The Writers of Willowdown Books

Featuring every poet and short story writer from The Poetic Bond Volumes I – X, Human to Human, Lockdown 2.022, Poems from the Lockdown, Nature 20/20, Who are We?, Nine Frames, Our World, Your Place, and Life Dances.

 The poets/writers are listed alphabetically, and then in order of publication.  Each biography is taken from the most recent publication of each poet; therefore, some biographies are older than others.

All writers will be contacted for up-to-date biography.  Revised biographies will be uploaded if, and when, they become available.  

A – C D - F INTRO M – P Q - Z

Annette Gagliardi	Poem	Benevolence	The Poetic Bond IX	2019	Annette has poetry published or forthcoming in Genre: Urban Arts No. 8- Print, Southwest Journal, Summer 2019, Dreamers Creative Writing Online, Down in the Dirt Online Magazine, Trouble Among the Stars, Issue#2,  Poetry Quarterly, the Poetic Bond VIII, ASPS Sandpiper and Dreamers Creative Writing Year 1 Anthology. She is a contributor and one of two editors for the anthology, "Upon Waking: 58 Voices Speaking Out From The Shadow of Abuse".
	Poem	Lacuna	The Poetic Bond VIII	2018
Bea Garth	Poem	I have never stood before a dead whale	The Poetic Bond VIII	2018	Bea Garth is known for her sublimely earthy narrative poetry and art. Bea discovered the healing power of creativity early on through her exposure to ancient world art and modern poetry.  For more see https://beagarthart.com. A frequent arts organizer, she edits https://eosthecreativecontext.com.
	Poem	Dreaming of Nasturtiums - or The Red Empress	The Poetic Bond VIII	2018
	Poem	The Earth as Woman	The Poetic Bond VIII	2018
Frederick Garraty	Poem	singsing	concataverse	2022	Originally from Ireland, now living and working in Seattle, Washington. His poetry has been published in several anthology and literary journals, and a collection of his poems, “Mountain Reflections” will be published next year.
Edna George	Poem	For Better, For Worse …	The Poetic Bond IX	2019	Drama graduate, specializing in set and costume design in numerous London theatre productions, and walk on artiste in film and TV.  This is her second published poem.  Now retired, concentrating on her soon to be published book, as well as having fun with her growing brood of grandchildren.
Dean Gessie	Poem	Gram Bonkers Makes A Wireless Connection	Nature 20/20	2020	Dean is a Pushcart-nominated author and poet who has won multiple international prizes, including the Angelo Natoli Short Story Award (Australia), the Half and One Literary Prize (India), Bacopa Literary Review Short Story Competition (Florida), the Enizagam Poetry Contest (California), and the After Dinner Conversation Short Story Competition (Arizona).  Published in The Sixty Four Best Poets of 2018 (Black Mountain Press, NC),  and 3 novellas Anaphora Literary Press (Texas).
	Story	Misanthropes	Nine Frames	2019
Emma Gibson	Poem	the dishes	Poems from the Lockdown	2020	Emma is a British writer, now living in Philadelphia, PA. She mostly writes plays. Her most recent play, WHEN WE FALL, is a finalist for PlayPenn 2020, a semi-finalist for The Eugene O'Neill Conference, and a semi-finalist for Premiere Stages at Keane. She is also a teacher, a mother. and an actor.
Gabby Gilliam	Poem	drunk	concataverse	2022	Gabby Gilliam lives in the DC metro area. Her poetry has most recently appeared in Tofu Ink, The Ekphrastic Review, Cauldron Anthology, Instant Noodles, MacQueen's Quinterly, and three anthologies from Mythos Poets Society.
	Poem	ifweburythishatchet	concataverse	2022
	Poem	aplaceofpriviledge	concataverse	2022
	Poem	somethingmorecomfortable	concataverse	2022
Charles Gillispie	Poem	The Boy Who Taught Me to Stay Inside the Lines	Nature 20/20	2020	Charles is a counselor, living in Tucson, Arizona. His first book of poems, The Way We Go On was published by the Backwaters Press in 2010. He is a founding member of the San Pedro River Pilgrims, a backpacking club dedicated to the pursuit of spirituality through wilderness adventure.
James Gilmore	Poem	My 30th	The Poetic Bond	2011	James Gilmore is a poet, writer and filmmaker currently residing in Los Angeles.  He is passionate about his family, creativity, philosophy, and fine Bavarian beers.
R.D. Girvan	Story	White Flags	Nine Frames	2019	A banker by day/writer by night, R.D. Girvan recently earned her University of Toronto Creative Writing Certificate. She writes suspense and horror fiction from rural Alberta, Canada.  She is pleased to have been twice-published in STORGY Magazine and accepted for 2019 publication in Coffin Bell Journal.  Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/rdgirvan Website:  https://rdgirvan.com/
Ingrid Gjelsvick	Poem	the floe inside the bookcases	The Poetic Bond IV	2014	Born, raised and educated in Oslo, Norway. Currently works in administrating services to support children with special needs and their families. Writing since about 2009, but poetry and prose have been a great interest in whole her life. She often is searching for a picture of those small moody moments in her poems, or an atmosphere. Writing gives her a flow- or some kind of meditation.
