![]() Its bark bruised its split branches bare.Q 1. ![]() Most recently, he was a contributor to the March/April edition of BrickJournal as well as the online multimedia journal Equinox by Hotpoet.Īn ailing oak, its prostrate trunk uprooted, Now a permanent Houston resident, he is just starting to dip his toes into sharing his creative works with the wider world. He was born in New Orleans, but was forced to grow up in deep East Texas until he went to college. Of divisive documents and tear-shot dreams,Ī perfect picture now torn up and tossed away,Įvery crease a wrinkle, a white hair, a whimper.Īlexander Harber is sometimes an engineer, a LEGO builder, an illustrator, a poet, or a writer. The worst war of roses and ripped up reams Years later, we each had our own bloody bouts, Smeared egg whites look well enough to me. To the floor, extra flattened by fat cat paws. It felt like matricide to be this clumsy, For several years, Margo has been the MC for the poetry/prose readings at Archway Art Gallery in Houston, Texas. She performs spoken-word poetry and monologues at fringe festivals, art galleries and anywhere food and beverages are served. Her work lives in FreezeRay Poetry, Untameable City - Mutabilis Press, the Texas Poetry Calendar, Love over 60: An Anthology of Women’s Poems, The Ekphrastic Review, the Friendswood Library Ekphrastic Poetry Contest, Equinox, and Synkronicity. Margo Stutts Toombs enjoys creating and preforming poetry. ![]() Melinda lives in Langley, British Columbia.Īre you the final battlefield between skin In 2021, their experience was featured in an interview and poetry reading on CBC radio’s On the Coast. During the pandemic, she and her mother wrote Pandemic Poems back and forth to one another. Melinda Dewsbury experiences poetry as therapy, a kind of grounding exercise that connects physical embodiment with big ideas and deep truths. She's had pieces published in The Ekphrastic Review and for its challenges, and elsewhere online.and in print in some publications by Dreich and in Poetry Scotland among other places. Proving laughter really is the best medicineĮmily Tee writes poetry and flash fiction. When the left ventricle swells due to joy Likewise a heart can burst with happiness It's not the bard's pound of flesh after all She has published previously in such places as Beltway Quarterly Review, Red Eft Review, The Florida Review and New Delta Review, among other places. Janis Geve teaches literature at UMass Amherst, specializing in autobiography, disability studies, and service-learning. Since, she didn’t have a shy bone in her body, Alarie did sometimes wonder how Alice could be her mama. She was known for dancing a solo hula at a few veterans’ conferences shortly after WWII. Her mother would be the first one on the dance floor. Just so you know, Alarie claims her poem is not autobiographical. in English, Phi Beta Kappa key, and black belt in Feminism. She is currently working on her second volume of poetry, an ekphrastic exploration of fully inhabited lives.Īlarie Tennille graduated from the first coed class at the University of Virginia, where she earned her B.A. Her poetry has recently been published by Geez Magazine, the Saint Katherine Review, and Vita Poetica, among others. Jenna K Funkhouser is an artist and writer living in Portland, Oregon. Her poetry has appeared in many publications including: Consequence Magazine, Firewords, Vagabond Press, Gyroscope Review and So It Goes Journal. She was shortlisted in the Theatre Cloud 'War Poetry for Today' competition and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net and a Rhysling Award. She is especially interested in exploring the boundaries of dream, fantasy and reality. Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. But each response opened up yet another way of seeing the art.ĭonna and I thank you for your wonderful responses.Īfter all the effort of putting paint to paper. I’m sorry not to have been able to include everyone.
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