences. His interests include computation, algorithms, graphics, and the advocacy of web accessability through considerate web design. He is also an accomplished photographer and speaks Spanish.

The Australian-based literary/cultural ezine The Animist is for all those people who believe that literature and the arts are vitally important to the psychospiritual wellbeing of individuals and societies. We believe that literature, and the appreciation of literature, are major bulwarks against the kinds of mass barbarism and severe forms of subjective alienation which have characterised much twentieth century life. We aim to make 'The Animist' an international meeting point for writers, artists and thinkers. In this sense we embrace the creative and communicative possibilities opened up to artists and thinkers by the new multimedia technologies.

Co-Editor: Ian Irvine -- ILEF Member

Committee on Internet Literature and Cultural Change/Globalisation Issues
-- Co Chair

Ian Irvine is a writer, academic, poet/songwriter, and part time psychotherapist. He has had poems, essays and short stories published in many international magazines and e-zines and is working on various longer prose projects. He was recently awarded his doctoral degree for research into the problem of chronic ennui and has lectured in Literature, History, Sociology and Cultural Studies at La Trobe University. He also teaches mythology and symbolism for writers and literacy at the Bendigo Regional Institute of TAFE.

Co-Editor: Sue King-Smith -- ILEF Member

Sue King-Smith holds has a B.A. (La Trobe University) specialising in cultural/spiritual studies, philosophy, literature and children's issues. Sue is a performance poet, musician (song writer), essayist and digital artist. Her personal area of academic interest is the history of childhood in the Western tradition. She also has qualifications in multimedia design and professional writing and editing. She has taught creative writing and adult literacy at the Bendigo Regional Institute of TAFE and works part time with primary children at a local Koori homework centre.

Poetry Editor, Sub-Editor: John Holton -- ILEF Member

John Holton was born in Melbourne in 1964. His short stories, essays and poems have been published in literary magazines/ezines, newspapers and anthologies in Australia and overseas, and have won, or been highly placed, in numerous major literary competitions. John has a B.A. in literature and philosophy from La Trobe University. He gained his Certificate IV in Professional Writing and Editing from the Bendigo Regional Institute of TAFE and is currently completing a Diploma in the same area. John is working on a collection of his award winning short stories. He lives with his wife and three young sons at Lake Eppalock in Central Victoria.

BeeHive was founded by PERCEPTICON in November of 1997 and began publishing in May of 1998. The intent of BeeHive is to emphasize and expand upon the ways in which literary and text based content can be presented on the web. >From hypertext, to straight fiction, poetry and essays, BeeHive publishes a wide variety of work and strives to take advantage of appropriate web technologies, presenting work in highly visual intefaces.

Within its first week of going online BeeHive was 'Cool Site of the Day' and has since won a number of awards, and gained international critical acclaim. BeeHive is a busy hive of experimental writing, excellent poetry and stimulating hypertext work.

The journal is published approximately every 10 week, or 5 issues per yearly volume.

BeeHive Creative Director: Talan Memmott -- ILEF Member

Committee for Technical Web Assistance -- Co Chair
Committee for Joint Projects
Committee for Digital Archiving

BeeHive Creative Director, Talan Memmott is an artist/writer living and working in San Francisco California. Memmott comes to writing from a background in visual art, having studied painting, installation, video, performance, as well as art history and critical theory. His video work has been shown internationally and he has given performance lectures at a number of galleries and institutions. Memmott's interest in writing, experimental writing in particular increased while studying with Kathy Acker at San Francisco Art Institute.

Memmott has been working on the web since 1995 for the multimedia and web development firm PERCEPTICON. He has served in the capacity of copywriter, programmer, producer and production director on over 60 corporate and non-profit foundation websites. Since 1998, Talan Memmott has been very active in the hypertext literature scene. His hypermedia fiction and "theory/fiction" work has appeared in frAme, Perihelion, Perforations, Cauldron and Net, Big Bridge, and Riding the Meridian, as well as BeeHive.