	Poem	no frame	The Poetic Bond IV	2014
Jane Ellen Glasser	Poem	Covid-19 Lockdown	Poems from the Lockdown	2020	Jane’s poetry has appeared in journals, such as Hudson Review, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review and Georgia Review. She co-founded the non=profit arts organization and journal New Virginia Review, and has worked as a book reviewer and editor.  Her first collection Naming the Darkness, (introduction by W. D. Snodgrass) was issued by Road Publishers in 1991.  She won the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry 2005 for Light Persists and The Long Life won the Poetica Chapbook Contest in 2011.  Publications include The Red Coat (2013), Cracks (2015), In the Shadow of Paradise (2017) and "Selected Poems" (2019) all available from Future Cycle Press. Website: www.janeellenglasser.com
	Poem	Vernal Equinox Lockdown	Poems from the Lockdown	2020
Caroline Glen	Poem	Together	The Poetic Bond V	2015	Caroline Glen grew from poetry, especially books her father, solicitor, bought from England: The Purple, Red, Yellow Book et al.  Taught at ten years: has published six poetry books, five for sale; Bookface, Gold Coast: gives readings, private editing, former editor FAWQ, member Worldwide Who’s Who of Executives & Professionals. Caroline's Blog
	Poem	Peach Tree	The Poetic Bond V	2015
Cathryn Glenday	Poem	A Desert Daughter’s Perspective	The Poetic Bond IX	2019	Cathryn Ana Glenday is a poet, disability activist, health educator and a psychotherapist practicing  in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Cathryn began creative writing early in grade school.  Cathryn lives in a rose-pink pueblo house with her dog and her dog’s two cats. Cathryn is working on a memoir and writes for The Mighty, a website for persons with disabilities. In Cathryn’s free time she is learning to grow roses and loves the local arts scene.
	Poem	Female Healers:Witches, Nurses, and Surgeons, alone in the Night	The Poetic Bond IX	2019
	Poem	Existential Pscychophysics: Factors to Conisder when Constructing a Human Soul	The Poetic Bond VIII	2018
	Poem	Twlight Descent	The Poetic Bond VIII	2018
	Poem	Requiem and Post Mortem: Special Relationships in Parallel	The Poetic Bond VIII	2018
	Poem	Ode to Athena: The Virgin Warrior of Peace and a Cat	The Poetic Bond VIII	2018
Julia Gordon-Bramer	Poem	Rights	Poems from the Lockdown	2020	Julia Gordon-Bramer is a poet, author, Sylvia Plath scholar and professional tarot card reader. She quarantines in St. Louis, MO, with her husband and three cats.
J M Greff	Poem	Second Hand Memories	The Poetic Bond IX	2019	J M Greff is the intentional author, trucker philosopher, peace loving hippie, spiritual warrior, backpacking pantheist, wandering minstrel, and poet fool who created and operates the website, A Caravan of One, and the online publication, Letters from the Caravan. He can also be found on Facebook at A Caravan of One, on Instagram at j.m.greff, on Twitter at J_M_Greff, and on Elephant Journal as J M Greff.
	Poem	These Things I Shouldn’t Say	The Poetic Bond IX	2019
Kiel M. Gregory	Poem	family	concataverse	2022	Kiel M. Gregory teaches for the Binghamton Poetry Project and serves as Guest Curator for Bartle Library. He coordinates community school programming and afterschool tutoring to empower youth in the Southern Tier of New York where he is an M.A. candidate at Binghamton University. His prose and verse appear in Lips, Paterson Literary Review, Stone Canoe, Furrow, 365 Tomorrows, and elsewhere. Visit kielmgregory.com for more.
	Poem	betrayer	concataverse	2022
	Poem	alien	concataverse	2022
	Poem	lawofphysics	concataverse	2022
	Poem	desensitized	concataverse	2022
William Gregory	Poem	The Unseen	The Poetic Bond II	2012	William Gregory born London, in 1962. Spent most of his working life in the print industry, but is now a care worker. He started writing in 2011, poems about his life, experiences, people or inspired by visual art. His first book was published in 2012.
GK Grieve	Poem	life	concataverse	2022	Usually described as a sad, bitter old man, but in recent years has become less so, with poetry published in The Poetic Bond several times, and his short story “Insomniac” appearing in anthology “Life Dances”. Being married again is also helping, as is meditation.
	Poem	Veracity	The Poetic Bond VIII	2018
	Story	Insomnia	Life Dances	2017
	poem	The Final Moment Before The Death of Swans	The Poetic Bond VI	2016
	poem	Addict	The Poetic Bond VI	2016
	Poem	Jessica	The Poetic Bond V	2015
	Poem	Dark Soul	The Poetic Bond IV	2014
	poem	The Anniversary	The Poetic Bond III	2013
Wendy Grossman	Poem	03/11/2020	Poems from the Lockdown	2020	Wendy is a creative non-fiction writer and author of the blog on race, www.wendyjanesoulshake.com. She also writes poetry using her friends’ Facebook status updates. Publications: Frequency Anthology, Missing Providence (2015,), Me and Mrs. Stowe and The Rhode Island Writers' Circle Anthology (2007). This poem was includes found Facebook status updates from the following with from Barbara Gavin. Lily J. Whelan, Christopher Johnson, Martinha Javid, Darlene Sochin-Maras.  ShaRhonda Knott-Dawson. Seth Tourjee. Shey Rivera. Rodney Mason and Jessica Brown
Brenda Gunn	Poem	Cat Got Your Tongue	Human to Human	2021	Brenda Gunn retired in 2017 after 33 years teaching elementary and special education in Canada. She resumed a passion for genealogy and writing, completing all four branches of her family tree and completing a poetry collection based on historical research. She completed a certificate in creative writing through the University of Toronto and is working on a second poetry collection. Her poems appear in several journals and anthologies. She recently won Honourable Mention in the Dr WH Drummond poetry contest.
