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Inquiry – The Power of Poetry featuring Raphael Kosek

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…

Inquiry – The Power of Poetry featuring the Virginia Women’s Poetry Collective

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…

Inquiry – The Power of Poetry featuring Theresa Wyatt

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,…

Inquiry – The Power of Poetry featuring Perry Nicholas

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…

Inquiry – The Power of Poetry featuring Brian Culhane

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…

POSTPONED – Inquiry – The Power of Poetry featuring Barbara Goldberg

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…

Inquiry – The Power of Poetry featuring Irene Sipos

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…

Inquiry – The Power of Poetry with David McCann

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…

Inquiry – The Power of Poetry featuring Mike Jurkovic

A 2016 Pushcart nominee, Mike’s poetry and music reviews have been published globally but with little reportable income. Full length collections include mooncussers, (Luchador Press 2022); AmericanMental, (Luchador Press 2020). Blue Fan Whirring (Nirala Press, 2018) Anthologies: Calling All Poets 20th Anniversary Anthology, (CAPS Press); Reflecting Pool: Poets & the Creative Process (Codhill Press, 2018); Like Light: 25 Years of Poetry & Prose (Bright Hill…

Inquiry – The Power of Poetry featuring Peter Kline & Brittany Perham

Brittany Perham's most recent book, Double Portrait (W.W. Norton, 2017), was selected by Claudia Rankine for the Barnard Women Poets Prize and was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. She is also the author of The Curiosities (Free Verse Editions, 2012); and, with Kim Addonizio, the collaborative chapbook The Night Could Go in…

Inquiry – The Power of Poetry featuring Andrea Deeken

About Andrea Deeken: I am a writer in Portland, Oregon where I live with my wife and daughter. I was born in rural Missouri. My writing has appeared in journals such as The Bear Deluxe, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Beyond Queer Words,  The Blue Mountain Review, Ran Off With the Star Bassoon, Spoon River Poetry Review, Valley Voices, and elsewhere. Awards include Arts and Letters Creative…

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Inquiry – The Power of Poetry with Traci O’Dea

An American poet living in Jersey, UK, Traci O'Dea is the author of two poetry collections: Waving (Assure Press, 2021) and Restricted Movement (Scotland Street Press, 2021) for which she received a Seed Funding Grant from Arthouse Jersey. The audiobook for Restricted Movement was released in November 2022. Her poems appear in the following places: BBC Radio…