Arunansu Banerjee
Arunansu Banerjee, from Calcutta, West Bengal, India, has been writing poetry only a few years
but the art and craft were rooted in him long before he started posting poems on different web forums, such as
Lost and Lonely
Poets, and having his work published on Kritya. Since childhood, Arunsansu has been a prolific painter and a bookworm; he is a teacher
by profession, with a degree in physics and specialized expertise in softwares. His primary love is listening to Indian Classical music.
His favorite poets are Emily Dickinson and Rabindranath Tagore.
Welcomes e-mail.
Changming Yuan
Changming Yuan grew up in rural China, authored three books before moving to Canada,
holds a PhD in English and currently teaches writing in Vancouver. Yuan began to write poetry in English during a family trip
to Banff in 2004 and has since had more than 200 poems appearing or forthcoming in Barrow Street, Canadian Literature,
Exquisite Corpse, Iodine, Literary Review of Canada, London Magazine, Mad Bunkers, Orbis, Queen’s Quarterly, Saranac Review,
Sentence, Vancouver Review, Windsor Review and nearly 150 other literary journals/anthologies worldwide. His distinctive collection,
Chansons of a Chinaman, is available from Leaf Garden Press (September 2009).
Welcomes e-mail.
Jan Oskar Hansen
The work of Norwegian poet Jan Oskar Hansen appears in many
anthologies and magazines worldwide. Four recent collections of his poems are available:
Murmur From The East (Lapwing, Belfast 2008),
End Of A Voyage (Water Forest Press, US 2007),
Letters from Portugal (BeWrite Books, UK 2003),
Lunch in Denmark (Lightningsource, UK 2005) and
La Strada (Lapwing, Belfast 2006). End Of A Voyage, Letters from Portugal,
Lunch in Denmark and other titles are available from
amazon.com. Jan, a former merchant seaman, lives in Portugal.
You will find links to more of his poetry on Wikipedia.
Jan welcomes e-mail.
Wesley Patterson
Wes Patterson was born in New York City and attended Johns Hopkins,
graduating with highest honors in Psychology and Creative Writing.
He works as a psychologist-hypnotherapist by phone (305-461-9206)
throughout the U.S. Wes has bred and cross-bred wild animals and reptiles
for pets as a business (ferrets being the most widely known) and has published his
poetry widely in the U.S. and England; in translation in Japan and Russia. His recent book, Past the Galaxies of Stars,
may be ordered through amazon.com or purchased at Barnes & Noble.
Wes is married to a Russian doctor of medicine and has one son. Welcomes e-mail.
Dimitris Palazis
Dimitris Palazis lives in Athens, Greece. A selection of his poetry from
various writing periods, translated by him into English, is published here on Soul to Soul.
Three hard copy collections have recently been published in Greece:
The Red Book (2009),
Fugitives of Times (2006) and Eftalia Island (2005).
Dimitris hosts his own site, Dimitris Palazis Poetry Pages,
where he presents a selection of his poems in Greek.
Welcomes e-mail.
Koon Woon
Koon Woon, born in China, now lives in Seattle where he studies philosophy
through the University of London. His collection of poems,
The Truth in Rented Rooms, is available at
amazon.com.
Koon edits and publishes the hard copy literary quarterly, Chrysantheumum, and is the
editor/publisher of Goldfish Press, which recently published Porch Shadows, poems by Betty Irene Priebe.
Koon's favorite poets include Li Po, Theodore Roethke, Federico Garcia Lorca, Tu Fu, Jean Follain
amd Nazim Hikmet. Welcomes email.
Dawn Zapletal
Dawn Zapletal was born in Illinois and moved to California in 1945. Her poetry, fiction
and non-fiction have appeared in such publications as Bellowing Ark, Fox Cry, Snake River, Mariposa, Riverrun,
Skylark, Le Colibri (France), The Sussex Review (England) and Kookaburra (Australia).
Dawn loves caring for her flower and fruit gardens, long
walks and nature, reading, and doing volunteer work for the National EAR Foundation and The National Self Help Center.
You may write her at this e-mail address.