Kelli Gunn (M.A.)	Poem	I Know I promise but …	The Poetic Bond VIII	2018	Resides in New Brunswick, Canada, where she writes, works, and studies. She has a graduate degree in English Literature and is currently completing an undergraduate degree in adult education. Her creative work can be viewed at: https://www.amazon.ca/Pot-Uncertainty-At-End-Unsettled-ebook/dp/B01MZYYDBW and https://wordpress.com/view/bookend2016.wordpress.com.
	Poem	Season	The Poetic Bond VIII	2018
	Poem	Snake Hunting	The Poetic Bond VII	2017
	Poem	7 a.m.	The Poetic Bond VII	2017
Brianca Hadnot	Story	Token	Who Are We?	2020	Brianca Hadnot is a writer and graduate of the MA English Literature program at Texas Southern University. Her work has been published in National Council of Black Studies, TheCore94 and Pink Prods. She currently lives in Houston Texas where she devotes her time to writing, social activism and teaching High School English. Follow along with her journey via her youtube brianca jay, Instagram @lifeofbriancajay and twitter @jaybrianca .
Peter Hagen	Poem	To Set A Big Cry Free	The Poetic Bond IV	2014	Peter Hagen has worked as a journalist and sub-editor in Norway for more than 30 years. He is represented in two Norwegian poetry anthologies, and is now editor and deputy chairman at Trident Holding Ltd.
Mark Hammerschick	Poem	In Vitro	The Poetic Bond X	2020	Mark writes poetry and fiction. He holds a BA in English from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and a BS and MBA. He is a lifelong resident of the Chicago area and currently lives on the north shore, his professional career has been in digital strategy and online consulting. His current work will be published in The Metaworker, Vext Magazine, Breadcrumbs Magazine, Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, Lucky Jefferson, The Fictional Café, Wingless Dreamer, HP 2020 Poetry Challenge, Trolley Magazine, Blood and Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine and The Write Launch.
	Poem	Pandemia	The Poetic Bond X	2020
	Poem	In the Moment Before the Moment	The Poetic Bond X	2020
Sandra Hanks	Poem	Moon Shine Supine	The Poetic Bond	2011	Published writer and poet. Two decades on a tropical island have added color to her take on life reflected in the unique perspective represented in her work.  "Papaya … and other seeds" (Short Stories) "It Gets Verse" (Poetry), available on her website, Paradise Preoccupied
Rob Hardy	Poem	Crossing the Delaware	Poems from the Lockdown	2020	Rob Hardy is the first Poet Laureate of Northfield, Minnesota (USA). His prose and poetry have appeared in New England Review, North Dakota Quarterly, New Letters, Ploughshares, The Critical Flame, Sonora Review, Pleiades, Rattle and in other literary and scholarly journals and anthologies.
Blakelee Harmon	Poem	Labor of Materiality	The Poetic Bond X	2020	Blakelee Harmon is an established artist based in New York City who has dedicated her life to creating work that bonds human souls. She developed her sense of composition first through dance, exploring movement and stillness, music and silence, light and darkness, giving and taking, boundaries and abandon.  .
	Poem	Podcast	Poems from the Lockdown	2020
Joe Harper	Poem	BLOCK	The Poetic Bond X	2020	Joe has a poem somewhere in the anthology 'Collective Voices' by the Connecticut Poetry Society. He had written for the editorial section of The New London Day with restrained menace. Three of his plays have been given readings by the Eugene O'Neill local playwrights, perhaps it was two. Ex post facto ,'Missing Persons' was a finalist in the National Competition. This summer his video, 'Green Lights,' was selected for the Los Angeles International Film Festival without censure.
Seamus Harrington	Poem	Free Downloads	The Poetic Bond IV	2014	Has won prizes and had poems published in the UK, US and Ireland. Has read his verse in Lake Orta, Strokestown and in France, and contributed to the Radio Programme "Seascapes." He has a piece accepted by the Caird Library at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. One of his poems was highly recommended in the Gregory O'Donoghue Poetry Competition.  http://www.munsterlit.ie/Southword/Issues/23A/harrington_seamus.html
	Poem	Open Day	The Poetic Bond IV	2014
	poem	The Hunters	The Poetic Bond III	2013
Scott Hastie	poem	Life Collects	The Poetic Bond III	2013	Scott Hastie is a successful British born poet and writer, who has been has been published in the UK for 20 years now. He currently has seven titles in print, including a novel and three collections of poetry. In recent years, the spiritual tone in his maturing poetic voice is starting to draw increasing acclaim and attention from an increasing worldwide audience, especially in the U.S. India & the Middle East.  www.scotthastie.com
Michael Hatchett	Poem	unwitting conquests	Poems from the Lockdown	2020	Michael Hatchett is a writer in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from the College of Wooster with a BA in English and the Second City Conservatory. He has work forthcoming from Thurston Howl Publications.
	Poem	Hardly an Apocalypse in Here	Poems from the Lockdown	2020
Syble Heffernan	Poem	Day 16 of Quarantine, Breathe	Poems from the Lockdown	2020	Syble studies International Studies and English at Nebraska Wesleyan University. She started writing to entertain herself in small town Nebraska and filled countless journals on buses and garden benches during her year as an exchange student in Brazil. She participates in Spoken Word and is employed by the Nebraska Writers Collective. In addition to writing, she loves to read, dance, swim (especially in the sea), dig her toes in the dirt, paint and eat stovetop popcorn with coconut oil and pink Himalayan salt.
	Poem	Day 18 of Quarentine: Perspectves	Poems from the Lockdown	2020
Oscar Heimart	Story	Sentenced to Life	Our World, Your Place	2018	Born in Germany, but soon relocated to the UK (at eight weeks old), and after that Canada, and finally the USA (at twelve years old).  Oscar likes nothing more that to holioday in the Black Forest, where he practises his horribly accewnted, but accurate, Teutonic tones, on an unsuspecting Europe.  This is his first published story in twenty years, and is a snack version of the novel he has been working on for thirty years.
