Fog Bank Rolling in at Haystack Rock , Pastel, by John Cummings
Contributor Notes, Issue #33
J.S. Absher (www.jsabsherpoetry.com ) is a poet and independent scholar. His fourth book of poetry, “Skating Rough Ground,” was published by Kelsay Books in 2022. His work has won awards from the NC Poetry Society, “BYU Studies Quarterly,” and the journal “Dialogue,” and has been nominated for four Pushcart prizes.
Nancy Christopherson’s poems have appeared in Aji Magazine, Amethyst Review, Barnstorm Journal, Cirque, Common Ground Review, Free State Review, Helen Literary Magazine, Hole In The Head Review, Kosmos Quarterly Spring Gallery of Poets, Molecule Tiny Lit Mag, Peregrine, Raven Chronicles, The Cape Rock, The Stillwater Review, Third Wednesday, Verseweaveers, Willawaw Journal, and Xanadu, among others. Author of “The Leaf”, she resides in Oregon and is a former executive board member of Oregon Poetry Association.
Visit https://www.nancychristophersonpoetry.com.
John Cummings: For further exploration of this artist and his work, please view his website at: www.johncummingsstudio.com. His recent fine art book publication just last year, Pastel Stories, a compilation of 65 high definition images plus artistic musings, can be purchased through his website.
EG Ted Davis is a Haiku Writer and Poet residing in Boise, ID with his wife and their two Aussie’s. His work has appeared in various online and print publications since back in the 80’s. His first Haiku and short poetry collection is due out later this year via Cyberwit publishing.
Kathryn de Leon is from Los Angeles but has been living in England for fifteen years. Her poems have appeared in several magazines in the US including Black Fox, Loud Coffee Press, and Two Hawks Quarterly, and in several in the UK including London Grip, and The High Window where she was the Featured American Poet.
Edilson Afonso Ferreira: Mr. Ferreira, 80 years old, is a Brazilian poet who writes in English rather than in Portuguese. Has launched two Poetry Collections, entitled “Lonely Sailor” and “Joie de Vivre”; has 190 poems published in 300 different publications in selected international Literary Journals. Has, also, been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He began writing at the age 67, after his retirement from a bank. He is always updating his works at www.edilsonmeloferreira.com. ####
George Freek’s poem “Enigmatic Variations” is currently nominated for Best of the Net. His poem “Night Thoughts” is also nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Jane Ann Fuller’s poetry appears in Shenandoah, The Atticus Review, Calyx, BODY, SWWIM, Blue Earth Review, Verse Daily, and other fine journals. Her book HALF-LIFE was a finalist for the National Indie Excellence Awards and was published by Sheila-Na-Gig Editions in 2021. She is a winner of the James Boatwright III Poetry Prize.
David A. Goodrum, writer/photographer, lives in Corvallis, Oregon. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Tar River Poetry, The Inflectionist Review, Passengers Journal, Scapegoat Review, Tampa Review, among others. Other publications include a chapbook, Sparse Poetica (Audience Askew, 12/2023), and a book, Vitals and Other Signs of Life (The Poetry Box, 6/2024). See additional work (poetry and photography) at www.davidgoodrum.com.
Craig Goodworth’s practice encompasses installation, poetry, drawing, research, teaching, hunting and manual labor. He has received fellowships in art and writing including a Fulbright to the Slovak Republic (2015). Along with exhibiting his artworks nationally and internationally, he’s engaged in various collaborations and residencies relating art to science and religion. Goodworth holds Master’s Degrees in fine art, sustainable communities as well a Master of Divinity. Residing in Arizona, he serves as an artist in residence at a faith-based nonprofit. His interests include the desert, the human-animal intersection, and ecological and cultural ecotones.
Keith Hansen: Husband, father, grandfather, drywall contractor, reader of some books, owner of too many books.
Edward Harkness is the author of four full-length poetry collections, Saying the Necessary (2000), Beautiful Passing Lives (2010), The Law of the Unforeseen (2018), and most recently, Avalanche: A Survival Guide (2023). Of it, novelist David Long wrote, “No poet I know moves so nimbly between the cadences of formal poetry and the quirky, often hilarious, rhythms of actual speech…or devotes himself so lovingly to family – past, present and future. Put simply: Edward Harkness has become an indispensable poet.”
Marc Janssen has been writing poems since around 1980. Some people would say that was a long time but not a dinosaur. Early decrepitude has not slowed him down much; his verse can be found scattered around the world in places like Pinyon, Slant, Cirque Journal, Off the Coast and Poetry Salzburg also in his book November Reconsidered. Janssen coordinates the Salem Poetry Project- a weekly reading, the occasionally occurring Salem Poetry Festival, and was a nominee for Oregon Poet Laureate. For more information visit, marcjanssenpoet.com.
Cedar Koons is the author of Bourbon and Branch Water (Kelsay Books, 2023) and a former poet in residence at Duke University Medical Center, (1989-1992). She has published numerous poems in journals and magazines and a best selling nonfiction book on the practice of mindfulness (New Harbinger 2016). Under the pen name C.R. Koons, she’s written two mysteries, Murder at Sleeping Tiger, and A Thirst for Murder (Camel Press, 2022 and 2024). Cedar grew up in Louisville, Kentucky and now lives in Dixon, New Mexico.