Sandeep Kalathimekkad
Sandeep Kalathimekkad, 23, is currently working on a MS in Optics, under
the European Union's Erasmus Mundus programme at Imperial College, London. He is especially passionate about Quantum Mechanics
and Quantum Information Theory. He is also passionate about poetry and has published
one collection, Sheer Echoes of Time, as well as poems online. Sandeep loves music,
too, and has studied Indian classical, Carnatic style, and Kathakali music
for many years, performing in many concerts and in temples. Another passion is
football, especially its management, on-field tactics and the complexities of moves culminating in wins that
delight. He welcomes email.
Argo Spier
Argo Spier lives in Ghent, Belgium. He spent much of his childhood
in South Africa and studied under the high priest of Afrikaans poetry,
N.P. Van Wyk-Louw. Influenced by Herman Charles Bosman, Argo has continued that writer's
efforts to embed the Afrikaans syntaxis into English. All of Argos poetry is inter-linked and functions as one unit.
He has a home page and offers intriguing downloads.
Check out his elegant opera theatres world-wide index. Welcomes e-mail.
Kostas Hrisos
Kostas Hrisos was born in Thessalonica, in the north of Greece, and now
lives in Newcastle, England where he obtained an MSc in Information Systems and a MA in
Creative Writing. He teaches IS, M. Greek, Photography and Creative Writing at a local college.
His award-winning poetry has been published in many Greek and international magazines, websites
and anthologies; currently he is working on his first novel. He reads at poetry events in London, and in Newcastle
upon Tyne at Morden Tower and in Athens. A collection of poems, in other words,
was published in August, 2000. Kostas manages interpoetry.com.
He is married and the father of three children. Welcomes e-mail.
Laurence Overmire
Laurence Overmire, based in Portland, Oregon, is
an actor, director and writer who has worked on
stage, film and television on both coasts and in-between. He
founded and produced The Writer's Lab in Los Angeles, a
non-profit organization to foster quality writing in the entertainment
industry. He has also conducted arts programs for schools and other organizations, including Lincoln
Center Institute in New York City. In 2007 he launched
Indelible Mark Publishing to present quality work in the literary arts. Laurence's poetry has been widely published in the U.S.
and abroad, and on sites such as Kimera, Shadyvale, Art Villa, Ygdrasil
and This Hard Wind. Laurence also presents his poetry on
his website.
He welcomes e-mail.
Joanne Tolson
Joanne Tolson, from Newport, North Carolina, has been writing poetry since 1992.
She began serious writing as a means "to restore dialogue between both hemispheres
of my brain" following a severe blow to the back of her head. Joanne writes
science fiction and detective stories as well, and also works in the restaurant
business. She is a descendant of English settlers
and Native Americans who lived on the outer banks of
North Carolina on Portsmouth Island. Welcomes e-mail.
Lisa Zaran
Lisa Zaran is a poet and essayist from Arizona. She has authored five collections of poetry
(including the sometimes girl (2004), which is currently the focus of a translation
course in Germany )
and her work appears in hundreds of literary journals, magazines, broadsides, anthologies and ezines both nationally
and internationally. You will find more poems at her website. Lisa is a member of the Academy of
American Poets and the Arizona State Poetry Society. Welcomes e-mail.
Laala Kashef Alghata
Bahraini poet and novelist (and student) Laala Kashef Alghata writes regularly for
the Bahrain and Kuwait issues of Clientele, a lifestyle magazine and is the editor of the poetry journal,
Write Me a Metaphor. Her most recent book, Behind the Mask: A Folded Heart (2006), a collection
of poetry and prose, is available at
Amazon.co.uk and her work appears online in poetry journals such as All Things Girl, Argotist Online, and La Fenetre.
Laala Welcomes e-mail.
Nigel Burwood
Nigel Burwood, British, lives in Santa Cruz, California and also in
London and Norfolk part of the year. When he isn't writing poems and publishing them in literary journals,
he sells books on the Internet, attends auctions and plays golf.
A collection of his poetry is currently published in World's Strand,
an international anthology (academici/UK 2006) for which he suggested the title, helping to mold
the vision. An English major with a degree from Southampton,
favorite poets and writers include Baudelaire, Eliot, Borges, Nabokov and Meades.
