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Geri Ahearn
I was born in Brooklyn, NY, and lived in Long
Island, NY for 45 years.� I devoted most of my life to a Nursing career, working as
an RN.�� I am retired from Nursing, and currently reside in Arizona with my
husband and two daughters.
My favorite hobbies are gardening and writing.� I have a passion for writing and
enjoy encouraging new writers to reach their dreams of publication.� Within 5 years
of writing, I've had several poems published in different anthologies. My poetry has been
published in Angel News Magazine, and my chapbook, Inspirations,
has been published by The Plowman. Another dream of mine is to someday write for
children.
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Nia Akimbo
Mary Loving Blanchard
Doctoral Candidate
A Poetics of the Black American Woman's Literature:
Epic Narratives of Black American Women from 1773 to the Present����
The University of Texas at Dallas
School of Arts and Humanities�������
972 883 2018 Jo 4.118�������
[email protected]
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B.S. Allen
Born in Huntington, W.Va., educated in Ohio and Texas, B.S. Allen currently resides in New Braunfels; a small German community along the I-35 corridor between Austin and San Antonio.� Her writing credits include publication in several prior anthologies (Links, Heritage Blue, Houston Poetry Fest 1999), as well as poems in the Melic Review, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Maelstrom, The Writer's Quill, Moondance, Writer's Choice Literary Journal, and, The Tule Review, with upcoming poems in the fall and winter issues of The Horsethief Journal. � Ms. Allen was among the top five juried poets at Houston Poetry Fest '99 and is scheduled to return to Houston in October, 2000 as a Featured Poet. Her first book of poems, Among the Reeds,� ISBN 1-930293-09-7, is now available. � Sample poems and ordering information can be found at:� http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Boutique/1638/index.html .� Email:� [email protected]
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Betty S. Almond
Betty S. Almond
Co-author of Walt and Emily, a PoetWorks Press book. http://members.aol.com/LHA1082/WaltandEmily.htm
Southern Breezes, to be published in the summer of 2000 by PoetWorks
Press.
Canvas of Words -http://members.aol.com/LHA1082/index.html.
Professional Web site
http://member
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Peggy Amond
Peg Amond is a 43 year-old English teacher who has written in one form or another for most of her life, but developed a serious interest in writing poetry during the summer of 1997. Since then, she has studied the craft, working to develop her style and find her own poetic voice. She considers poetry another creative outlet, along with her music and painting. Peg lives in a small town near Baton Rouge, LA with one teen-age daughter and a cat with an attitude.
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Coke Brown, Jr.
Coke Brown Jr. lives in North Central Texas with his cat, Greta, and his frog, Jethro. He has been published in several quarterly print journals and in the anthology, "Generation X: In Our Own Words". He is most proud to have been featured in the anthology, Southern Breezes by PoetWorks Press. He also has a full electronic book available, Cancer Stick #94,912 and Other Poems from Word Wrangler publishing.
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Ann Campanella
Ann Campanella was selected for the 2000 Blumenthal
Readers & Writers Series. She won the 1999 Poet Laureate Award from the North Carolina
Poetry Society. She was recently featured as a student of Maxine Kumin's in
Chelsea. Her work has also appeared in Tar River Poetry, Southern Poetry Review,
Crucible, Main Street Rag, Wellspring,� Southern Breezes by PoetWorks Press and
others. To combat violence in schools, she helped found the Beat Swords into Ploughshares
Student Writing Competition.� Her collection, Outrunning the Rain, is
forthcoming from Mount Olive College Press.
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C.D. Clark
At the age of 15, a transplanted northerner, C.D. Clark took naturally to the easy pace of gracious Southern living. A retired executive secretary, mother of three wonderful children, proud grandmother of four, and former member of the Jackson Symphonic Orchistra, she discovered in 1997 that her love for music could manifest itself in more ways than one. Appreciating the "music" of poetry, she began searching for her own voice, delighting in the rhythm and flow of words and the freedom of expression found only in written verse.... and so she remains; ever searching, always learning, singing the song that never ends.