Elina Kumra is a 17-year-old Junior living in San Jose, California. Her poems and fiction have been published in Quarterly West, Wingless Dreamer, Reed Magazine, Up North Lit, Writer’s Digest, StreetLit, Coffin Bell, Polyphony Lit, Death Rattle, Typishly, Cathexis NorthWest Press, Tint, and Peauxdunque Review. She is Reed Magazine Emerging Voices Winner, a Finalist in Quarterly West, Fractured Lit, Ouroboros, and a Semi-finalist in the Nine-Syllables Chapbook Contest.
Kristan LaVietes (she/her) lives in Alameda, California, an island in the San Francisco Bay. She holds an MFA from Cal State, Long Beach, and has had poems and fiction published in various journals.
Nathan E. Lewis has been writing poetry for over 40 years, the recipient of hundreds of kind rejection letters in response to his submissions for publication. He lives in the shadow of the Owyhees in the middle of nowhere, ever gazing across the Snake at his homeland, Oregon. He and his wife, Glenda Portukalian enjoy their five adult children, rife with non-compliance and artistic expression. The apple….
Dan Liberthson, PhD has published five books of poetry and many poems in small journals, including The Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, South Coast Poetry Journal, Chaminade Literary Review, Triggerfish, and Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine. He also has written a middle-grade fantasy novel and a spy thriller. Dan’s awards include second place in the William Stafford Memorial Award Poetry Contest (2020) and the Maine Poets Society contest (2022). He was Secretary of the Oregon Poetry Association (OPA) from 2019-2022, and currently lives in San Francisco, CA and Cottage Grove, OR. Website: www.liberthson.com.
Patrick Meeds lives in Syracuse, NY and studies writing at the Syracuse YMCA’s Downtown Writer’s Center. He has been previously published in Stone Canoe literary journal, the New Ohio Review, Tupelo Quarterly, the Atticus Review, Whiskey Island, Guernica, The Pinch, and Nine Mile Review among others.
Muriel Nelson’s publications include poetry collections, Sightsinger (Encircle Publications) and Part Song (Bear Star Press, Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize), and chapbooks, Please Hold (Encircle Publications, Poetry Chapbook Award) and Most Wanted (ByLine Press, ByLine Chapbook Award). These and three book manuscripts were shortlisted in four national contests and finalists in seventeen. Nominated five times for the Pushcart Prize, Nelson’s poems have appeared in many journals and several anthologies. Two of her poems have been set to music. She holds master’s degrees from the University of Illinois School of Music and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and lives in Federal Way, Washington.
Patricia Nelson works with the “Activist” group of poets in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her new book, Monster Monologues, is due out from Fernwood Press in December 2024.
Paul Nelson has twelve books out, for years directed creative writing for Ohio University, while affectedly, maybe competently, working a saltwater farm summers and years off: gardens, greenhouse, sheep, beef critter, some lobstering on Machias Bay. He lives, writes now in Kennebunk, ME. Latest are LEARNING TO MISS, Guernica Editions, Toronto, and his first book of fiction, REFRIGERATOR CHURCH, Tailwinds Press, NYC, in 2019. A chapbook of poems, BLACK DOG, Main Street Press, appeared in 2022. JUST BREATHING, poetry, appeared in May, 2024.
Zeke Sanchez is a writer/poet living in Tennessee. He won in-house competitions in The Critical Poet and has been published here in Triggerfish. His poetry may at times reflect his background: migrant worker, forest firefighter, Vietnam veteran, technical writer. The Shadows of Our Mind, a book of photography, done with professional photographer Doug Stoffer, contains a number of Zeke’s poems. He’s also published The Fire With Two Dragon Smokes, a book about his experiences with a “Hotshot” Forest Crew in the Northwest and beyond.
Claire Scott is an award-winning poet who has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has appeared in the Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, New Ohio Review and Healing Muse among others. Claire is the author of Waiting to be Called and Until I Couldn’t. She is the co-author of Unfolding in Light: A Sisters’ Journey in Photography and Poetry.
Terry Trowbridge is grateful to the Ontario Arts Council for funding during the polycrisis.
William Welch lives in Utica, NY where he works as a registered nurse. His poetry has appeared in various journals, including Little Patuxent Review, Stone Canoe, Rust+Moth, and Cider Press Review, and his collection Adding Saffron (Finishing Line Press) is forthcoming in 2025. He edits Doubly Mad (doublymad.org). Find more about him on his website, williamfwelch.com.
Paul Willis has published eight collections of poetry, the most recent of which are Somewhere to Follow (Slant Books, 2021) and Losing Streak (Kelsay Books, 2024). Individual poems have appeared in Poetry, Cloudbank, Christian Century, Southern Poetry Review, and the Best American Poetry series. He is an emeritus professor of English at Westmont College and a former poet laureate of Santa Barbara, California, where he lives with his wife, Sharon, near the old mission.