Poets

Catori Sarmiento

After growing up in the Pacific Northwest, Catori Sarmiento’s world travels have often inspired her unique writing style. When not exploring the many cracks and crags in Japan, Catori Sarmiento spends her time writing poetry and prose. As an author, her works have appeared in numerous literary publications. Professionally, she is an English and Writing Professor in Tokyo, Japan.

Her author website is found at http://catorisarmiento.com
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To sleep as a river is a collection that encapsulates memories and a sense of place in Japan and are written in both English and Japanese.

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Matthew James Friday

Matthew James Friday is a British born writer and teacher. He has had many poems published in US and international journals. His first chapbook ‘The Residents’ is due to be published by Finishing Line Press in summer 2024. He has published numerous micro-chapbooks with the Origami Poems Project. Poems are forthcoming in The Potomac Review, Weber - The Contemporary West Review and The Amsterdam Quarterly (NL). Matthew is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet. Visit his website at http://matthewfriday.weebly.com

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Holly Day

Holly Day has taught writing classes at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, since 2000. Her poetry has recently appeared in Tampa Review, SLAB, and Gargoyle.

Her published books include Walking Twin Cities, Music Theory for Dummies, and Ugly Girl.

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Susan Moorhead

Susan Moorhead writes poetry and stories and works as a children's librarian in New York. She's happy to have managed to always be surrounded by books. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, and been nominated four times for a Pushcart prize. Her collections include The Night Ghost, published with Finishing Line Press, and Carry Darkness, Carry Light published by Kelsay Books. Recent work includes poetry in Autumn Sky Daily, Panoply, Swing, Gyroscope Review, and Crowstep Journal.

November 2019: The Origami Poems Project nominated Things that are lost from Susan Moorhead's microchap 'Lost and Found' for a Pushcart Prize. Each year the OPP selects 6 poems to nominate for this distinction.

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► Susan's microchaps & selected poems are available below.

Origami Microchaps
Fairy Tale
Click title to download microchap Cover: 'Sturgeon Moon' by author	Night Noise In the attic room, there are moons rolling around the creaking wood floors. Half moons, crescent moons, full moons, Strawberry, Wolf, Hunter, set adrift by forgotten wishes, wish I may, wish I might, no one any longer makes a wish at night. So the moon took all its selves, its waxed light and face of secrets, up to our attic room leaving the shores bewildered without the coming and going of tides, and magic without a place to pin all those hopes and dreams.	Kindred Would I know you as kindred when I met you? We pass so many on the street, at the job, in the market. Would I know you as kindred as you reached past me for that carton of almond milk? Would we say “excuse me” and turn away? • Susan Moorhead © 2024
Lost and Found
Click title to download microchap Cover photo by author	Things that are lost My heart. Two souls. My favorite huarache sandals. A sketchbook in France. Innocence, and the desire to sin. One earring only. The belief in consequences. Two parents, innumerable relatives. My passport. The ability to sleep. The sweetness of my children when young. Letters and photographs shredded. Thinking there's enough time.	Things that are found Pennies on the pavement. A tortoiseshell cat. God in the trees and diamonds in the ashes. Gratitude, hard won. The wonder of adults who were once my children. Hope, again and again like a flying bird. A long road of love. Quietude, and the gifts of solitude. Learning how to finish. Learning how to not finish. My heart. • Susan Moorhead © 2019
Color Theories
Click title to save, download & print microchap Cover art by Lauri Burke •	Yellow In this third life, trying to find my dandelion purpose. Some chlorophyll miracle, something perennial, not annual in the scheme of things. Common wonders these miniature suns, let these brave little scrubs be the gifts I offer my strange angels, to show I am willing to learn how to change from shine to seed, to close my eyes and lean into the wind, go where it carries me. • Susan Moorhead © 2018	White Cirrus, cumulus, fractus, cirrostratus. Take a moment. Ease into the prongs of new grass until it bends to accept you. Release your agenda and every thought in your head. Gaze up, unfettered. We are passengers here, carried like the clouds and birds on the turning wheel. Small wonder it's called a revolution.
Notes for the Journey
Click title to save, download & print microchap Cover art by Lauri Burke •	Gaze On these darkling nights five hundred years or longer, ceilings give way to the dark brushwork of firs, a glimpse of star-flecked sky. Earlier I thought, I have not participated enough in this world. • Susan Moorhead © 2017	Hourglass We are clock watchers. Measurers. Doling out the days by hours and small breaths. Time wrapping around us like a winching cord. I've grown three inches in an afternoon.

Isabelle Kenyon

Isabelle Kenyon is a Greater Manchester based poet and a graduate in Theatre: Writing, Directing and Performance from the University of York.

Her poems have been published in many poetry anthologies, such as the Inkyneedles anthology, the Great British Write Off, the Wirral festival of Music, Speech and Drama, The Tiny Tales anthology and the Festival of Firsts.

She achieved third place in the Langwith Scott Award for Art and Drama.

Visit her website, flyonthewallpoetry.co.uk and find her chapbook, This is not a Spectacle, on Amazon (link embedded in title.)

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Michele Baron

Michele Baron

World-traveler, former Fulbright Scholar Michele Baron currently lives in Kyrgyzstan. Ms. Baron develops outreach projects, writes poetry, prose, non-fiction, has self-published three books: A Modest Menu: Poverty, Hunger and Food Security, in Poetry and Prose and A Holiday Carol, and blue wings unfolding so far, and is a visual/performance artist.

Visit her Amazon page HERE.

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Renee Butner

When not dipping chocolates or making pralines as an owner of Kilwins in Winston-Salem, Renee Butner spends her time writing poetry and haiku, and adoring her five grandchildren. She is a member of the NC Haiku Society. She has been published in journals including Verse of Silence, Haiku Journal, NC Poetry in Plain Sight, Ariel Chart, Acta Victoriana, and won second prize in Piedmont Plus Silver Games for her poem Silver Moments. Her poem Forest King earned a spot in the Highland Park Public Art Poetry Contest.

Visit her website www.reneebutner.wordpress.com.

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Julia Klatt Singer

Julia Klatt Singer - "I am a poet and painter from Minneapolis, Minnesota and am the Poet in Residence at Grace Neighborhood Nursery School. Many of my poems have been set to music by composers Tim Takach, Jocelyn Hagen, Craig Cranahan and most recently Derek Weagle, a NYC composer, who is setting two of my poems in his piece composed to the tarot cards."

'Ophelia's Ghost' is her 6th Origami microchap collection.

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