Poetry for the 21st Century

 

Elisha Porat, Hebrew poet and writer, has published 21 volumes of fiction and poetry, in Hebrew, since 1973. Honored many times, he is world renowned.               
David Barnes founded and edited Poetry  DownUnder (Numbat). Recently he released his book "Prayers waiting for God"
Grace Cavalieri is the author of 16 books and chapbooks of poems, and 26 produced full- length and short- form plays. Molly Fisk is a writer, writing coach, and radio commentator, the author most recently of The More Difficult Beauty, teacher and NEA fellow.
Ellen Bass won the Lambda Literary Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Elliston Book Award, The Pablo Neruda Prize, the Larry Levis Prize, and the New Letters Prize. Janet Buck is a seven-time Pushcart Nominee. the winner of the 2002 Gival Press Poetry Award


 

Steven Schmelz is a graduate of Bates College of Lewiston, Maine.
He has been writing poetry for many years and is the President of Sea View Chrysler Jeep and Sea Breeze Ford in Monmouth County NJ.
Linda Lerner  's most recent collection, Takes Guts & Years Sometimes, was just  published by New York Quarterly Books  June, 2011. She’s previously published thirteen collections of poetry. The  most recent:  Something Is Burning In Brooklyn (2009, Iniquity Press/ Vendetta Books) Living In Dangerous Times (Presa Press, 2007)  and City Woman (March Street Press, Fall, 2006, Small Press Reviews’ Picks). Two previous collections also had that honor; she’s been nominated twice for a pushcart prize.
Clinton Van Inman's recent publications are Blackcatpoem.com, Tower Journal,  The Hudson View, Winter 2011,  Inquisition Poetry, and Munyari.com to name a few.  These poems are included in future book called, 'The Last Beat', as he believes Beatniks are a dying breed.
Richard Hartwell has had or will have forthcoming articles, stories, novellas, poems, or memoirs published in a multitude of print and internet publications.
Vasil Slavov (Cyrillic: Васил Славов) is a Bulgarian author and poet, born on 25 February 1958 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Has been living in the USA since 1989. First collection of poetry published in 1989. Poems in the collection of Bulgarian verse “ Windows at the Black Sea “ (Carnegie Mellon University Press), editors Richard Harteis & William Meredith. Author of several books of poetry, Last book of poetry “Americana“, published with “Trud“ Publishing House - Sofia, Bulgaria - December 2010.
Pamela Taylor's has been published in several anthologies including Writing the Sacred; The Echoing Green; Many Voices, One Faith, and online at The Other Voices International Poetry Project. She has won several awards for her poetry, including the Muslim Voices Poetry Award in 2006. She was also nominated to the Rhysling award in 2006.
Maria Kranidis teaches English at Suffolk County Community College.She is the founder of Cassandra and The Milestone Journal and has been an editor for A State of the Art, Cabaret, Confrontation and Rio, an online magazine.
Frances Schiavina's poetry was published by: Leaf Press, Sol Magazine (Second Place Winner), Kimberton Whole Foods (First Prize), Poetic Diversity Turbula, Offerings, Poetry Motel, The Shepherd, Poetic Voices, Freefall, 3 Cups Morning, Progressive Health, Soul Fountain, So Young, Writers Hood, Reflections, Seldom Nocturne, Midnight Edition, Poems for God, etc.
Dr. Santosh Kumar (b. 1946) is a poet, short-story writer and an editor from UP India; DPhil in English; Editor of Taj Mahal Review and Harvests of New Millennium Journals; several awards; member of World Poets Society (W.P.S.); member of World Haiku Association. He published poetry in The Fabric of A Vision (2001), The Still Horizon (2002), The Golden Wings (2002), Voyages (2003), Symphonies (2003), New Pegasus (2004), Explorers (2004), Dwan (USA), Promise (Purple Rose Publications, USA), World Haiku 2008 No. 4, World Haiku 2009 No. 5, Taj Mahal Review.

Winter 2010 - 2011

Jennifer Lagiers poetry has appeared in a variety of journals, anthologies, and e-zines throughout the U.S. and Italy.  Her five books are Coyote Dream Cantos (Iota Press, 1992), Where We Grew Up (Small Poetry Press, 1999), Second-Class Citizen (Voices in Italian Americana Folio Series, 2000), The Mangia Syndrome (Pudding House Publications, 2004), and Fishing for Portents (Pudding House Publications, 2008).
Kirby Wright has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and is a past recipient of the Ann Fields Poetry Prize, the Academy of American Poets Award, the Browning Society Award for Dramatic Monologue, and Arts Council Silicon Valley Fellowships in Poetry and The Novel.  BEFORE THE CITY, his first book of poetry, took First Place at the 2003 San Diego Book Awards
Philip Terman is the author of The House of Sages, Book of the Unbroken Days, and, most recently, Rabbis of the Air.  His poems and essays have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Poetry Magazine, the Kenyon Review, the Georgia Review, The Sun Magazine, and PoetryMagazine.com. The Autumn House Anthology of Spiritual Poetry, and Blood to Remember:  American Poets Respond to the Holocaust. He has received the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award for Poems on the Jewish Experience.
Tom Sterner is winner of the Marija Cerjak Award for Avant-Garde/Experimental Writing and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2006 and 2008. 
Alexa Mergen appears in Nevada Magazine, High Country News, Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Kritya, the Redwood Coast Review and other online and print venues.
Robert A Davies was co-editor of MR. COGITO magazine for about 25 years. He has appeared in hundreds of little magazines and online. He is author of TRACKS IN OREGON, TIMBER and recently SOMETIMES SUBVERSIVE.