Poets

Joan Leotta, plays with words on page and stage. Her folktale programs (ages 5-adult) highlight food, family, and strong women. Her show, live and on zoom, “Louisa May Alcott” is for children and adults. Joan’s on the board of London’s LABRC: is a Regional Rep for the North Carolina Writers Network. She’s taught storytelling and writing, for LABRC, the North Carolina Poetry Society, NC Writers Network, and others. Internationally published as essayist, poet, short story writer, novelist, she’s a multiple nominee for Pushcart and Best of Net. Her publications include One Art, The Ekphrastic Review, and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine.

     ayaz daryl nielsen was born in Valentine, Nebraska, attended schools in Minnesota and Wisconsin, has lived in Monterey, Mexico and Bonn, Germany, and now lives in Longmont, Colorado, with his beloved wife, poet, and analyst, Judith Nielsen.

A veteran, former hospice nurse, and ex-roughneck (as on oil rigs), he has been editor of the print publication bear creek haiku for over 40 years and 185+ issues. ayaz can be found online at bear creek haiku—poetry, poems and info.

     ayaz daryl nielsen’s poetry has been published worldwide, including senryu chosen in 2010 and 2012 as "best of year" by the Irish Haiku Association, chap-books include haiku - tumbleweeds still tumbling, and, Rain in the Night Wind (Kind of a Hurricane Press). Among other deeply appreciated honors, he is especially delighted by the depth and quality of poets worldwide whose poems have found homes in bear creek’s print and online presence.

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James Croal Jackson's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Bitter Oleander, Rust+Moth, Glassworks, and other publications. He grew up in Akron, Ohio, spent a few years in Los Angeles, traveled the country in his Ford Fiesta, and now lives in Columbus, Ohio.

Find more at jimjakk.com.

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      Nettie Farris is the author of COMMUNION (Accents Publishing, 2013), FAT CRAYONS (Finishing Line Press, 2015), the micro-chapbook STORY (Origami Poems Project, 2016), and THE WENDY BIRD POEMS (dancing girl press, 2016). She has received the Kudzu Poetry Prize and a Distinguished Teaching Award from the College of Arts and Sciences University of Louisville. She writes Book Reviews for MELANCHOLY HYPERBOLE, Reference Essays for Salem Press/Greyhouse Publishing, and the Spotlight on a Press feature for BLUE LYRA REVIEW, where she serves as Review Editor.

Donald C. Welch III is a teaching assistant at the Rebecca School for Autism where he runs the Ultimate Crusaders Poetry Workshop. His current project @SocialLit (https://twitter.com/SocialLit) explores new forms of poetry and collaborative writing derived from Social Media. His collection of children’s poetry Who Gave These Flamingos Those Tuxedos? was published by Emerson College's Wilde Press in 2013.

He has an aubade about the apocalypse forthcoming in the 2016 Winter issue of Window Cat Press. For more on Donald and his work visit: http://donaldcwelch3.tumblr.com
 

Bobbi Sinha-Morey's poetry has appeared in a wide variety of places such as Plainsongs, Pirene's Fountain, The Wayfarer, Helix Magazine, Miller's Pond, and Old Red Kimono. Her books of poetry are available at www.Amazon.com. She loves aerobics, knitting, reading, and rock hounding with her husband. 

Visit her website, Bobbi Sina-Morey - Poet  

Regina Green grew up in beautiful southeastern Pennsylvania but now finds herself writing poetry and living outside of Atlanta, Georgia. You can find some of her poems at such nice places as Thistle Magazine Spring 2014 The Courage Issue, One Night Stanzas, Lyre Lyre, Inkscrawl, and BoySlut. Her other interests include reading every single translation of The Iliad available, taking long walks, and cooking. 

Find more at her blog: Red Bird Chronicles.

Bob Carlton lives and works in Leander, Texas.