Poets

  Jennifer Met lives in a small town in North Idaho with her husband and children. She is a nominee for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net anthology, a finalist for Nimrod's Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, and winner of the Jovanovich Award. Recent work is published or forthcoming in Cimarron Review, Gone Lawn, Juked, Midway Journal, The Museum of Americana, Nimrod, Ninth Letter, Sleet Magazine, and Zone 3, among other journals. Her haiku and haibun have been published in places such as Acorn, Contemporary Haibun Online, Crab Fat Magazine, Foliate Oak, Frogpond, Gravel, Gulf Stream, Haibun Today, The Heron's Nest, A Hundred Gourds, and more.

Her haiku have been selected for the Red Moon Anthology, and twice won a VCBF Sakura Award. She is also the author of the chapbook Gallery Withheld (Glass Poetry Press). www.jennifermet.com

DS Maolalai is a graduate of English Literature from Trinity College in Dublin and recently returned there after four years abroad in the UK and Canada. He has been writing poetry and short fiction for the past five or six years with some success. His writing has appeared in such publications as 4'33', Strange Bounce and Bong is Bard, Down in the Dirt Magazine, Out of Ours, The Eunoia Review, Kerouac's Dog, More Said Than Done, Star Tips, Myths Magazine, Ariadne's Thread, The Belleville Park Pages, Killing the Angel and Unrorean Broadsheet.

He has been nominated seven times for Best of the Net and three times for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry has been released in two collections, "Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden" (Encircle Press, 2016) and "Sad Havoc Among the Birds" (Turas Press, 2019).

     Kathryn Sadakierski's writing has appeared in ActiveMuse, Critical Read, Dime Show Review, DoveTales, Halfway Down the Stairs, iō Literary Journal, NewPages Blog, Nine Muses Poetry, Spillwords, Teachers of Vision, The Bangor Literary Journal, The Decadent Review, The Ekphrastic Review, The Voices Project, Visual Verse, and Wax Poetry and Art Magazine.

 

She holds a B.A. from Bay Path University and is currently pursuing her Master’s degree.

     C.T. Holte grew up in Minnesota without color TV; has had gigs as teacher, editor, and less wordy things; recently moved from California to New Mexico with his beautiful partner; and got a cool chain saw for Christmas. His poems have been published in Words, California Quarterly, Shark Reef, Pensive, The Daily Drunk, Mediterranean Poetry, and elsewhere.

     Lorraine Caputo is a documentary poet, translator and travel writer. Her works appear in over 400 journals on six continents; and 23 collections of poetry – including In The Jaguar Valley (dancing girl press, 2023) and Chaco Dreams (Origami Poems Project, 2022). She also authors travel narratives, articles and guidebooks. Her writing has been honored by the Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada (2011) and has been thrice nominated for the Best of the Net. Caputo has done literary readings from Alaska to the Patagonia. She journeys through Latin America, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth.

 

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     Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad is an Indian-Australian artist and poet, who serves as a chief editor for Authora Australis. She holds a Masters in English and is a member of The North Shore Poetry Project. Her art and poetry have been published in both print and online journals and anthologies including The Eunoia Review, The Ekphrastic Review, River and South Review, Bracken Magazine, and Black Bough Poetry. She won the 66th Moon Prize awarded by Writing in a Woman's Voice Journal, and an Honourable Mention in the Glass Poetry Awards 2020.

 

Find her @oormilaprahlad and www.instagram.com/oormila_paintings

   Elle Ward was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. She’s a journalist and translator writing for several magazines about international news and social issues. Her interest in poetry and fiction started at a young age, when her dad would read her Edgar Allan Poe’s poetry before bed.

 

“The Wickerman” is her first poetry micro-chapbook.

 

To contact her, you can email her at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., or visit her website: Elle Ward

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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   The Poemsmiths, a writing and performance group of ten poets that began in 2016, are one of many critique groups of the High Desert California Writers Club. Each poet has read individually, and we have performed as a group at such venues as the local High Desert Cultural Center. Confined by the COVID-19 virus, we discovered The Mondo form in which the first verse of three lines, a question, is written by one poet and answered by another in the second verse. The Poemsmiths tried out the form before opening up the exercise to the wider HDCWC club.  Mary Langer Thompson is founder of the Poemsmiths. 

 

Six of the Poemsmith Mondos are included here. 

 

 

 

 

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