George Wallace and Walt Whitman Birthplace proudly present season three of POETS BUILDING BRIDGES: A TRIANGULATION PROJECT, inaugurated in March 2022 with the purpose of enhancing dialogue between communities of writers across the US and internationally. Based on a shared small-group experience, these Saturday zoom sessions engage three distinct and well defined communities of poets with each other to share work and foster further interaction. In Season Three, POETS BUILDING BRIDGES will build on that experience, triangulating national and international groups based not only on location but additionally offering key small press publications an opportunity to form a participating group.
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Live Mag NYC: Jeff Wright | Richard Martin | Wang Ping | Steven Luttrell
Jeffrey Cyphers Wright received his MFA after studying with Allen Ginsberg. A self-described New Romantic poet, he is also a publisher, art and literary critic, eco-activist, impresario, filmmaker, and artist. He is author of 19 books of verse, including Blue Lyre and Party Everywhere. Recent work appears in the anthologies Best American Poetry; NYC Insiders; and Contemporary Surrealist and Magical Realist Poetry. His latest work, a book of sonnets and artwork called Doppelgängster, Self Portraits in a Funhouse Mirror is from MadHat Press. Wright publishes Live Mag! He received a Kathy Acker Award for publishing and writing. You can see his puppet shows on Youtube.
Richard Martin’s recent books from Spuyten Duyvil are Leakage & Smoke (2023), Chapter & Verse (2021), Ceremony of the Unknown (2020), Goosebumps of Antimatter (2018) and Techniques in the Neighborhood of Sleep (2016). He is a past recipient of a NEA Fellowship for Poetry and the founder of the Big Horror Poetry Series in Binghamton, New York (1983-1996). A retired Boston Public Schools principal, Martin lives in Boston with his family.
Dr. Ping Wang came from Shanghai, earned her BA in Beijing University, PhD at NYU, published 15 books of poetry and prose: My Name Is Immigrant, Life of Miracles along the Yangtze and Mississippi, among others. She’s recipient of NEA, Bush, Lannan and McKnight Fellowships, director of Kinship of Rivers project. She’s also a dancer, photographer and installation artist. Her multi-media installations were shown at colleges, galleries, museums, river confluences and mountains around the world. She’s the Emerita Professor of Poetry, Macalester College.
Steve Luttrell is an internationally recognized Poet and Publisher. He is the founding editor of The Café Review, an award-winning art and poetry journal, published in Portland, Maine since 1989. He is a past Poet Laureate for the city of Portland, Maine and is the author of five published collections of poetry including his latest, Plumb Line, published by North Atlantic Books (Berkeley, Ca.) in 2015.
Kerrville TX: Kathleen Hudson | Etain Scott | Lisha Adela Garcia | Jean Hackett
Kathleen Hudson is author of three oral histories in Texas music, founder of Texas Heritage Music Foundation (1987-2017), English teacher 1968-present, poet and lover of all animals. Lives in the Texas Hill Country.
Etain Scott is a multidisciplinary artist from Ireland currently living on the Guadalupe River in Kerrville, Texas. Traveling, cooking, dancing, and her writing groups are part of her source of creativity. Often a guest writer in the English classes at Schreiner University, she is currently illustrating some of her poems with mixed media collage.
Lisha Adela García has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and currently resides in Texas with her beloved four-legged children. Her books, A Rope of Luna and Blood Rivers, were published by Blue Light Press of San Francisco. Lisha has been nominated for a Pushcart and was a recipient of the San Antonio Tri-Centennial Poetry Prize. She has served as a judge for various poetry prizes. Most recently, she served as judge for the Chicago Poetry Prize. Lisha leads the Wyrdd Writers, a writing group based in San Antonio.
Jean Hackett lives and writes in San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country. Her most recent work has appeared in journal Voices de la Luna, the ‘zine Words for Birds, the collection of vulture poetry Purifying Wind, the collections of coronavirus poetry No Season for Silence, Tejascovido, and The Langdon Review as well as Arts Alive San Antonio.
