| Benjamin D. Carson |
Professor of English at Bridgewater State University. His creative work has appeared or
is forthcoming in Red Fez, The Ampersand Review, Free Inquiry, The Bitchin Kitsch,
the Boston Small Press and Poetry Scene blog, The Somerville Times, Cactus Heart, Oddball Magazine,
and The Charles River Journal.
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| David Castleman |
Poems, tales, imaginative essays have appeared in hundreds of small
magazines on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Maria Ceferatti
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Music teacher and writing instructor in the Philadelphia area. In 2019, she earned
her MFA in Creative Writing from Rosemont College. In addition to teaching instrumental and general music,
she is also the music director of Acting Without Boundaries, a theater group for actors with physical disabilities.
Marias previous work has been published in Schuylkill Valley Journal, Paterson Literary Review,
Main Street Rag, Hippocampus Magazine, and The Best of Philadelphia Stories, among others. |
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Catherine Chandler |
Her first full-length collection of poetry, Lines of Flight (Able Muse Press 2011),
was shortlisted in 2013 for the prestigious Poets Prize. A second full-length collection, Glad and Sorry Seasons,
was published by Biblioasis Press (Windsor, Ontario) in 2014. A chapbook of sonnets This Sweet Order
appeared in 2012 with Kelsay Books/White Violet Press. Awards include the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award (2010) for her
poem "Coming to Terms," judged by A. E. Stallings. See her website at
cathychandler.blogspot.com .
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Paul Chandler |
Studied poetry at Quincy College.
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Nancy Cherico
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Began writing poery seriously after her retirement as a psychologist. Through her poetry
she attemmpts to transform the unbearable, carry hope, and illuminate the absurdity of life. Sometimes stark and raw,
sometimes wryly humorous, her poetry draws on everyday observations and nearly forgotten memories.
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Eric Chiles |
Adjunct professor of Journalism and English in eastern Pennsylvania and was a prize-winning print journalist for
more than 30 years. His chapbook Caught in Between was published by Desert Willow Press. His poetry has appeared in Allegro,
American Journal of Poetry, Apeiron Review, Asses of Parnassus, Chiron Review, Plainsongs,
Rattle, Tar River Poetry, Third Wednesday, and other journals. His poem "The orchid garnish" won the 2015 Cape Cod Writers Center Poetry Contest.
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| Llyn Clague |
Based in Sleepy Hollow, New York. His poems have been published widely, including in Ibbetson Street,
Atlanta Review, Wisconsin Review, California Quarterly, Main Street Rag, New York Quarterly, and other magazines.
His eighth book, Up Close And Nuclear, was published by Main Street Rag in 2019. Visit
www.llynclague.com.
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| Jennifer Clarvoe |
Her first book, Invisible Tender, published by Fordham University Press, won the Poets Out Loud Prize
and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Her second book, Counter-Amores, was written in part thanks to time afforded by a Rome
Prize in Literature. Recent poems have appeared in Bad Lilies, Northwest Review, and On the Seawall. Retired from
teaching at Kenyon College, she lives in Somerville.
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| Terese Coe |
Received a B.A. in English with a minor in comparative literature from the
City College of New York and an M.A. in dramatic literature from the University of Utah. Poems and translations have
recently appeared in The Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, New American Writing,
The Cincinnati Review, 32 Poems, and Smartish Pace in the US, and Agenda, The Times Literary Supplement, Orbis, and
Poetry Nottingham, among others, in the UK. Her book The Everyday Uncommon was published in 2005 by Wordtech, and
her second collection Shot Silk in 2015 by White Violet Press. Her third book of satirical and Zen verse
Why You Cant Go Home Again appeared in 2018 with Kelsay Books. Her historical play Harry Smith in the Chelsea Hotel
was read by Equity actors in June 2012 in New York.
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| Helen Degen Cohen |
Awards include NEA in poetry, first prize in Stand
Magazine (fiction), Illinois Arts Council Award and Fellowship, Indiana
Writers Conference Award. Co-founder and editor of Rhino: The Poetry
Forum. |
| Martha Collins |
With Kevin Prufer and Martin Rock, has edited a collection of the poems of Catherine Breese Davis,
accompanied by essays about her life and work, that was published by the Unsung Masters series of Pleiades Press in June 2015.
Former director of creative writing at Oberlin College. Author of Blue Front (Gray Wolf Press), Day Unto Day and
Black Star, translations of the Vietnamese poetry of Ngo Tu Lap (Milkweed).
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| William Conelly |
After military service, took both Bachelors and Masters Degrees in English under Edgar Bowers
at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Retired from commercial research, writing, and teaching, with a dual
US-UK citizenship, he now resides in the West Midlands town of Warwick. His collected
poems Uncontested Grounds appeared with Able Muse Press and a short collection of his verse for
children West of Boston with Olympia. The poems in The Poetry Porch 2024 conclude an unpublished manuscript
The Draft of Seasons.
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| Miles Coon. |
Has taken workshops run by Susan Mitchell, Thomas
Lux, and more. |
| Maryann Corbett |
Author of two books of poems and two chapbooks. Newest book is Credo for the Checkout Line in Winter, which was a finalist for the
Able Muse Book Prize. Her poems, essays, and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in many journals in
print and online, including Southwest Review, Barrow Street, 32 Poems, Measure, PN Review,
Modern Poetry in Translation, Verse Daily, and American Life in Poetry. Past winner
of the Lyric Memorial Award and the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize, she lives in Saint Paul and works for
the Minnesota Legislature. |
| Eleanor Cory |
A composer of concert music, she has set many contemporary poets
to music. Her poems have appeared in Iambs and Trochees.
She teaches at Mannes College of Music and the City University of New York. See her Web site at
www.eleanorcory.com. |
| Wesli Court |
"Wesli Court" is the anagram pen-name for Lewis Turco. Wesli has published
four books of poetry and a childrens picture story book, MURGATROYD AND MABEL, over the last
three decades, the most recent of which is THE COLLECTED LYRICS OF LEWIS TURCO / WESLI COURT 1953-2004,
published by Star Cloud Press in 2004. His work appears
on-line in Trellis , in
Per Contra Light Verse Supplement, and in the current print issue of MEASURE.
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| Barbara Lydecker Crane |
Published poems in Light Quarterly, Measure, Christian Science Monitor, America, Raintown Review,
Mezzo Cammin, Blue Unicorn, The Flea, Think Journal, 14 by 14, among other journals, and in four anthologies. In 2011, she won First Prize
in the Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest. Her chapbook Zero Gravitas was published by White Violet Press in 2012. |
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Ruth Daigon
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Most recent poetry collection The Moon Inside
was published in December 1999 (Gravity/Newtons Baby). Her awards include
the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize 1997 and the Greensboro Poetry Award 2000.
Founder and editor of Poets On: for twenty years, until it ceased
publication. Her chapbook can be read at Web
Del Sol. |
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Tom Daley
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Former machinist, he now leads writing workshops in the Boston area and online for poets
and writers working in creative prose. Recipient of the Dana Award in Poetry and the Charles and Fanny Fay Wood
Prize from the Academy of American Poets. His poetry has appeared in Harvard Review, Massachusetts Review, 32 Poems,
Fence, Denver Quarterly, Crazyhorse, Barrow Street, Rhino, Prairie Schooner, Witness,
Poetry Ireland Review, Conte, and elsewhere. He is the author of two plays, Every Broom and Bridget--Emily Dickinson and Her Irish Servants and
In His Ecstasy--The Passion of Gerard Manley Hopkins, which he performs now as one-man shows. As poet-in-residence at the Boston Center for Adult Education, he staged several poetry-performance galas,
including The Poetry Vaudeville Show. He currently runs a poetry salon in Boston.
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Catherine Breese Davis (1924-2002)
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Published poems in such places as Poetry, The Southern Review, The New Yorker,
The Paris Review and New Poets of England & America between 1950 and 1998. A collection of her poems,
accompanied by essays about her life and work, edited by Martha Collins, Kevin Prufer, and Martin Rock,
appeared with the Unsung Masters series of Pleiades Press in June 2015. |
| Ellen Davis. |
Teaches English at Boston University. Her poems have appeared in Agni, Emily Dickinson Journal, Harvard
Review, Harvard Review and others. Her first manuscript of poems is circulating. |
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Holly Day
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Born in Hereford, Texas, "The Town Without a Toothache," she and her family
currently live in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she teaches writing classes at the Loft Literary Center.
