Poets

Christopher Stephen Soden received his MFA in Poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts in January of 2005. He teaches craft, theory, genre and literature. He writes poetry, plays, literary, film and theatre critique for sharpcritic.com and EdgeDallas.

 

Christopher’s poetry collection, Closer, was released by Rebel Satori Press on June 14th, 2011. He received a Full Fellowship to Lambda Literary's Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices in August 2010. His performance piece: Queer Anarchy received The Dallas Voice's Award for Best Stage Performance. Water and A Christmas Wish were staged at Bishop Arts and Every Day is Christmas. In Heaven at Nouveau 47.

Other honors include: Distinguished Poets of Dallas, Poetry Society of America's Poetry in Motion Series, Founding Member, President and President Emeritus of The Dallas Poets Community. 

 

His work has appeared in: Rattle, The Cortland Review, 1111, Typishly, F(r)iction, G & L Review, Chelsea Station, Glitterwolf, Collective Brightness, A Face to Meet the Faces, Resilience, Ganymede Poets: One, Gay City 2, The Café Review, The Texas Observer, Sentence, Borderlands, Off the Rocks, The James White Review, The New Writer, Velvet Mafia, Poetry Super Highway, Gertrude, Touch of Eros, Gents, Bad Boys and Barbarians, Windy City Times, ArLiJo, Best Texas Writing 2.

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RK Taylor is earning his MFA in Pittsburgh.  Taylor is a roving editor for The Fourth River, and through Chatham University’s Words Without Walls Program, he teaches at the Allegheny County Jail.

 

He has been published in The Metaworker and Scribble, and his debut story has been nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.

 

He has an unparalleled passion for white boards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  Glenn Varona writes, 'I could be described as an Australian bush poet, albeit a struggling one. Even so, I love to write about things that matter, such as Being, Essence, Truth, and Nature. It is my view that, when all is said and done, we all need to look at these things that matter, or we would be lost. Thus, I could also be described as a bush philosopher.

 

I have been writing poetry since I was eight but have never attempted to publish any of my work until now. For this, I am grateful to the Origami Poems Project for accepting my very first attempt to step into the light. It is a small start, but all great journeys begin with a small step.'

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  D.R. James has taught writing, literature, and peace-making at a small college for 34 years and lives in the woods east of Saugatuck, Michigan.

 

His poems and prose appear in a variety of magazines and anthologies, and his most recent of seven poetry collections is If god were gentle (Dos Madres Press).

 

A new chapbook, Surreal Expulsion, is to be released in Spring 2019 by The Poetry Box. www.amazon.com/author/drjamesauthorpage

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  Rainy Horvath holds a MFA from Manhattanville College where she earned the Gribbins-Hughes Merit Scholarship for her work in journalism, and continues to study writing at the Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute and the University of Iowa Writing Center Extension College.

 

Short stories and flash fiction she has written have appeared in Breadcrumbs and The Well. Her flash fiction fiction piece, Dey Street, won 3rd place in The Well’s fiction competition in 1993.

In 2017 she was attended the Sarah Lawrence’s Writers Week Workshop in Cetara, Italy where she studied writing and painting and fell madly in love with Italy. After completing a successful career as a corporate writer, Rainy currently spends her time working on several new writing projects and plans to publish her first book in 2019.

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   Helen Ruggieri's latest collection is The Kingdom Where No One Keeps Time, poems about losing and loss. She coordinates a workshop for writers for the African American Center for Cultural Development and a series for poetry readings and open mics called the Traveling Poetry Circus.

 

She lives in the largest city in Cattaraugus County, New York.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  Tohm Bakelas is a social worker in a psychiatric hospital. He was born in New Jersey, resides there, and will die there.

 

His poems have been featured in the Outlaw Poetry Network, Nixes Mate Review, Sheila-Na-Gig, Piker Press, Ghost City Press, Tower Journal, Medusa's Laugh Press (forthcoming), Weasel Press (forthcoming), and The Raw Art Review (forthcoming) and he has and he has two recently published chapbooks Orphan Crows (Analog Submission Press, July 2018) and Destroy My Wound (Budget Press, August 2018) and a microchap book We All Arive (Origami Poems Project, October 2018).

 

Visit his page: tohm bakelas poetry

 

 

 

 

 

   

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