Darren Sardelli is a humorous poet who knows how to get kids excited about poetry. He’s been invited to speak at over 800 schools and libraries, nationwide, where he’s transformed reluctant readers and writers into poetry fanatics. His poems have been featured on Radio Disney, in bestselling books on the Scholastic Book List, and appear in 25 children’s books in the U.S. and UK.
Darren's website - www.laughalotpoetry.com
Christine Higgins is the author of Hallow, a full-length collection of poetry published in Spring, 2020 (Cherry Grove). She was the 2nd place winner in the Poetry Box competition for her chapbook, Hello, Darling in 2019. She is the co-author of In the Margins, A Conversation in Poetry (Cherry Grove, 2017). She has been the recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council Award for both poetry and non-fiction. Her work has appeared in America, Poetry East, Nagautuck River Review, and Windhover. You can learn more about her on her website: www.christinehigginswriter.com.
Edible, but Ugly
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Year: 2016
Details: One Poem
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.