2023 Poetry at Hayner event was curated by committee member Furaha Henry-Jones.
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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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Nikki Allen is a lover & a writer. She is the author of numerous books, including Hotwire (River Dog Press ‘21) and Ligaments of Light/Tigering the Shoulders (Night Ballet Press). Her work has appeared in Muzzle Magazine, Gasconade Review, Nailed, Crash, out of nothing, Profane Journal (Pushcart Prize nominee ‘14/’15) and Encyclopedia Destructica among others. She is also a Teaching Assistant for Megan Falley’s popular workshops, Poems that Don’t Suck and After the Ode writing. Nikki currently resides in Columbus, Ohio with her husband and daughter. She believes in revolution, strong coffee, the hard knocks & the sweetness.
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Felicia Chappelle is the daughter of a poet's daughter, actually following the fourth generation of women in her maternal line to express in verse, prose and spoken word. Primarily a playwright, her self-penned one woman show Interrupted Motherhood completed a tour schedule in March 2020. Her collaborative work with Professor John Fleming, The Vampire Tales was work-shopped by Central State University students and left the stage in November 2022. An adaptation is in production as a radio drama for WCSUfm.org also in Wilberforce, Ohio. Currently, her flash fiction series Faces on the Train can be heard streaming on all major platforms. Find her @womenworkwonders.
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West Virginia native Ed Davis retired from teaching writing full-time at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio in 2011. He has also taught both fiction and poetry at the Antioch Writers’ Workshop and is the author of the novels I Was So Much Older Then (Disc-Us Books, 2001); The Measure of Everything (Plain View Press, 2005); and The Psalms of Israel Jones (West Virginia University Press 2014), which won the Hackney Award for an unpublished novel in 2010. His stories and poems have appeared in journals and anthologies such as: Leaping Clear, Metafore, Hawaii Pacific Review, Stoneboat, Slippery Elm, Still: The Journal, Wild, Sweet Notes: Fifty Years of West Virginia Poetry. Four poetry chapbooks have been released as well as a full-length collection, Time of the Light (Main Street Rag Press, 2013). He lives with his wife in the village of Yellow Springs, Ohio, where he bikes, hikes, meditates religiously and writes an occasional poetry column for the Yellow Springs News. For ten years, Ed emceed the annual Solstice Poetry Reading at Glen Helen in Yellow Springs.
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Photographer Sandra Feen was inducted as the 2022-2024 Ohio Beat Poet Laureate by the National Beat Poetry Foundation. She won Heavy Feather Review’s second-annual Zachary Doss Friends in Letters Fellowship, with Rikki Santer, for their poetry collaboration titled, Emotion Bus. She is the author of Evidence of Starving (Voice Lux Journal 2021) Meat and Bone (Luchador Press 2019), and Fragile Capacities: School Poems (NightBallet Press 2018). Fragile Capacities – nominated for the Ohioana Book Award – highlights her 32-year teaching career in an urban school system. The poem Palms Monday was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
She is currently editing an anthology You’ve Been Poemed: the 121 Project, and co-writing There is A Rock on Martin Avenue, with retired journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, Cliff Treyens. Contact her at [email protected]. |
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Amanda Hayden is Poet Laureate for Sinclair College and Professor of Humanities, Philosophy, and Religions (emphasis in Indigenous, Eastern, and Environmental Studies), receiving several pedagogy awards, including the SOCHE Award (2017) and the League for Innovation Teaching Excellence Award (2020). Her chapter, Saunter Like Muir: Experience Projects in Environmental Ethics was recently published by Routledge (2022) in Ecopedagogies: Practical Approaches to Experiential Learning. In addition to writing: Windy Chicken Farm Animal Rescue, her poems have been featured in Voices of Real (Poetry is Life Press), Carnation Collection (Wild Ink Publishing) as well as Angela Yurko Smith's Publisher's Showcase and Stripes Literary Magazine. She is currently working on a poetry manuscript about travel. She lives with her family on a small farm with three dogs, two cats, two goats, seven pigs, many chickens, and a duck named Dorothy.
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Angel James is an easily distracted creative person from a sleepy, rural river town in Central Pennsylvania. She earned her Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees in English and a graduate certificate in Institutional Research and Assessment. Becoming Friends With Chaos, a collection of works inspired by the life and music of Bob Dylan, is her first book of poetry.
You can reach Angel at angeljamescreates.com |
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Sierra Leone has been hailed as a poet who "captivates audiences with her unassuming ingenuity, profound insight, and comedic sense of 'knowing.'" As Inaugural Community Artist in Residence and Visiting Scholar at The HUB at the Dayton Arcade her poetry has been transformed into permanent visual exhibits. Her work can also be experienced in art installations at the Dayton Metro Library Main Branch and The Levitt Pavilion. Leone is a librettist who collaborated with composer Steven Winteregg to create their new work entitled Expressions. The piece premiered at the Schuster Center in 2022 and was performed by the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus. She is also a Governor's Award recipient for strengthening interactive arts participation among diverse community members while increasing public awareness about the role of the arts in community life.
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Transplanted from the steel town of Buffalo in New York, Aimee Noel now lives with her wife in Dayton, Ohio, where she works as an educator and advocate for food access. Her poems have been published in works such as Witness, Michigan Quarterly Review, Belt, and elsewhere. She is proud to have been Daytonian of the Week in 2020 and the recipient of OAC’s 2020 Individual Excellence Award for poetry. Find her at www.aimeenoel.net
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Ismail Soldan is the penname of Ismael David Mujahid, an award-winning writer and poet. Inspired by a lifelong passion for the written word, he has made it his mission to pursue excellence in the literary arts. His first poetry collection is due to be completed by the end of the year and will offer readers the melange of style, wit, and heart that that many have come to love.
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