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Anne P. Collins
Writing, An Inner Journey
Anne P. Collins
Writing is an inner journey often disorientating and unstructured. A confusing exploration
of "other muscles" that are dormant in a place waiting to waylay me and, I am
transported to an inner space filled with the pitfalls of all my failures and all of my
fears. Challenging me to make sense of the conflicts and sense of the sentence as I chase
moveable commas, struggle with parallel structure and the meaning below the line.
Not recognizing how I got here, I do not know how to leave; and yet...
A leaf will blow in the wind and I feel compelled to watch its passage through flickering
light. Fascinated with and desperate to name the color, to capture this moment of stem and
leaf, wind and light to have the leaf come alive in some simple, unique, and elegant way;
I shudder at my own audacity.
Ah! Is that ego? The ego that dares to use the word eloquent and try to fasten it to my
writing? This is as daring as saying I think of myself as a writer for inside my own
confounded and confused desires, lies the certain knowledge that I cannot write alongside
the need to do so. This dichotomy may never be resolved and yet, I enter this
disorientation willingly.
I pick up pencil and paper and fashion my day; color-filled and fascinating is the endless
choice of words and phrase. The subtleties tease me with each selection, a silent gentle
rebuke, and an evocative for precision. Oh, joy. Oh new terrors, but I have found joy and
freedom in the journey that is splendid and remarkable.
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David E. Cowen
DAVID E. COWEN is a native Texan born in 1957 in Brownsville, Texas. His
early life on the Texas - Mexico border, and the tragedy of losing his father while he was
a child, laid the foundation for David's poetry. David earned a B.A. in English from Sam
Houston State University and a Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Houston. He
lives in the Houston, Texas area with his family.
David's works have been published in literary journals in the United States, Great Britain
and Australia. David's works were nominated for the Pushcart Prize by various editors of
these journals in 1998 and 1999. David's poems recently appeared in RealPoetik, Eclectica,
Cosmic Debris, Wired Hearts, Ceteris Paribus, Gumball Poetry, Ygasdril, The Bri-dge, The
River, Phoebe, Re: Artes Real and many others. A number of David's works are published on
the World Wide Web as well.
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Thomas Fortenberry
Thomas Fortenberry is an American writer, editor and publisher. A native of Mississippi with a degree in history, he owns Mind Fire Press and edits for seven literary magazines, including Maelstrom, Soul Unmade, Writer's Choice, and The Southerner. He was recently a judge for the prestigious Robert Penn Warren Prize for Fiction and the Georgia Author of the Year Awards. Among other activities, he founded the Kids4Kids Network, Third Party Productions (screen- and teleplays), Global Knowledge Series of Arts and Sciences (GKSAS), The Southern Riviera, Mind Fire Children, and the Association for the Advancement of Racial Cohesion (AARC). Some recent credits include Amelia, Cicada, Alacran, Thunder Sandwich, Gravity, Eternity, Poetry Magazine, Slate & Style, The Harford Poet, Contemporary Southern Poets of 1999, Mythos Online, Emotions, Wooden Head Review, Ygdrasil, Agira Visions, Independence Boulevard, Poets4Peace, The Bronze Gazette, The Fiction Network, Poetry Superhighway, and Lower Than the Angels. Email: [email protected]. Homepage: http://www.kakuta.com/thomas
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Noel Foster
Noel Foster was born and raised in Pennsylvania. He
spent 21 years in the Army and the Air Force, almost equally divided between various
overseas assignments and Continental US assignments.� He has a BS in Mathematics and
Biology from Southwest Baptist University and has now settled in the Florida Panhandle on
the Gulf Coast.� His hobbies include fishing, hunting and restoration of antique
furniture.� He has been writing poetry for about 6 years.
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Candace L. Gardner
Candance L. Gardner is a teacher, writer, poet and aspiring filmmaker. her works have been
published in
PAPYRUS Literary Magazine, Bittersweet: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Women's
Poetry, and other works slated to be published in the Fall of 2000.
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Keith Hager
AKA/ [email protected]
Graduate University of North Alabama
Author, Lyricist, Songwriter, Poet, Musician
Director, Actor, Singer.
