Poets

Chris Warner began writing in 1993 at Goucher College—fiction, with Madison Smartt Bell, and, with Elizabeth Spires, one lone poem. She attended graduate school at Harvard University (Ed.M., ’97), and did not write creatively again until June 2010, when ‘poetry suddenly began to pour out onto the page’ (or rather, onto the computer screen). Chris teaches yoga and meditation in Boxford, Massachusetts, and workshops her poetry each Wednesday in Cambridge, MA, with instructor/poet Tom Daley.

Chris’s work has been published in Volumes 6 and 7 of the Bagels with the Bards anthologies and in The Muddy River Poetry Review.  Several of her poems have been awarded prizes in the Writer’s Digest Poetry Awards (6th and 7th Annual). She was also selected to attend the 2012 Southampton Writer’s Conference, as a contributor in poetry, with Mary Karr. Chris now writes everyday, and is working, also everyday, on letting go of attachment to outcome.
 

 ► Chris's Origami micro-chapbook and selected poem(s) are available below.

Roger Allen Mosser graduated from the University of Minnesota.  He has studied art throughout the United States including San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Chicago, Denver, and Ashville, NC as well abroad in London and Paris.

Writing and art forms have been Roger's passion from childhood. His work has varied from hand-made paper, jewelry casting, photography, welding, watercolor and acrylic painting, and finally to Encaustic Painting (also known as hot wax painting). 

Encaustic Painting is a revival of the technique used in Egyptian mummy portraits from 100-400 AD where pigment was applied to a surface (usually prepared board) for the wrapped mummies.  It is a combination of beeswax, pigment and resin.

Currently residing in Palm Desert, CA he revels in creating works that remind him of his childhood, adulthood, and works that reach to the ethereal and ephemeral, yet depict simplicity.

 ► Roger's Origami microchap & selected poem are available below.

Janice D. Soderling is an American-born, prize-winning poet, writer and translator who lives in Sweden. Her work appears one or more times in over a hundred journals based in twelve countries: recently at Rattle, Antiphon, J Journal, New Verse News, Mason's Road, Laucaux Review, Prose Poem Project, American Arts Quarterly, Flash: The International Short Story Magazine. Her most recent award was fiction winner of the 30-day Able Muse Workshop published in the 2012 Summer issue. 

She has recent or forthcoming work at Ink Sweat & Tears (England), The Centrifugal Eye, The Rotary Dial (Canada), Penduline Press, About Place (USA).

December 2013 update: 

RATTLE Poetry Magazine - Sunday, December 8th, teams up with Robert Peake’s Transatlantic Poetry for a live, online poetry reading featuring Swedish poet, Janice Soderling, (RATLLE issue #37) & 2013 Rattle Poetry Prize winner Roberto Ascalon.  The idea is to bring together two poets from different sides of the pond.  To hear Roberto read his winning poem, “The Fire This Time,” go to  www.robertpeake.com/transatlantic-poetry

► Janice's Origami micro-chapbook & selected poem are available below.

Origami Micro-chapbook	Selected Poem(s)
Measuring Life
Artwork by Mo Mancini •	{mooblock=Opening Lines} How To Measure Loss: Some Suggestions   9 days were lost from Manual al-Sharif's life while jailed in Saudi Arabia for being a female driver. 1 million children, mostly girls, are forced into the sex trade each year. 4 million women & girls are trafficked each year. * 99% of the Brazilian rain forest is gone. 80% of the Arctic ozone was lost in 2011, causing a hole like the one in the Antarctic. * Janice D. Soderling © 2012 {/mooblock}

Mike Berger is an MFA, PhD. He's retired and writes poetry and short stories - full time. As of 2012, Mike has been writing poetry for less than two years. His work appears in seventy-one journals. He has published two books of short stories and seven poetry chapbooks.

He is a member of The Academy of American Poets.

 ► Mike's Origami micro-chapbook is available for printing by clicking on the title.

David Tomaloff is a writer, photographer, musician, and all-around bad influence. His work has appeared in several anthologies and in fine publications such as Mud Luscious, A-Minor, >kill author, PANK, and elimae. He is the author of several chapbooks, including 13 (Artistically Declined Press), and A SOFT THAT TOUCHES DOWN & REMOVES ITSELF (NAP and Red Ceilings Press).

Released July 2012, David's book of collaborative poetry with Ryan W. Bradley, YOU ARE JAGUAR, is available from Artistically Declined Press.  The audio version, thru here.