Rose Menyon Helfin	Poem	moniker	concataverse	2022	Rose Menyon Heflin is a writer from Madison, Wisconsin.  Her poetry won a Merit Award from Arts for All Wisconsin.  One of her poems was choreographed and performed by a local dance troupe, and she had a creative nonfiction piece featured in the Chazen Museum of Art's Companion Species exhibit.  Her recent and forthcoming publications include Deep South Magazine, Defunkt Magazine, Fauxmoir, Feral, Fireflies' Light, Great Lakes Review, Poemeleon, Red Weather, SPLASH!, Star*Line, and W.E.I.R.D.
	Poem	making	concataverse	2022
	Poem	loser	concataverse	2022
	Poem	sacrifice	concataverse	2022
	Poem	preach	concataverse	2022
	Poem	inscribed	concataverse	2022
Karen J.Henneberry	Poem	A Metaphor of Life	The Poetic Bond X	2020	Born to be a social and political activist.  Educated at Mount Saint Vincent University, Nova Scotia, with writing research, critical thinking skills, and political activism at hand, she says poetry became her passion, allowing her self-expression of life's social fabric.
	Poem	Patriarchy be Damned	The Poetic Bond VIII	2018
	Poem	The ABC's of Womanhood #MeToo	The Poetic Bond VIII	2018
	Poem	The Emotional Bond	The Poetic Bond VII	2017
	Poem	Solace	The Poetic Bond VII	2017
Peter Henrich	Poem	After The Blue House of Marc Chagall	Lockdown 2.022	2022	Peter Henrich focuses his craft on children's stories, lash fiction, and poetry.  He is a Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition Honorable Mention recipient for flash fiction.  His work appears in Penumbra and Vanish in Poetry from Wingless Dreamer.  He lives near Seattle, Washington where he dreams of becoming a pirate.
James Higgins	poem	Family Trait	The Poetic Bond III	2013	James Higgins was born in Texas, grew up there and in southern California before moving to Oregon where he graduated from the University of Oregon. He served in the Army during the Vietnam War Era. James is a member of the Oregon Poetry Association and Red Sofa Poets in Eugene, Oregon.
	poem	Party Manners	The Poetic Bond III	2013
Camille Hill	Poem	After The Pandemic	Poems from the Lockdown	2020	Ms. Hill is a retired U.S. diplomat. She grew up in Sacramento, CA, and lives in Van Zandt, WA.
Isabel Hinchliff	Poem	In sickness and in health	Poems from the Lockdown	2020	Isabel Hinchliff is an English Major and intended Creative Writing Minor studying at UC Berkeley.
Robin Ouzman Hislop	Poem	my cat chi pi	The Poetic Bond VIII	2018	Editor of Poetry Life and Times. Publications include All the Babble of the Souk, Cartoon Molecules, and Key of Mist (the recently published Tesserae translations from Spanish poets Guadalupe Grande and Carmen Crespo). See Robin performing his work Performance (University of Leeds) and his latest Collected Poems Volume at Next-Arrivals.
	Poem	reducto anagrammatico, Sunday Morning 1915 Wallace Stevens	The Poetic Bond VIII	2018
	Poem	Next Arrivals	The Poetic Bond VII	2017
	Poem	Abandon Isle	The Poetic Bond VII	2017
	poem	Tenochtitlan	The Poetic Bond VI	2016
	poem	In Bed	The Poetic Bond VI	2016
	Poem	A Split Second Later's Late	The Poetic Bond V	2015
	Poem	The Split	The Poetic Bond V	2015
	poem	Red Butterflies	The Poetic Bond III	2013
	poem	From Here to Silence	The Poetic Bond III	2013
	Poem	Far from Equilibrium	The Poetic Bond II	2012
Chi Holder	Poem	Enduring the Storm	The Poetic Bond	2011	Chi Holder was raised in Owensville, MO. She graduated from college with a BS in English Education. The tragic events of September 11th, and the spirit of the American people in the wake of this tragedy, inspired her poem, "Enduring the Storm". Chi currently resides in Steelville with her husband.
Judit Katalin Hollos	Poem	Spring postponed - a Haiku Sequence	Poems from the Lockdown	2020	Judit is a teacher, poet, playwright, translator and journalist. She graduated in playwriting and screenplay writing and studied Swedish literature and language in Vaxjö, Sweden. Her short stories, micro-poems, translations and articles have been featured in English, Swedish and Hungarian in literary magazines and anthologies.
Pamela Hope Deluca Price	Poem	Being Free Under Nature’s Canopy	The Poetic Bond VII	2017	Pamela's interests are of a theosophical & esoteric nature. She recently spent many months in different regions of India and now lives in Oceanport, N.J., USA. ''I am a newcomer to the Divine Art of Poetry, but as an old soul, words travel through me, as breath from my Beingness.''
