Dennis Formento is the publisher of Surregional Press and the author of five chapbooks. A sixth, Ra Blues Are, is forthcoming from Umteen Press in New Orleans.  He sometimes performs his work with free-jazz band THE FRANK ZAPPATISTAS "outside jazz with a poet inside") .  With movement artist Nanette Ledet, he is currently working on a “cosmo-drama” featuring the poetry of New Orleans ex-pat and original beat poet, Bob Kaufman..  His poem "In Memory of James Black" appears in Plunge.  Exquisite Corpse  has  "Ecologisms" and also "The Golden Triangle:  An Interview with James Nolan."    His poems and ecologisms are on-line at  Muse Apprentice Guild.   Formento is editor of Mesechabe:  The Journal of Surregionalism.