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,…
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…
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…
Click here to join the poetry session. Holly Iglesias is the author of three collections of poetry— Sleeping Things; Angles of Approach; and Souvenirs of a Shrunken World—as well as a critical work, Boxing Inside the Box: Women’s Prose Poetry. Her most recent publication is a collaborative chapbook, Myth America (Anhinga Press), co-written with Maureen…
Click here to join today's poetry session. Amanda Russell (she/her/hers) is a guest editor at The Comstock Review and a stay-at-home mom. Her poems have appeared in Hole in the Head re:View, Lily Poetry Review, and Atticus Review. To learn about her or her chapbooks, Barren Years (Finishing LinePress, 2019) and Processing (forthcoming, Main Street…
Click here to join the session. Carla Panciera was raised on her family’s dairy farm in Westerly, RI. Her collection of short stories, Bewildered, received the 2013 Grace Paley Short Fiction Award from the Association of Writers and Writing Programs and was published by the University of Massachusetts Press. Her short stories have appeared in…
Click here for online poetry. Joseph Zaccardi’s sixth book of poems, Songbird of the Nine Rivers, was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2023. His poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, Cincinnati Review, Poetry East, Rattle, and elsewhere. Zaccardi served as the poet laureate of Marin County, California, from 2013 to 2015, and edited Changing Harm to…
Click here to join the session. (our 150th reading!) Lisken Van Pelt Dus is a poet, teacher, and martial artist, raised in England, the US, and Mexico, and now living in Massachusetts. Her work can be found in such journals as Conduit, The South Carolina Review, qarrtsiluni, and upstreet, and has earned awards and honors from…
Click here to connect. Elisabeth Weiss teaches writing and literature at Salem State University. She’s taught poetry in preschools, prisons, and nursing homes and as well as to the intellectually disabled. She’s worked at Harper and Row Publishers (HarperCollins) and has an MFA from The University of Iowa Writers Workshop. She’s published poems in London’s…
Click here to join the online poetry session. A native of Northern Virginia, Cathy Hailey teaches as an adjunct lecturer in Johns Hopkins University’s online MA in Teaching Writing program. Previously she taught English and Creative Writing in Prince William County (PWC), VA, for forty years, her favorite years as part of the Center for…
Click here for the link to Online Poetry. Suzanne Frischkorn is a poet and essayist. Her fourth book of poems, Whipsaw, is now available from Anhinga Press. She is also the author of Fixed Star (JackLeg Press) selected a 2022 Foreword INDIES Finalist, as well as the books Girl on a Bridge, and Lit Windowpane (both…
Click here to join us on Zoom. Ann E. Wallace, PhD is the 2023-24 Poet Laureate of Jersey City, New Jersey. As a long-time survivor of ovarian cancer, a woman with multiple sclerosis, and one of the nations first Long Covid patients, she has lived and written through illness for more than thirty years. Pain,…
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