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.
Michael Davis
Michael Davis is the author of "Upon Waking," a chapbook published in 1999 by Mica Press. His work has appeared in Lip Service, Poet Lore, and the anthologies Open Door, Cabin Fever, and Winners. He has read his work extensively in the Washington D.C. area and participates in the Arlington County Pick-a-Poet program, teaching poetry in county schools.
Martin Dickinson
Martin Dickinson was born in Pittsburgh and spent his childhood in Pennsylvania and southeastern Massachusetts. He studied at Georgetown University and the University of Wisconsin and over his thirty-year career has worked in the labor movement (through 1989) for nonprofit groups and as an environmentalist. His recent work appears in Potomac Review, Clamshell Broadsides, and the Federal Poet. He has read Emily Dickinson at the Library of Congress for the Favorite Poem Project and led poetry events commemorating William Stafford. He lives and works in Washington, D.C.
Jehanne Dubrow
Jehanne Dubrow was born in Vicenza, Italy, and grew up in Yugoslavia, Zaire, Poland, Belgium, Austria, and the United States. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in creative writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Hudson Review, Tikkun, and The New England Review.
Moira Egan
Moira Egan's first book of poems, Cleave (WWPH, 2004), was nominated for the National Book Award and was a finalist for the ForeWord Book of the Year Award. Recent poems have appeared in Gargoyle, Passages North, Poems & Plays, Poetry, Smartish Pace, 32 Poems, and West Branch, among many others. Her work is also featured in the anthologies, Kindled Terraces: American Poets in Greece; Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetics, forthcoming in 2005; and Sex & Chocolate, forthcoming in 2006. Her work has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She was a Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts for 2004. Egan directs the Creative Writing Program at Catonsville High School and teaches poetry workshops at The Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD.
Perry Epes
W. Perry Epes received an MFA from George Mason University and has published poems in Phoebe, Negative Capability, and GW Forum. He teaches English at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, VA, and coordinates the Word Works Young Poets Competition.
Martin Galvin
Martin Galvin has had poems in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The New Republic, JAMA, Commonweal, The Christian Science Monitor, Midwest Review, OntheBus and many others. His book Wild Card won the Columbia Award (1989) judged by Howard Nemerov.
Bernadette Geyer
Bernadette Geyer lives in Arlington, Virginia, and is the author of the poetry chapbook What Remains (Argonne House Press). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Hotel Amerika, The Marlboro Review, South Dakota Review and The Midwest Quarterly. She has been a finalist for the Swink Editors' Award for Emerging Writers and for the Ohio State University/The Journal Award in Poetry. Geyer currently serves as Editor-in-Chief for The Word Works, an independent press in the Washington, DC, area.
Patricia Gray
Patricia Gray's book RUPTURE was published in 2005, and a poem from it, "Calf Born in Snow" was featured by Garrison Keillor on "The Writer's Almanac." Poems from RUPTURE were also featured on www.forpoetry.com in March and will be in Beltway.com in October. Patricia will be a guest reader at the Southern Women Writer's Conference in Georgia on September 24. She also coordinates the Poetry at Noon program at the Library of Congress.
Laurie Hurvitz
Laurie Hurvitz's poetry has been published or is forthcoming in the Christian Science Monitor, Minimus, and Poet Lore. Her poetry has been selected for display in the Poetry Gallery located in the Montgomery County (Maryland) Executive Office Building and for a Poetry Bench commissioned by The Public Arts Trust of the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County. For more than twenty years, she practiced law in the District of Columbia, and currently she writes grants and publications for a hospice organization. She lives in Bethesda with her husband and two children.
Tod Ibrahim
A two-time recipient of George Washington University's Jenny McKean Moore scholarship for poets, Tod Ibrahim has a Master's Degree in Liberal Arts from The Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor's Degree in English from the University of Maryland at College Park. At Maryland, he was Poetry Editor of the Calvert Literary Review. Since 1995, Tod has served as a reader for the Washington Prize for poetry, which is sponsored by The Word Works. In 2001, he joined the "Pick-A-Poet" program at elementary schools in Arlington, Virginia.