Portuguese Poets: Maria do Rosario Loures | Alvaro Maio | Isilda Nunes | Irene Marques
Maria Do Rosario Loures is a trilingual writer (writing in Portuguese, German and English). Her first appearance in the world of poetry was in 1996 at the art magazine “sign 7” by Gillitzer & Müller, Nuremberg. She has produced many anthologies in Portugal including three editions of “Poetas na Diápora”, Oxalá Editora, and “IV Antologia Poetas Lusófonos da Diáspora”, Oxalá Editora. In 2021, she coordinated the “First Anthology of Poetry Hera the Light of Women”, and n 2021 became International Ambassador of Peace and Human Rights for the World Literary Forum for Peace and Human Rights – WLPH. She is also Ambassador for the Asih Sasimi Indonesia Global Writers Foundation. A contributor to Glitterati Quillwithspark, a quarterly magazine to promote and publish poetry, artwork, short stories, reviews, and articles, she also publishes her poems and short stories in the social networks.
Álvaro Maio was born in Portugal 1960 and is a journalist in several radio stations and national newspapers. He received the 1st Literary Prize with the short story “My 1st trip to the sun” in Mozambique November 69. He is editor of ”Fragmentos” ( poetry) 2013 / ”Mais de mim…” ( poetry) 2016 / ”Peregrino de mim…” (poetry) 2019 / “Ala Ala Arriba!” ( epic operetta )2020 / “ PURGATÓRIO “ ( poetry) 2022, coauthor of several poetry anthologies in Portuguese, and five other languages, and produced CD with 12 original songs entitled “Poeta da Vida“. He has won numeorus literary prizes, including the Poetas da Ria Literary Prize (poetry), the Dr Luís Raínha Correntes D’Escritas National Literary Award, the World Award for Artistic Excellence Carlos Vallejo, and the Àguila de Oro award for literary excellence. Co-author of several poetic anthologies in Portuguese, Spanish, English, Russian, Urdu and Mandarin, and was translated and published in dozens of countries.
Isilda Nunes is a Portuguese artist, writer and poet, Doctor Honoris Causa in Philosophy, Letters, Arts and Humanities in Barcelona. She is winner of international literary prizes and she is published in many national and international magazines and newspapers. She is co-author of many anthologies and author of books of poetry and prose. She is among other functions Founder and Vice-President of UMEA (World Union of Writers and Artists); Chairperson of the Language, Literature and Oratory Art Committee of Modern Pythian Games; Advisor to the Presidency of CIESART (International Chamber of Writers and Artists) and President of CIESART-Portugal; National Director of IFLAC World- Portugal; Vice-President MEL (Mulheres Empreendedoras da Lusofonia); Ambassador of the Women’s Federation for Word Peace International; RRM3 Advisor for GPLT-UK- UN & EU, Ambassador for Peace and Humanity IFCH Morocco; Member of the Board of Directors of Editorial Atunis, etc.
Irene Marques is a bilingual writer (writing in English and Portuguese) and Lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University in the Department of English, where she teaches literature and creative writing. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature, Masters in French Literature and Comparative Literature and a BA (Hon.) in French Language and Literature from the University of Toronto, as well as a Bachelor of Social Work from Ryerson University. Her creative writing publications include the poetry collections Wearing Glasses of Water (Mawenzi House, 2007), The Perfect Unravelling of the Spirit (Mawenzi House, 2012) and The Circular Incantation: An Exercise in Loss and Findings (Guernica Editions, 2013), and the novels My House is a Mansion (Leaping Lion Books, 2015), Uma Casa no Mundo (Imprensa Nacional, 2021) and Daria (Inanna Publications, 2021). Uma casa no mundo won the Imprensa Nacional/Ferreira de Castro Prize (Portugal).
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