He resides in the form of ones and zeros at: davidtomaloff.com

 ► David's Origami micro-chapbooks & selected poems are available below.

A.J. Huffman has published eleven solo chapbooks and one joint chapbook through various small presses.  Her new poetry collections, Another Blood Jet (Eldritch Press), A Few Bullets Short of Home (mgv2>publishing), Butchery of the Innocent (Scars Publications) and Degeneration (Pink Girl Ink) are now available from their respective publishers and Amazon.com.  She has an additional poetry collection forthcoming:  A Bizarre Burning of Bees (Transcendent Zero Press).  

She is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, a two-time Best of Net nominee, and has published over 2300 poems in various national and international journals, including Labletter, The James Dickey Review, Bone Orchard, EgoPHobia, and Kritya. 

Learn more about A.J. Huffman, including additional information and links to her work on Facebook and Twitter.

 ► A.J.'s microchaps & selected poems are available below.  

Origami Microchap	Selected Poem(s)
If I Had A Hammer...
Cover: 'Hammer' by Lauri Burke •	{mooblock=First poem} . . . i would call myself a nail, start looking for the nearest cross to create a frame for my self- portrait of fragmentary displacement— the platinum label of breathlessness • A.J. Huffman © 2015 {/mooblock}
The Lightbulb Theory of Truth
Cover art by Tom Chandler •	{mooblock=I Know What You're Afraid Of} Your fear is that you are not who or what they think.  You may never be, and they may never know.  But you do. And you are racing with no one to see who sorts it out first.  Competing with yourself to win something that is not really there. To compare something that has nothing to do with you to something that has nothing to do with them.  There is a danger in this dance:  unknown like everything else, it is sneaking up over your left shoulder. (The one that you never check.) It is a form without a face. You cannot/will not recognize it until it is too late.  And this dark stranger will beat you by years and yards to the finish.  He has to. Simply because he knows where it is. • A.J. Huffman © 2012 {/mooblock}

Kristin Roedell is a Northwest poet and retired attorney. Her poetry has appeared in Switched on Gutenberg, Damselflypress, Flutter, Soundings Review, Tacoma's City Arts, Ekphrasis, Eclectica, Cliterature, Open Minds  Quarterly, Touch: a Journal of Healing (Editor's choice, September 2010),  Puffin Circus, Chantarelle's Notebook, The Fertile Source, Breath and Shadow, Frost Writing, Four and Twenty, Autumn Sky Poetry, Quill & Parchment, (featured poet Jan. 2010) Workers Write, Ginosko, The Mom Egg, Pilgrimage, Chest, Soundings Review, Seeding the Snow, Sierra Nevada Review, Quantum Poetry Magazine, Poetry for the Masses, Wazee Journal, Amoskeag, Voice Catcher Anthology, and Glass Poetry Journal, Time of Singing, and Mused. Other work will appear in Sante Fe Review, Legal Studies Forum, Changes in Life, and River Lit. 

Kristin is the author of two collections of poetry: Seeing in the Dark (Tomato Can Press, 2009) and Girls With Gardenias (Flutter Press, 2011).

She was nominated for the Pushcart prize, and DZANC's Best of the Web. She is the Senior Editor for Flutter Press, and grants coordinator for Voice Catcher Anthology. 

 ► Kristin's Origami micro-chapbook is available for printing by clicking on the title.

Vatsala is a Tamil poet and fiction writer who started writing at the age of forty-eight. She retired as Systems Engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1999. 

She has a book of poems entitled Suyam (Sneha, 2000) and an award-winning novel Vattathul (Uyirmai, 2006).  Vattathul has been translated into English by the author and K.Srilata and is forthcoming from Writers Workshop under the title Once There was a Girl. The Tamil original won the Tiruppur Tamil Sangam award for the best novel in 2008.

Vatsala’s poems, short stories, and articles are known for their feminist perspective and have appeared in Subha Mangala, Kanaizhayi and Pudiya Parvai.  Her short stories have won the Illakia Chintanai award, the Agni-Subhamangala award and the Rajeswari Balasubramaniam award.  Her poems have been widely translated into English and were featured in The Rapids of a Great River: The Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry (Viking/Penguin, 2009) as well as in Interior Decoration: Poems by 54 Women From 10 Languages (Women Unlimited, 2010).