We think walls are good for keeping out the cold and rain. And for displaying some art. They're useless in the creation and propagation of art. We don't care if Language poetry appears next to sonnets, or haiku next to spoken word and workshop poetry beside agit-smut. Our tastes are catholic-even though we're Jews and pagans and Buddhists and libertines and run-of-the-mill Christians. We don't care how art is shaped-round like moon, flat like roadkill, angular like love, twisted like political promises. We hear many voices (even when we're taking our meds) and are guided by whimsy and passion and urgency. We want more. So, who the hell are we? The Editors: Michael Rothenberg and Nancy Victoria Davis. Contributing Editors: Wanda Phipps and Hal Bohner.Webmaster: Jermiah McNichols. We're Big Bridge: in between and through and under and over. Which way you cross, what you see, depends on which way you go. See you out there. Don't forget to write. P.S.: For now, three issues will be go up each year. We will, however, occasionally update with additional works, so keep us bookmarked. Each issue will feature an online chapbook. We'll publish long poetical works and serialize novels. We'll feature selections from one of the many little magazines being published in space and on the ground; suggestions are encouraged. We intend to update our lists and links regularly, and also post letters and comments as they arrive. We'll also maintain an archive of back issues. Send correspondence to Michael Rothenberg: walterblue@bigbridge.org.

Editor: Michael Rothenberg -- ILEF Member

Committee on Internet Literature and Cultural Change/Globalisation Issues

Michael Rothenberg is a poet, songwriter, editor and co-founder of Big Bridge Press and Big Bridge, a webzine of poetry and everything else. His poems have appeared in many journals including: Berkeley Poetry Review, The Cortland Review, Exquisite Corpse, Jacket, Isibongo, Sycamore Review, and Zyzzyva. He has published several poetry books. Letters, Postcards and Baguette: The Paris Journals will be published in the year 2000 by Fish Drum Press. His songs have appeared in Hollywood Pictures' Shadowhunter and Black Day, Blue Night, and TriStar Pictures' Outside Ozona. He is most recently the editor of Overtime: Selected Poems of Philip Whalen.

Art Editor: Nancy Victoria Davis -- ILEF Member

Nancy is a painter, illustrator, book designer, and co-founder of Big Bridge Press. She has illustrated the works of Jim Harrison, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, Michael McClure, Andrei Codrescu, and Joanne Kyger. Her work has been exhibited at the New York Public Library, the San Francisco Public Library, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery. She has been awarded The Rounce and Coffin Award for her design and illustration of "What The Fish Saw," and her broadside "Elegy For The Dusky Seaside Sparrow" was chosen Best Broadside of The Year by Fine Print Magazine.

Contributing Editor: Wanda Phipps -- ILEF Member

Contributing Editor: Hal Bohner -- ILEF Member

The Bluffettes (John Kusch, Laurie Hertz, Tim Grair) decided that our hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (USA) was ready for a polished, professional, high-quality online showcase of local poetry, commentary and art. We were wrong. So instead we started Bluff Magazine. Always smart, usually funny, with something to offend everybody, Bluff Magazine's message is: you're never too old to embarrass your parents.

General Editor/Graphic Designer: John Kusch -- ILEF Member

Committee for Technical Web Assistance
Committee on Advertising, Promotion and Public Awareness

Did the weasel become a weasel by deciding to suck eggs, or did the act of egg-sucking make the weasel a weasel? Mulling over these kinds of weasel/egg questions is how John Kusch spends his time these days. A former musician, a former gender-bending Skinny Puppy fan, and most recently a former over-eating poet, John is obsessed with the thick, wet line between art, personality and celebrity.

John lives on the east side (note the lower case) of Milwaukee with his computer, some fantastic art, a respectable view, and the pelts of several unfortunate Beanie BabiesT.

Laurie Hertz, Web Design/Art Direction

Laurie sells her "warez" as an IT professional (currently assisting Milwaukee County with Y2K readiness). To find out more, look for her resume at www.bluffmag.com.

Laurie has spent her life surrounded by writers, all of whom told her one of two things: either "You should write that down," or, "Can I use that?" She is now happy to say that she is writing that down, and no, you can't use that. Primarily a visual artist, Laurie knows that all writers are frustrated artists and all artists are frustrated writers. Laurie, however, is done with frustration.

Tim Grair, Poetry Editor

Tim Grair has lived in Wisconsin for most of his life and can't understand how television gets us so wrong. He has no fear of heights, which is a very good thing, since he spends so much of his time on the ceiling of La Cage (2nd and National, Milwaukee), where he has been playing music for the masses for some five years or so.