Has published poetry books Late-Night Reading for Hardworking Construction Men (The Moon Publishing) and The Smell of Snow
(ELJ Publications), and a novel, The Book Of (Damnation Books). Also has published nonfiction books
including Music Composition for Dummies, Guitar All-in-One for Dummies, andA Brief History of Nordeast
Minneapolis. Her needlepoints and beadwork have recently appeared on the covers of The Grey Sparrow Journal,
QWERTY Magazine, and Kiki Magazine.
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Thomas DeFreitas
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Born in Boston, educated at Boston Latin School, and attended University of Massachusetts (Boston
and Amherst). His poems have appeared in Dappled Things, Ibbetson Street, Pensive, Plainsongs,
Soul-Lit, and elsewhere. His first chapbook Winter in Halifax appeared with Kelsay Books in 2021. |
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Stephan Delbos
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Poet and translator, he served as Poet Laureate of Plymouth, Massachusetts, 2020-2024. See his Web site at
www.stephandelbos.com .
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| Chard deNiord |
Author of six books of poetry, among them In My Unknowing (2020), Interstate (2019),
and The Double Truth (2011), each with University of Pittsburgh Press. Individual poems have appeared in American Religious Poems edited by Harold Bloom,
and in The Pushcart Book of Poetry, and also in Ploughshares, The New Republic, and TriQuarterly.
He is co-founder of the New England College MFA program in poetry. |
| Krikor Der Hohannesian (1936-2023) |
Poems have appeared in over 150 literary journals including The Evansville Review, The South
Carolina Review, Atlanta Review, Louisiana Literature, Connecticut Review, and Natural
Bridge. He is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee and the author of two chapbooks,Ghosts and Whispers
(Finishing Line Press, 2010) and Refuge in the Shadows (Cervena Barva Press, 2013).
Ghosts and Whispers was a finalist for the Mass Book awards poetry category in 2011. He lived in Medford, Massachusetts. |
| Diana Der Hovanessian (1922-2018) |
In Memoriam. |
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Peter H. Desmond
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Published in Compost, 96 Inc., Boston
Poet, and American Writer. Prepares tax returns for a living. |
| Richard Dey |
The first poems were written while Dey, having worked on a yacht in
the Caribbean in the summer of 1971, was a student at Harvard and published
in The Harvard Advocate. Several of the other poems have been published
in magazines, among them Poetry and Sail.
His book The Bequia Poems principally documents the experience of a contemporary American writer and sailor in the West
Indies, focusing on Bequia (pronounced Beck-way), a distinct island
in the Windward Islands and dependency of St. Vincent of the Grenadines. Some of these poems document the ethnography of this island, yet many are
deeply personal and speak beyond a single islands domain. Poems about Bequia
have become an ongoing work, and three subsequent collections have been
published with small presses. While Dey continues to write about sailing in the Carribean, his travels also include Maine.
Poems were published recently in Off the Coast and Caribbean Compass and Leviathan: A Journal
of Melville Studies. In 2019 he published a long review in WoodenBoat of a memoir by a fellow who built the last schooner built on Bequia,
which happened to be co-owned by Bob Dylan. He currently lives in Needham.
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| Susan Donnelly |
Founder of Every Other Thursday Poets. Her first
poetry collection, Eve Names the Animals, won the Samuel French
Morse Prize of Northeastern University. A poem from her second book Transit
(Iris Press 2001) was featured on Garrison Keillors Writers Almanac in April 2006. |
| Joseph Dorazio |
Author of four volumes of verse. His latest collection No Small Effort was published
by Aldrich Press.
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William Doreski
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A resident of Peterborough, New Hampshire, he has taught at several colleges and universities.
His most recent book of poetry is Venus, Jupiter (2023). His essays, poetry, fiction, and reviews have
appeared in various journals. |
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Vincent Dorio
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Active poet with Carpenter Poets of Eastern Massachusetts (CPOEM). One of his poems was selected by
the Mayors Poetry Program and on display at Boston City Hall (2016). |
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Owen Doyle
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His poetry has appeared in New Ohio Review, Harvard Review, Ibbetson Street,
The Formalist, and elsewhere. As an actor, he has performed with many Boston-area theaters including the
Huntington Theatre,
New Repertory Theatre, Lyric Stage, and the Poets Theatre. He currently lives in Paris. |
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Miriam Drev
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Born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, she is a poet, novelist, literary translator (from English and German),
as well as a literary critic and publicist. Her sixth book of poems Ancestral Healing received the Veronika Award
(Veronikina nagrada) for the best Slovenian poetry collection of the year 2023. Her poems have been translated into many
languages and published in several anthologies of Slovene poetry as well as in literary magazines abroad. An independent
writer and translator, she lives in the place of her birth, Ljubljana, Slovenia. |
| John Philip Drury |
Author of four full-length poetry collections: Sea Level Rising (Able Muse Press 2015),
The Refugee Camp
(Turning Point Books 2011), Burn the Aspern Papers (Miami University Press 2003), and The Disappearing Town
(Miami University Press 2000).
He has also written Creating Poetry and The Poetry Dictionary, both published by Writers Digest Books.
He teaches at the University of Cincinnati. |
| Tanya Ubiles Duarte |
Native of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, and student
of creative writing at Pine Manor College. These sonnets are her first
published poems. |
| Susanne Dubroff |
A full manuscript of her translations titled This
Smoke That Carried Us, Selected Poems by René Char was published
by White Pine Press, Spring 2004.
In 1999 The Mid-American Review (Bowling Green State University
in Ohio) published a twenty-eight-page bilingual chapbook of her translations
of the poems of René Char entitled Nothing Shipwrecks Itself
(Spring 1999, Volume XIX, Number 2). |
| Heather Dubrow |
The John D. Boyd, SJ, Chair in the Poetic Imagination at
Fordham University, she is the author of Lost and Found Departments (Cornerstone Press), Forms and Hollows (Cherry Grove Collections) and two chapbooks.
Poetry has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Yale
Review. She was director of Fordhams Poets Out Loud reading series between 2009 and summer 2020.
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| K. E. Duffin |
Author of King Vulture, a book of poems published by the University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series,
she studied with Seamus Heaney at Harvard University where she taught writing and won the Zitomirsky-Harvard Review Prize for Excellence in
Reviewing. King Vulture was featured in an article on first books in Poets & Writers. She has published in
Agni, Ploughshares, Poetry, and many other journals. Her poems have also been featured on Poetry Daily
and Verse Daily.
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Gavan Duffy
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Has been writing poetry since 2001 when he returned to Ireland after spending most of the Nineties living in Boston.
Poems have appeared in Crannog, Boyne Berries, The Stony Thursday Book, The South Bank Poetry Journal, and
St. Kerrills Journal. |
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Russell DuPont
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Author of four books: King & Train (Kindle Ebook and paperback); Waiting for the Turk: A Harry
Tolland Novel (detective novel eBook and paperback); Up in Wisconsin: Travels with Kingsley (a hand-made book);
There Is No Dam Now at Richford (a hand-made book); and two books of poetry: Winter, 1948 and Establishing Home
Plate, (both hand-made chapbooks). His poetry has been published in various literary magazines. His story, The Corner, appears
in the anthology Streets of Echoes. He is also a photographer, painter and printmaker whose works have been widely exhibited
and are in public and private collections, including The Boston Public Library; Brigham and Womens Hospital; and The Dana Farber
Cancer Institute. |
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Ann Egan
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Multi-award winning poet, she has held many residencies in counties, hospitals, schools, secure residences
and prisons. Her books include Landing the Sea (Bradshaw Books), The Wren Women (The Black Mountain Press),
Brigit of Kildare (Kildare Library and Arts Services), and Telling Time (Bradshaw Books 2012). Widely published in
Ireland and abroad, editor of twenty-one books, guest editor of The Midlands Arts and Culture Review (2010). |
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Moira Egan
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A resident of Rome, Italy, she recently co-edited Hot Sonnets (2011) for Entasis Press.
Her Bar Napkin Sonnets (2009) won the 2008 Ledge Poetry Chapbook Competition.
She is the author of the collections Cleave (WWPH 2004); La Seta della Cravatta / The Silk of the Tie
(Edizioni lObliquo 2009), a bilingual collection with
Italian translations by her husband, Damiano Abeni; and Spin (Entasis Press 2010). Recent translations into Italian include
Ferlinghettis A Coney Island of the Mind and Aimee Benders The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake.