Welcomes e-mail.
Ananya Guha
Ananya Guha was born and brought up in Shillong, a beautiful hilly region in the northeast of India.
He taught English Literature prior to joining the Indira Gandhi National Open University where he is
now a Joint Director in New Delhi. His poems have been published in a number of journals, e-zines
and on web sites in India and abroad. He holds a doctoral degree in Modern Fiction (novels of William Golding).
Welcomes e-mail.
Fide Erken
Fide Erken is a Turkish poet, born in 1967 in Bursa where she lives and
works as an English teacher. She has a degree from Uludag University in
English and writes in both English and Turkish. Her poems, inspired by
nature, have been published in magazines and on Internet sites such as
Other Voices International.
She also maintains her own website.
Fide is married and has two daughters. She welcomes e-mail.
Catherine Zoltan
Catherine Zoltan is a full-time mother of twin boys and a freelance writer.
She is married to a software engineer and lives with her family in
California's San Jacinto mountains. Six of her songs have been used by
Motown Producer Andre Moore on demo tapes and a small collection of her poems was recently published
in World's Strand,
an international anthology. She is currently working on a screenplay.
Comments are welcome and will be forwarded.
Chiesa Irwin
Chiesa Irwin was born in Long Island, NY, and used to sing folk in Greenwich Village.
Her travels led her to Sydney, Australia and then to Northern Queensland, where she spends a lot of time
writing poetry and working on a book. She says the only thing she has ever been accused of is being a "flamboyant
simpleton." A collection of poems, Poles of Attraction, was published in 1994.
Welcomes e-mail.
Zdravka Vladova-Momcheva
Zdravka Vladova-Momcheva, born in Bulgaria, has lived in the UK since 2000.
She published her first collection of poetry, Transformations, in 1999 (in Bulgarian).
Her second collection, A child, a woman and a prophet, was published in 2000, followed by the bilingual
These Simple Things, which was part of the cultural initiative "Bulgarian Easter," organized by the
Bulgarian government. Her first novel, The Road, was published in 2002 and presented that year to
Bulgarian readers in the UK at the Bulgarian Embassy in London. Zdravka is first prize winner
of the Second Annual Poetry Competition, Dance with Words 2006,
sponsored by Palabras Press, Canada, and her most recent collection, Thracian Treasure,
is being published by the same house. Zdravka welcomes e-mail.
Bob Hart
Bob Hart, active for a score of years and well-known for his work as a performing poet
on the New York City circuit, also writes poetry for dancers (which he sometimes performs) and does
"dialogues" with other poets. For many years he has been a member of a poetry
performance group, the No Chance Ensemble.
Bob welcomes calls at (718) 638-2927.
Roger Humes
Roger Humes is a poet/computer graphic artist/musician from
Claremont, California. His recently published collection of poetry,
There sings no bird, is available
here.
Roger maintains sites which feature his poetry and
computer graphics; more art is
presented at The Ash Can Gallery.
Roger co-directs The Other Voices International Project,
an extensive collection of poetry from around the world. He is also the Design Coordinator for
Literati Magazine
and International Poetry Editor for Harvest International magazine.
Welcomes e-mail.
Olutayo K. Osunsan
Olutayo Osunsan was born in Lagos, Nigeria and lives in Kampala, Uganda. His poetry
has been published in anthologies and magazines on four continents and some poems have been translated
into other languages. Olutayo is the author of two collections, Strange Beauty (2004) and The Poet In May (2006)
and is currently working on a novel and two co-authored works.
He enjoys traveling, listening to music, reading the bible and watching good movies.
Favorite Poets include Maya Angelou and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Welcomes e-mail.
Patricia Carragon
Poet, writer, artist Patricia Carragon lives in New York City where she
also works as an ad executive. She has been published in Poetz.com, Rogue Scholars,
Poets Wear Prada, Clockwise Cat, Luciole Press, Up the Staircase, Kritya, Inscribed, Live Magazine,
and more. She is the author of Journey to the Center of My Mind, published by Rogue Scholars Press
and her work is in such anthologies as Eve Packer’s Where You Live, What Happens Next,
The Ice Road Poems, The Yuki Teikei Haiku Society and South by Southeast, vol.15 #2.
