Join us for our Online Poetry Series on Tuesday, October 25 at 12:00 p.m. featuring David O'Connell. David O’Connell’s first full-length collection, Our Best Defense, was published by Červená Barva Press in 2022. His poetry has appeared in The Cincinnati Review, New Ohio Review, Copper Nickel, Tar River Poetry, and North American Review, among other journals. His chapbook, A Better Way to Fall, was awarded…
Andrea Deeken was born in rural Missouri. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Beyond Queer Words, The Blue Mountain Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Valley Voices, and elsewhere. Her awards include an Honorable Mention in the 2019 Spoon River Poetry Review Editors’ Prize Contest and second place in the 2020 Blue Mountain Review LGBTQ…
Poet/Playwright/Fiber Artist Cherryl T. Cooley has published two volumes of poems as Cherryl Floyd-Miller: Utterance: A Museology of Kin (Sadorian, 2003) and Exquisite Heats (Salt Publishing, 2008). Her art/poetry chapbook Chops, produced in conjunction with Nexus Press in 2004, won an AIGA Gold SEED Award and is permanently housed in the Museum of Modern Art. The chapbook was produced as…
Howie Faerstein is the author of the chapbooks: Play a Song on the Drums, he said and Out of Order (Main Street Rag) and two full-length collections: Dreaming of the Rain in Brooklyn and Googootz and Other Poems, both published by Press 53. A new manuscript, STAY, will be published by Human Error Publishing in the coming months. His poetry and reviews…
Swedish-born Gunilla Theander Kester is an award-winning poet and author of If I Were More Like Myself (The Writer's Den, 2015). Her two poetry chapbooks, Mysteries I-XXIII (2011) and Time of Sand and Teeth (2009), were published by Finishing Line Press. She was co-editor of The Empty Chair: Love and Loss in the Wake of…
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,…
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 The Comstock Review, The Atlanta Review, and Cider…
James Davis is a teacher, editor, and author of the poetry collection Club Q (Waywiser 2020), which Edward Hirsch selected for the Anthony Hecht Poetry prize. His work has been featured on NBC News and CBC Radio, as well as in Best New Poets, Nashville Review, Copper Nickel, fourteen poems, and Bennington Review. He serves as Poetry Editor for American Literary Review and an Associate Poetry Editor…
Malachi Black is the author of the poetry collection Storm Toward Morning (Copper Canyon Press, 2014), a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award and a selection for the PSA’s New American Poets series (chosen by Ilya Kaminsky). Black is also the author of two limited-edition chapbooks: Quarantine (Argo Books,…
Originally from Martha’s Vineyard, Elizabeth Sylvia (she/her) lives with her family in Massachusetts, where she teaches high school English. Since her first publication in 2019, Elizabeth has been featured in a range of magazines. None But Witches (2022), her first book, won the 2021 3 Mile Harbor Book Prize. A series of reflections on female…
Alex came to Buffalo in the Fall of 2008 to serve as the rabbi of Temple Sinai, now called Congregation Shir Shalom. He brings warmth, creativity, and compassion to the role of synagogue rabbi. A 2004 graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College he also holds Masters and Bachelor Degrees from the Jewish Theological Seminary, as…
This reading will be the 100th of our Online Poetry Series! Workshop leader, tutor, and mom with roots in spoken word, Kathryn Petruccelli holds an MA in teaching English language learners. She also holds obsessions around themes of place, language and the ocean, as evident in her first poetry manuscript, “God of Sea. God…
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