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Spark in the Dark Online Poetry – Slapering Hol Press Affiliated Poets

Susana H. Case has authored nine books of poetry, most recently If This Isn’t Love, BroadstoneBooks, 2023. She has won several Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards, an IPPY, a NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite award, and she was a Finalist twice and an Honorable Mention for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, as well as Finalist…

Online Poetry – Sparks in the Dark with Vivian Eyre & Margot Wizansky

Click here for today's online poetry session. Vivian Eyre Her poems have appeared in many literary journals including: Bellingham Review, J Journal, One Art, Pangyrus, Quiddity, Spire, SWIMM, The Fourth River, The Massachusetts Review, The Orchards Journal, The Santa Ana Review, Turtle Island Quarterly, Twelve Mile Journal and in the anthology Neu Smoke (Off the…

Online Poetry – Sparks in the Dark with Raphael Kosek

Click here to join today's poetry session. Raphael Helena Kosek lives in and draws inspiration from the beautiful Hudson Valley where she lives with her husband and three cats. Her latest chapbook, Rough Grace, won the 2014 Concrete Wolf Chapbook Competition and her essay, “Meditations on the Common Life,” tied for first place in the 2016 Eastern…

Online Poetry – Sparks in the Dark with Julia Lisella

Click here to join today's poetry session. Julia Lisella’s latest collection of poems, Our Lively Kingdom (Bordighera Press), was named a finalist in the 2023 Paterson Book Prize and Grand Prize Finalist and Poetry Honorable Mention for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. Her other collections include Always, Terrain, and the chapbook, Love Song Hiroshima. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Alaska Quarterly, The Common,…

Online Poetry – Sparks in the Dark with Julie Danho

Click here for today's online poetry Julie Danho’s first full-length collection, Those Who Keep Arriving, won the 2018 Gerald Cable Book Award from Silverfish Review Press. Her chapbook, Six Portraits, received the 2013 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Award, and her poems have appeared in journals such as Pleiades, Alaska Quarterly Review, Blackbird, and New Ohio Review as well as featured on The Writer's Almanac, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily. She has…

Online Poetry – Sparks in the Dark with Kathryn Petruccelli

Click here for the link to join this session. Kathryn Petruccelli Workshop leader, teacher, and writer with roots in spoken word, Kathryn holds an MA in teaching English language learners. Through her work—much of which involves themes of language and place—she hopes to inspire folks to examine cultural habits and other invisible forces. Her poetry…

Online Poetry – Sparks in the Dark with Karren Alenier

Click here to join the poetry session. Karren LaLonde Alenier is editor of From the Belly: Poets Respond to Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons and author of eight poetry collections, including How We Hold On (Broadstone, 2021). She writes a monthly column for Scene4 Magazine called The Steiny Road to Operadom. Gertrude Stein Invents a Jump…

Online Poetry – Sparks in the Dark with John Maxwell

Click here to join the poetry session. John W. Maxwell was born in 1960 into a working-class family of eight in rural Michigan. He quietly began writing poetry for himself at age 12. His writing continued throughout high school and college, cataloging the struggles of adolescence and young adulthood. He stashed them in a raggedy…

Online Poetry – Sparks in the Dark with Andrea Deeken

Click here to join the online poetry session. Andrea Deeken is the author of the chapbook, Mother Kingdom, winner of the 2021 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition and finalist in the Poetry: Chapbook Category of the 2022 International Book Awards. Her writing has appeared in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Beyond Queer Words, The Blue Mountain Review,…

Online Poetry – Sparks in the Dark with Guy Reed

Click here to join today's poetry session. Guy Reed won the 2022 Littoral Press poetry prize and is author of Second Innocence (Luchador Press), The Effort To Hold Light (Finishing Line Press), and co- author, with Cheryl A. Rice, of Until The Words Came (Post Traumatic Press). His poems and essays have been published in…

Online Poetry – Sparks in the Dark with Perry Nicholas

Click here to join today's session. Perry S. Nicholas is a professor emeritus of English at SUNY at ERIE in Buffalo, N.Y. where he was awarded the SUNY Chancellor’s Award and the President’s Outstanding Teacher Award. He has published one textbook of poetry prompts, three full-length and seven chapbooks of original poetry, along with two…