Bernard Jankowski
Bernard Jankowski's first book, The Bullfrog Does Not Imagine New Towns, won the Washington Writers Publishing House Baltimore-Washington Contest. His poems have been published in journals such as Atlanta Review, Baltimore Review, Cumberland Poetry Review, G.W. Review, Poet Lore, Potomac Review, Sycamore Review, and Visions International. Mr. Jankowski has been a featured poet online on Poetry Daily. He is currently working with Boston-based blues pianist Bruce Bears on a recording of his Shamokin Monologues. Mr. Jankowski co-owns a business in Frederick, Md., which provides fundraising research and database consulting services to nonprofit organizations and publishing companies. He received his M.A. in Anthropology and Folklore from the University of Arizona and resides in Poolesville, Md.
Lisa Kosow
Lisa Kosow has published poems in Gargoyle, WordWrights!, The Connecticut River Review, Potpourri, and others. Her chapbook, Dawn is Moving, was published by the Argonne Hotel Press in Washington, DC, in 1995. She has a BA from Washington College in Chestertown, MD and an MLS from the University of Maryland. She works as a reference librarian at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
Michael Lally
Michael Lally has published twenty-seven books of poetry and prose; written and directed several plays; written several screenplays; acted in many movies, including Basic Instinct, The Human Condition, and most recently, Last Grave, due out in 2005; appeared in numerous stage plays, including Short Eyes and Balm in Gilead; and appeared in many television programs, including Deadwood, Law & Order, JAG, NYPD Blue, Father Dowling Mysteries, L.A. Law, and Cagney & Lacey. A graduate of the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. He has won the American Book Award (2000), the PEN Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature (1997), The Pacificus Foundation Literary Award (1996), the National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship (1974 and 1981), The Poets Foundation Award (1974), and The New York 92nd St. Y’s Poetry Center Discovery Award (1972). His poem in The Innisfree Poetry Journal is from a forthcoming collection.
Hiram Larew
Larew's work has appeared in several poetry journals and he has received poetry awards such as the Louisiana Literature Poetry prize. He lives in Upper Marlboro, Maryland.
Michael H. Lythgoe
Michael H. Lythgoe holds an MFA from Bennington College. His chapbook, Visions, Revisions, appeared in 1994. He serves as President-Elect of The Academy for Lifelong Learning at The University of South Carolina—Aiken. He will read his poems in November 2005 at the Columbia Art Museum as part of the Frisson Series, art responds to art. His manuscript, Lemon Loud, is seeking a publisher.
Ebby Malmgren
A native of the Iowa prairie, a prize-winning potter and print maker, as well as a writer, Ebby Malmgren divides her time between Annapolis and Taos. She has been an exhibiting member of The Maryland Federation of Art since 1972 and is a founding member of the Annapolis Potters’ Guild. She was also a founding member of Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts. Her writing has appeared in a number of magazines, journals, and anthologies. Two collections of her poetry, Common Ground and Stone Dream have been published in hand-bound Limited Editions by Lake Clair Designs.
Dan Masterson
Dan Masterson has published four collections of poetry: On Earth As It Is (The University of Illinois Press, 1978) Those Who Trespass (The University of Arkansas Press, 1985), World Without End (The University of Arkansas Press, 1991), and All Things, Seen and Unseen (The University of Arkansas Press, 1997). His poem, “On His Own,” is from the manuscript of his forthcoming book, That Which is Seen, which consists entirely of poems based on works of visual art. His poems have appeared in many literary journals, including The New Yorker, Poetry, The Ontario Review, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, The Prairie Schooner, The Denver Quarterly, The Gettysburg Review, The Paris Review, The Georgia Review, The Yale Review, The Sewanee Review, The Hudson Review, The Massachusetts Review, and The Southern Review. A Pushcart Prize winner himself, Dan has for many years served as a contributing editor to the annual Pushcart Prize Anthology. He has directed the poetry writing workshops at SUNY/Rockland for 40 years, and continues his 19-year affiliation with Manhattanville College through an online graduate course offered through his website for writers (poetrymaster.com). In addition to many honors for his writing, Dan has received The State University of New York's "Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching."
Ryan McAllister
Ryan McAllister wants you to know that birth can be a loving experience for everyone involved. He wants your help reviving the viewpoint that "pregnancy is healthy, not an illness." How we view and treat pregnancy, birth, and the young child is important to everyone because it sets up the quality of our human relationships. He welcomes you to visit NotJustSkin.org where he and many others are developing an understanding of how to set human relationships up well from the beginning. He invites interaction at ryan@notjustskin.org. Ryan works as a biophysicist and birth activist.
