Imraan Peerzada is an artist of Asian decent, writing, producing and acting in plays for both children and adults.
His specialty is puppetry, and he writes in English, Urdu and Punjabi.
Nancy Mitchell is a 2012 recipient of a Pushcart Prize, author of The Near Surround, Grief Hut, and The Out-of-Body Shop, poetry collections that have earned praise from celebrated poets Gerald Stern, Jean Valentine, and Ira Sadoff. She publishes widely in journals such as Agni, Green Mountains Review, and Washington Square Review, and has been awarded numerous residency fellowships from Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in VA and France and Oregon State University. Mitchell is the Associate Editor for Special Features for Plume Poetry, and Poet Laureate of The City of Salisbury, Maryland
Long a writer and editor at the World Future Society, publishers of The Futurist magazine, Lane retired in 2015 as Managing Editor of the scholarly journal World Future Review. Lane has published a novel, Satisfaction (2016), and two books of poetry: Fabrications (1998) and Virtual Futures (1996). His poems and translations have appeared in Antietam Review, Bogg, Christian Science Monitor, Gargoyle, Green Mountain Review, Visions, Writer’s Carousel, and other magazines in the US and Canada. He lives in Columbia Maryland.
May Kuroiwa’s grandparents emigrated from Japan over a hundred years ago to work on a Hawaiian sugarcane plantation. Hawaii and its land and peoples often appear in her work. One of her short stories won the 2020 Chautauqua Literary Arts Charles McCorkle Hauser Prize; another was selected this summer as a Narrative Magazine Story of the Week. Her poems have been published in The Loch Raven Review; Mobius, the Journal of Social Change; and Maryland in Poetry, the 2020 MWA Anthology. She is working on a chap book and her first play.
Patti (Spady) Ross graduated from Washington, DC’s Duke Ellington School for the Performing Arts, The American University and The Keller Graduate School of Management. As a lifetime learner, Patti holds a certificate in Writing for Social Justice from the University of California, Berkeley. After high-school graduation, she performed with several local theatre companies in the Washington region.
Sylvia Jones is a writer, educator, and prison abolitionist. She earned her MFA from American University in Washington D.C., and recently served as a 2021-22 Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University. She’s associate poetry editor at Black Lawrence Press and works part-time teaching creative writing and composition at Goucher College and The George Washington University. She also is reader for the journal, Ploughshares.
Melanie Figg (MFA, PCC) is the author of the award-winning poetry collection, Trace (named one of the Best Inde Books of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews), and a poetry chapbook, Hurry, Love. She is currently working on a hybrid memoir. Melanie's poems, personal essays, and book reviews are published or forthcoming in dozens of literary journals, including The Iowa Review, Nimrod, The Rumpus, and the American Poetry Review. She has won grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Maryland State Arts Council, the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County, and others.
See more information about Poetry X Hunger Initiative (Artwork by Diane Wilbon Parks)
Larew launched Poetry X Hunger to rouse more poets in the fight to end hunger. The website includes more than 250 poems by poets from around the world. He co-edited the first-ever e-collection of such poems and recordings and issued it in 2021 (see the link to the collection on the website's front page).
Many of the poems have been used in classrooms, during anti-hunger meetings, as part of religious services, and in food bank newsletters.
Many of the poems have been used in classrooms, during anti-hunger meetings, as part of religious services, and in food bank newsletters.
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This is a recording of Larew as featured poet on a radio program in California, USA.
October 2019 – Radio interview on Living Proof program, Outbeat Radio hosted by Sheridan Gold and Dr. Dianna Grayer, KRCB 91 FM, Santa Rose, CA
October 2019 – Radio interview on Living Proof program, Outbeat Radio hosted by Sheridan Gold and Dr. Dianna Grayer, KRCB 91 FM, Santa Rose, CA