 |
|
|
Bill Wunder
In 2004 Bill Wunder was named Poet Laureate of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. A Pushcart Prize nominee in poetry, he has been a finalist in The Mad Poet’s Society Competition, The Robert Fraser Poetry Competition and The Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards two times. Recently, his work has appeared in The Manhattan Review, The Paterson Literary Review, Snow Monkey, Mad Poet’s Review, Literary Potpourri, Drexel University On-Line Journal, The Schuylkill Valley Journal, the Bucks County Writer and others. He has read or lectured in many venues, including local schools, James A. Michener Museum, Bucks County Community College, and The Poetry Project at The Montgomery Theater. Via Dolorosa Press published Bill’s chapbook titled A Season of Storms. Current projects include a poetry manuscript titled Pointing at the Moon, concerning what the Vietnamese call the "American War."
Sandra Beasley
Sandra Beasley lives in Washington D.C., where she earned her MFA at American University and served as Editor-in-Chief of Folio. Her poems can be found in recent or upcoming issues of journals such as Gargoyle, Cimarron Review, Reed, New Orleans Review, Rhino and Passages North. She was named a semi-finalist in the 2005 Discovery/The Nation Contest, and her work has appeared on Verse Daily and will be published in a forthcoming anthology, 2005 Best New Poets, selected by George Garrett. She has held fellowships to the Indiana University Writer's Conference, Vermont Studio Center, and Virginia Center for Creative Arts. www.sandrabeasley.com
Anne Becker
Anne Becker's poems have appeared in Antioch Review, Southern Poetry Review, Washington Jewish Week, Gargoyle, Washington Review, and elsewhere. She earned an M.A. from the Writing Seminars, Johns Hopkins University. She won the Maryland Heritage Poetry Award in 1984 and has received a Fellowship in Poetry from the Maryland State Arts Council. Her collection, THE TRANSMUTATION NOTEBOOKS: POEMS IN THE VOICES OF CHARLES AND EMMA DARWIN (Forest Woods Media, 1996) was completed with a MSAC work-in-progress grant. Ms. Becker serves in the Maryland Poets-in-the-Schools program, teaches creative writing at The Writer's Center in Bethesda, provides poetry tutorials, and conducts a special poetry workshop, Writing the Body, for those who have experience with life-threatening or chronic illness. Following her interest in teaching across disciplines, she has presented a workshop at the Corcoran School of Art on the use of language for the visual artist, read and lectured at the University of Connecticut for a course on the nature of scientific thought and at the Corcorcan for classes on the history of science and technology. For many years, she served as Senior Producer of Watershed Tapes, which include such poets as Ruth Stone, William Carlos Williams, Jean Valentine, Czeslaw Milosz, and Joseph Brodsky.
Carol Ashworth
Carol Ashworth is a retired psychotherapist, a teacher, and a writer who lives in McLean, Virginia.
Jacklyn Potter
Jacklyn Potter’s poetry and translations have appeared in The Hollins Critic, the MacGuffin, Poets On, Plainsong, Poet Lore, The Washington Review, Stone Country, and Jazz a Go-Go (Warsaw, Poland). Her work has also been anthologized in Weavings 2000, Maryland Millenial Anthology; Hungry as We Are: An Anthology of Washington Area Poets (Washington Writer’s Publishing House); Quiet Music: A Plainsong Reader’s Anthology; If I Had My Life to Live Over, I’d Pick More Daisies, and If I Had a Hammer: Women’s Work in Poetry, Fiction and Photographs (Papier-Mache Press); in the WPFW-FM Anthology (Bunny and Crocodile Press); and in The Stones Remember, Native Israeli Poetry (The Word Works). She was lead editor of Cabin Fever: Poets at Joaquin Miller’s Cabin, 1984-2001 (The Word Works, 2003). In 1994, Delos, a journal of translations, featured her interview with Richard Harteis and William Meredith. During 1994-95, District Lines included her Spanish translations in a children’s literary poster series on Washington’ Metro buses. Journey Proud: Southern Women’s Writings (Carolina Wren Press) included her chapter about living on the Virginia Eastern Shore. For 21 years, she has directed the Joaquin Miller Cabin Poetry Series, readings under the stars in Rock Creek Park. Ms. Potter has received several fellowships from the D.C. Commission on the Arts. As a child, Ms. Potter performed as a singer on radio, television, and stage.
|
|
|
|
