Poets

Elisa Carlson

Elisa Carlson was born and raised in the high desert of Northern Nevada. A contemplative, her writing has appeared in Lunch Ticket, Trumpeter, Sierra Nevada Review, Argentum, Carte Blanche, Anti-Heroin Chic and elsewhere, Elisa is the author of Cormorant (Unsolicited Press 2023). She is an award-winning poet whose work has been nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize. Her poetry film, The Basin, was selected for the 2025 Nature & Culture International Poetry Film Festival in Denmark. Elisa is the founder of Rabbitbrush.org - a literary journal for outsiders. Check it out.

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Ed Sams

Ed Sams is an American poet, author, educator, and playwright whose work spans poetry, short fiction, essays, and plays. Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, he has lived in both East Tennessee and the Santa Cruz Mountains, drawing on both settings for inspiration.

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Laurinda Lind

Laurinda Lind's first chapbook, Trials by Water, came out in 2024 (Orchard Street Press). She won Keats-Shelley, Foley, Peggy Willis Lyles, and Northwind poetry competitions. Some of her poems are in Blue Earth Review, New American Writing, Paterson Literary Review, and Spillway. She worked most recently as a caregiver.

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Jeff Nesheim

Jeff Nesheim is a poet writing in Denver, CO, and the author of Overseeing the Downfall (Word Poetry Books, 2020), which was a finalist for the New American Poetry award and is his first collection. Jeff’s work has appeared in the journals Big Muddy, Straight Forward, Evening Street Review, Typishly, and many others. He has lived in in seven states, has a day job in education technology, and an MFA from Bennington College. (www.jeffnesheim.com)

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Frances Goulart

Frances Sheridan Goulart is the author of sixteen books about health, nutrition and fitness including SUPER IMMUNITY FOODS McGraw Hill, 2009) and Super Healing Foods (Prentice Hall). She is also a certified clinical nutritionist, yoga and pilates instructor. She has just completed her third exercise video, STRETCHING 101. Ms Goulart lives with her husband author Ron Goulart in Ridgefield, CT. - Read her "Off the Mat, On the Menu" blog for Pilates Style Magazine in the Blogs section at www.pilatesstyle.com.

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Alan Catlin

Alan Catlin has published many chapbooks and full-length book of poetry and prose. He has collected hundreds of short, contemplative poems in an unpublished volume Meditations in parts. Over the years he has published little poems in Lilliput, Brevities, Cotyledon and many other magazines.

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K McCreary

K McCreary is a Lesbian writer living in the Pacific Northwest She has been writing poetry and prose since the early 1960’s, and has just had a poem accepted for publication by Rough Diamond Poems. She also has Shakespeare Adaptations for children and Curriculum Guides available at www.teacherspayteachers.com. She enjoys classic films, opera, and early mornings under the trees.

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Thomas Cannon

Thomas Cannon was appointed as the first Poet Laureate of Oshkosh, WI in August 2021. He has authored the novels No More Ugly Girls, Shattered and The Tao of Apathy. Furthermore, his published works include two collections of short stories, two chapbooks, and a novella.

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