Poets

Frederick Charles Melancon

Frederick Charles Melancon lives with his wife and daughter in Mississippi. More of his works can be found in Short Beasts, Eye to the Telescope, and 365tomorrows.

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Molly Froelich

Molly Froelich is a playful poet living in her adopted hometown of Medford, MA. Primarily written in the haiku form, her poems are typically conceived while walking or biking out in the community or in nature, along the Mystic River Watershed. Her poems have been featured in two art exhibits in Medford: in Sanctuary Church’s Lasting Look exhibit in 2022 highlighting post-pandemic art and writing and in The Mystic Project’s Hidden in Plain Sight exhibit in 2025 featuring large-scale outdoor banners. She has been published in the journal Three Line Poetry and in Watch the Ever Changing, an anthology of poems from the Medford Senior Center, a project funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the City of Medford.

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Elisa Carlsen

Elisa Carlsen was born and raised in the high desert of Northern Nevada. A contemplative, her poetry and creative non-fiction has appeared in Lunch Ticket, Trumpeter, Sierra Nevada Review, Argentum, Marrow, Carte Blanche, Anti-Heroin Chic and elsewhere, Elisa is the author of Cormorant (Unsolicited Press 2023) and Beulahland (2028). She is an award-winning poet whose work has been nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize. Her poetry film, The Basin, was selected for the 2025 Nature & Culture International Poetry Film Festival in Denmark. Elisa has paid good money to have her writing rejected by a former Yogurtoligist turned Poetry Editor, among countless others. Tired of the standard author bios and submission experience, Elisa created Rabbitbrush.org - a literary journal for outsiders. Check it out.

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Ed Sams

Ed Sams is an American poet, author, educator, and playwright whose work spans poetry, short fiction, essays, and plays. Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, he has lived in both East Tennessee and the Santa Cruz Mountains, drawing on both settings for inspiration.

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Laurinda Lind

Laurinda Lind's first chapbook, Trials by Water, came out in 2024 (Orchard Street Press). She won Keats-Shelley, Foley, Peggy Willis Lyles, and Northwind poetry competitions. Some of her poems are in Blue Earth Review, New American Writing, Paterson Literary Review, and Spillway. She worked most recently as a caregiver.

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Jeff Nesheim

Jeff Nesheim is a poet writing in Denver, CO, and the author of Overseeing the Downfall (Word Poetry Books, 2020), which was a finalist for the New American Poetry award and is his first collection. Jeff’s work has appeared in the journals Big Muddy, Straight Forward, Evening Street Review, Typishly, and many others. He has lived in in seven states, has a day job in education technology, and an MFA from Bennington College. (www.jeffnesheim.com)

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Frances Goulart

Frances Sheridan Goulart is the author of sixteen books about health, nutrition and fitness including SUPER IMMUNITY FOODS McGraw Hill, 2009) and Super Healing Foods (Prentice Hall). She is also a certified clinical nutritionist, yoga and pilates instructor. She has just completed her third exercise video, STRETCHING 101. Ms Goulart lives with her husband author Ron Goulart in Ridgefield, CT. - Read her "Off the Mat, On the Menu" blog for Pilates Style Magazine in the Blogs section at www.pilatesstyle.com.

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Thomas Cannon

Thomas Cannon was appointed as the first Poet Laureate of Oshkosh, WI in August 2021. He has authored the novels No More Ugly Girls, Shattered and The Tao of Apathy. Furthermore, his published works include two collections of short stories, two chapbooks, and a novella.

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