Elena grew up in the DC area, lived briefly in Berlin and Johannesburg, and attended college in upstate New York and NYC. She is a artist of many mediums. She has had four poetry books published. Additionally, her visual art has been exhibited in galleries and she has been making sound art. http://elenabotts.wix.com/e-a-b

I am a poet and have published six small chapbooks of poetry and I also write prose. I write for about ten small newsletter presses. I have been a member of THE NATIONAL LEAGUE OF AMERICAN PENWOMEN and was the Kentucky Founder and President. I am a member of the INTERNATIONAL WOMENS WRITERS GUILD, and am a columnist for POETRY PROTOCOL MAGAZINE of Oklahoma with my column entitled, MUTTERINGS OF MY MUSES. And I am also several times published poet with the INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF POETS, Smithsonian Institute.

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Kent Clair Chamberlain was born in Abilene, Kansas.

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Born & bred in New Jersey, I work in New York. I love music from Bach to Amy Winehouse. Shakespeare is my consolation, writing my hobby. As poets, I like Dylan Thomas, Ginsburg, and Sylvia Plath. I also attend a Café Philo in Lower Manhattan.

Cindy Evans is a published poet living in Duluth, Georgia. When she’s not writing, you will find her working in her receptionist role, serving at the local hospice or on a date night with her husband, Mark. She also enjoys Ferris wheels and faith-based movies.

Bob has been writing poetry for over 40 years. His poems might be described as "spiritual", for want of a better word; they speak of the search for meaning in a secular world, of the border between the profane and the sacred. His most recent publications include the following: Bindweed Magazine, Down In The Dirt, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, Convergence: An Online Journal Of Poetry And Art, and Poets' Espresso Review.

Matthew Fishler has followed a range of trails in his life. After earning degrees in philosophy and law, he worked for several years as a lawyer. A stint as a creative writer for an Internet company in the late 1990s offered a welcome reprieve from legal work. Over the course of many years, Matthew also traveled extensively in Asia, writing poetry and keeping extensive journals. In the last decade or so, he has been engaged in a sustained effort to find a home in language for elusive psychological experience. This work formed the basis of his doctoral dissertation in clinical depth psychology, The Evocative Moment: A Study in Depth Psychological Poetics. This work also produced a number of poems that have been published in a variety of poetry journals. Matthew now works as a depth psychologist, writes poetry, and teaches at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California.

Email: mattfishler2@yahoo.com

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I graduated from Harvard, twice! Seriously, I have no academic accomplishments, just a desire to share my devastating secret that happened sixty five years ago, now that I can! It has taken a long time to process, but with the help of a wonderful therapist, I understand that I’ve been carrying my rapist’s shame for all of these years. It was never mine to bear!

Email: dharvey47@yahoo.com

I am a poet of many years, dating back to the 1980’s. I have, during this period, published many poems in various publications. I presently have a book of poems out called Tender Was The Night.

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Sean Lause is a professor of English at Rhodes State College. His poems have appeared in The Minnesota Review, Another Chicago Magazine, The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Alaska Quarterly, Sanskrit, Illuminations, European Judaism, The Pedestal and Poetry International. His first book of poems, Bestiary of Souls, was published in 2013 by FutureCycle Press.

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Laurinda Lind lives far north in New York State. Some poetry publications/ acceptances are in Another Chicago Magazine, Blue Earth Review, Blueline, Comstock Review, Constellations, Main Street Rag, Off the Coast, and Paterson Literary Review; also anthologies Visiting Bob: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Bob Dylan (New Rivers Press) and AFTERMATH: Explorations of Loss and Grief (Radix Media). In 2018, she won first place in both the Keats-Shelley Prize for adult poetry and the New York State Fair poetry competition.

I have the unique distinction of having held three poet laureate positions simultaneously. I was one of the winners of the Amy Kitchener’s Angels Without Wings Content and awarded the title of Senior Poet Laureate of Washington State. (2012) Auburn Morning Toastmasters appointed me Poet Laureate of the club. (2010 – 2014) When the city of Pacific celebrated our 100th anniversary the Mayor selected me for Poet Laurate. (2009 – 2018) I like dancing with words and find I can get all tangled up just as well without the help of Lawrence Welk.

William Meyer is a poet and artist living in Beaumont, Texas. He loves the Palestinian people.

Rebecca lives in Montana in a log cabin by a river and has been writing for most of her life. She has over 100 published stories and a book of short stories Reaching Beyond published by Bellowing Ark Press. Along with writing, she loves to read, take long walks with Dodge, her yellow Labrador retriever, play with her granddaughter, wait on her cats and volunteer at the local animal shelter.

Sheryl L. Nelms is from the Flint Hills of Kansas. She graduated from South Dakota State University. She’s had over 5,000 articles, stories and poems published, including fifteen individual collections of her poems*. She’s the fiction/nonfiction editor of The Pen Woman Magazine, the National League of American Pen Women publication, was a contributing editor for Time Of Singing, A Magazine of Christian Poetry and a four time Pushcart Prize nominee. *For longer credits listing see Sheryl L. Nelms at www.pw.org/directory/featured

Carl “Papa” Palmer of Old Mill Road in Ridgeway, Virginia, now lives in University Place, Washington. He is retired from the military and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and is enjoying life as “Papa” to his grand descendants. Carl is also a Franciscan Hospice volunteer and former Pushcart Prize and Micro Award nominee. MOTTO: Long Weekends Forever!

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Kari Rhyan lives in Bellingham, WA. Her previous work includes Standby for Broadcast, a memoir situated in a British medical outpost in Afghanistan. Her poetry has been featured in the Wisconsin Review.

I have published over 250 poems in Magazines, Journals & Anthologies. I have also had 6 books published & read poems at Colleges, Universities, Radio Stations and Public Formats. I have won the Rosine Offen Award and also The Rockford Review Award for poetry.

Phone: 773-966-4058

Daniel David is a writer, artist and professor living along the southern shore of Lake Erie in North America. He is a 2018 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award grant recipient for poetry. His poems have appeared widely in a number of venues across the United States, in Canada and the United Kingdom. His publications also include articles in the Journal of Creative Behavior; chapbooks Close to Home and Two Buddha; and his novel, Flying Over Erie.

I am from Scotland, born in 1950. Most of my work has appeared in poetry journals in Scotland, and some in England. I am very pleased to have made my American poetry debut in Samsara. Otherwise, I have been, among other things, a warehouseman, a bartender, a goatherd in Corsica, a psychiatric nurse, and a high school teacher. I taught English Language and Literature for some 30 years in the Edinburgh Waldorf school, and now do a similar job in Vermont. I am the author of two books: A Rosslyn Treasury and The Shifty Lad. These are both books of stories. I am currently working on a third book for young adult readers and beginning a fourth. I have two grown up children, one grand daughter and a new family in South Burlington, Vermont.

I live and work at home. The log cabin house is on the middle of a nature preserve. I enjoy wildlife and birds. I work on my writing that is now haiku and also on latchhook rugs.

Robert Wooten is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Alabama (1998) and of the MA program at North Carolina State University (1994). His poems have appeared, among others, in The Main Street Rag, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Common Ground Review, The Pedestal Magazine, www.thepedestalmagazine.com, and Strong Verse, www.strongverse.com. He has published two chapbooks.

Paula Yup returned to Spokane, Washington after a dozen years in the Marshall Islands. In the past forty years she has published over two hundred poems in magazines and anthologies including those put out by Outrider Press. Her first book of poetry is entitled Making a Clean Space in the Sky.