Judith McCombs
Judith McCombs grew up in almost all the continental states, in a geodetic surveyor's family. Her work appears in Calyx, Nimrod (a Neruda Award), Poet Lore, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Potomac Review (Poetry Prize), Prairie Schooner, Prism, Sisters of the Earth, and elsewhere. She has held NEH and Canadian Senior Embassy Fellowships, and Michigan and Maryland Arts Awards. The Habit of Fire: Poems Selected and New (Word Works 2005) is her seventh book. She teaches at the Writer's Center in Bethesda MD, arranges the Kensington Row Bookshop poetry readings, and serves as poetry editor for Potomac Review.
Daniel Abdul-Hayy Moore
Moore’s first book of poems, Dawn Visions, was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books, San Francisco, in 1964, and also the second, in 1972, Burnt Heart / An Ode to the War Dead. He became a Sufi Muslim in 1970, performed the Hajj in 1972, and has lived and traveled throughout Morocco, Spain, Algeria and Nigeria, landing in California and publishing The Desert is the Only Way Out and Chronicles of Akhira. In 1996 he published The Ramadan Sonnets, and in 2002, The Blind Beekeeper, with Syracuse University Press. He has edited a number of works, including The Burdah of Shaykh Busiri and the poetry of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. His work also appears in The American Muslim and on his own website, danielmoorepoetry.com.
Miles David Moore
Miles David Moore is a Washington reporter for Crain Communications, Inc. He is founder and host of the Iota Poetry Reading Series in Arlington, VA, a member of the Board of Directors of The Word Works, Inc., and administrator of The Word Works Washington Prize. He is the author of three books of poetry: The Bears of Paris (The Word Works Capital Collection, 1995); Buddha Isn't Laughing (Argonne Hotel Press, 1999); and Rollercoaster (The Word Works Capital Collection, 2004). With Karren LaLonde Alenier and Hilary Tham, he co-edited Winners: A Retrospective of the Washington Prize, published in 1999 by The Word Works. Fatslug Unbound, a CD of Moore's poetry read by himself and 14 other poets, was realeased in 2000 by Minimus Productions. His review/essays on the poet John Haines have appeared in The Wilderness of Vision (Story Line Press, 1996) and A Gradual Twilight (CavanKerry Press, 2003).
Heidi Mordhorst
Heidi Mordhorst's first book, Squeeze: Poems from a Juicy Universe, is published by Wordsong/Boyds Mills Press and will be available October 1. She squeezes her writing into the little open spaces that occur among parenting two young children, teaching nursery school, and doing the laundry in Bethesda, MD, where she lives with her partner of 15 years. Visit heidimordhorst.com for more information on Heidi's projects.
Yvette Neisser
Originally from New Jersey, Yvette Neisser received her undergraduate degree in English and Middle East studies from Tufts University, and her MFA in poetry from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where she taught poetry writing and Middle Eastern literature. She has worked for organizations promoting peace and conflict resolution in the Middle East, and currently works as a freelance translator, writer and editor. Yvette’s poems have appeared in various magazines, including Virginia Quarterly Review, Tar River Poetry, and North Carolina Literary Review, as well as in the anthologies September Eleven: Maryland Voices and Poetic Voices Without Borders, recently published by Gival Press. Her critical work on (and translations of) Palestinian and Israeli poetry has been published in the Palestine-Israel Journal. Yvette is currently translating the poetry of Luis Alberto Ambroggio and collaborating with him on a bilingual collection of “selected poems” to be published in 2006. In addition, she is seeking a publisher for her own first book of poems, Fields of Vision, which was a finalist for the 2004 Gival Press Award. She also co-directs, along with poet Judy Neri, the Café Muse literary reading series in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Yvette resides in Silver Spring, Maryland with her husband and 3-year-old son.
Judy Neri
Judy Neri has placed in The Formalist and Passager contests and had poems in The Classical Outlook, The Lyric, Poet Lore, Potomac Review, and other journals and anthologies. She is seeking a publisher for her first book. She serves as Codirector of Cafe Muse, a literary reading series sponsored by The Word Works Press, which takes place monthly in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Bonnie Nevel
Bonnie Nevel is a wetland biologist and freelance editor living in Washington, D.C.