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A. Adams Elias
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Studied poetry at Quincy College. |
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Donna Emerson
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Her first full-length poetry collection The Place of Our Meeting
was published by Finishing Line Press in 2018 and nominated for the California Book Award. Her second
collection Beside the Well appeared with Cherry Grove Collections in 2019. |
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Rhina P. Espaillat
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A native of the Dominican Republic, she has lived in
the U.S. since the age of seven. She publishes in English
and Spanish and has four poetry collections in print: Lapsing to Grace;
Where Horizons Go, which won the T. S. Eliot Prize; Rehearsing Absence,
which won the Richard Wilbur Award; and Mundo y Palabra/The World and the Word,
a bilingual chapbook. She has won the Howard Nemerov Award, the Sparrow Sonnet Prize
and prizes from the Poetry Society of America. Retired from teaching school in
New York City, Espaillat lives in Newburyport, Mass. |
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K. Michelle Etoile
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Received an MA in Humanities in 2018 from Dominican University of California. Born and raised in Oakland, she
has traveled to eleven countries. She is putting together a chapbook of poems. |
| Anna Evans |
Her poems have appeared in the Harvard Review, Atlanta Review,
Rattle, and 32 Poems. She was a finalist for the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award in both
2005 and 2007. She gained her MFA from Bennington College, and is the Editor of the
Raintown Review and of The Barefoot Muse. Her chapbooks
Swimming and Selected Sonnets are available from Maverick Duck Press. |
| Lee Evans |
Has published poetry in such venues as Contemporary Rhyme,
The Poetry Porch, The Deronda Review, and Neil McAlisters Science Poetry
anthology. He lives in Bath, Maine with his wife, and works for the local YMCA. |
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Leila Farjami
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Poet, literary translator, and psycotherapist. In addition to publishing seven
poetry books in Persian, some of which have been translated into Swedish, Arabic, Turkish, and French, she has
published poetry in English in Nimrod and in the 30/30 Project of Tupelo Press. She is currently translating the
poetry oF Rumi into English, and she has also translated a volume of Sylvia Plaths poetry into Persian. |
| Michael Fantina |
First book of poems Arcade of Dreams will be published in UK in 2007. |
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Orla Fay
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Editor of Boyne Berries Magazine. Her poetry has been published in Crannog,
The SHOp, The Stony Thursday Book, Abridged, North West Words, The Linnets Wings, Silver Blade Magazine,
and Shot Glass Journal, among others. |
| Richard Fein |
Lives in Cambridge, Mass. His most recent publication is Losing It (2021). Other publications include a
book of his translations of Yiddish
poetry, With Everything Weve Got: A Personal Anthology of Yiddish Poetry (Host Publications 2009);
a book of poems, BKLYN (BrickHouse Books 2011); and a book of personal essays, Yiddish Genesis
(BrickHouse Books 2012). Brick House Books also published Reversion in 2006, Mother Tongue in 2004, and Not a Separate Surge:
New and Selected Poems in 2016. Additional publications include I Think of Our Lives: Selected Poems (Creative Arts California
2002), The Full Pomegranate, translations of the poems of Avrom Sutzkever (SUNY Press 2019); and Whitman/Vitman
(Finishing Line Press 2019). His latest book of poems is Dear Yiddish (Box Turtle Press, 2003).
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| Annie Finch |
Author of Calendars (poetry), Among the Goddesses (a "narrative libretto"),
The Ghost of Meter (criticism), and A Formal Feeling Comes (an anthology of poetry by women). She is known for
developing an aesthetic of womens poetic traditions, publishing articles on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century
"poetesses" starting with a 1987 article on Lydia Sigourney for Legacy; editing with Laura Mandell
the texts for the original online Poetess Archive at Miami University; and founding and moderating
for its first decade the international listserv for discussion of womens poetry, WOM-PO. In 2009 she received the Robert
Fitzgerald Award for Prosody from West Chester University. She teaches at University of Southern Maine. |
| Caroline Finkelstein |
Third book, Justice, has recently been published
by Carnegie-Mellon University Press. For the year 1998, she lived in Florence,
Italy, on an Amy Lowell Travelling Fellowship. |
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Linda M. Fischer
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Her work has appeared in Atlanta Review, Poetry East, Ibbetson Street,
Philadelphia Poets, and elsewhere. Her first and second collections Raccoon Afternoons and Glory
were published by Finishing Line Press. For more of her work, visit her website
lindamfischer.com .
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Charles Fishman
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Served as director of the SUNY Farmingdale Visiting Writers Program for 18 years
and was the originator of the Paumanok Poetry Award. His books include Mortal Companions, The Firewalkers,
Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust, and The Death Mazurka, which was selected by
the American Library Association as one of the outstanding books of the year 1989 and nominated for the 1990
Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. His poems, translations, reviews, and essays have appeared in more than 300 periodicals.
He has received the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize from Southern California Anthology, the Eve of St. Agnes Poetry Prize
from Negative Capability, the Gertrude B. Claytor Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and a fellowship
in poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
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Kate Flaherty
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Lives in Dorchester where she was born 80 years ago. Has also lived in Borneo,
British Columbia, Iowa City, Cape Cod, and New Mexico. Poems have appeared in Poet Lore, Muddy River Poetry Review,
Cape Cod Times, among others.
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John Foy
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First book is Technes Clearinghouse (Zoo Press). His poetry is featured in
the Swallow Anthology of New American Poets (Swallow Press/Ohio University Press) and has appeared widely in magazines,
including The New Yorker, Poetry, The New Criterion, Parnassus, The Raintown Review, American
Arts Quarterly, and Barrow Street. His work has also been selected for the Poetry Daily Website, Kin,
linebreak, The Nervous Breakdown, YARN, and others. He has an MFA from Columbia University and has taught writing
at Harvard Business School, Columbia, and Barnard. His essay-reviews have appeared in Parnassus, Contemporary Poetry Review,
and other publications, both print and on line, and he has been a guest blogger for Best American Poetry.
See his Website at johnffoy.net |
| Paul Fraleigh |
Lives in Montreal, Quebec. His poems have appeared
in The Barefoot Muse, Candelabrum Poetry Magazine, The Lyric,
The Raintown Review, and Umbrella, as well as other print and online journals. |
| Mary Freeman |
Retired textbook language specialist and literacy specialist for the State of Maine.
Since retirement in 2005, she has devoted herself to private scholarship and poetry-writing. She has been
published in A Sense of Place, an Anthology of Maine Poets, in 2001, and was a Liberty Fund Scholar, attending
"Freedom and the Epic" in 2002, and "Freedom and the Individual in Robert Frosts poetry" in 2003. A former member
of the Orbis Pictus Committee, and member of the International Reading Associations Board of Manuscript Reviewers,
she is currently working on a book about Julia Budenzs epic poem The Gardens of Flora Baum. She has nine children.
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| Kevin Gallagher |
Author of Loom (Madhat Press) and editor of Spoke. His
poems and prose have appeared in Harvard
Review, Partisan Review, and Jacket. He is Professor of Global Development Policy
at Boston University. |
| Michael Gallagher |
Born on Achill Island, County Mayo, but now lives in
Renagown, County Kerry. He worked as a builder in London for 40 years.
His poetry and short stories have been published in The Doghouse Book of
Ballad Poems, The Shamrock Haiku Journal, and Revival. He is a
founding member of the Seanachaí Writers Group, Listowel.
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Bridget Seley Galway
| An artist/poet, she received her BFA and a degree in Art Education from UMass/Amherst. Her collection
of poems and images What Moments Yield was published by Ibbetson Street Press. Poems have appeared
in Provincetown Magazines Poetry Corner, Wilderness House Literary Review, and the Bagel Bards Anthology.
Her art has been exhibited throughout New England and reviewed in several publications, including Artist Magazine and
Cape Arts. Her paintings have been selected for the covers of Bagel Bards Anthology, Ibbetson Street Magazine,
and individual poetry collections..
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| Margaret Galvin |
Irish poet working on her fourth collection. In 2003,
she won both The Brendan Kennelly and The Snowfit Poetry Awards. Her
work has appeared in a number of Irish and United Kingdom outlets, and
in Mobius (New York). |
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Claudia Gary
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Writes, edits, sings, and composes tonal chamber music and art songs near Washington, D.C.