Author of Chap Book (Slice of Life)
Soon Available through PoetWorks Press
ISBN Number 0-9671632-0-0
Keith is working on his second book at present and enjoys a diverse life of bringing down
home Southern Exposure to the page with pen in hand.� Keith is pleased to be a poet
in Southern Breezes and looks forward to many other co-published works in the near future.
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David Lee Holman
David Lee Holman, 46, resides in Central California. He is a retired Millman and currently spends his time babysitting two 4 year old grandsons, and studying this artform. His poems have been published in literaries electronically and in hard copy including, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Recursive Angel, Poetry Now, Maelstrom, Tule Review, Ruah, Poetry Tonight, and as a featured poet in Writer's Quill. Recently, he was the recipient of the Janice Farrell Poetry Prize in the Soul-Making Literary Competition in San Francisco, CA.
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Mary Ann Hudson
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David Humphrey
David Humphrey, Jr.
Age - 43
Home - Sandhills of North Carolina
Education - 1998 Graduate of East Carolina University with a BS in Industrial
Technology, Manufacturing Concentration.
��� Previous study at U.S. Air Force Academy, Western Carolina University,
������� UNC-Pembroke, Fayetteville Technical College,
and Campbell
University, Governor's School of N.C.,
Poetry Awards, accomplishments - "Seasons of Myself", 1998
Max Vestal Award, 1st place, annual Fields of Earth Poetry
contest, Fayetteville, N.C.
������� "Of Tides and Times", 4th
place, Voices of Serenity poetry contest,
Ancient Winds Press, Fayetteville, N.C.
Father of two sons; avid golfer, hunter, reader, and poet.
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Paula White Jackson
Paula White Jackson lives in Palmyra, Va. She
graduated from Upsala College, East Orange, N.J., (cum laude). She is an award -winning
poet.� She won two Emerging Artists Fellowships. She was a Visiting Artist for The
Randolph Arts Guild, Asheboro, N.C. She taught poetry to 5th grade classes in Randolph
County Schools. She was also selected to teach Creative Writing to community children
under The Eastside Grant, "Bridging the Gap." The Arts Guild published a
Chapbook of the children's poems created during the worshop entitled, BRIDGING THE
GAP.� Ms. Jackson wrote
the title poem, designed and edited the book. The children were able to master the
Japanese forms of Haiku and Tanka. She also writes non-fiction and children's picture
books. She has done freelance work for The CourierTribune Newspaper, Asheboro,
N.C. and Women's World. She is a member of the celebrated African-American
Writer's Collective (CAAWC). Her work has appeared in Obsidian II, The Piedmont
Literary Review, BMa The Sonia
Sanchez Literary Review.� She has published a collection of Poems entitled, SATURDAY
MORNING PANCAKES. She enjoys teaching workshops and perfoming public readings of
her work.
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Larry Jaffe
Jaffe says he was born on a mountaintop in the South Bronx (despite
statements to the contrary and that there are no mountains in the Bronx), in the shadow of
Yankee Stadium. From the time he could walk he either was going to play baseball, hoops or
be a poet. Either that or is the spiritual reincarnation of Davy Crockett. Jaffe felt he
had that mountaintop thing in common with Crockett and his folks once bought him a
coonskin cap that he felt ridiculous in, thus took off on this peculiar tangent. He is the
product of his own dreams born and bred from Eastern European stock of
Russia and Romania.
He has decided that he no longer believes in biographies. And adamantly poses that, �
If you want to know who I am read my poetry� why must I trot out lists of places I
have appeared and places I have been published or tell you about my childhood dreams to be
a beatnik when I grew-up.�
With this in mind his biographer, grimacing has decided to say that Jaffe has been
featured in poetry venues and festivals both throughout the U.S. and abroad. He is very
active in the poetry community hosting the very hot ultra chic weekly PoeticLicense series
at Zen Restaurant in Silverlake, California. (www.poetix.net).
