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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Red Wheelbarrow Poets: Anton Yakovlev | Janet Kolstein | Moira O’Brien
Anton Yakovlev’s most recent poetry chapbook Chronos Dines Alone (SurVision Books, 2018) won the James Tate Prize. He is also the author of Ordinary Impalers (Kelsay Books, 2017) and two prior chapbooks. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Daily, upstreet, The Hopkins Review, Plume, and elsewhere. The Last Poet of the Village: Selected Poems by Sergei Yesenin translated by Anton Yakovlev was published by Sensitive Skin Books in 2019. Anton co-hosts the Carmine Street Metrics reading series in Manhattan and the Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow reading series in Rutherford, New Jersey. He is a former education director at Bowery Poetry Club.
Moira O’Brien writes poetry on themes of physical and social loss with the occasional respite into nature. She is a member of the Red Wheelbarrow poetry group and has been published in several editions of the Red Wheelbarrow anthology.
Janet Kolstein’s poetry has been published in Instigatorzine, Lips (2006, 2012, 2018, and 2021), The Poetry of Place: North Jersey in Poetry (2008), The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow Volumes 2 through 16, The Newstead Abbey Byron Society Review (2009), and On the Verge – Poets of the Palisades III (2020). Kolstein is also an artist working mainly in collage. Her cover art and illustrations appear in The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow Volumes 6 and 10 (in which she’s featured), and poet Laura Boss’ The Best Lover. In 2021, she was thrilled to have her thumbnail essay published in The New York Times’ “Metropolitan Diary.”
Southern New Mexico: John Roche | Tim Staley, Elise Stuart | Bruce Holsapple | Michelle Otero
John Roche lives in Placitas, NM where he helps Jules Nyquist run Jules’ Poetry Playhouse and edit Poetry Playhouse Publications. He is the author of five full-length collections, including Joe Rides Again (FootHills Publishing 2020).
A former Albuquerque Poet Laureate, Michelle Otero’s recent verse-and-prose memoir, Vessels: A Memoir of Borders (FlowerSong Press, 2023), deals with her childhood and young adulthood in and near Deming, New Mexico.
Tim Staley lives in Las Cruces, NM. He is the author of Lost On My Own Street, The Most Honest Syllable is Shhh, and The Pieces You Have Left. He is faculty at Organ Mountain High School and founder/editor of Grandma Moses Press.
Elise Stuart resides in Silver City, NM and was Poet Laureate of Grant County, NM from 2014-2017. She is the author of a collection of poems, Another Door Calls, and a memoir, My Mother and I, We Talk Cat.
Bruce Holsapple lives in Magdalena, NM and has published seven books of poetry, including Wayward Shadow (La Alameda Press, 2013). His study of William Carlos Williams’ poetry, The Birth of the Imagination, was published by the University of New Mexico in 2016. He is currently at work on two new manuscripts, Sun, Wind, Rain and Strange Minstrelsy.
Indian Poets: Sriramgokul Chinnasamy | G Vasanthakumaran | Sowrabha Karinje | Nitin Kulkarni, Dr Sonali Pattnaik
Sriramgokul Chinnasamy lives in Chennai, India and has M.A. in Creative Writing from Teesside University, UK. He is the author of The Selfie Boy short story collection and A Teesside Girl poetry collection. His poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies in the UK, Ireland, Singapore, Canada and India. He also organizes ‘The Bharathi Open-Mic’ online poetry event.
G Vasanthakumaran has his six poetry collections published in Tamil, first one in 1986 and the latest in 2020. English translations of his poems have appeared in Indian Literature, India’s oldest journal. Madras Christian College, Chennai has made his collection Manidan Enbadhu Punai Peyar as a part of their curriculum for Tamil studies. His interviews with many Tamil poets have appeared as a series in the Tamil weekly, Kumudam.
Sowrabha Karinje is a writer of fiction, nonfiction and poetry in Kannada and English. Her stories, poems and articles have appeared in anthologies, magazines and blogs. She has done extensive translation work in the English-Kannada language pair. A techie by profession, she is curious about everything under the sun. When she isn’t busy writing, she is either cooking, traveling or playing badminton.
Nitin Kulkarni is from Pune, Maharashtra. His Marathi poems are published in various literary magazines. He is the author two poetry collections Everything Looks So Safe, Isn’t It?, 2001 and A Collage Of Noises, 2014. He also writes lyrics for musical albums and Hindi songs.
Dr Sonali Pattnaik (Phd) is a poet, academic, educator and visual artist from India. She was formerly Lecturer in English at Kirori Mal College, Delhi University and currently Visiting Professor of English at St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad. Her debut book of poetry ‘when the flowers begin to speak’ is published by Writers Workshop.
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