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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BREVITAS POETS NYC
Ron Kolm‘s books include A Change in the Weather, Welcome to the Barbecue and The Bookstore Book: A Memoir. He’s had work in The Brownstone Poets anthologies, The Opiate, Maintenant, Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts, NYC From the Inside and The Silver-Tongued Devil anthology. Ron’s papers are archived in the NYU Library.
Jeffrey Cyphers Wright received an MFA in poetry after studying with Allen Ginsberg. He’s author of 20 volumes of verse. Winner of a James Tate award, he publishes Live Mag!
Patricia Carragon received a 2025 Best of the Net nomination for her haiku, “Cherry Blossoms” from Poets Wear Prada. She is the editor of the new online journal, Sense & Sensibility Haiku, and listed on the poet registry for The Haiku Foundation. She hosts Brownstone Poets and is the editor-in-chief of its annual anthology.
Austin Alexis has published in Rattle, Barrow Street, The Pedestal Magazine, Hawaii Pacific Review and elsewhere. His long-awaited second full-length poetry collection, The Whirlpool Bath, is scheduled for publication by Kelsay Books in late-summer, 2025.
COLLAPSE PRESS
Lynn Alexander is a poet, artist, and host of poetry and book festival events such as The Friday Collapse and Wicked Brew. She is the author of “Find Me in the Iris”, poetry from Collapse Press.
Richard Loranger is a multi-genre writer, performer, musician, visual artist, and all-around squeaky wheel, currently residing in Oakland, CA. They are the founder of Poetea, a monthly literary conversation group. Their latest book of poetry and flash prose, Mammal, was released by Roof Books in October 2023. They’re also the author of Unit of Agency (now in its second edition), Be A Bough Tit, Sudden Windows, Poems for Teeth, The Orange Book, and ten chapbooks, and have work in over 100 magazines and journals.
Han Raschka (they/them) is a queer Midwest poet. Their first collection, Splinters (Collapse Press) was released in 2022, and their chapbook Enamel (Bottlecap Press) was published in 2023. They are the 2024 second place winner for the Wisconsin People and Ideas Contest. Han was a finalist for the Charles M. Hart Jr. Award and the Therese Muller Memorial Nonfiction Award at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where they study creative writing.
Paul Corman-Roberts is the author of the Firecracker nominated poetry collection Bone Moon Palace, the graphic chapbook The Sincere (with Ray Swaney) from Libran Apocalypse Books (2022) and 19th Street Station Volume 2 from Collapse Press (202.) He teaches with both Oakland Unified and SF Unified as well as SF Creative Writing, and sometimes fills in as a drummer for the U.S. Ghostal Service.
TURKISH POETS
Poet and translator Tozan Arkan is a board member of Turkish PEN, member of the Writers Syndicate of Turkey, Turkish Authors Association and Turkish Translators Association, and author of eight books of poetry. He has translated many poets and authors into Turkish such as Anatole France, Charles Baudelaire, Lord Byron, Victor Hugo, Oscar Wilde, William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Tristan Tzara, Philippe Soupault, D.H. Lawrence, William Butler Yeats, Federico Garcia Lorca, Antonio Machado and Alfonsina Storni. His poems have been translated into many languages.
Nur Akalın studied Cinema and TV at Mimar Sinan University. She has worked in the fields of cinema, writing and literature since high school. She writes poetry, stories and movie scripts. She has also directed fiction films and documentary film.
Yavuz Türk was born in Istanbul and graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Political Sciences. Between 2009 and 2011, he and his friends published the literary magazine Yeniyazı. In addition to his three published poetry books, he has also written three works of fiction –a novel, a short story and a play. His second book of poetry, Sonra, Doğdum (Then, I was Born), published in 2018, won the Cevdet Kudret Literature Prize of the same year. He has been working as a copywriter, editor and editorial director in various institutions and publishing houses for nearly twenty years.
Özge Cengiz is a former academician who completed her master’s and doctorate degrees in Linguistics and worked at various universities in Turkey. She is interested in poetry and music as an amateur. She currently lives with her cats in the Northern Aegean, translating and learning new languages.
