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John Maynard is a poet, biographer, and literary critic-historian. He has recently created six volumes of poetry of which one has been published and two will appear in 2026.
He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and won a Thomas J. Wilson book prize. He is Professor Emeritus at NYU.
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Laura Sobbott Ross has worked as a teacher and a writing coach for Lake County Schools in Florida and was named Lake County’s inaugural poet laureate. She is the author of six books of poetry.
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George Eklund is Emeritus Professor at Morehead State University. He shares studio space with the painter and poet Laura Eklund on thirty acres of wooded hills in eastern Kentucky.
Susan A. Wright has published poems in Low Explosions, Secrets of the Soul, The Russell Creek Review, Crossroads, Connections, and The Campbellsville Review, among others. She earned her MA in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing and her PhD in Composition. She teaches at a private university.
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Kim Malinowski has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, the Best of Net Award, and the Rhysling Award. She writes because the alternative is unthinkable.
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Originally from New York, Lucia Coppola is an English Second Language teacher. Her poems have been read on the radio, published online, in print, and as the soundtrack for a short film. Her first book, Talking with Trees, was published by Plants & Poetry in 2022.Watch the book trailer
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Hannah Darling Fenn is a poet and artist from Oregon, where she resides with her husband and three children. She’s co-founder and co-editor of Gossamer Arts, a literary magazine. Hannah holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Southern Oregon University.Watch the book trailer
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Sandra Anfang is a widely published poet, artist, and teacher. Her books include Looking Glass Heart and Road Worrier (Finishing Line Press), Xylem Highway (Main Street Rag), and Finishing School (Kelsay Books). She co-hosts Rivertown Poets in Petaluma, CA.Watch the book trailer
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Janice L. Smith-Hill, writing as Lee Orlich Bertram, earned her PhD at the University of California, Irvine. Insistence, Persistence, and Resistance is her debut collection and includes deeply personal observations about and reactions to the highs and lows, individuals, and events that have greatly impacted her life.
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Diane Lee Moomey lives in Half Moon Bay, California, where she is co-host of the monthly series Coastside Poetry; her work has appeared in several journals and anthologies. A previous poetry collection, Make For Higher Ground, was published by Barefoot Muse in 2021.
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Claire Coenen lives in Nashville, Tennessee. After many years of graduate school and working in the mental health field, Claire now devotes her time to writing and to teaching the practices that nourish her most: collage, yoga, and expressive writing. Claire experiences the creative process as a path toward healing, peace, and wonder.
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Catherine Jagoe is an award-winning British American writer and translator whose poems have been featured on The Writer’s Almanac and Poetry Daily. Her previous poetry collections include Bloodroot (2016), News from the North (2014), and Casting Off (2007).
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Bob Ambrose, Jr. is an environmental engineer retired from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development. His specialty was water quality modeling of conventional and toxic pollutants. He has been writing poetry since 2009 and has been active in the Athens, Georgia Word of Mouth community.
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John Milkereit lives Houston, Texas and currently works as a mechanical engineer. He has been published in various literary journals including The Comstock Review, Naugatuck River Review, San Pedro River Review, and The Ekphrastic Review. This is his fourth full-length collection of poems.
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Pushcart Prize winner Laura Rodley is a septuple Pushcart Prize nominee, quintuple Best of the Net nominee. She edited As You Write It, A Franklin County Anthology I–VI, and As You Write It Lucky 7, seven collections of memoir from seniors she taught at the Gill Montague Senior Center. Latest books are Turn Left at Normal (Big Table Publishing) and Counter Point (Prolific Press).
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Alan Basting attended Colorado State and Bowling Green. His books include Singing from the Abdomen; What the Barns Breathe; Suddenly, Herons; Deep Time, Daily Habits and Events; Nothing Very Sudden Happens Here; and Home and Away. Nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, he lives in the middle of the Manistee National Forest.
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Karine Leno Ancellin has lived in New York City; Paris; London; the Sahara region in West Africa, where she reported from Mauritania as a journalist; and now Athens. Her first collection is The Missing Angle. Her latest collection, Penelope Embodied, explores how being together has morphed, from the ancient Greeks to now.
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Gloria Heffernan’s Exploring Poetry of Presence (Back Porch Productions) won CNY Book Award for Nonfiction. She also wrote the poetry collection What the Gratitude List Said to the Bucket List (NYQ Books). She won Naugatuck River Review’s 2022 Narrative Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in over 100 journals.
