Envisioning a New Age Poetry & Open Mic
Tara A. Elliott/Wednesday, December 14, 2022 from 7-9 PM CST
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Featuring: Tara A. Elliott
Tara's poems have appeared in The TAOS Journal of International Poetry & Art, The American Journal of Poetry, and Ninth Letter, among others. President of Eastern Shore Writers Association (ESWA), she is also the founder and director of Maryland's Salisbury Poetry Week, and serves as co-chair of the Bay to Ocean Writers Conference. She recently received an Independent Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council. For more information, visit: www.taraaelliott.com
Event Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85360146092
Tara's poems have appeared in The TAOS Journal of International Poetry & Art, The American Journal of Poetry, and Ninth Letter, among others. President of Eastern Shore Writers Association (ESWA), she is also the founder and director of Maryland's Salisbury Poetry Week, and serves as co-chair of the Bay to Ocean Writers Conference. She recently received an Independent Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council. For more information, visit: www.taraaelliott.com
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John Burroughs/April 13, 7-9 PM CSTJoin Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87193196593
Featuring:John Burroughs of Cleveand Ohio. John served as the 2019-2021 Beat Poet Laureate for the state of Ohio.
He is a dynamic performer who has wowed audiences from Oakland to New York City. His more than a dozen poetry collections include Rattle and Numb: Selected Poems, 1992-2019 (2019, Venetian Spider Press), Loss and Foundering (2018, NightBallet Press) and, most recently You Can’t Trust It to Remain (2022, Between Shadows Press). Since 2008 he has served as the founding editor for Crisis Chronicles Press, publishing over one hundred books by esteemed writers from around the world. Find him on Facebook, Twitter (@jesuscrisis) or at www.crisischronicles.com
Agnes Vojta/Wednesday May 11, 2022 at 7-9 PM CST
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Featuring Agnes Vojta of Rolla, MO
Featuring Agnes Vojta of Rolla, MO
Agnes Vojta grew up in Germany and now lives in Rolla, Missouri where she teaches physics at Missouri S&T and hikes the Ozarks. She is the author of Porous Land (Spartan Press, 2019) and The Eden of Perhaps (Spartan Press, 2020), and her poems have appeared in a variety of magazines.
Her website is agnesvojta.com.
Her website is agnesvojta.com.
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Latif is a Disabled poet of Italian and Senegalese descent. He was born with Cerebral Palsy and grew up in Brooklyn and Staten Island, New York. He attended Edinboro University, where he received his Bachelor's in Computer Science. He was recently accepted into Columbia University to pursue an MFA in creative writing. At Edinboro, he discovered a passion for language and poetry which led to his first collection of poems, Wet Monasteries (Alien Buddha Press 2019). Since then, he has published award-winning poems such as “Platform” and “Me in Marble.” He hopes to continue the rewarding work of appreciating and elevating Disability through the art of poetry language. Find him online at: https://www.stillhousepress.org/latif... www.terangahouse.com@askia_latif Askia’s Emporium
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John is a gay poet living in rural Rowlett, Kentucky with his husband Josh, their 3 dogs and 2 cats. His personal poetry journey reaches for things close and far. He delves into the his tumultuous emotions and childhood memories having grown up with being gay with mental health issues in a small Southern town. He has published 2 books and 5 chapbooks. and forthcoming: [books]: trainride elsewhere (august 2016) from Pressed Wafer; stranger in the attic of clouds (tba) from dead man's press inc; [chapbooks]: that moan like a saxophone (December 2016) from kindle; ampersand (march 2018) from Plan B Press; a child growing wild inside the mothering womb (June 2020) from ghost city press; i saw god cooking children / paint their bones (oct 2020) from blood pudding press; to wash all the pretty things off my skin (sept 2021) from ethel zine & micro-press. he has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies.
Prince A. McNally/Wednesday August 17, 2022 from 7-9 PM CST
Kurt Lovelace/Wednesday, September 14, 2022 from 7-9 PM CSTPrince A. McNally/Wednesday August 17, 2022 from 7-9 PM CST
Prince A. McNally is a Brooklyn-born poet, philosopher & activist whose work primarily focuses on social justice, the plight of the poor & the homeless. His work has appeared in Tuck Magazine, Dissident Voice, Blue Mountain Review, Jerry Jazz Musician, SPILL WORDS & Lothlorien Journal, to name a few. He is a recipient of a Poets & Writers grant, a NYPHA award & several Best of The Net nominations. He is currently working on his first poetry collection entitled SHE. You can find him on Fb as well as Instagram @prince_thepoet.
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A mathematician, publisher at Pierian Springs Press, and writer with work in The Lascaux Review, Full Of Crow, Red Fez, Athena, Wooden Teeth, GW Review, et cetera, has studied poetry writing with Tony Hoagland, Kevin Prufer, Martha Serpas, Michael Sofranko and creative non-fiction writing with Peter Turchi.
Two works of poetry are coming out in 2022, "Halfway Between Everywhere" and "Disfigurements."
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Tommy Sheffield was born in 1991, in Fairfax, Virginia. He is a graduate of James Madison University, where he studied poetry under Laurie Kutchins. He currently resides in Fairfax, VA and teaches high school in Washington, DC. He is a graduate of the Creative Writing MFA program at George Mason University, where he studied poetry; he is also the poetry editor for Stillhouse Press.
He has served as the Managing Editor for Megan Merchant's poetry collection Before the Fevered Snow; Baltimore Sons, a collection by Dean Smith, head of Duke University Press; How to Bury a Boy at Sea, Phil Goldstein's debut poetry collection; The Machine Code of a Bleeding Moon by Latif Askia Ba; and A Map of Every Undoing by Alicia Elkort.
He also does freelance poetry editing, and has just finished working on a manuscript with poet John Compton. Sheffield's poetry, stories, and essays have been featured in ucity review, Adelaide, Sanitarium, Cough Syrup Magazine, 3 A.M. Press, and many lesser-known zines.
Nik Macioci/Wednesday Nov 16, 2022 from 7=9 PM CSThttps://fb.me/e/1fXIk3hwX
R. Nikolas Macioci earned a PhD from The Ohio State University. OCTELA, the Ohio Council of Teachers of English, named Nik Macioci the best secondary English teacher in the state of Ohio. Nik is the author of two chapbooks as well as nine books: Critics and judges called his first book, Cafes of Childhood, a “beautifully harrowing account of child abuse,” but not “sentimental” or “self-pitying,” an “amazing book,” and “a single unified whole.” Cafes of Childhood was submitted for the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. In 2021, he has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and The Best of the Net award. More than two hundred of his poems have been published here and abroad in magazines and journals, including Chiron, Concho River Review, The Bombay Review, and Blue Unicorn.
Tara A. Elliott/Wednesday, December 14, 2022 from 7-9 PM CST
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Featuring: Tara A. Elliott
Tara's poems have appeared in The TAOS Journal of International Poetry & Art, The American Journal of Poetry, and Ninth Letter, among others. President of Eastern Shore Writers Association (ESWA), she is also the founder and director of Maryland's Salisbury Poetry Week, and serves as co-chair of the Bay to Ocean Writers Conference. She recently received an Independent Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council. For more information, visit: www.taraaelliott.com
Event Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85360146092
Tara's poems have appeared in The TAOS Journal of International Poetry & Art, The American Journal of Poetry, and Ninth Letter, among others. President of Eastern Shore Writers Association (ESWA), she is also the founder and director of Maryland's Salisbury Poetry Week, and serves as co-chair of the Bay to Ocean Writers Conference. She recently received an Independent Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council. For more information, visit: www.taraaelliott.com
Event Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85360146092