Jaffe is also a featured poet for Daimler/Chrysler�s Spirit in the Words poetry
program. His web sites have won numerous awards (www.lgjaffe.com)
and feels one of his best creations is the poets4peace site at www.poets4peace.com. Each month Jaffe writes a
poetry column for www.about.com as the socal
poetspondent for their Museletter. He has produced several chapbooks has one e-book
entitled Jewish Soulfood available from Dead End Street Publications (www.deadendstreet.com). His new CD Unprotected
Poetry and accompanying book has just been released by PoetWarriorPress (www.poetwarrior.com). Pudding House Publications
will be releasing a special book of Jaffe�s Greatest Hits along with 12 other poets
this year. Salmon Publishing in Ireland will be publishing his upcoming book �Lying
Half-Naked in the
Doorway.�
He is contemplating his career as Davy Crockett poet, having named his computer and truck
after Crockett�s rifle Ol� Betsy. He says that he is not confused as to which
Betsy is which. And poet/critic Mike Cluff once said something very nice about him: :
�The best feature I have heard this year anywhere took place at Mc Clain�s�
Larry Jaffe, gave a wonderful reading that was wow inspiring. His presentation was a
lively, intense, well-modulated, emotional read: precise and never over-the-top, forced or
phony.�
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Jim Kacian
Jim Kacian has published 5 award-winning collections
and a how-to book of haiku, and two other volumes of "mainstream" poetry. �
He is a finalist for the first-ever Masaoka Shiki Award, given to the candidate who has
done the most over his/her career to promote international haiku.� He lives in
Winchester, VA.
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Duane Locke
Duane Locke was born among gum trees and owls on a
cotton farm near Vienna, Georgia, but was moved at age of four to Tampa, then known for
its cigars and corrupt politics. He is now a Professor Emeritus of the Humanities, and is
unemployed except for his hobbies (the designation from Income Tax Department) poetry,
painting, and photography. Has a Doctor of Philosophy in Renaissance Literature. For over
twenty years was Poet in Residence at the
University of Tampa. Has edited several poetry magazines, Poetry Review, Ut Review,
and Abatis. Was among the first on the board of directors of COSMEP and served
after being elected by nationwide vote of editors On CCLM's grant committee.
He now lives alone and isolated in the sunny Tampa slums. He lives estranged and as an
alien, not understanding the customs, the costumes, the language, some form of postmodern
English, of his surroundings. The egregious ugliness of his neighborhood has been
mitigated by the esthetic efforts of the police who put up bright orange and yellow
posters on each post to advertise the location as a shopping mall for drugs.
Duane Locke's recreational activities are drinking wine, listening to old operas, and
reading postmodern philosophy.
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Stazja McFadyen
Stazja is a self described poet and human rights activist who "will
work for poets' rights', a world without oppression, extra bitter gourmet chocolate."
Her poetry has appeared in numerous print and electronic journals, magazines and
anthologies, most recently Son of Words edited by Adam Stone (Boston), Spiraeas
literary journal, edited by Annette Gonzales (Prince George's County, Maryland).
She has featured at spoken word venues and festivals throughout the United States, most
recently at The Myth in Washington, D.C. and Mariposa in College Park, MD.
Through her work as venue coordinator for the Austin International Poetry Festival and
publisher/editor of the Map of Austin Poetry e-newsletter, she has had the honor and
privilege of bringing together some of today's finest poets from around the world.
Her most recent chapbook, titled "Where
Would I Be Without You? Love Poems to My Road Atlas" is reviewed online
at http://hometown.aol.com/anastzja/LovePoemsToRoadAtlasindex.html
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Jeff Meyers
JefJeff Meyers was born in Miami, grew up in New York and currently resides in Portland.� He is the Artistic Director of Theatre Vertigo (http: //www.theatrevertigo.org) by night and a Cardiology Research Assistant by day. His poetry has appeared in Playboy, Exquisite Corpse, Nexus, Westword, Rain City Review, Plazm and many other publications. His first collection of poetry, Hereafter, is available through Quiet Lion Press.