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Meg Weston’s passion for geology is evident in her photography and her books. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University. Weston’s poems have appeared in journals and anthologies as well as Magma Intrusions. Weston is the co-founder and Director of The Poets Corner.
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Keith Gaboury earned a M.F.A. in creative writing from Emerson College. He has a full-length poetry collection from Kelsay Books and a full-length poetry collection forthcoming Falkenberg Press. Keith is the president of the Berkeley Branch of the California Writers Club.
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Paul Buchheit is an author of books, poems, progressive essays, and scientific journal articles. He recently completed his first historical novel, 1871: Rivers on Fire. His newest book, Sonnets of Love and Joy, was published by Kelsay Books in 2023.
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Sandi Stromberg’s poetry has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize and twice for Best of the Net. In addition to appearing in numerous literary journals and anthologies, her work has been translated into Dutch and published in the Netherlands. She recently became an editor at The Ekphrastic Review.
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Dennis J. Bernstein is the award-winning host of Flashpoints on public radio and author of Five Oceans in a Teaspoon which won the 2020 IPPY Gold Medal Award for Poetry and the 2020 Best Book Award for Poetry by the American Bookfest.Watch the book trailer
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Mark Saba’s poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared widely in literary magazines and anthologies as well. Also a visual artist, he paints and produces poetry videos. Recently he retired from his position as medical illustrator and graphic designer at Yale University.
Sandra Anfang’s books include Looking Glass Heart and Road Worrier (Finishing Line Press, 2016 & 2018), Xylem Highway (Main Street Rag, 2019), and Finishing School (Kelsay Books, 2023). The founder and host of Rivertown Poets, she teaches poetry in the schools.
Deanie Blank’s work appears in several literary journals and anthologies and has been set to music and performed. She is a scholarship recipient from W.B. Yeats International Summer School in Sligo, Ireland.
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Curt Curtin has two adult full-length collections with by Kelsay Books and three chapbooks. He taught English and Creative Writing for over 25 years and served as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for children in foster care and a Volunteer Case Reviewer for the Mass. Department of Children and Families for 20 years.
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Shutta Crum’s book When You Get Here won a gold Royal Palm Literary Award. The Way to the River is her latest book. She’s a Pushcart nominee who is published in numerous journals including Orchards Review, Mom Egg, Acumen, Calyx and Boulevard. And she has authored books for young readers.
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Mary K O’Melveny lives with her wife in Woodstock New York and Washington DC. She has written many award-winning poems, two prior poetry collections and co-authored an anthology of writings by the Hudson Valley Women's Writing Group. Her work appears in print and online literary journals, anthologies and national blog sites.
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Barbra Nightingale has six chapbooks and two previous volumes of poetry with small presses. She is an Associate Editor with the South Florida Poetry Journal, a professor emerita from Broward College, and lives in Hollywood, Florida, with her two- and four-legged menagerie. She is completing work on her first memoir, Husbands and Other Strangers.
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Lee Woodman won the 2020 William Meredith Prize for Poetry. A Pushcart nominee, she received an Individual Poetry Fellowship from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities FY 2019 and FY 2020. Her collection Mindscapes was published by Poets’ Choice Publishing and Homescapes by Finishing Line Press.
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Linda Neal Reising, a native of Oklahoma and a member of the Western Cherokee Nation, has been published in numerous journals, including The Southern Indiana Review, The Comstock Review, and Nimrod.
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Curt Curtin is a first-generation Irish American whose parents emigrated from County Kerry. Kerry Dancers captures many ways Irish settlers retained their heritage while assimilating into American culture. Curt won the Connecticut River Review Poetry Contest (2019) and the Frank O’Hara Award (2010) from the Worcester County Poetry Association.
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Laura Rogerson Moore lives in New England with her husband. She teaches writing and literature. Splendor is her third book of poems.
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Kim Malinowski earned her B.A. from West Virginia University and her M.F.A. from American University. She studies with The Writers Studio. Her work is disparate—ranging from writing about war and atrocities to the fairy world and pagan studies. She writes because the alternative is unthinkable.
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Deborah DeNicola is the author of six poetry books, Where Divinity Begins (Alice James Books); Original Human (WordTech Press); Inside Light, (Finishing Line Press); Harmony of the Next (2005), which won the Riverstone Chapbook Award; Psyche Revisited (1992), which won the Embers Magazine Chapbook Contest; and Rainmakers (Coyote Love Press).
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