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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JACK JACKS POETS LI NY
Feminist, activist, certified ennui therapist, and fairy tale revisionist. Deborah Hauser is the author of Ennui: From the Diagnostic and Statistical Field Guide of Feminine Disorders (Finishing Line Press). Her poems and book reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Ms. Magazine, Women’s Review of Books, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Bellevue Literary Review, and Calyx. Her work explores the intersection of poetry and activism. She was the Poet Laureate of Suffolk County (2023-2025) and founder of Poetry In Action. She leads a double life on Long Island where she works in the insurance industry.
Q. Imagine is an author, a screenwriter and a poet. She is a member of The Scene magazine and writes poetry book reviews. She has been published in various anthologies and magazines from around the world. Some recent publications include Libretto Magazine, Worlds Of Possibility, Nebulous Magazine, Bards Annual, Alien Buddha Press, Quill & Crow and Long Island Quarterly. She has been writing poetry since she learned how to write.
Ed Luhrs started his craft years ago and remains an active participant at events on Long Island. His interests, reflected in his writing and performance, include theatrical monologue, humor, dialect, folklore, ancient history, as well as orchestral, jazz, and traditional folk music. He has been published in Bard’s Annual, the Long Island Quarterly, and Long Island Sounds anthology among other publications
Lisa James has been published in several publications including the Long Island Quarterly, Oberon Review and others. She is the author of Nature, Sometimes Human (JAL Publications) and The Ties That Bind (Words With Wings Press). She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
INDIANA POETS
Chris Dean is a storyteller, spoken word artist and self-proclaimed Magpie Poet who writes from the heart of Indiana where they live with their husband, dog and too many cats to mention. Along with Wendy Cartwright, Chris is co-founder of Keeping the Flame Alive magazine and the Columbus Acoustic Music & Poetry monthly Open Mic. Their work has been featured online, in multiple print anthologies and they are the author of two books of poetry, Tales From a Broken Girl and We’re All Stories in the End, published by Storylines Press.
John Hinton is a Creative exploring the human experience through words. Hinton served as President of Poetry Society of Indiana. He is a Pushcart Nominee, a Nickel Plate Arts(Noblesville Creates) Artist Advocate Award nominee, and a Eugene & Marilyn Glick Indiana Author Awards Literary Champion Nominee. Hinton has published two poetry collections, Blackbird Songs and Held. He has also been published in Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Polk Street Review, Weeder’s Digest, and several Poetry Society of Indiana anthologies.
Tony Brewer is a poet and audio artist from Bloomington, where he is executive director of the Spoken Word Stage at the 4th Street Festival of the Arts and Crafts and co-producer of the Writers Guild Spoken Word Series and the Urban Deer Performance Series. His most recent books are Centaur (with Johnathon S Baker, Dark Heart Press) and Good Job, Lightning (Stubborn Mule Press). Tony has been offering Poetry on Demand at coffeehouses, museums, cemeteries, churches, bars and art and music festivals for fifteen years, and he is a frequent collaborator with experimental music & field recording ensemble ORTET. He was named Indiana’s 2024 Literary Champion by the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Author Awards.
Wendy Cartwright is a poet/author/photographer/reporter/columnist/weirdo (among other things) out of Columbus, Indiana. Her travels have taken her as far as Mayan Ruins and as near as the filling station. Her undiscerning tastes allow her to find creative fodder regardless of location. She has been published in various print anthologies and featured in online publications. She has also self-published four books and has another on the way. With Chris Dean, Wendy is a co-founder of Keeping the Flame Alive. The small press publishes a randomly-released, submission based magazine and holds monthly Open Mics. The duo also does some graphic design and website development and maintenance.
AUSTRALIAN POETS
Mick Mezza has self published World’s Apart (poetry), 5 Shorties( short plays) and Lio’s road to football ( children’s book) and has performed poetry in Australia, Italy, England and Greece and has his poems translated into Italian, Greek and Chinese.
Australian-American composer/poet Joe Dolce is winner 2017 University of the Canberra Health Poetry Prize, winner of the 25th Launceston Poetry Cup and was selected to Best Australian Poems 2015 & 2014.
Tug Dumbly is a Sydney poet/performer. He has worked much in radio, venues and schools. He has performed his work as resident-poet on ABC radio (Triple-J, ABC 702) and released two spoken-word CDs through the ABC. His awards include the Banjo Paterson Prize for Comic Verse (twice), a Nimbin Performance Poetry World Cup (thrice), the Borranga Poetry Prize, the Woorilla Poetry Prize, and the Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize. His first poetry book, Son Songs, came out in 2018, and in 2024 he released a book of short poems, Tadpoems, through Flying Islands books.
Amanda Anastasi is the author of Taking Apart the Bird Trap (Recent Work Press, 2024) and ThetheInheritors (Black Pepper, 2021). Amanda was Poet in Residence for three years at the Monash Climate Change Communication Research Hub and has been published in Australian Poetry Journal, Best Australian Science Writing and The Massachusetts Review.
Helen Jarvis is a Melbourne-based poet, whose first book of poetry, ‘The Kindness of Water’ was scheduled to be published in early 2025. She has won the Nillumbik Poetry Ekphrasis and the Ada Cambridge awards, and was runner-up in the 2024 Gwen Harwood poetry prize. Her work has appeared in various anthologies, and in ‘Rabbit’ and ‘Island’ magazines.
