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  <name><![CDATA[Cheryl A Townsend]]></name>
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A poet, avid photographer and the onetime publisher/editor of Impetus Magazine, which I published through Implosion Press.  I am now the Poetry &amp; Visual Arts Editor for epitome magazine and a book &amp; arts reviewer for Oranges &amp; Sardines. I also write reviews for WomenWriters.net and Mad Hatters. 

My poetry and photography have appeared in hundreds of periodicals and anthologies internationally as well as in dozens of chapbooks. I have been translated into Russian, German &amp; Chinese (that I know of)...

I am the cofounder of the Womens Art Recognition Movement (W.A.R.M.), based in the North Water Street Gallery in Kent, OH and used to be the owner of Cat's Impetuous Books, also in Kent, where I specialized in small press books and held regular poetry readings, art exhibits and live musical performances. 

In 2004, I played Jesus in the indie film Jesus &amp; Her Gospel of Yes with the poets Mike Basinski, as God, and John M. Bennett as Satan. Produced &amp; directed with Alfred Eaker which should soon be available on DVD.

I have recently collaborated with poet Belinda Subraman on an e-chap.. providing the visual enhancements to her sensual &amp; surreal poetry. Give us a look at http://www.scribd.com/doc/7996547/Wet-Moments&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://static.ning.com/outsiderwriters/widgets/index/swf/badge.swf?v=3.10%3A12530&quot; quality=&quot;high&quot; scale=&quot;noscale&quot; salign=&quot;lt&quot; wmode=&quot;transparent&quot; bgcolor=&quot;#ffffff&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; pluginspage=&quot;http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer&quot; width=&quot;206&quot; height=&quot;64&quot; allowScriptAccess=&quot;always&quot; flashvars=&quot;networkUrl=http%3A%2F%2Foutsiderwriters.ning.com%2F&amp;amp;panel=user&amp;amp;username=2xiusp5mrwoio&amp;amp;avatarUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.ning.com%2Ffiles%2FkV%2AWuzK%2APJEqxsttc%2AAkP%2Ax-iAzIZ-2yBtdYq3hdE2q5Xfv9rnsi%2ASHj5BqR2WULbh%2AhEO8Z24ITtLurXfrBRG61xu2Sz3MZ%2FByRuss.jpg%3Fwidth%3D48%26height%3D48%26crop%3D1%253A1&amp;amp;configXmlUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.ning.com%2Foutsiderwriters%2Finstances%2Fmain%2Fembeddable%2Fbadge-config.xml%3Ft%3D1229780021&quot; /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://outsiderwriters.ning.com/xn/detail/u_2xiusp5mrwoio&quot;&gt;View my page on &lt;em&gt;Outsider Writers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;br /&gt;]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Dorothy Parker, Anais Nin, Diane Arbus, Nan Golden, Marge Piercy]]></influences>  <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>Rochester</hometown>  <born_at>05/21/1957</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Scream When You Burn]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Charles Bukowski]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Velvet Avalanche a collection of erotic poetry]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Sean Kilpatrick]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Coffeehouse Poetry Anthology]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Greatest Hits]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Between the Cracks: The Daedalus Anthology of Kinky Verse]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ron Androla]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Didi Menendez]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Erotic by Nature: A Celebration of Life, of Love, and of Our Wonderful Bodies]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Writing Our Way Out of the Dark: An Anthology by Child Abuse Survivors]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Best of Impetus (The First 10 Years)]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Sleeping With Dionysus: Women, Ecstasy and Addiction]]></title>
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