Eric Machan Howd	Poem	Stuck in the Funhouse	Poems from the Lockdown	2020	Eric Machan Howd (Ithaca, NY) is a professor of professional and technical writing at Ithaca College. His poems have appeared in (selected) Nimrod, River City, The Healing Muse, and Yankee Magazine. He received his MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He recently presented his work at a Slovenian/American conference on poetry and poetics as a guest lecturer/poet in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Ann Huang	Poem	Something to Say	The Poetic Bond IX	2019	Author, poet, and filmmaker based in Newport Beach, Southern California. She was born in Mainland, China and raised in Mexico and the U.S. As an MFA recipient in Poetry from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, Huang has authored one chapbook and three poetry collections. Her poems have appeared online and in print extensively and follow the surrealistic gestures that weave reality into divergent realms of perspectives and perceptions. Visit AnnHuang.com
Rowland Hughes	poem	Lemon Soap	The Poetic Bond VI	2016	Rowland is a Welsh writer and poet. To care for his brother, he was taken out of school at 14 years old. Ill health forced him to retire from work as a Local Authority Assistant Surveyor in 1997. He writes in bustling cafés or in the tranquil confines his shed. www.rowlandhughes.com
	poem	A Valley Funeral	The Poetic Bond VI	2016
Heikki Huotari	Poem	In My Solitude	Poems from the Lockdown	2020	Heikki, a retired math professor, has published poems in journals such as Spillway, The Journal, and Pleiades.
Rachael Z Ikins	Poem	Beneath a Saturn Sky	The Poetic Bond II	2012	From CNY, three award winning poetry chapbooks, a fourth poetry eBook for Kindle Amazon. First collection of short stories for release by Christmas; also three visual art shows and featured artist in October Syracuse NY.
Khodijah Ismail	Poem	When the World Has Gone Since Covid Has Come	Lockdown 2.022	2022	Dr. Khodijah Ismail is an assistant professor of Community Development at the Raja Ali Haji Maritime University, Riau Islands, Indonesia. Ph.D. degree from Andalas University, West Sumatra. In addition to teaching, she contributed as a Chair of the Indonesian Doctoral Forum in the Riau Islands Province. She was a winner of a Fellowship from the Conservation Strategy Fund. She collaborated on some manuscripts and presented them at international conferences. She currently resides in Bintan Islands, Indonesia. She can be contacted at khodijah @ umrah ac id
John Jacobson	Poem	When It Comes Time	Nature 20/20	2020	John lives in the Catskill Mountains of New York. His writing has appeared in many publications including About Place Journal, Aji Magazine, The Curlew, Intima Journal of Narrative Medicine, Longridge Review, and Remembered Arts Journal. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and a John Burroughs Nature Essay Award. For the past twelve years he has been a caregiver for his wife Claudia. He is working on a memoir about that experience.
Romi Jain	Poem	Would you come to me?	The Poetic Bond II	2012	Romi Jain is VP of Indian Journal of Asian Affairs. Her publications include The Storm Within, Poetry! You Resurrect Me and Voices of Rocks in the Dusk.
	Poem	Her New Abode	The Poetic Bond	2011
Diane Jardel	Poem	Alzheimer Blues (1):  It’s Ok	The Poetic Bond IV	2014	Diane lived most of her life in England, four years in Mexico and one year in Israel and now she live in a beautiful inspiring lake land area of Northern Ireland. She facilitates poetry workshops for a charity that aims to affect positive intercultural change.
	Poem	Alzheimer Blues (2):  I am here my love	The Poetic Bond IV	2014
	poem	Light and Shade	The Poetic Bond III	2013
	Poem	Grass	The Poetic Bond II	2012
	Poem	The Mirror	The Poetic Bond	2011
Scott Jessup	Poem	fire	Lockdown 2.022	2022	Identifies as they/their, spent time in California but post-COVID, made the change, and returned to Chicago and enrolled on Creative Writing Course. This is their first published poem.
Noami Jones	Poem	fixedme	Lockdown 2.022	2022	Noami Jones is from Milton Keynes, a town in England. She lives in Huston, a town in Texas, USA. She wants to retire to Honolulu, a town in Hawaii.
Jane Johann	Poem	Layers of Being	The Poetic Bond VII	2017	Jane, daughter of Aggie (Agnes) and Jim (Marvin) Johann, Wisconsin native and global citizen, lives in rural countryside, blessed with the serenity of nature.  Taste a bit more of what she has written at Johannisthinking@Wordpress.com (Footprints of Thoughts)
	Poem	The Love Star	The Poetic Bond VII	2017
	Poem	Sometimes dark doesn’t move	The Poetic Bond VII	2017
Kim June Johnson	Poem	During My Illness	Poems from the Lockdown	2020	Kim is an award-winning singer-songwriter and poet from the west coast of Canada. She is a recent graduate of Simon Fraser University's The Writer's Studio. Her writing has appeared in Room, Literary Mama, CV2, and Today's Parent Magazine.
	Poem	Blossoms	Poems from the Lockdown	2020
Michael Lee Johnson	Poem	Charley Plays a Tune	The Poetic Bond	2011	Poet, and editor, from Itasca, Illinois who lived 10 years in Canada during the Vietnam era, published in 24 countries.  He runs five poetry sites, and published work is available at http://poetryman.mysite.com, Amazon.Com, Borders Books, iUniverse  and Lulu.com.
	Poem	Kentucky Blue	The Poetic Bond	2011
EP Jones	Poem	Fixed to the Spot	Human to Human	2021	Born in Manchester, England, Elizabeth Porter Jones, came to poetry through social work, attempting to make sense of her working days and the people she met.  Latterly she has moved into counselling and writing short stories.
