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.
THIS IS A ZOOM ONLY EVENT.
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SHADES OF GREEN NYC
Jennifer Juneau is the author of three books: the novel ÜberChef USA (Spork Press, 2019) a full-length poetry collection More Than Moon, (Is a Rose Press, 2020) and a short fiction collection Maze (Roadside Press, 2024.) She is a recent Acker Award recipient. She curates The Phoenix Poetry Open Mic at Shades of Green Pub every Monday evening in the East Village, NYC.
Bonnie Jill Emanuel is the author of the full length poetry collection, Glitter City. Her poems and interviews most recently appear in American Poetry Review, Pine Hills Review, Colorado Review, RHINO, and more. She is the recipient of the Jerome Lowell DeJur Award in Creative Writing, and the Irwin and Alice Stark Poetry Prize from The City College of New York.
Maja Lukic is a Brooklyn-based poet. She received an MFA in poetry from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in New England Review, Narrative, A Public Space, The Adroit Journal, Colorado Review, Bennington Review, Image, Sixth Finch, Copper Nickel, Poetry Northwest, Brooklyn Poets, the Slowdown podcast, and elsewhere. Currently, she serves on the Board of Four Way Books, as curator of Four Way’s Translator’s Page, and as a poetry reader for The Swannanoa Review.
Ellen Kombiyil (she/her) is the author of Love as Invasive Species (2024), Histories of the Future Perfect (2014), the micro-chapbook Avalanche Tunnel (2016). She is a 2022 recipient of a BRIO Award (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) from the Bronx Council on the Arts, a two-time winner of the Mary M. Fay Poetry Award from Hunter College, a recipient of an Academy of American Poets college prize, and was awarded the Nancy Dean Medieval Prize for an essay on the acoustic quality of Chaucer’s poetics.
POETRY STREET/RIVERHEAD POETS LI NY
Chip Williford became Director of Poetry Street “the room without a roof, where every voice is heard” in 2019, and co-hosts the monthly open-mic live-zoom hybrid event with poet Maggie Bloomfield at the Riverhead Free Public Library. He is a writer of prose, poetry, and short stories, a videographer, filmmaker, documentarian, family historian, researcher, a good listener, and a relatable storyteller. Most recently, his poem “Idea of America” was published in the 82nd issue of the Sailors Review along with an in-depth interview. In September 2024, Chip was honored to read his poem, “Shame Is Not Mine to Own – From A Child’s Voice”, for Sonja Sanchez’s 90th Birthday Zoom Event, sponsored by When Black Women Gather.
Robert A.“Bubbie”Brown has received numerous honors recognizing his service to Suffolk County and his community: the 2008 Scope Award ( Suffolk County Organization for professional Educators), the PDK International (Psi Delta Kappa) Stony Brook Chapters for educational advances in his community, Times News Review “Man of the Year” Award and Public Servant award, both in 2010, Kiwanis Club of Riverhead awarded him with The Star Award for community service. Brown chairs the East End Voter Coalition which instituted an essay contest for fifth graders in the Riverhead School District. With the encouragement of his wife Aramentis, Brown self published his first book of poetry entitled “ It’s Time”.
Maggie Bloomfield is a psychotherapist, published poet/essayist/playwright/ performer, and Emmy-winning lyricist for Sesame Street. Two chapbooks include: Trains of Thought, and Sleepless Nights, Finishing Line Press, 2020. Maggie earned an MFA from Stony Brook, Southampton (SBSH). Poems appear in Oberon, PPA Journal, The Southampton Review (TSR) Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Long Island Quarterly, and others. Maggie lives in Westhampton Beach with her jazz guitarist husband, Mike Gari
Clare Marie Lundberg is a true amateur poet. Never having a poem published since elementary or secondary school, nevertheless Clare continues to try her hand at poetry every now and again. She enrolled in a formal poetry class at the University of Rhode Island night school class in the late eighties for an “easy credit.” Actually submissions for the class proved more difficult than anticipated, but it reignited her love for poetry as well as following the “lives of poets” whenever time permits. Clare has been volunteering with Poetry Street on the Road since its first debut in June of 2014 at the Bee Duck Bakery, taking a brief hiatus midway through to help care for her mother at the end of her life.
SWEDISH POETS
Peter Nyberg Mollung has published 21 books, including nine translations from English to Swedish. Course coordinator and examiner for Creative Writing – Literary Design at Jönköping University. Founded and ran the magazine Populär Poesi (Popular Poetry) between 2009 and 2019. His latest poetry book A Devout Way to be Distinguished from 2022 was translated into Arabic, English, Chinese and Welsh.
Christer Boberg is a Swedish poet and essayist, born 1970. Boberg also works with sound poetry and lyrics for various musical projects. His latest collection of poems was the English chapbook Zero, released in 2023.
Magnus Grehn is a Swedish poet from the small town of Tranås. He is a small press publisher and a librarian. He is involved in a noise, sound art band. Punk’s Dead and Other Poems was published in English 2022.
Camilla Nyberg Mollung studied art in Oslo and textile teaching in Gothenburg and has a master’s degree in creative writing from Linnaeus University. She developed the courses in creative writing at Jönköping University. Her debut book Wittgenstein’s Brother’s Right Hand was published 2022. Camilla Nyberg Mollung founded and ran Jönköping Literature House between 2018 and 2020 and is now executive director in Tabergsådalen Arts center.
