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…
Raphael Kosek’s poems have appeared in numerous journals and magazines such as Southern Humanities Review, Briar Cliff Review, Poetry East, Catamaran, The Chattahoochee Review and many others. She also writes creative non-fiction and lyric essays, two of which have won first place awards at Eastern Iowa Review and Bacopa Review. Harmless Encounters won the 2021 Jesse Bryce Niles Chapbook Contest…
Kim Ports Parsons’ debut collection Mayapple Forest is forthcoming from Terrapin Books. Kim grew up near Baltimore, earned degrees, taught for decades, and worked in libraries. Now, she lives next to Shenandoah National Park where she gardens, walks, and writes. Her poetry has appeared in The Galway Review, Cider Press Review, Banyan Review, and other journals. She volunteers weekly for Cultivating Voices…
Theresa Wyatt is the author of Hurled Into Gettysburg, BlazeVox Books, 2018. Besides the powerful tug of history, Theresa divides her creative time between the poetry of place, ekphrasis, eulogy, and the healing aspects of medical narratives. Her poems have appeared in the W. W. Norton anthology, New Micro, A Celebration of Western New York Poets, Buffalo Legacy Publications, Pulse, Spillway, Steel Bellow,…
Perry S. Nicholas is a recently-retired English professor at SUNY Erie Community College in Buffalo, N.Y., where he was awarded the 2008 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Scholarship and Creative Activities and the 2011 President’s Award for Classroom Instruction. He received the SGA’s Outstanding Teacher Award on two occasions. He has been a guest lecturer at Daemen College, Villa Maria…
Brian Culhane’s poetry has appeared widely in such journals as The New Republic, The Hudson Review, The Paris Review, and Plume. He has been awarded the Poetry Foundation’s Emily Dickinson First Book Prize for The King’s Question, published by Graywolf Press. Remembering Lethe is his second poetry collection. A recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the…
Barbara Goldberg, award-winning poet, translator and speechwriter, has authored 8 books of poetry, most recently Breaking & Entering: New and Selected Poems. The Royal Baker’s Daughter received the Felix Pollak Poetry Prize and Transformation: The Poetry of Translation received the Valentin Krustev Award. The recipient of two fellowships from the NEA, her work appears in The Paris Review, Gettysburg Review and elsewhere. As Series Editor of International Editions…
Irene Sipos earned her Master of Arts in the legendary 1970s English Department of SUNY University at Buffalo. She recently retired from SUNY Buffalo State where she taught in the English Department and the College Writing Program and was a co-founder of Buffalo State's Rooftop Poetry Club. Her work has appeared in Lilith Magazine, The Comstock…
David McCann, born in Lewiston ME, grew up in Cambridge MA, graduated from Amherst College, and served in the first Peace Corps group to go to Korea, ROK, 1966-68. He received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. He taught Classical Japanese language and literature, served as Director of Foundation Relations, then taught Korean literature…
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