Wendy Joseph	poem	This is America	The Poetic Bond VI	2016	Wendy Joseph sailed on cargo ships worldwide for ten years. She holds two Master's in English, and this is her second appearance in the Poetic Bond. She is also a playwright, actor, and novelist. She lives in the wilds of Washington State with very remarkable people and two cats.    www.wendyjosephwrites.com  www.facebook.com/TheWitchsHand
	poem	In my house there are books	The Poetic Bond VI	2016
	poem	when the water rises	The Poetic Bond VI	2016
	Poem	Chief Joseph	The Poetic Bond V	2015
	Poem	Incantation	The Poetic Bond V	2015
Beverley Joyce	Poem	The Tea	Human to Human	2021	Beverly's writing appears in Plants & Poetry, The Pointed Circle, Hive Avenue, Wild Roof, Alchemy, and The Silent World in Her Vase, as well as in the anthologies titled Snowdrops and Turning Dark into Light. Her writing is forthcoming in The Raw Art Review and Lake Erie Ink's Growth anthology. She has a MA in English from Cleveland State University, and she was a high school English teacher for sixteen years. She lives in Brecksville, Ohio, with her husband and two daughters.
	Poem	Staked Signs	Human to Human	2021
Amanda Valerie Judd	Poem	Poetry	The Poetic Bond V	2015	A 40-something Indiana native currently living and working in the Washington, DC area, Amanda’s poetry has been published in anthologies and literary journals.  A collection of her poems, Tainted Love, was published in 2017. She is currently at work on her first children’s book, “A Dog Named Bailey.”
Tonia Kalouria	Poem	Looking Up	Poems from the Lockdown	2020	Tonia wants to help reinstate RHYMING poetry from its Rodney Dangerfield "no respect" status. She is the author of the rhythmic Aerobic Poetry. Her poem Advice is for the Birds appears in the Poe Anthology, Quoth the Raven.
Sebastian Karantonis	Poem	weight	The Poetic Bond VIII	2018	Hailing from the cradle of civilization, Cleveland Ohio, Sebastian uses oil paint or ink to bridge the disconnect between his brain, his heart and his vocal chards.  Sebastian’s concerned with the loss of nuance and driven by a disillusionment with the state of discourse in the age of the internet.
	Poem	last laugh for Tina	The Poetic Bond VIII	2018
	Poem	the 4 dollar dead man in St. Lucie Country Florida	The Poetic Bond VIII	2018
R.J.Keeler	Poem	She’s Deaf in One Ear, I Mumble	Human to Human	2021	Born St. Paul, grew up in jungles of Colombia. BS Mathematics NCSU, MS Computer Science UNC-CH, MBA UCLA, and Certificate in Poetry UW. Honorman U.S. Naval Submarine School, Submarine Service (SS) qualified. Vietnam Service Medal, Honorable Discharge, Whiting Foundation Experimental Grant. Member IEEE, AAAS, and the Academy of American Poets. He has two poetry collections, Detonation and Snowman, both published in 2020
	Poem	interesting things happen in doorways	Human to Human	2021
Michael J.Keeley	Story	Zamarad	Who Are We?	2020	Michael J. Keeley was born in Glasgow but lived in Cairo from the age of three to ten, when his parents divorced, and he returned to Scotland.  It is this duality that has led him to living as an office worker in Scotland, while ‘remembering’ a past life as an Egyptian boy. This is Michael’s first published short story.
Joyce Ker	Story	Lotus Girl	Who Are We?	2020	Joyce Ker is a freshman at Johns Hopkins University whose poetry has appeared in TAB Journal of Poetry & Poetics, Tule Review, Louisville Review, and Boxcar Poetry Review. Her work has been recognized by the Lex Allen Literary Festival Poetry Contest, Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest, and the California Coastal Art and Poetry Contest. A California Arts Scholar and alumna of the Iowa Young Writers' Studio, Ker has been nominated for the Best New Poets anthology and the Pushcart Prize.
Sajida Khan	Poem	Silence	The Poetic Bond VII	2017	Sajida Khan started writing poetry as a way to deal with the world around her. She likes to travel to find words, but often words can be found at home.  She would like the love affair between pen and paper to be rekindled and to start letter writing again, therefore has started writing letters to herself!
	Poem	Virtual Walls	The Poetic Bond VII	2017
Sonia Kilvington	Poem	Wild Montana	The Poetic Bond V	2015	Sonia Kilvington is a journalist, short story writer, poet and novelist, living in Cyprus. She is currently published in the international noir collection Exiles, as well as being a regular contributor to Contemporary Literary Horizon in Romania. Sonia's first poetry collection, Dangerous Love, has been published in English and Romanian.  Links: Website - http://soniakilvingtonwriter.com/
	Poem	Object of Desire	The Poetic Bond V	2015
Stephen Kirin	Poem	Ridgeway	The Poetic Bond IX	2019	Stephen Kirin lives in Suffolk, UK. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in several Surrealist anthologies including; Patricide, La Vertèbre et le Rossignol, Surrealists and Outsiders 2019 and Peculiar Mormyrid. Stephen also paints individually and collaboratively with his wife and sculpts in wood. New creative projects continue to evolve. www.stephenkirin.com  www.thekirins.com
	Poem	Smiling to Kyoto	The Poetic Bond IX	2019
KishaJade	Poem	Think Beyond	The Poetic Bond VIII	2018	KishaJade, MA creative writer, is a British poet and English educator. She writes poems with the emerging themes of love, pain and faith. Her voice of expression is driven by promoting self-awareness and positive change to her audience and the younger generations. Social change and equality is her muse.   https://www.facebook.com/kishajadedoitwrite/
Jacob Klein	Poem	There are Secrets in the Trees	Nature 20/20	2020	Jacob is an emerging writer from New Jersey, with a BA in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University. He has been published in The Esthetic Apostle, The Write Launch, and La Piccioletta Barca. He writes both poetry and prose and has an unpublished book of poems based on Ovid's Metamorphoses.
