Poet Biographies
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Jacqueline Renee Ahl "Memories" |
| Jacqueline Renee Ahl (“Memories”) – Jacqueline Ahl is currently an adjunct at SUNY New Paltz, where she earned her BA and MA, and tutoring facilitator for SUNY Dutchess. She also teaches for Vassar’s Summer Institute for the Gifted. Her one-act play, Fear Itself, was awarded Best New Play of 2005 by the Brevard Little Theatre. |
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Louis N. Altman "A Poetics In 'War Time' " |
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| Louis N. Altman (“A Poetics in ‘War Time’”) – Louis N. Altman, a New York University graduate with honors in English literature and French, is a practicing attorney. In 2005, at the invitation of Susan and Dean Avery, he read a poem he wrote for the closing of the Ariel Bookstore in New Paltz to cap the end party. | |
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Lisa Titus Caloro "Clarity" |
| Lisa Titus Caloro (“Clarity”) – Lisa Titus Caloro has been writing for a number of years, and is a graduate of Binghamton University’s Master’s program with a concentration in creative writing, as well as the Sarah Lawrence College MFA program. She currently teaches creative writing and composition at Sullivan County Community College fulltime and lives in the Catskill Mountains. | |
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Druzelle Cederquist "Back Story to The Green Mile "
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| Druzelle Cederquist (“Back Story to The Green Mile”) – Druzelle Cederquist is a published poet and author of the biography The Story of Baha’u’llah: Promised One of All Religions. Her blog, Luminous Realities: Exploring the Creative Process, is found at http://luminousrealities.blogspot.com. She has a BA in English literature, an MA concentration in TESOL, and conducts writer workshops. | |
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Samuel Claiborne "Sam's Point (Lichen) "
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| Samuel Claiborne (“Sam’s Point (Lichen)”) – Samuel Claiborne is a poet, essayist, composer, musician and photographer. A native of New York City, he now makes his home in the Hudson Valley in Rosendale, NY. His poetry has been published in Northern Light, Halfmoon Review, Belle Fourche and, most recently, Chronogram. His essays have been published in the New York Times and The Phoenix. | |
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Greg Correll "runaway life " |
| Greg Correll (“runaway life”) – Greg Correll is an application interface designer and project manager for high-end tools. He has had two plays produced, one off-Broadway. He won a Clio award for Best US Packaging, and his illustrations have appeared in The New Yorker. |
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Joe DiMattio "Malarme 'Sainted Spring' " |
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Joe DiMattio (“Malarme ‘Sainted Spring’”) – Joe DiMattio is a life-long gardener and, with his wife Tamara, created Riverhill Garden on the west-bank of the Hudson River. He was born in Gravina, Italy and attended NYC public schools. |
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Kristen Henderson "Not Even a Room to "Sense"
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Kristen Henderson (“Not Even a Room to Recall” and “Sense”) – Kristen Henderson’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Birmingham Review, Byline, Clackamas Review, Chronogram, Passages North, and other journals. She received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Arizona, is a 2005 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry competition award recipient, and has recently finished her first full-length manuscript of poetry. |
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Ken Holland "Dominion" "Quebec"
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Ken Holland (“Dominion” and “Quebec”) – Ken Holland has had poetry and short fiction published in more than a dozen literary journals. One of his pieces was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and he received a Dutchess County Arts Council award for his writing. He works for a New York City publishing house and has worked in publishing for the past 25 years. |
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Reamy Jansen "Wadena Hide & Fur "
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| Reamy Jansen (“Wadena Hide & Fur”) – Reamy Jansen is a professor of English and Humanities at Rockland Community College/SUNY, a contributing editor to The Bloomsbury Review of Books, and past vice president of the National Book Critics Circle. He is the 2003 recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Creativity and Scholarship. His poetry and prose have appeared in numerous journals. | |
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Alisa Stolte Heigl Jones "Mohonk, Feb. 1996 "
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Alisa Stolte Heigl Jones (“Mohonk, Feb. 1996”) – Alisa Stolte Heigl Jones has lived all but four years of her life in the Hudson Valley. She is a graduate of Saugerties High School, the University of Pittsburgh, and SUNY New Paltz. |