A 2014 finalist for the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award and 2013 semifinalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
(Waywiser), she is the author of Humor Me (David Robert Books 2006) and several chapbooks. Besides many
journals, her poems appear in anthologies such as Forgetting Home (Barefoot Muse Press 2013) and
Villanelles (Everyman Press 2012). She also writes articles on health for The VVA Veteran,
VFW, and other magazines. |
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Rebecca Kaiser Gibson
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Author of OPINEL (Bauhan Publishing, 2015). Recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony,
The Heinrich Böll Cottage in Ireland, and the 2008 Fellowship in Poetry from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
She was selected as a Fulbright Scholar to teach poetry in Hyderabad, India, in 2011. She is founder and director of
The Loom, Poetry in Harrisville, a poetry reading series.
Her poems have appeared in The Adroit Journal, Agni, Field, The Greensboro Review, Green Mountain
Review, The Harvard Review, Ocean State Review, Poems2Go, Salamander, Slate,
The Taos Journal of International Poetry and Art, The Tupelo Quarterly, featured in VerseDaily among others,
and included in two anthologies, Cadence of Hooves and The Best of Tupelo
Press 30/30 Projects First Year. She lives in Marlborough, NH, and taught poetry at Tufts University for 23 years.
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| Celia Gilbert |
Has published four books of poetry and is the winner of a Discovery Award, an Emily Dickinson Award, a
Consuelo Ford Award from the Poetry Society of America, and a Pushcart Prize IX. Her work has frequently been anthologized.
Most recently her art and poetry has appeared online at Tower Journal and
Springhouse Journal.
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| Dana Gioia |
Former Director of the NEA: National
Endowment for the Arts. Author of the long essay Can Poetry Matter?,
two volumes of poetry, Daily Horoscope and The Gods of Winter,
as well as a libretto of an opera in two acts, Nosferatu (Graywolf). |
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John Goldie
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Photojournalist turned technical writer with large
stockpile of black and white prints, technical know-how, and HTML experience. |
| Thomas Gothers |
Ceramics Area Studio Manager in the 3-D Department at MassArt, Boston. |
| Tracey Gratch |
Lives in Quincy, Massachusetts, with her husband and their
four young children. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in online and print publications including,
Soundzine, Snakeskin, The Poetry Porch Sonnet Scroll, Lucid Rhythms, Loch Raven Review,
The Flea, Annals of Internal Medicine, Boston Literary Magazine, and The Yale Journal for
Humanities in Medicine. She also has a poem in an upcoming anthology of Science Poetry. |
| Eamon Grennan |
Taught at Vassar College until 2004. Born in Dublin, he has lived
in the United States, except for brief periods, since 1964. His most recent publication Out
of Sight: New & Selected Poems is just out from Graywolf. He is author of Matter of Fact
and The Quick of It (both also with Graywolf) and a translation of the poetry of Giacomo
Leopardi. He has also translated Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus, with his partner the
classicist Rachel Kitzinger. |
| J. M. Hall |
Chapbook collection entitled Bachata Adobe forthcoming in RedOchreLiT,
and forty-two individual poems in literary journals internationally, recently including Euphony (at the
University of Chicago), Shampoo and The Montucky Review. Since earning his Ph.D. in philosophy from
Vanderbilt University in 2012, he has also secured a book contract for an anthology of essays (entitled Philosophy
Imprisoned) and publication of twelve peer-reviewed journal articles (including in Philosophy and
Literature and Southern Literary Journal). He has eighteen years experience as a dancer and choreographer.
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Patricia L. Hamilton
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Professor of English in Jackson, Tennessee, she is the author of The Distance to Nightfall
(Main Street Rag). She won the 2015 and 2017 Rash Award for Poetry and has received three Pushcart nominations. Recent work has appeared in
Ibbetson Street and has recently been published in Broad River Review, Slant, The Ekphrastic Review,
and Bindweed. |
| Nels Hanson |
Has worked a farmer, teacher and editor. His fiction received the San Francisco Foundations
James D. Phelan Award, and his poetry the Prospero Prize from Sharkpack Review.
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Elena Harap
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Her poems and essays have appeared in Jewish Currents, Bayou, Amoskeag, Anthropology
and Humanism,
The Boston Area Small Press & Poetry Scene and on NPR. A founding member of Bostons Streetfeet Women, she edited and
contributed to their anthologies Laughing in the Kitchen (1998), and The Bones We Carry (2009). She has contributed an
essay to the anthology What Does it Mean to be White in America (2016), 2 LeafPress. She lives in Putney, VT, and
teaches in Roxbury, MA. |
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Kasey Hartung
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Currently a junior at Tufts University where she is majoring
in Political Science and minoring in English. "JetBlue Flight 654" is her first sestina and her first published poem. |
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Dolores Hayden
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Dolores Haydens poetry collections are American Yard (2004) and Nymph, Dun, and Spinner (2010).
Exuberance is forthcoming, a series of persona poems set in the early years of aviation. Her work appears in Poetry,
Raritan, Best American Poetry, Yale Review, The Common, and Southwest Review. Hayden has received awards from the Poetry Society of
America and the New England Poetry Club as well as fellowships from Djerassi, VCCA, and Noepe. A professor at Yale, shes
also the author of award-winning non-fiction titles including The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History.
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| R. W. Haynes |
Professor of English at Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas, where he teaches
Early British Literature and Shakespeare. Publishes on the Renaissance and on Southern Literature, especially the
plays and screenplays of Horton Foote. His poetry can be found in many online and print journals distributed around the world;
he also writes fiction and drama.
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| Joyce Heapes |
Retired elementary school teacher who studies and
writes poetry. |
| Lois Elaine Heckman |
Received a degree in Italian from UCLA. She now lives in Italy,
where she was a Red Cross nurse and first aid instructor for many years. Among her writing credits are
Boston Literary Magazine, Shot Glass Journal, Tilt-a-Whirl, Lucid Rhythms,
Victorian Violet Press, Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, and Prole. In 2010,
she won the New England Shakespeare Festival Rubber Ducky Sonnet Contest. |
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Helen K. Heineman
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Taught at Framingham State University, where she later became Academic
Vice President and, for the last seven years of her employment, President. Author of a biography of Mrs. Frances
Trollope. Her novels, Emma Redux 1, 2, and 3, continuations of Jane Austens Emma,
are scheduled for release with Touchstone Press in 2023.
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| Nancy Heiss |
Doctoral student in Language and Literacy Education at the University of Georgia. Her
research has focused on how religious identity affects the way children and adolescents interact with literature and
how literature can promote informed understandings of and between various religions and cultures. She is also a proponent for
and has published research on the inclusion of the arts in education. Her poetry has been published at BCC Press, Segullah,
WordPeace, and W-Poesis. |
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Robin Helweg-Larsen
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British-born, Caribbean-raised, formerly Danish immigrant to Canada who has been
living in Chapel Hill, NC, since 1991. His poetry has been published in the UK — Ambit, Snakeskin, and
Candelabrum, and also in 14 by 14, Unsplendid, Visions International, Shit Creek Review, The
Hypertexts, Phoenix Rising sonnet anthology, and more.
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Elise Hempel
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Her poetry has appeared in many journals, including Measure, The Midwest Quarterly, Valparaiso
Poetry Review, The Evansville Review, and Ted Koosers American Life in Poetry. She is the winner of the 2015 Able Muse
Write Prize in Poetry, and her first full-length book will be published by Able Muse Press in 2016. |
| Celia Hensel |
Student at Mass Art. |
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John Hildebidle
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His poetry collections Signs, Translations (2008)
Defining Absence (1999) have been issued by Salmon
Books, distributed by Dufour Editions. |
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Kathleen Hill
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Lives in Mississippi where she teaches first grade. |
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Kathryn Hines
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Author of a novel, The Healers Choice; a poetry collection, Candle, Thread, and Flute;
and has co-authored a book of photographs and short stories, The Forty; also numerous nonfiction titles for young people.
She teaches composition and world literature at the University of North Georgia. |
| Kristen Hoggatt |
Received MFA from Emerson College after working abroad for three years
in Egypt and Uzbekistan, where she taught English and ran poetry workshops. Poems have been published by
or are forthcoming in The Sows Ear Poetry Review, Nimrod International Journal, The Ledge Magazine,
scissors and spackle, Millers Pond, Arsenic Lobster, The Healing Muse, and The Smart Set,
where she was Ask a Poet advice columnist from 2008-2011.