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Kamilah Aisha Moon
Kamilah Aisha Moon is a native of Nashville, TN., currently living in Baltimore, MD. Her
work has appeared in several literary journals and publications, including the Black
Arts Quarterly of Stanford University, The Open City Anthology (The New City Press,
Temple University, 2000) and Bittersweet: An Anthology of Contemporary Women's Poetry
edited by Karen McCarthy(The Women's Press, London, UK, 1998).
http://moonpoet.artist.webjump.com
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T. Emmett Mueller
T. Emmett Mueller earned a BA in Philosophy with a minor in Classical Languages and an M.Ed degree from Ohio University. An educator for 26 years in Michigan, he retired to Florida six years ago and has undertaken the serious study and writing of contemporary poetry. His work has been featured in The Detroit News, hardcopy magazines -- such as Maelstrom, Poetry Depth Quarterly, Stark Raving Sanity, Mind Fire, Introspection, Outsider, Poet's Fantasy, Emotions, Somniloquy, Over the Back Fence, and a British magazine, The Argotist. He is also widely published in selective electronic magazines such as This Hard Wind, Mindfire, Writer's Quill, A Writer's Choice, Jocundity, Rose & Thorn,Outsider, Wild Word, and Poet's Fantasy. He currently holds the position of Submissions Editor for This Hard Wind poetry magazine, in affiliation with Electronic Writing Group Presents, is the Poetry Editor for RANT electronic magazine, and is an Editor for Southern Breezes, PoetWorks Press. Recently, T. Emmett was a featured poet at the St. Petersburg Times Reading Festival and the Austin International Poetry Festival in Austin, Texas where his poem entitled "Ode to Apparel" appears in the festival anthology Di-Verse-City 2000.
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Darlene Pagan
Having recently received her doctorate in the Humanities at the University of Texas at
Dallas, Pagan promptly left for Mexico to study and avoid the job market. She has since
returned only physically to teach and write. Her first book of poems, Sins Against
the Body, is currently looking for a home.
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Albert E. Parker, Jr.
Albert E. Parker, Jr., began as a lonely free spirit seeking fulfillment from the world around him. Empty and broken he reached within himself to discover and heal the pain of disappointment. This journey of self discovery and development of mind, body and spirit is reflected in the crisp vivid images of his poetry. His heartfelt hope is that these experiences through his writing might touch just one single soul.
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Sharon Peterson
Sharon is a midwest gal who's made West Texas her home. Sharon's work has a firm sensuality which winds her thoughts into a complex lattice of images and tone. Though an infrequent contributor, her work has been published in The Caprock Sun and in the anthologies, Paper Soul, Links and this year's Austin International Poetry Festival anthology, Di-verse-city 2000. She loves the magic of live readings ("Thank you Claibie, for that first invitation.") and has participated in several poetry tours, gatherings, and local featured readings.
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Larry H. Phifer
I was born in El Paso Texas on December 28, 1976. � I discovered my love for poetry at the age of seventeen. While riding a bus � to a football game that I was playing in, I noticed the desert and thought of � a man walking through it alone.� I took out my pencil and began writing and � soon I realized I had a love and a talent for writing poetry. This sparked my �� interest in the arts and I started acting and writing plays and more poetry. � I have had a couple of poems published and I am honored to be included in Southern Breezes. Currently I am a junior at UT Austin and my major is in theater and Dance. �� I plan on becoming a poet, a playwrite and an actor-Got to think big.
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Charles Pool
I am presently retired from the USAF after a 20 year career where I traveled around the world and was a student of cultural importance. I am also a graduate of the University of Maryland where I majored in psy-soc. Since my retirement from work, I have found poetry and been writing now for about five years although I have no formal training in poetry and haven't the faintest idea what makes a good or bad poem. I know that I like what I do and the people I meet as a result of my writing. I am also into TAICHI and try to practice everyday hoping that the energy it gives me will help to inspire me to write well.
http://www.lovestories.com/templates/profile.cfm?poetid=3694&wherefrom=RESULTS
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Sandra Prouse
Sandra was born in Newport, Pa. and moved to Salisbury, Md. as a young girl.� Now divorced and the mother of three sons and three daughters, she resides in Port Orange, Fl. with her youngest son, Ryan.� Some of Sandra's finest and best-loved verse is included in The Softest Kind Of Love. The poems of The Softest Kind Of Love contain delicately beautiful lyrics that reveal an unspoiled view of life and human nature.
http://hometown.aol.com//sandbunnee/NewRelease.html
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Judith Schiele
Poetry found me November 1, 1996 and opened a new world. Having no formal
training in writing, I simply try to express through poetry the way life speaks to me. I
have been published in Southern Breezes, Maelstrom, This Hard Wind, The Writer's
Quill, Emotions, Wilmington Blues, Rant, The Rose & Thorn, Somniloquy, Poetic Voices
and was chosen as a juried poet at Houston Poetry Fest '99.