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Frank LaRonca "The Synesthete Speaks of Love "
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Frank LaRonca (“The Synesthete Speaks of Love”) – Frank LaRonca has been writing poetry for twenty years. His first nationally published poem appeared in the December 2006 issue of Rattle, and his work has been published locally, as |
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Valerie Linet "Tribe"
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Valerie Linet (“Tribe”) – Valerie Linet lives with her closest companions – Mangosteen, the cat, and her boyfriend, Jeffrey. She put her Vassar English degree to use by being a poet who has worked and played as a farmer, writer, and social worker in the Hudson Valley. Currently she is a trauma therapist for crime victims. |
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Georganna Millman "Oil Sketch: View of the Catskills from Olana" "White Silence"
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Georganna Millman (“Oil Sketch: View of the Catskills from Olana” and “White Silence”) – Georganna Millman recently graduated from the Adult Creative Writing & Degree Program at Skidmore College. Her research and poetry |
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Mimi Moriarty "In the Dark " "I Have Come to Know America"
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Mimi Moriarty (“In the Dark” and “I Have Come to Know America”) – Mimi Moriarty is producer and host of “Write Stuff,” a cable access program in the Albany area. Her short fiction, poems, essays and articles have been published extensively, and she has read her poems and essays on NPR. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College, and teaches creative writing to adults and teens. |
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Will Nixon "Mother Reanimated "
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Will Nixon (“Mother Reanimated”) – Will Nixon has published two chapbooks, When I Had It Made (Pudding House) and The Fish Are Laughing (Pavement Saw), plus many poems in journals. “Mother Reanimated” is from his poem series inspired by Night of the Living Dead. He lives in Woodstock, NY. |
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Thomas Nolan "Love Poem "
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Thomas Nolan (“Love Poem”) – Writing and photography have been at the forefront of Tom Nolan’s many interests for most of his life. His fiction has been published in the Empire State College literary magazine, Many Waters, and his photographs are on display in homes and offices around the country and on the Web. |
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Jo Pitkin "The Mollusk "
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Jo Pitkin (“The Mollusk”) – Jo Pitkin earned an MFA from the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop. Her poems have appeared in Lyra, Dark Horse, Ironwood, Nimrod, and Quarterly West. She won Lyra’s Fourth Annual Prize and the First Annual Hudson Valley Poetry Contest. Finishing Line Press will publish her chapbook, The Measure, in 2007. |
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Annajon Russ "Arc" "Tinker's Damn"
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Annajon Russ (“Arc” and “Tinker’s Damn”) – Annajon Russ lives in the Catskills and teaches high school drop-outs in New York City. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals. One of her poems was anthologized in Boomer Girls: Poems by Women from the Baby Boom Generation. She is the author of the chapbook, Good As My Word, and is currently assembling a new chapbook. |
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Matthew J. Spireng "Leif Ericsson Confesses His Lie " "Jade" "At My Aunt's and Uncle's"
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Matthew J. Spireng (“Leif Ericsson Confesses His Lie,” “Jade” and “At My Aunt’s and Uncle’s”) – Matthew J. Spireng’s full-length book manuscript Out of Body (2006) won the 2004 Bluestem Poetry Award. His chapbooks are Encounters |
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Christine Lillian Turczyn "I Could Have Told You " "Who Chose You to Survive "
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Christine Lillian Turczyn (“I Could Have Told You” and “Who Chose You to Survive”) – Christine Lilian Turczyn had the great honor of reading as a “Poet Among Us” at the 2002 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. She was awarded |
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Maureen Waters "Constructions "
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Maureen Waters (“Constructions”) – Maureen Waters has published three books, The Comic Irishman, Lady Gregory: Selected Writings (co-editor), and Crossing Highbridge, a prize-winning memoir about Irish America. Essays, reviews and poetry appear in such journals as Yeats: An Annual, Irish University Review, Éire-Ireland, Études Irlandaises, New York Irish History, and Crab Orchard Review. |
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