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John L. Holgerson
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Author of Unnecessary Tattoo and Other Stains on a Stainless Steel Heart
(Finishing Line Press 2016) and Broken Borders (Wasteland Press 2012). He has published poems in print journals
(Modern English Tanka, Shadow Quill Poetry, Popt Art) and online (Page & Spine, Vincent van Gogh
Gallery, MassPoetry). He is one of three MassPoetry representatives for Bristol County, Massachusetts, and is the
founder of the Poetry as Verdict project, a public venue for high school student-poets to read their work. In 1970, he went
to the Greek island Hydra for the first time. Since 1995, during non-pandemic times, he lives there for part of each year. |
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Connor Holmes
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Some publications include Bakery, Full of Crow, Mud Luscious Press, Writers
Bloc Magazine, and Sweet: A Literary Confection.
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| Jeff Holt |
Licensed Professional Counselor from Plano, Texas, he has poetry forthcoming in
Measure and Angle and has previously published poetry in Antiphon Poetry Magazine, String Poet,
The Nervous Breakdown, and other journals. In 2012, White Violet Press published his first book, The Harvest.
His second book, Antiheroes, is planned for publication in 2016.
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Victor Howes (1923-2018)
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Former head of the English Department at Northeastern University, he
has published poems in The Classical Outlook and LIGHT: The Quarterly of Light Verse,
where he was recently Featured Poet. His poetry collection Thoughts after Spenser was published in 2016.
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| Caroline Hurley |
Poems have appeared in various blogs and e-zines, including Poetry 24, Three Monkeys, the Electric Acorn,
and in an anthology. She also writes prose, fiction, and non-fiction.
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Teresa Iverson (1955-2020)
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In Memoriam.
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| Katherine Jackson. |
Her poetry has been
published in Partisan Review, Southwest Review, Verse,
Cumberland Poetry Review, and other journals. She was one of six
whose works were represented in Continuing Tradition: Doubly Gifted
Artists at the The Atelier A/E gallery in New York City (1999). In recent years, she has been primarily engaged with
the visual, juxtaposing drawing, glass, and light as the basis of her work. See examples of her
installations and exhibitions on her Web site at katherinejackson.com. |
| Marcy Jarvis |
Worked in the field of architectural conservation in New York City for several years; currently she lives
in southern Germany. Her memoirs about growing up in the Adirondacks were published in Adirondack Life
and her poems have appeared in various journals including The New Formalist. |
| David Johnson |
Was born in Boston, MA, and attended Bowdoin College (BA 94)
and the University of Cincinnati (MA 00), both degrees in Classics. He has been
working for the last eight years at Thomas Jefferson School,
a small boarding school, grades 7-12 in St. Louis, MO, where he currently resides. |
| Donna Johnson |
Has published poems and reviews in Birmingham Poetry Review,
Café Review, Green Mountains Review, Roanoke Review, Tulane Review,
Two Rivers Review, and Perihelion magazines. Recently won CutBank
Magazines online contest. Has poems forthcoming in Merge. She lives and works near Boston, Massachusetts. |
| Robert K. Johnson |
Former Consulting Editor for Ibbeston Street Magazine. His poems have appeared in such
publications as Main Street Rag, Webster Review, South Carolina Review, The New York Times, and
Chiron Review. His latest collections of poetry are From Mist To Shadow and Choir of Day. |
| Joanne Joseph |
An actor/poet, she studied at the University of Minnesota and San Francisco State College, where
several significant writers shaped her career. She has been published in numerous journals. Her chap book Resonances
appeared with Finishing Line Press in 2013. She has done public readings and performances across the map,
including the one-person original show Shakespeares Mums, which she presented at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
in 1998. She lives in New York City. |
| George Kalogeris |
Most recent book of poems is Guide to Greece (Louisiana State University 2018). He is also
the author of a book of paired poems in translation, Dialogos (Antilever 2012) and of a book of poems based on the notebooks
of Albert Camus, Camus: Carnets (Pressed Wafer 2006). His poems and translations have been anthologized in Joining Music with Reason,
chosen by Christopher Ricks (Waywiser 2010). His book of poems Winthropos won the 2023 Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize from the New England Poetry Club. |
| Jennifer Schomburg Kanke |
Holds a PhD in English from Florida State University. Her work appears in Interdisciplinary Studies in
Literature and the Environment, New Ohio Review, Massachusetts Review, and Shenandoah, as well as the
anthologies I Thought I Heard a Cardinal Sing: Ohios Appalachian Voices and Every River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian
Ohio. Her zine about her experiences undergoing chemotherapy for ovarian cancer, Fine, Considering, is available from
Rinky Dink Press. She serves as a reader for The Dodge. |
| Marcia Karp |
Poems and translations have been published in The Times Literary Supplement, New Ohio Review,
The Warwick Review, Harvard Review, Agenda, Literary Imagination, Seneca Review, The Guardian,
Partisan Review, Joining Music with Reason: 34 Poets, British and American, Oxford 2004-2009 (Waywiser) and The Word Exchange:
Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation (Norton). Her collection, If by Song, appeared in 2021 with Lily Poetry Review Books.
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Barbara Claire Kasselmann
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Poetry has appeared in several literary journals, including Connecticut Review, Louisiana
Literature, Worcester Review, Atlanta Review, Kalliope, Images, Slipstream, Poesis, and Sojourner.
For over than 30 years, she published articles and photographs in magazines and newspapers, such as The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia
Inquirer, and others. She taught for 14 years at Northeastern University. |
| X. J. Kennedy |
Author of In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems,
1955-2007 (Johns Hopkins University Press) and Peeping Toms Cabin, Comic Verse 1928-2008
(BOA Editions). |
| Joan A. W. Kimball |
A founder of the Concord Poetry Center and a member of
the Powow River Poets and of the performance troupe called "X. J. Kennedy and the
Light Brigade." She has had poems accepted in journals including Comstock Review, Atlanta
Review, Measure, The Lyric, Thema, and Raintown Review. She was
named a finalist for Southwest Reviews 2010 Morton Marr Poetry Prize. |
| Kathleen Kirk |
Author of eight poetry chapbooks, most recently Spiritual Midwifery (Red Bird, 2019) and
The Towns (Unicorn Press, 2018). Her work has appeared in a variety of print and online
magazines, including Poetry East, Nimrod, Eclectica, The Fourth River, and Waccamaw.
She is the poetry editor for Escape Into Life.
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| John Kneisly |
His poems have appeared in Pudding, Iconoclast, and elsewhere, and in several
anthologies. His chapbook, For the Fallen Things (Pudding House, 2006), was nominated for the
Pushcart Prize. He has also edited a volume of poems by John Unland, The Sea Beneath the House
(Pudding House, 2004). He lives in Delaware, Ohio, after a varied career in research, teaching, and
computer services..
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| Robert Knox |
Poet, fiction writer, Boston Globe correspondent, and contributing editor for
the online poetry journal Verse-Virtual. His poems have appeared in the journals such as The American Journal
of Poetry , New Verse News, Unlikely Stories, and others. His poetry chapbook Gardeners Do It With Their
Hands Dirty was nominated for a Massachusetts Best Book Award. He is the winner of the 2019 Anita McAndrews Poetry Award for a poem
about human rights. His book of linked short stories House Stories was published by Adelaide Books in December of 2021.
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| Adrian Gibbons Koesters |
Works as an editorial specialist at Creighton
University, where she is currently enrolled as a graduate student in the
creative writing program. Her poetry has appeared in Shadows and
Smackwarm. |
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Constance Hooker Koons
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Lives and writes in the Monadnock Region of New Hampshire. She is currently working on
a series of pandemic poems and a collection of poems Loving Better from a Distance. Has published in Write Action
Newsletter, Naugatuck River Review. Her poem Late October appeared in The Anthology of New England Writers.