Barbara J. Orton
Barbara J. Orton’s poems are forthcoming in Under the Rock Umbrella, edited by William Walsh and Earl Braggs. Her work also appears in two anthologies, The New Young American Poets (Southern Illinois University Press) and New Voices (Academy of American Poets); in a Web chapbook published by The Literary Review and Web del Sol (www.theliteraryreview.org); and in journals including Ploughshares, Pleiades, and 32 Poems. She received her BA and MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. She lives in Washington, DC, where she works as a freelance editor.
Eric Pankey
Eric Pankey is the author of seven collections of poetry, the most recent of which are CENOTAPH, ORACLE FIGURES, and RELIQUARIES. His work has been supported by fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He teaches in the MFA program at George Mason University.
Ellen Sazzman
Ellen Sazzman is a writer, mother, and practicing lawyer in the Washington, D.C. area. She has been published in Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge: Poems About Marriage edited by Ginny Lowe Connors. She has also been published in the Legal Studies Forum, Rockhurst Review, Potato Eyes, Soul Fountain, and the California Quarterly. She has received honorable mentions in the Anna Davidson Rosenberg poetry contest sponsored by the Judah Magnes Museum, Berkeley, California, and received a free verse award in the 1999 International Poetry Contest of the National League of American Pen Women.
J.D. Smith
J.D. Smith’s books include the forthcoming collection SETTLING FOR BEAUTY (Cherry Grove Collections, http://www.cherry-grove.com), his first collection, THE HYPOTHETICAL LANDSCAPE, and the edited anthology NORTHERN MUSIC: POEMS ABOUT AND INSPIRED BY GLENN GOULD. His work has received three Pushcart nominations, and his prose has appeared in Chelsea, Exquisite Corpse, Grist and Pleiades.
Rose Solari
Rose Solari is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, ORPHEUS IN THE PARK (The Bunny and the Crocodile) and DIFFICULT WEATHER (Gut Punch), and two chapbooks. Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon). She is the Visiting Writer of the Mitchell Gallery at St. John’s College, Annapolis, Maryland, and is a member of the faculty of the Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Her website is www.rosesolari.com.
Alan Spears
Alan Spears lives in Washington, DC. His work has appeared in MUSEings, Potomac Review, Lit Wit, The Frantic Egg, The Beltway Poetry Series, and Gargoyle. In 1993, he edited FAST TALK, FULL VOLUME: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY (Gut Punch Press).
Gary Stein
Gary Stein's poems have appeared in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, The Journal of the American Medical Association, Wind, Poet Lore, Gargoyle, Folio, The Blue Sofa Review, The Potomac Review, The Baltimore Review and other journals and anthologies. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. A graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop, he served three years as Book Review Editor of Poet Lore and co-edited the anthology, CABIN FEVER (The Word Works, 2004).
Adele Steiner
Adele Steiner is a poet and teacher residing in Bethesda, Maryland. She received her B.A. and M.F.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Maryland, College Park, and is currently an artist-in-residence at Georgetown University Hospital Center in Washington, D.C. She is also a poet-in-the-schools for the Maryland State Arts Council, and she teaches at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Md. Her work has been published in Gargoyle, So To Speak, The Maryland Poetry Review, Wordwrights, The Lucid Stone, Smartish Pace, Promise Magazine, Scribble, a chapbook, REFRACTED LOVE (l993) and a full-length book of poetry, FRESHWATER PEARLS (l997).
Mark Tarallo
Mark Tarallo writes about policy and politics as a free-lance journalist and ghostwriter in Washington, DC. New to publishing, he has poems forthcoming in Abbey, Angel Face, and Asphodel. He reports that “now it’s on to the B’s.”
Colette Thomas
Colette Thomas has presented her poetry in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere since the early 1980s, in settings including the Library of Congress, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and Harvard University. She is the recipient of several poetry awards from Harvard, where she studied with Seamus Heaney. Her poems have appeared in Grand Street, Poet Lore, WordWrights, and other magazines, and in anthologies of Washington-area poets. Colette also teaches Daoist meditation and is a long-time student of the I Ching.
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