My web page Simply Speaking
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Bonita Carol Schmidt
Bonita Carol Schmidt Sutterby, the mother of two grown children, both school teachers, was born and raised on the prairies of Saskatchewan, Canada. She grew up with an appreciation for the quiet beauty of the plains and the simplicity of nature. She now lives in Florida with her husband, also a writer, and began publishing chapbooks and collections of poetry for their family and friends in1996. Demand for their publishing services grew into PoetWorks Press. She enjoys traveling, photography and writing and is currently working on a collection of her own poetic works, some of which have been previously published in a number of anthologies and e-zines. Favorite writers are Leonard Cohen, Margaret Lawrence, Carol Shields and Margaret Atwood and a whole list of other feminist authors. When she is old, Bonita says "she will wear purple and sip brandy while wearing white lace gloves."
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Jana L. Sellers
I have reached a point in life where DQ vanilla ice
cream cones are essential to my well-being, shorts are perfect for all but the most formal
occasion, shocking my children is an elemental pleasure, and choosing instrumental over
vocal is a delight.
I've worn purple, own an ugly hat, and have two Chinese Pugs who understand me. Life is
good.
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Angelina L. Shafer
Once bitten by the open mic bug some time ago at a
local coffee house, soon after things spiraled to room readings and spotlights to the
first Pocono Poets Tour. This was a great learning experience literally at the feet of
some of our very own fantastic poets online. I self published my first chapbook, a modest
attempt at best! I must inject here, there is still much to learn before I can consider
myself a 'true poet'!
Some of my works ere published in PurpleInks where I was spotlighted when I first
started my journey. I've been included at Dave Gitomer's website on occasion and published
in PoetsReview through the years and also in 'Words Paint Pictures', a
snail mail zine by Jasminen1. Svonlien has me on one of her websites with a vocal of one
of my poems.
You may view a few of my simple works at my website at
www.angelfire.com/tn2/amge;wings.
Well, that's about it...nothing earthshattering...just a simple woman with a love for the
written word. Long may it flourish, every may it flow into the hearts of future
generations!
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Sim Sutterby, Sr.
Sim Fenton Sutterby, Sr., the father of four sons, and seventh generation Floridian, grew up in Orlando, Florida in a time before "Disney" and its negative impact affected the easy going, low crime qualities of life. In 1993, Mr. Sutterby retired from a successful mortgage banking career after the loss of his son, Aaron. Since taking an early retirement, he has concentrated on perfecting his poetry, aerial and still life photography, and began a book publishing company which he co-owns with his wife. Mr. Sutterby has been writing poetry, ad copy and articles for the past thirty years. He is a professional photographer with numerous magazine covers and credits, the most recent being the selection of one of his photo images for the cover of Florida Living magazine, August, 1999. His photographic work has been shown in a number of juried fine art shows and he has conducted "one man" shows and exhibits in the United States and Canada. His second book of poetry will be released in mid 2001. One of Mr. Sutterby's favorite sayings is: "If you think what you did yesterday was great, then you have not yet begun today".� On the web at:� http://www.geocities.com/s_sutterby1/
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Travis Tapley
Travis Tapley is a poet of the heart.� He writes mostly on emotion and on the topic
of death.� A locomotive engineer by trade, he didn't start writing poetry until 1994.
Travis and his wife Gina, lost a baby at birth in 1990 and when he found out she was
pregnant again in '94 fear came to him and he turned to poetry for relief.
His works have appeared on the internet in e-zines such as, Paper Box, and, A
Little Poetry.� He has also published in a couple of anthologies and also had
two poems appear in the City of Slidell, Louisiana Cultural Center's collection on the
millennium.� Numerous poems and short stories have also appeared in the church
bulletin where he and his family used to attend.� Travis is also an active member of
the Southern Poetry Association.
He is thirty-three years old and he and his wife have been happily married for eleven
years. They have one beautiful little boy five years old.