Her chapbook Devotion to Lost Causes was published by Finishing Line Press. |
|
Jean L. Kreiling
|
Poetry collections Shared History (2021), Arts & Letters & Love (2018), and
The Truth in Dissonance (2014) appeared with Kelsay Books. Her work has been honored with the Able Muse Write Prize,
the Great Lakes Commonwealth of Letters Sonnet Prize, the Kelsay Books Metrical Poetry Prize, a Laureates Prize in the Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest,
three New England Poetry Club prizes, the Plymouth Poetry Contest prize, and the String Poet Prize. |
| David Landon |
Recipient of the 2019 Write Prize awarded by Able Muse. Poems have appeared in The Dark Horse,
The Southwest Review
(Marr Prize Runner-up),
Think Journal, Birmingham Poetry Review, Sewanee Theological Review, Subtropic, American Journal
of Poetry,
Southern Poetry Review (Guy Owen Prize finalist), Cumberland River, Harvard Advocate Centennial
Anthology, and
elsewhere. As an actor he has performed with the Nashville, Alabama, and New York Shakespeare Festivals,
and with the Provincetown and New Orleans Tennessee Williams Festivals. At Provincetown, he appeared in the premiere
of Williamss Parade. He is the Bishop Juhan Professor of Theatre Arts Emeritus at Sewanee.
|
| Luann Landon |
Most recent publications are in Mezzo Cammin and
Measure. She has also published poems in Cumberland Poetry Review,
The Sewanee Theological Review, Dogwood, The Tennessee Quarterly
and The Edge City Review. Her memoir-cookbook, Dinner at Miss Ladys,
published by Algonquin in 1999, is now a Kindle Book. |
| David Landrum |
Teaches Literature at Grand Valley State University in Allendale,
Michigan. His sonnets have appeared in numerous journals, including 14 by 14, Hellas,
The Formalist, The New Formalist, Umbrella, and many others.
|
| Suzanne K. Lang |
Received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Emerson
College in 2002, where she studied under Gail Mazur and Bill Knott. She
received her B.A. in English and Creative Writing from Dartmouth College
in 1999 and currently teaches at the College of New Jersey. |
| Christian Langworthy |
Has published poetry in anthologies such as Isnt It Romantic:
100 Love Poems by Young American Poets, From Both Sides Now, Watermark, Premonitions,
and Bold Words. He has also published poetry and prose in the Michigan Quarterly Review,
Fence Magazine, failbetter.com, The Recorder, PBS American Experience, Mudfish,
Salon.com, and Manoa. Several of his poems have been performed in libretti at the National Gallery of Art
and at the Glimmerglass Opera Festival. |
| Mary Ann Larkin |
Author of one book, That Deep and Steady Hum, and six chapbooks of poetry.
Her work has appeared in Poetry Greece, Poetry Ireland Review, New Letters, and other journals and in more
than twenty anthologies, including Harry N. Abrams series on poetry and art. She was a co-founder of The Big Mama Poetry Troupe,
a group of five feminist poets based in Cleveland in the seventies, who performed from Chicago to New York City. Larkin has taught
writing at a number of colleges, most recently at Howard University, and written for NPR, NIH, Foundation News, and others. She has
enjoyed residencies at both Yaddo and the Jentel Foundation in Wyoming. With Patric Pepper she co-founded Pond Road Press, which
published Tough Heaven: Poems of Pittsburgh by Jack Gilbert. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she now lives in North Truro,
Massachusetts. |
| Kristin LaTour |
Has two chapbooks, Blood (Naked Mannequin Press 2009) and Town Limits
(Pudding House Press 2007). Her poetry has appeared in Fifth Wednesday, Cider Press, After Hours,
Pearl, and is forthcoming in dirtcakes. She teaches at Joliet Jr. College and is a
graduate of the Stonecoast MFA program where she studied formal poetry with Reginald Shepherd and Annie Finch. |
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Jenna Le
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Author of three full-length poetry collections, Six Rivers (NYQ Books, 2011),
A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora (Indolent Books, 2017), and Manatee Lagoon (Acre Books, 2022). She won
POETRY BY THE SEAs inaugural sonnet competition (2019). Her poems have appeared in AGNI, Pleiades, Verse Daily,
West Branch, and elsewhere. See jennalewriting.com .
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| Adrienne Leavy |
Originally from Ireland but now lives in Phoenix, Arizona, where she is
working on her first poetry collection. Her poems have appeared in Ireland in numerous journals
including Boyne Berries, Crannog, Revival and in the anthology, The Stony Thursday Book.
She graduated from Arizona State University in December 2013 with a Ph.D. in English Literature. The
subject of her dissertation was the representation of women in the poetry of Thomas Kinsella. She
is the founder of Reading Ireland, an Irish literature consulting company, which promotes Irish literature
and advises clients on Irish authors and literature specifically tailored to their individual interests.
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| Valerie Lester (1939-2019) |
Biographer of Clarence Bicknell (2018), Giambattista Bodoni (Godine, 2015), Phiz, the Man Who Drew Dickins
(Pimlico, 2006), and Fasten Your Seat Belts! History and Heroism in the Pan Am Cabin (2012).
See her Web site at
www.valerielester.com .
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Kathryn Liebowitz
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Award-winning writer of prose (stories, nonfiction, and journalism)
appearing in Boston area literary journals, magazines, and newspapers, most recently published
in Wild Apples, journal of nature, art, and inquiry. |
| Frannie Lindsay |
Author of six volumes of poetry, most recently The Snow's Wife (CavanKerry Press, 2020) and
If Mercy (The Word Works, 2016). She is the winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award, the Perugia Prize, the May Swenson
Award, and the Washington Prize. In 2008, she was awarded the Missouri Review Prize. She has held fellowships from the National
Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She has taught numerous workshops on the poetry of grief and trauma.
She is also a classical pianist. |
| Judith Liniado |
Full time visual artist of oil and watercolor landscapes
and collage, specializing in Japanese and Chinese brush calligraphy and
painting. |
| Ernesto Livorni |
Teaches in the Italian Language and Literature Department
at University of Wisconsin. |
| Laurence Loeb |
Poems appeared recently in Mid-America Poetry
Journal and in the Canadian journal FELT. His translation of
a Beaudelaire poem was published in American Imago. |
| Anthony Lombardy |
Teaches classics and poetry writing at Belmont
University, Tennessee. His book of poems Antique Collecting was
pubished by WordTech Editions in 2004. |
| Sabra Loomis (1938-2017) |
The author of Rosetree and two chapbooks of poetry, she has
received awards from the Artists Foundation, the Yeats Society, and the British Council,
as well as fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colongy. She teaches frequently
at the William Joiner Center at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and was on the
faculty of the Poets House, Donegal, for many years. Her collection House
Held Together by Winds (Harper Perennial, 2008), winner of the 2007 National Poetry Series,
selected by James Tate.
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| Emily Lyle |
Director of Center for Scottish Studies in Edinburgh. |
| John MacLean |
Poems have appeared in The Lyric, Avocet, The Road Not Taken, and more.
His book If You Teach It, They Will Read appeared with Rowman and Littlefield. He is a retired English teacher
who has worked as a merchant seaman, janitor, mill worker, and assistant district attorney. |
| Susan Mahan |
Writing poetry since her husband died in 1997, she is a frequent
reader at the Boston Public Library and the Catbird Café in Weymouth. She has published
four chap books, most recently World View in 2009. Her poems have appeared in the online journals
Hospital Drive Journal, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, and Quill & Parchment.
She joined the editorial staff of The South Boston Literary Gazette in
2002. Her work has been included in poetry exhibits at Boston City Hall for the past three years.
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| D. S. Maolalai
|
Graduate of English Literature from Trinity College in Dublin. Writing has appeared in such publications
as Out of Ours, The Eunoia Review, Kerouacs Dog, More Said Than Done, Star Tips, Myths Magazine,
Ariadnes Thread, The Belleville Park Pages, Killing the Angel, and Unrorean Broadsheet. He has published
two poetry collections, Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden (2016, Encircle Press) and Sad Havoc Among the Birds
(2019, Turas Press).
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Fred Marchant
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His poetry books Said Unsaid (2017), The Looking House (2009),
and Full Moon Boat (2000) were published by Graywolf Press. During the Viet Nam war
he was one of the first Marine officers to be discharged honorably as a conscientious objector, the subject of
his book Tipping Point, winner of the 1993
Washington Prize. With Nguyen Ba Chung, he translated the poetry collected in From a Corner of My Yard by Tran Dang Khoa. He also edited
and wrote the introduction
for Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford, 1937-1947. Until his retirement in 2017, Marchant was the Director of the
Creative Program and The Poetry Center at Suffolk University in Boston, MA. He was also a long-time teaching affiliate of
The William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences at UMass-Boston. In 2009 Marchant
was co-winner of the May Sarton Award from the New England Poetry Club, given to poets whose work is an inspiration to other poets.