James Ph. Kotsybar	Poem	pinsandneedles	concataverse	2022	James Ph. Kotsybar is the first poet published to another planet. NASA placed his poetry into Martian orbit aboard MAVEN, the mission log of the Hubble Space Telescope and awarded it at IngenuityFest for the Centaur Rocket's 50th Anniversary. Invited by European Academy of Sciences Arts and Letters' president, Kotsybar attended as featured speaker of the EuroScience Open Forum (2018) reading his science-poetry to science journalists and the Troubadours in their founding city of Toulouse, France, earning a standing return invitatio
Alyssa Kreikemeier	Poem	Eleven Days	Poems from the Lockdown	2020	Alyssa Kreikemeier is a writer and historian whose work explores the relations between non-human and human worlds.
Just Kribbe	Poem	Telegram	The Poetic Bond	2011	Just Kibbe is a co-founder of Pirate Pig Press, Poets On Site, and Indelible Ink. His avant-garde visual art and poetry have appeared internationally. He teaches creative writing and speaks publicly about his work upon request, and welcomes commissions.
Cathriona Lafferty	Poem	A Love in Chains	The Poetic Bond II	2012	A writer of poetry and prose, from Ireland. Interested in the diversity of poetry, she has created an online journal to promote an appreciation of poetry in society, titled: 'Poetic Thoughts' By Cathriona.
John Lambremont Sr.	Poem	To My Octogenarian	The Poetic Bond II	2012	John Lambremont, Sr. is a poet from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.A. John edits Big River Poetry Review, his poems have been published internationally, and he has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize.
Frieda W Landau	Poem	When the Revolution was Young	The Poetic Bond II	2012	Frieda W Landau is a writer and a photographer, specializing in military topics. She has a BA in history and an MA in English. Her parents are Holocaust survivors.
Lee Landau	Poem	Meeting at the Farmhouse	The Poetic Bond VIII	2018	Lee Landau writes with raw honesty about her personal landscape, interaction with family events, those dysfunctional backstories. She writes about the nature of tangled lives, which tumble through her life and poems. She writes in a unique voice, poetry with multiple, sonic elements.
	Poem	My Sister Karen Retires	The Poetic Bond VIII	2018
	Poem	Ruth’s End of Days	The Poetic Bond VII	2017
	Poem	Sitting Shiva	The Poetic Bond VII	2017
	Poem	Growing Rocks in Ruth’s Garden	The Poetic Bond VII	2017
	Poem	His Faltering Balance	The Poetic Bond VII	2017
Jill Angel Langlois	poem	If the Wind Blows	The Poetic Bond VI	2016	Jill grew up in Park Forest, IL.  Her poems and short stories appear in literary magazines, nationally. Collections: Scattered Petals explores the healing power of nature. Whiskey Nights inspired by whiskey and music Tell Me The Story, a memoir, portrays growing up adopted, reuniting with her birth mother.
	poem	I Remember Silence	The Poetic Bond VI	2016
	Poem	Botanical Garden	The Poetic Bond V	2015
Dorie LaRue	Poem	Dog Walking in the Global Pandemic	Poems from the Lockdown	2020	Dorie LaRue is the author of two novels, Resurrecting Virgil, (Backwaters), and The Trouble With Student Affairs (Artemis Press); three chapbooks of poetry, Seeking the Monsters, The Private Frenzy,  In God's Due Time: A Tribute to Mistress Rowlandson; poetry books Mad Rains (Kelsay Press), and An Enemy in Their Mouths (Finishing Line Press). Ahas appeaered in a variety of journals including, The Southern Review, The Maryland Poetry Review, and The American Poetry Review. Has a Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She lives in Shreveport, Louisiana, and teaches writing and literature at LSUS.
	Poem	Grocery Shopping Whole Foods	Poems from the Lockdown	2020
John Laue	Poem	Loose Oservations	Human to Human	2021	With six published poetry books including two of three line poems he calls Highkus, John Laue, prize-winning poet and former Editor of San Francisco Review, Transfer, and Monterey Poetry Review, presently coordinates the reading series of The Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium. Also a photographer, Laue has had many of his photos featured in local and international galleries and magazines.
Shane Leavy	Poem	Reflecting on another time of separation	Poems from the Lockdown	2020	Shane Leavy is an analyst and writer living in the rural west of Ireland.
Laura Lee	Poem	Click	The Poetic Bond VIII	2018	Chicago-area poet, college instructor and writer.  Her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have been published in the US, the UK, New Zealand, and Greece.  Her website is at: http://lauraleewriterpoeteducator.com.
	Poem	They Left the Bed	The Poetic Bond VIII	2018
Lawrence W. Lee	poem	Cynic	The Poetic Bond VI	2016	I have made a good living as a professional artist for almost fifty years. I've seen fire and I've seen rain.  I have known love and loss in near equal measure. I am interested in almost everything,  but have special fondness for language and subatomic physics.  I continue to paint. http://lawrenceleeart.com
	poem	Still Life	The Poetic Bond VI	2016
Shari Jo LeKane-Yentumi	Poem	After Dark	The Poetic Bond VIII	2018	(B.A. English, Spanish; M.A. Spanish), author of Poem to Follow, Fall Tenderly, Surviving Gracefully, published worldwide in poetry anthologies, literary magazines, and in spoken word on the CD ‘HOW LIVE’ with LOOPRAT, considers herself a modern formalist, addressing contemporary issues in poetic verse with a stylized language.
Mark L Levinson	poem	The Book	The Poetic Bond III	2013	Mark L. Levinson is the fifth in a line of Harvard-educated Levinsons, but has lived in Israel since 1970. There he works as a translator and technical writer, frequents the local English-language literary scene, and actively follows politics. He has been married 36 years and raised one son.
	poem	The Agent	The Poetic Bond III	2013
Wen Wen Lin	Poem	Life in The Time of Covid-19	Poems from the Lockdown	2020	Wen Wen Lin is a transplant to New York City who feeds off nature, enjoy crowd-less city streets in early mornings or very late at night. She catches the tail of inspiration solely with mobile phones.