In his spare time, he is co-host (with the imposing Geo Kiesow) the Milwaukee Poetry Slam at the Y-NOT II (Lyon at Van Buren, Milwaukee).

Cauldron & Net is a bi-annual electonic magazine whose objective is to showcase (a selection of) the wide variety of diverse creative voices which may be encountered on the WWW, inclusive of both web specific and non- web specific work. We seek to publish these works in an immersive atmosphere which is highly visual and attempts to orchestrate each issue as a composition in itself, one which is formed of and in-formed by the inter-play and richness evoked by the multiplicity of this gathering.

The myriad branches of the arts are expanding greatly via the web, both in terms of new forms of expression (hypertext/hypermedia), and in terms of the accessability for a great many different people. The web is a global feast, and our goal is to offer a choice taste of this richness.

Editor: Claire Allan Dinsmore -- ILEF Member

Committee for Joint Projects
Committee for Digital Archiving

At present Claire is creating as a 'hypermedia' artist and writer whose work can be seen on the web at Beehive, The Post Dogmatist Quarterly, POTEPOETZINE, The Nepenthe Journal, Artpool, in Carolyn Guertin's Assemblage (which is featured as part of the trAce website), and in the New Media Room of a Room without Walls.

Claire is editor of the electronic magazine Cauldron & Net and president of Studio Cleo, Inc. where she works as a new media artist/web designer and indulges herself in such anachronistic pursuits as bookmaking and metalwork.

Conspire, a quarterly journal founded in 1996 with the intent to further excellence in internet literary publishing, works to accomplish its goal by publishing exceptionally crafted poetry and prose which encompasses a diverse range in form, focus and voice.

In 1998 Conspire adopted the lines: "Time has come to write the Constituion with our poetry," from Alan Kaufman's 1997 poem, "Let US". With it we hope to extend an invitation to all the "Others," whose work is alive with a rich diversity, and who may not have received the exposure they deserve. Conspire also offers literary criticism, book reviews, comprehensive links to online literary resources, Editor's Choice for Classic Artists, book reviews, news from the online literary community and an annual issue (Feb.) highlighting women writers- published in conjuntion with Riding the Meridian.

Editor: CK Tower -- ILEF Member

Committee for Joint Projects -- Co Chair
Committee on Fundraising -- Co Chair

CK Tower, founder, designer & lead editor of Conspire, resides in Lansing, Michigan and attends Michigan State University, where she is continuing her studies in English with a minor in Women Studies. CK's work, including poetry, essays, short stories and interviews has seen wide publication in magazines, journals and ezines from all over the US, Canada and Europe. In 1999 CK was nominated and inducted into The National Society Of Collegiate Scholars, as a lifetime member for her outstanding scholarship, leadership and service.

Prose Editor, Book Reviews: Fanoula Sevastos -- ILEF Member

Fanoula Sevastos, prose editor and book reviewer, holds a B.A. in English Literature and a B.A. in Economics from Rutgers University. Fanoula is a steadfast supporter of the arts and is involved with both the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cleveland Film Society. Her fiction and poetry has appeared in numerous electronic and print publications and she occasionally freelances for local newspapers.

Exploring Literature: Randy Money -- ILEF Member

Randy Money, contributing editor- Exploring Literature(prose), majored in Computer Science at Onondaga Community College. After acquiring his Associate's degree and the feeling he'd made a wrong turn, he transferred to Syracuse University earning a Bachelor's degree in newspaper journalism.

Randy became an assistant at E. S. Bird Library at S.U.; he has worked there twenty years as of May '98. Randy's job entails writing ocumentation and teaching staff members how to use the computer applications available to them on the library network. He is married and lives with his wife, Sharon, and their eight year old daughter, Devin, in Syracuse, N.Y.

Exploring Literature: Jack Marion -- ILEF Member

Jack Marion, contributing editor- Exploring Literature(poetry), lives in Baltimore, MD with his wife (poet Carrie Cerri), two kids and too many pets. He is chief audio engineer at Elan Recordings and at Odyssey Recording. He directs the recording studios at the University of Maryland, where he teaches classes in audio and moderates a music forum. He has collaborated (as trumpet player, engineer\producer, composer, poet and songwriter) with visionaries such as Toby Twining, Lafayette Gilchrist and Shozo Sato. Jack is frequently occupied with developing, distilling and arguing theory as applied to craft and perception.