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Alan Marshfield
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Writes and publishes poetry in London. |
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Catherine Mayes
|
Special Education Advocate and Private Practice. Has worked with the Autism Project
Advocate Massachusetts Advocates for Children, Boston, MA.
Responsibilities included providing technical assistance to families with students with autism spectrum disorders
throughout the Commonwealth. |
|
Gail Mazur
|
Distinguished Writer in Residence in Emerson Colleges Writing, Literature and Publishing
Program and founding director of the Blacksmith House Poetry Center. Gail Mazurs fifth book
Zeppos First Wife: New & Selected Poems won the 2006 Massachusetts Book Award in poetry.
Her collection of poems Figures in a Landscape was published in 2011. Read the
interview conducted by Lloyd
Schwartz for PROVINCETOWN ARTS in 2008. Visit her Web site at
GailMazur.com.
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| Candace McClelland |
Student at Miami University in Ohio. |
| Melissa McEwen |
From Hartford, Connecticut, she has published poetry in Rattle, MiPOesias, The
Connecticut River Review, and other literary magazines online and in print. |
|
Martin McKinsey
|
Translations include Late into the Night: the
Last Poems of Yannis Ritsos (Oberlin/Field Translation Series) and
Andreas Franghiass The Courtyard, winner of the 1996 Greek State
Prize for Translation. Pt. Taenaron, a book of his poems, is available
from Tapir Press. He lives in Richmond, Virginia. |
| Deborah Melone |
Member of Every Other Thursday Poets. |
| Ann Michael |
Two of her poems have recently appeared in LIGHT: The Quarterly
of Light Verse. She has won a fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the
Arts and has been published in numerous anthologies, literary reviews, and professional journals,
including Poem, Natural Bridge, and Coe Review. She is working on a
collection of literary essays. |
| Jennifer Davis Michael |
Professor of English and creative writing at the University of the South in
Sewanee, Tennessee, She is the author of two chapbooks, both from Finishing Line Press: Let Me Let Go(2020) and
Dubious Breath (2022). See jenniferdavismichael.com. |
| Joan Michelson |
Originally from Boston, she lives in England and teaches at Birkbeck College, London.
In 2011 she was appointed Crouch End London Thorntons Budgens Poet Laureate. In this capacity she is promoting
poetry within the community. See webpage at www.poetrypf.co.uk. Her poems and other writing have been published in
magazines in the UK and USA. Her collection, Toward the Heliopause, poems in conversation with her deceased husbands
poems, appeared in 2011 with Poetic Matrix Press, CA, and has been translated into Romanian for the Translation Centre
at the University in Bucharest.
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| David P. Miller |
Poetry collection Bend in the Stair was published by Lily Poetry Review in 2021, Sprawled Asleep by Nixes Mate Books in 2019, and a chapbook
The Afterimages by Cervena Barva Press in 2014. Poems have recently appeared in Meat for Tea,
Hawaii Pacific Review, Turtle Island Quarterly, Clementine Unbound, Constellations, J Journal,
The Lily Poetry Review, Ibbetson Street, Redheaded Stepchild, The Blue Page, What Rough Beast, among others. He is a member of the Jamaica
Pond Poets. His poem Add One Father to Earth was awarded an Honorable Mention by Robert Pinsky for the New England
Poetry Clubs 2019 Samuel Washington Allen Prize competition.
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| Nancy Bailey Miller |
Has published five books of poems, most recently Hold On. Her prose book Of Minitmen &
Mollys is a collection of stand-alone articles she wrote for Town Crossings. Her poems have been anthologized
in Powow River Anthology, Merrimack Literary Review, and The Crafty Poet, among others, and
have appeared in many print and on-line journals. She taught writing at Phillips Academy for 11 summers. She also teaches Suzuki
violin and viola, plays in string quartets, and races sailboats in Marblehead.
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| Richard Moore (1927-2009) |
Of Richard Moores ten published volumes of poetry, one was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He
is also the author of a novel, The Investigator
(Story Line Press, 1991), a collection of essays, The Rule That Liberates (University of South
Dakota Press, 1994), and translations of Plautus Captivi (in the Johns Hopkins University Complete
Roman Drama in Translation series, 1995) and Euripedes Hippolytus (in the Penn Greek Drama Series,
U. of Pennsylvania, 1998). Moores most recent poetry books include The Mouse Whole: An Epic
(Negative Capability Press, 1996) and Pygmies and Pyramids (Orchises Press, 1998). His newest
collection of poems, The Naked Scarecrow, was published by Truman State University Press, New
Odyssey Editions, in the spring of 2000.
Moore taught at Boston University, Brandeis University, the New England Conservatory of Music,
and Clark University. He directed the Agape poetry series in Boston and The Poetry Exchange in
Cambridge, Mass., and Leesburg, Va., until he died in 2009. In a memorial tribute, X. J. Kennedy
wrote: "[Moores] devastating satiric verse...included moving lyrics invoking the sorrows of
love and war" (LIGHT, No. 66-67).
His Web site remains online at www.moorepoetry.com. |
| Paul Muldoon |
Author of ten books of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning
Moy Sand and Gravel, and, most recently, Horse Latitudes. Between 1999 and 2004, he was
Professor of Poetry at Oxford University, afterwhich he published The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures.
He teaches at Princeton University and is Poetry Editor of The New Yorker. |
|
Sheila Murphy
|
Taught English and Latin in Massachusetts, Hawaii, and Connecticut, in Catholic and public schools. She is
writing a memoir of her mother who was a Yeoman (F) in Boston during World War I. Her chapbook View from a Kayak in Autumn
honors the memory of two grandchildren who died of Spinal Muscular Atrophy. Her poems have appeared recently in Forgotten
Women: A Tribute in Poetry, Passager Poetry 2019, The Poetry Porch 2019, and Presence:
A Journal of Catholic Poetry 2022.
|
| James Naiden |
Articles on the works, respectively, of Seamus Heaney (last spring) and Deborah Digges
(current issue) can be found on the Rain Taxi website. His novel, Scuttlebone, is now available
from PublishAmerica or Amazon.com. |
|
Vivek Narayanan
|
Studied in the Creative Writing Program
at Boston University. An Indian national who grew up in Zambia, he received
an MA in cultural anthropology from Stanford University and taught history
and anthropology in South Africa before coming to Boston. His publications
include six poems in the anthology Reasons For Belonging: Fourteen Contemporary
Indian Poets (Penguin India, 2002), poems in the Fulcrum
Annual 2003, a story in the South African magazine Mamba, and
a review of the Indian poet Dom Moraes in the Summer 2002 issue of Poetry
Review (London). A.K. Natarajan and the Three Varieties of Love
is part of a projected book of stories. |
| Lee Nash |
Lives in France and works as a freelance editorial designer for a UK publisher. Her poems
have appeared or are forthcoming in print and online journals in the UK, the US, and France, including Angle, Black Poppy Review,
Brittle Star, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Orbis, Poetry Salzburg Review, and more. Read a selection of her poems
on her Website at leenashpoetry.com .
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James B. Nicola
|
Full-length poetry collection Natural Tendencies forthcoming (2021) with Cervena Barva Press
and Fires of Heaven: Poems of Faith and Sense with Shanti Arts. Has published in Antioch, Barrow Street,
The Southwest Review,
The Atlanta Review, Rattle, and Poetry East. His full-length collections are Manhattan Plaza,
Stage to Page,
Wind in the Cave, Out of Nothing, and Quickening: Poems from Before and Beyond (2019). His nonfiction
book Playing the Audience won a Choice award. A Yale graduate, he hosts the Hells Kitchen International Writers
Roundtable at Manhattans Columbus Library. For information, see
sites.google.com/site/jamesbnicola.
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| Philip Nikolayev |
Co-editor with Katia Kapovich of FULCRUM: An Annual of
Poetry and Aesthetics. |
| Chris OCarroll |
Author of two books of poems, The Jokes on Me and Abracadabratude. He has been Light
magazines featured poet, and his work appears in New York City Haiku, Extreme Sonnets, Love Affairs at the Villa Nelle, and
The Great American Wise Ass Poetry Anthology, among other collections. |
| Thomas OGrady |
Born and grew up on Prince Edward Island. Retired in December of 2019
after 35 years as Director of Irish Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where he was also Professor
of English and a member of the Creative Writing faculty. His articles, essays, and reviews on literary and cultural
matters have been published in a wide variety of scholarly journals and general-interest magazines, and his poems
and short fiction have been published in literary journals and magazines on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border
and on both sides of the Atlantic. His two books of poems What Really Matters
and Delivering the News were published in the Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series by McGill-Queens University Press.
