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Poetry At Hayner: A Mosaic of Voices on:
June 10, 2023 at 6:30 pm
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The 2022 Poetry at Hayner event was curated by committee member Myrna Stone.
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Poetry At Hayner Event Will Feature a Mosaic of Voices
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An Introduction To Our Featured Poets
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Steve Abbott was a founder in 1984 of The Poetry Forum (Columbus), now the Midwest's longest-running poetry reading series, and continues as a co-host. His poems have appeared widely, and he has edited two poetry anthologies. He received an Ohio Arts Council Excellence in Poetry award and was the first writer to receive an OAC residency at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Steve Abbott has published five chapbooks and two full-length collections--A Green Line Between Green Fields and A Language the Image Speaks, a collection of ekphrastic poems—and has edited the anthologies Cap City Poets and Everything Stops and Listens. He edits Ohio Poetry Association's annual journal Common Threads. www.steveabbott.us
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Matthew T. Birdsall's first book of poems, The Long and Short of It, was recently released by Alabaster Leaves Press. He has been published in various literary journals and magazines including New Ohio Review, Slippery Elm, and Poydras Review. Matt works in educational publishing and he's the Editor of the Mock Turtle Zine in Dayton, Ohio. He enjoys all things creative, spending time with his wife, newborn, and 8-year-old, & well-planned, spontaneous adventures.
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John Booth is a performance poet, multi-instrumentalist and recording artist. He was a four-time member of the Dayton National Poetry Slam Team and was the 2002 Dayton Slam-off Champion. He has earned the nicknames "Big Brother," "The Truth" and "The Assassin with Words" for his straightforward style of writing and performing.
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Dave Essinger’s first novel about ultrarunning, Running Out, was published by Main Street Rag Publishing Company in 2017. Other recent writing appears in Gargoyle, Sport Literate, Midwestern Gothic, and elsewhere. He received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has been General Editor of the AWP Intro Journals Project since 2016. He currently teaches creative writing and edits the literary magazines Slippery Elm and From the Writers’ Kitchen at the University of Findlay, in Ohio.
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Sophia Kartsonis lives in Tipp City, Ohio where she serves as the director and founding member of Our Farm Sanctuary, home to many misfit creatures including alpacas, chickens, donkeys, goats, a blind horse, llamas, pigs and one ornery pony plus several adoptable dogs and cats. Sophia is also the faculty advisor for Botticelli Magazine, the literary and art journal of Columbus College of Art & Design where she is a professor of literature and creative writing. She has authored three chapbooks: EMUseum, Dancing Girl Press, 2010, & Aloha Vaudeville Doll, Dancing Girl Press 2014, and By Some Miracle, A Year Lousy with Meteors, winner of the Dreamhorse Poetry Prize, published in 2012; as well as two full-length collections of poetry: Intaglio, winner of the Wick Poetry Prize, published by Kent State University Press in 2006, and The Rub, winner of the Elixir Prize.
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Jane K. Kretschmann was born in Alabama. Living in Piqua, Ohio, she began writing poetry in 2002. Jane is now retired from teaching english at Edison Community College. Jane has taught workshops on ways to promote poetry. She published an article on this topic in Writer's Digest. Her poetry is found in many journals such as The Ledge and Plainsongs, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Passager, Gyroscope Review, and these Ohio Poetry Association anthologies: Everything Stops and Listens; A Rustling and Waking Within; and Common Threads 2019. She has broadcast on NPR, WKCR (New York), and WYSO (Yellow Springs). Her chapbook, Imagining a Life, was published by FootHills Publishing. Jane has an "Insider Report" on the subject of revision and a feature article on the Greenville Poets in Poet's Market.
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Paula J. Lambert of Columbus, Ohio, has authored several collections of poetry including How to See the World (Bottom Dog Press 2020) and, forthcoming, The Ghost of Every Feathered Thing (FutureCycle Press 2022). Recipient of two Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards and two Greater Columbus Arts Council Resource Grants, she has twice been in residence at Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She owns Full/Crescent Press, a small publisher of poetry books and broadsides; through the press, she has founded and supported numerous public readings and festivals that support the intersection of poetry and science, including the Sun & Moon Poetry Festival now hosted by the Ohio Poetry Association. Learn more at paulajlambert.com and fullcrescentpress.com.
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Erica Manto-Paulson is a 2021 Pushcart Nominee whose poems have appeared in Thimble Literary Magazine, Sheila Na Gig, Northern Appalachia Review, Slippery Elm, and elsewhere. Her work has also been featured on NPR's Conrad’s Corner (WYSO). Erica’s first chapbook, Hunger, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2021. An Ohio native, Erica is a homebirth midwife assistant and doula, which drives her ongoing obsession with birth in its many forms. She finds inspiration for her poetry in the fertile fields of her home state, drawing on a deep connection to the surrounding world. Erica, and her husband Scott, live in Washington Township with their seven children and own a prenatal ultrasound spa and massage studio in Hyde Park, Cincinnati.
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Belinda Rismiller is a native of Darke County, Ohio and has lived most of her life in the country on a farm. An attachment to the land and nature is reflected in much of her poetry. She is a founding member of The Greenville Poets, a writers’ group which has been in existence since 1986. She has received two Professional Arts Awards, one from the Ohio Arts Council and one from the Darke County Arts Council. Her poetry has appeared in The Bitter Oleander and been heard on Conrad’s Corner on Public Radio WYSO.
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Rose Smith's work has appeared in The Examined Life, Snapdragon, The Pedestal Magazine, Minola Review, Dying Dahlia Review, Main Street Rag, and other journals and anthologies. She is author of four chapbooks, most recently Holes in My Teeth (Kattywompus Press, 2016). Her collection, Unearthing Ida, won the 2018 Lyrebird Prize from Glass Lyre Press. She is a Senior Editor of Pudding Magazine and a graduate Cave Canem fellow.
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Rebecca Spencer is a recent graduate of Edison State Community College. She returned to college after a 40-year absence to pursue her true passion of Art and Creative Writing. From a young age, Rebecca has used poetry as an outlet for her own emotions; now she uses her words to bring awareness to social causes. Rebecca was chosen as the winner of Edison’s Peace Prize in 2020 for her essay about her ongoing battle with leukemia, entitled Miracle or Misery.
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