Carey Link	poem	Blur Distinctions	The Poetic Bond VI	2016	Carey Link is from Huntsville, Alabama. She has been writing poetry for over twenty years.    Link’s two collections of poetry are What it Means to Climb a Tree (Finishing Line Press) and Awakening to Holes in The Arc of Sun (Mule on a Ferris Wheel).
	poem	where am I	The Poetic Bond III	2013
Madeline Heit Lipton	Poem	The Photo in my Hutch	Human to Human	2021	Madeline is a native New Yorker whose sensitive nature and love of words, comes straight from the heart down to pen and paper. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications. They include 4 of The Poetic Bond anthologies, Haiku and Tanka journals, Newsday, Woman's Day, Let The Acorns Grow, and A Poem A Day 2021. She is married with 2 children, and a marvellous cat Mia. Madeline dedicates The Photo In My Hutch to her brother Scott, for his ever-present support.  Madleine has also done a written interview for the Brooklyn library, and appears in the brand new book Let The Acorns Grow.
	Poem	A View	Human to Human	2021
	Poem	Tanka	The Poetic Bond X	2020
	Poem	Old Friends	The Poetic Bond IX	2019
	Poem	His Name was James	The Poetic Bond VIII	2018
	Poem	Home, I Hardly Know You	The Poetic Bond VII	2017
James Patrick Lockett	Poem	Zweisamkeit	Lockdown 2.022	2022	New Orleans born and Texas breed, James makes up songs and stories, with a lifelong love of wordplay. A former actor & stand-up comedian, Lockett has had a storied career as a script doctor, songwriter, playwright, SFX Coordinator, blues musician, photographer, and poet. Fueled by ambivalence, procrastination, and coffee, his poetry collection, Pretty Words for the ICONOCLASS of 2020 (Sour Grapes Press) was released in 2021. Other goodies can be found at his oft neglected blog: www.thehyenakitchen.bogspot.com.
	Poem	Love in the Years Of Solitude	Lockdown 2.022	2022
Ellaraine Lockie	Poem	Kamastura Music	Human to Human	2021	Ellaraine Lockie is widely published and awarded as a poet, nonfiction book author and essayist. Her fourteenth chapbook, Sex and Other Slapsticks from Presa Press has been released. Earlier collections have won Poetry Forum's Chapbook Contest Prize, San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival Chapbook Competition, Encircle Publications Chapbook Contest, Best Individual Poetry Collection Award from Purple Patch magazine in England, and The Aurorean's Chapbook Choice Award. She also teaches writing workshops and serves as Poetry Editor for the lifestyle magazine, Lilipoh.
	Poem	Taking Issue with Marcello	Human to Human	2021
	Poem	In Setwana there is a Saying	Human to Human	2021
	Poem	Assault and Rape the City Crime Report Says	Human to Human	2021
Kelly-Jo Lomas	Poem	Eclipses of the Moon	Human to Human	2021	Kelly-Jo was born in Texas but moved to California aged ten.  As a child she was fascinated by the stars, wrote science-fiction poetry, and studied cosmology until life intervened.  Now her children have grown up, and she has left her husband a long way behind, Kelly-Jo has returned to writing, and to Texas, where she now lives with her telescope and a cat.
Tatjana Lončarec	Poem	Chosen Memories	The Poetic Bond VII	2017	Published author of two collections of poems That the World does not die Zagreb 2005 and Crowned Roses, Split 2008., also published in Mute. Melodist Anthology 2016, Com-pen-di-um USA 2016, Realistic poetry International Anthology 2016.  Sometimes Anyway, NavWorks press 2017.  Active member of Morning Poetry association in Croatia, Zagreb.
Christa Lubatkin	Poem	What if	Poems from the Lockdown	2020	Christa Lubatkin was born in war, raised through post-war poverty and finally landed in the country of everyone’s dreams, where she moved and moved again. For someone who never lingers long, writing short poetry is a natural fit. Christa’s poetry shines a light on darkness. Her poetry has appeared in The Patterson Literary Review, Haunted Waters Press (Splash), The Blue Guitar, The Write Launch, Underwood, Cathexis Northwest, and others. Away from her writing table she likes to hike, dance, and enjoy the company of good people.
Marek Lugowski	Poem	Chicago 1993	The Poetic Bond VIII	2018	This insufferable lout and serial abuser of good will everywhere has been very visible and notorious in posting poems and engaging in polemic.  Perchance he should be considered a lapsed or archival-quality internet perso-anality of yore, as much as he tries to remain abusively relevant on the interwebs of 2018.  Editor of A Small Garlic Press.
Heather M.F. Lyke	Poem	Recommendation: Date Closeted Gay Men	Human to Human	2021	Heather M. F. Lyke is a southern Minnesota writer and educator. By day, she works in the world of education; on evenings and weekends, she creates. Lyke is also known for saying 'yes' to far too many things, singing incorrect lyrics to The B-52's "Roam", underestimating how long projects will actually take, and communicating in metaphor. Lyke's poetry can be found in a wide array of literary journals, various anthologies, and online at heatherlyke weebly com.
John Lysaght	Poem	Passed On	The Poetic Bond VIII	2018	Poet from New York.  He began writing poetry while a student the University of Scranton, graduating in 1968 with a degree in English and Classics. Here, his poems were first published in Esprit, the university`s literary journal. John draws inspiration from his journey through everyday life.

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