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Claiborne Schley Walsh
Claiborne Schey Walsh, a native of Mobile, Alabama
is a member of: the Pensters Writing Society, The Alabama State Poetry Society, The
Mississippi State Poetry Society, the National Poetry Society and the Poetry Society of
America.
She has been published in: the Red Bluff Review Anthology, Will Work For Peace
Anthology, MindFire, Rattlesnake Review, RadioFree Topeka, Poetry Cafe, ShowemAll,
Stazja's Austin Poets newsletter, Poetic Voices, IP Magazine, ShowEmAll.com, and she
Co-Authored and illustrated the sold out edition of, 101 Ways To Know If You Are A
Mobilian.� She has organized, managed, and underwritten several OnLine Poets
Tours. She has performed in: Jackson, MS; Gautier, MS; Pass Christian, MS; Boston, MA;
Brockton, MA, Bridgewater, MA, Savannah,GA; Hinesville, GA;, Pensacola, FL; Niceville, FL;
Coninstonwater, England; Naivasha, Africa;
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Brandy Walton
Brandy Walton is author of, Rooted In
Reality, (ISBN 1-929077-04-1), a 246-page collection of her poetry. She is the
creator, manager and host of the Other Side of Creativity's Poetspire area at
www.OSCweb.com; senior poetry editor of EWGPresents, a literary journal e-zine;
contributing editor to Round the Bend Publications, Colorado; contemporary female poet in
Kurzweil's Cybernetic Poet software, as well as author of nine chapbooks. She has been
published in various paper magazines including Zang Spur Review, Dreamboat, and
Poetry Heaven. Email: [email protected]. Web
site: http://members.aol.com/scrawletta/scrawlins/index.html
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Marcia McCollum Ware
Marcia McCollum Ware is a poet, musician, psychotherapist, and mother of four whose greatest passion is engaging in the artful interplay of words upon the page. She received her B.A. and M.S.W. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where her love of creative writing was rekindled and nurtured. Marcia began writing poetry and playing the piano at the age of 10, and continues to find them important sources of expression for her feelings, spirit, and dreams. Marcia's poetry and short fiction have been published in a variety of online and hard copy literary journals. She is the co-host of a weekly online writing group for poets, "Masterpieces in the Making," and has had the pleasure of being an editor for Southern Breezes, an anthology of Southern poetry by Poetworks Press. Marcia and her family live beneath Carolina blue skies near Chapel Hill, NC.� Web site: http://hometown.aol.com/orchi47347/myhomepage/poetry.html
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Scott Wiggerman
An active member of Austin's poetry scene, Scott
Wiggerman has been published in dozens of journals, such as Paterson Literary Review,
Entre Nous, utter, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Limestone Circle,
eNteLechY, RE:AL, Black Buzzard Review, Caf� Review, and modern words.� He has
edited three well-received poetry anthologies, di-verse-city (1997), di-verse-city too
(1998), and tr�s di-verse-city (1999), and his
first full-length book, Vegetables and Other Relationships, is forthcoming
from Plain View Press (October 2000). He also serves as a Board member for the Austin
International Poetry Festival, as the Poetry Editor of Austin Writer, the newsletter of
the Austin Writers� League, and as host of a monthly Queer Poets series for Austin's
GLBT community. Scott's website provides further details on his accomplishments and
upcoming readings, as well as selections of his
poetry: http://swig.tripod.com
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Carol-Tilley Williams
Carol Williams lives and writes from her home in the Appalachian foothills of Alabama, which she shares with her husband and fellow-poet, D. E. Williams, and 2 of their 4 children. She continues to read and write poetry while doing research on a children's literature project. Carol's poetry and prose is available for viewing at her website: http://www.geocities.com/carolwrites
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D.E. Williams
D. E. Williams lives and writes with his wife, C.
Tilley-Williams, in the Appalachian foothills of northeast Alabama. He rarely submits his
work, preferring instead to study the craft of poetry. He writes, "Anyone can throw
words on a piece of paper and copy the style of what is fashionable. The true poet does
not accept this, preferring instead to mold those words into a poem that reflects his/her
vision."
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