She hosts and curates the Brooklyn-based Brownstone Poets at Café Sutra in Park Slope
and The Fall Café in Carroll Garden and is the editor of the annual Brownstone Poets Anthology.
Patricia hosts her own website.
She welcomes e-mail.
Rati Saxena
Rati Saxena is a Hindi poet and Sanskrit scholar residing in Trivendrum, Kerala, India.
She has published three collections of poetry and is well-known for her Malayalan translations
of poetry and fiction. In 2000 she was awarded the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award for translation
and is also a recipient of the Indira Gandhi National Culture and Arts Fellowship.
Rati edits and publishes KRITYA, an online
bilingual (Hindi and English) poetry journal, and
blogs here. She has an extensive web presence; you will find more of her poems in journals
such as thanal online. Welcomes
e-mail.
Uzeyir Cayci
Uzeyir Cayci, born in 1949 in Bor, Turkey, is a poet, artist, and writer with
a degree in architecture and industrial design from The Fine Arts Academy in Istanbul. He has been
drawing, painting and writing since childhood and has received many awards for his work, most
recently from Radio NPS of Holland and Les Amis de Thalie in France. Both his
Poetry and
Art are featured
on many elegant websites. Uzeyir lives and works in Paris.
Welcomes e-mail (en français ou en turc, si possible).
Andy N
British poet, writer, musician, performer, Andy N(icholson), 36, from Manchester has been published
world-wide since 1992. He is the lead singer / vocalist of the band 'DIH' (described as Jack Kerouac jamming with The Aphex Twin)
and records as well with 'M.A.N.' and ‘Distance’, among other groups. Andy co-runs the internet record music label HICC
and runs the spoken word label Setting Sun
and is signed in addition with Hallo Excentrico. He is currently working on his first novel and
a collection of his poetry. He has wrote two plays which have being performed. He maintains his own website Setting Sun
which showcases along with his own work an ever–increasing collection of up and coming artists
from England, America, Canada, France, Sweden, Germany and Russia, etc., covering all areas of the musical spectrum.
Andy welcomes e-mail.
Monica Korycinska
Monica Korycinska, born in Warsaw, Poland, moved to Germany when she was
11 and earned her degree as translator in several languages from the University of the Saarland.
She wrote her first poem at 14, and is inspired by "small, insignificant things, like a
reflection of raindrops in the light of a torch." Monica's dream is to travel the globe and write
poems and stories about countries she visits, reading the works of favorite writers
(Gabriel García Márquez, Pablo Neruda, Marcel Proust, Henry Miller, Isabel Allende, to mention a few)
in her spare time. She welcomes e-mail.
Steven Manchester
Steve Manchester, prolific writer of prose, fiction and poetry,
is a teacher and public speaker as well. His many professional credits are listed
at stevenmanchester.com, where he offers
professional manuscript editing (with meticulous attention to detail).
Steve also teaches the popular workshop Write A Book, Get Published & Promote Your Work.
His most recent novel, Pressed Pennies, is
available from amazon.com, B&N.com and in bookstores nationwide.
Steve lives in Massachusetts and is the proud father of two sons and a daughter - his priorities.
Welcomes e-mail.
Visiting Poets
Featuring poems by C.P. Aboobacker and Luis Benitez. This page is updated every six months
and bios are included.
Joneve McCormick
Joneve McCormick hosts Soul to Soul and
The Peregrine Muse.
Joneve & Friends is an ongoing web project
featuring poems and photographs. Her poems, short stories and articles have appeared in various journals, periodicals, anthologies,
and on websites such as World Poems.
Two collections of poetry have been published: Small Bird Bones (The New Press, NYC, 1993) and
The Visitor (Kritya/St. Mary's Press, Kerala, India, 2008).
Recent editing includes the international anthology
World's Strand.
Joneve offers online services which include research, writing poems for loved ones and special occasions,
ghost writing, promotional writing, consulting, editing and tutoring. For more information, please send
e-mail.
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