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| Dzvinia Orlowsky |
Dzvinia Orlowsky is a Pushcart prize poet, an award-winning translator including a 2016 National
Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship, and a founding editor of Four Way Books. She has published six poetry
collections by Carnegie Mellon University Press including A Handful of Bees, reprinted for the Carnegie Mellon University
Classic Contemporary Series; Convertible Night, Flurry of Stones, winner of a Sheila Motton Book Award; and Bad Harvest,
a 2019 Massachusetts Book Awards Must Read in Poetry. Her poem sequence The (Dis)enchanted Desna was selected by former
national poet laureate Robert Pinsky as a 2019 winner of the New England Poetry Club Samuel Washington Allen Prize. Her
co-translations with Ali Kinsella from the Ukrainian of Natalka Bilotserkivetss poems, Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow,
published by Lost Horse Press in 2021, was a finalist for the 2022 Griffin International Poetry Prize, ALTAs National
Translation Award in Poetry, The Derek Walcott Poetry Prize, and winner of the AAUS Translation Prize. A founding poetry
faculty member of the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program she is currently Writer-in-Residence in Poetry and is also a
contributing poetry editor to AGNI as well as Solstice Literary Magazine: A Magazine of Diverse Voices where she is also
founding director of Night Riffs: A Solstice Sponsored Reading/Music Series.
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Miriam ONeal
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Poetry collections include We Start With What Were Given (Kelsay Books, 2018),
The Body Dialogues (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2019), and The Half-Said Things (Nixes Mate, 2022). Poems and reviews have appeared in Agni, Blackbird Journal,
Cathexis, The Guide Book, The North Dakota Review, and elsewhere. She received an Honorable Mention in the 2019 Princemere Poetry
Prize, and was a Notable Poet in the 2019 Disquiet Inernational Poetry Competition. She lives in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and was elected
Plymouth Poet Laureate in 2024. |
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Jean Pedrick (1923-2006)
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Her chapbook The Man in the Picture was published
in the Walking to Windward series, by Oyster River Press, 2001. She died in 2006, afterwhich
a chapbook award was created in her name at New England Poetry Club
. More information can be found at the
UNH library . |
| Alexander Pepple |
An electrical and software engineer. His poetry, fiction, and essays have
appeared or are forthcoming in Blue Unicorn, Hopkins Review, Rosebud, Euphony, Ecclectica, Light,
Chronicles, Per Contra, Think, River Styx, Barrow Street, American Arts Quarterly, Measure, and elsewhere. He founded and
edits Able Muse and its related presses, and directs its related Eratosphere online literary workshop. He edited the Able Muse Anthology
(Able Muse Press 2010). |
| Joyce Peseroff |
Petition, her sixth book of poems, was designated a must read by the Massachusetts Book Award,
as was her fifth collection, Know Thyself. She edited Robert Bly: When Sleepers Awake, The Ploughshares Poetry Reader, and
Simply Lasting: Writers
on Jane Kenyon. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Mass. Cultural Council. Recent poems and
reviews have appeared in Mass Poetrys The Hard Work of Hope, On the Seawall, and Arrowsmith Journal. She directed
and taught in UMass Bostons MFA Program in its first four years. Currently she blogs for her website SO I GAVE YOU QUARTZ
and writes a poetry column for Arrowsmith Press. |
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Carl Pfluger
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Essays on overlapping themes of cultural, religious,
and intellectual history include the following: "Progress, Irony, and Human
Sacrifice," published in Hudson Review, Spring 1995; "Deep Ecology
and Fundamentalism" (part of a book-in- progress with tentative title,
"Arguing Nature"), which appeared in the World Future Societys volume
The
Years Ahead: Perils, Problems, and Promises, 1993; "On Cranks," which
was published in the Southwest Review, Summer 1991, won the John
H. McGinnis Award for non-fictions, and was reprinted (abridged) in
Harpers,
November 1991. See new essays on-line at the Azoth
Gallery. |
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Marge Piercy
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Knopf has published her poetry collections On the Way Out, Turn Off the Light (2020),
Made in Detroit, as well as The Hunger Moon: New & Selected Poems 1980-2010.
Harper Perennial has published her seventeenth novel Sex Wars and her memoir Sleeping with Cats. PM Press published
her first short story collection, The Cost of Lunch, Etc., and republished Dance the Eagle to Sleep, Vida,
and Braided Lives, as well as My Life, My Body, essays and poems. Her work has been translated into 21 languages.
See her Website at www.margepiercy.com.
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| Robert Pinsky |
Professor of Creative Writing at Boston University
and former U. S. Poet Laureate. |
| James Plath |
Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University. His poems have appeared in
Men of Our Time: An Anthology of Male Poetry in Contemporary America (University of Georgia Press, 1992)
and such journals as The North American Review, ACM (Another Chicago Magazine), Apalachee Quarterly,
Gulf Stream Magazine, Spillway, and The Caribbean Writer. This poem was written when he
taught one semester as a Fulbright scholar at the University of the West Indies in Barbados. |
| Sharon Portnoff |
Teaches at Connecticut College, where she holds the Elie Wiesel Chair in Judaic Studies. Her poems
have appeared in Midstream, Wallace Stevens Journal, Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly,
Journal of the Pirandello Society of America, and Free Inquiry.
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| Phil Powrie |
Has taught film studies in a university in the South of the UK. Has had poems published in South,
Ink, Sweat and Tears, and Pulsar. He is bilingual English/French; four of his poems in French will be published
in 2023 in the French journal Lichen.
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Beth Brown Preston
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Studied Creative Writing at the University of Pennsylvania with Daniel Hoffman. Published Blue Cyclone, a chapbook; also
Lightyears and Satin Tunnels with Detroit: Broadside Lotus Press. Poems have appeared in Callaloo, Goddard Review,
Passager, Pennsylvania Review, and other
literary and scholarly journals. She is currently working on a novel, a memoir, and a play, as well as two poetry collections.
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Allegra Printz
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Poetry Porch bio page. |
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Denise Provost
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Served for many years in local government and for almost fifteen years in the Massachusetts House of
Representatives. Has published in such journals as Ibbetson Street, Muddy River Poetry Review, Light Quarterly,
qaartsiluni, and Quadrille, Sanctuary, and in numerous Bagel Bard anthologies. She received the New England Poetry
Clubs Samuel Washington Allen Award in 2021, and the Best Loved Sonnet Award from the Maria C. Faust Sonnet Competition in 2012.
Her chapbook Curious Peach was published by Ibbetson Street Press in 2019 and City of Stories by Cervena Barva Press
in 2021. |
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Nikki Raymond
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Poems have been published in the Colorado Review, Iowa Review, Village Voice,
Mezzo Cammin, and many other places. She has been honored by the Massachusetts Cultural Council in Poetry
(Finalist, 2008) and in Playwriting (Finalist 2007, Fellow 2013). A MacDowell Colony Fellow in poetry, and Playwrights
Center Jerome Fellow, Raymond has taught poetry writing at Harvard and the Cambridge Center for Adult Education. For Arts
on the Line, she wrote poems to order for commuters on the Red Line MBTA. She recently participated in MC Hylands
Walking Poets residency, sponsored by Poets House, and three tiny books from it are now part of the Poets House Library in NYC.
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| Elizabeth Reeke (1940?-2023) |
Academic studies were completed at Mount Holyoke College, Harvard University,
and Tufts University. Her professional work included research and program design and development in the fields of psychology
and education. She also explored some less traditional roles, including field study in the Oregon clearcuts searching for
endangered plants, and a years apprenticeship with a violin repair shop. Her desire to understand consciousness
and the mystical led her to travel across the earth and study the music of many lands. Spending time with a Bedouin healer
on a tiny isle in Greece, living in old beekeeper huts by the sea, she learned all she could of music and healing. Upon returning to the US,
she taught a number of workshops in the New England area. She has also studied the North Indian rudra veena, Chinese ghuzheng,
Japanese koto, and Celtic harp; and periods of artistic exploration of Chinese brush painting, batik, and weaving. She
currently lives in Arizona where she continues her musical practice and work on a collection of poems tentatively titled
Song of My Heart.
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