Rick Cannon
Rick Cannon has won grants from the Maryland State Arts Council for his poetry. A chapbook, "The Composition of Absence," came out (Pudding House) in 2003.
Mel Belin
Mel Belin, author of Flesh that was Chrysalis (Word Works 1999), has been published in magazines nationwide. Winner of Potomac Review's third annual poetry competition (1998), he has been a featured reader at many Washington, DC area venues including the Writer's Center, the Library of Congress Noon Series, Borders, Barnes & Noble, and Miller's Cabin. He presented one of his poems recently on a program distributed by National Public Radio.
Nancy Naomi Carlson
Nancy Naomi Carlson's work has appeared in such journals as Poetry, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, Prairie Shooner, Chautauqua Literary Journal, Chelsea, River Styx, The Literary Review, Puerto del Sol, and The Greensboro Review. Her collection of poetry, Kings Highway, won the 1997 Washington Writers' Publishing House competition, and Complications of the Heart won the 2002 Texas Review Press' Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize. Imperfect Seal of Lips was the winner of the 2005 Tennessee Chapbook Prize. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2003, 2004, and 2005, she is an associate editor for Tupelo Press and an instructor at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
Norma Chapman
Norma Chapman lives in Brunswick, a small town in Western Maryland. She started writing poetry after turning sixty, somewhat to her surprise. The journals in which her poems have been published or are forthcoming include Passager, Iris, and Maryland Poetry Review. She received a 2003 Maryland State Arts Council Grant.
Christopher Conlon
Christopher Conlon is the author of two books of poems, Gilbert and Garbo in Love (The Word Works, 2003), which won the Peace Corps Poetry Prize, and The Weeping Time (Argonne House Press, 2004). His poems, stories and articles have appeared in a wide range of publications including America Magazine, Tennessee Williams Annual Review, Poet Lore, and The Long Story, as well as several anthologies such as September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond and Poetic Voice Without Borders. He runs a popular poetry reading series at the Nora School near his home in Silver Spring, Maryland. His web site can be accessed at christopherconlon.com.
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