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Online Poetry – Sparks in the Dark with Andrea Deeken

This week we welcome Andrea Deekin as our poet. Join us via Zoom each Wednesday for this series. Click here for the link. Andrea Deekin is a writer in Portland, Oregon where she lives with her wife and daughter. Her writing has appeared in journals such as The Bear Deluxe, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Beyond Queer Words,  The Blue Mountain Review, Ran…

Sparks in the Dark Online Poetry – Holly Iglesias & Landon Godfrey

Join us this Wednesday for our online poetry series featuring Holly Iglesias and Landon Godfrey. 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…

Sparks in the Dark Online Poetry – Robin Lysne

Join us on November 8 for a continuation of our Online Poetry series featuring Robin Lysne. Robin is the author of seven books on topics of health, healing, metaphysics, and poetry. Click here for the link. Currently, she is launching an “Ancestral Women’s Series,” with two works of historical fiction to bring to life the…

Sparks in the Dark – Online Poetry with Rolly Kent

Join us online for our online poetry series. This week we're honored to feature Rolly Kent.  Click here for the link. After attending Middlebury College, Rolly Kent received an MFA from the University of Arizona. For many years he taught poetry around the Southwest and on many tribal lands. He ran one of the first…

Online Poetry – Sparks in the Dark with Malachi Black

Click here for the link to today's online poetry session. Malachi Black is also the author of Indirect Light, forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2024, and 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…

Online Poetry – Sparks in the Dark with Ellen Steinbaum

Click here for the Zoom link. Ellen Steinbaum is the author of four poetry collections and a one-person play. Her work has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and is included in several anthologies including The  Widows’ Handbook and Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems American Places. An award-winning journalist and former Boston Globe columnist, she writes a…

Online Poetry – Sparks in the Dark with James Davis

Click here to join us for this week's poetry session. James Davis is the author of Club Q, which Edward Hirsch selected for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize and The Waywiser Press published in 2020. His work has been featured on NBC News and CBC Radio and anthologized in two installments of Best New Poets (2011, selected…

Online Poetry – Sparks in the Dark with Dane Cervine

Click here to join the event on January 10 at 12:30 p.m. Dane Cervine is a poet whose recent books include The World Is God’s Language (Sixteen Rivers Press), Earth Is a Fickle Dancer (Main Street Rag), and The Gateless Gate – Polishing the Moon Sword, from Saddle Road Press. Previous poetry books include Kung Fu of the Dark…

Online Poetry – Sparks in the Dark with Mike Jurkovic

Click here to join today's poetry session. Published globally with little to no reportable income. Full length collections include the upcoming haiku collection, Monet’s Bamboo, (CAPS Press, 2024) and Buckshot Reckoning (Luchador Press, 2023). mooncussers, (Luchador Press 2022); AmericanMental, (Luchador Press 2020); Blue Fan Whirring (Nirala Press, 2018). Anthologies: Calling All Poets 20th Anniversary Anthology,…

Online Poetry – Sparks in the Dark with Dennis Sweeney

Click here to join today's poetry session. Dennis James Sweeney is the author of You’re the Woods Too and In the Antarctic Circle, as well as four chapbooks of poetry and prose, including Ghost/Home: A Beginner’s Guide to Being Haunted.  His first book, In the Antarctic Circle, won the Autumn House Rising Writer Prize and…