Poetic Matrix
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Richard Trant is a poet from Long Branch, New Jersey
jonathan levant a poet out of Dayton Ohio.
Howard Prescott grew up in New England. He graduated from United States
Military Academy, West Point and North Carolina State College, Raleigh. After
traveling extensively in Asia, Europe and Africa as a widely published and
recognized international telecommunications systems consultant, he retired to
cruise the Atlantic from the Florida Keys to the Canadian Maritimes. His poetry
has won numerous awards and appeared in more than one hundred
publications.
Lyn Lifshin's poetry has appeared in most literary and poetry magazines.
BEFORE IT’S LIGHT published by Black Sparrow Press in 1999-2000 won the
Paterson Poetry Award. ANOTHER WOMAN WHO LOOKS LIKE ME was
recently published by Black Sparrow books published by David Godine.
Ellaraine Lockie's poetry has won multitudinous awards and appeared in
numerous journals, anthologies, magazines and broadsides. Her collections
include; Midlife Muse, Poetry Forum; Crossing The Center Line, Sweet Annies
Press; and Coloring Outside The Lines, The Plowman.
Raymond R. Cavanaugh Jr.'s poetry has appeared in Creative Juices, The
New Mirage Quarterly, Nomad’s Choir, Pablo Lennis, The Poetry Explosion
Newsletter, RB’s Poets Viewpoint and The Ultimate Unknown.
Dounia Sadeghi is a student at the University of Iowa and enjoys reading and
writing poetry, she is majoring in English.
Nicole Provencher's recent publications include: Terrace Journal, Free
Focus, San Antonio Express News, The Luffwater Review,Teh Lyric, 360
Degrees, Art Times, Mind Purge, Poetry Motel, Feeling of the Heart and Erased,
Sigh, Sigh. She also edits poetry projects.
Sylvia Levinson is a dear and wonderful friend.
James Down lives and works in Yosemite and is the author of Merge with the
river.
Brando Cesmat teaches at California State University San Marcos and is the
President of California Poets in the Schools. He is the author of Driven into the
Shade.
Marlene Brooks Brannon worked with Brandon Cesmat at Cole Library in
Carlsbad.
Vincent J. Tomeo is a poet out of Flushing New York who has been supportive
of Poetic Matrix for many years. Thanks to Vincent.
Beth Cagle Burt of Charlotte, NC, has taught creative writing and English
courses at Rowan Cabarrus Community College and Cape Fear Community
College. Beth holds an MA in English and a BA in Psychology and English from
UNC Charlotte. Her chapbook, The Fearless Tattoo, won Shadow Poetry’s
Summer 2003 Competition. Her poems have recently appeared in several
national and international magazines including Blue Collar Review, Pig Iron,
Poetry Motel, New York Quarterly, and Tulane Review.
Karolyn Boudreault is from Exeter, NH. She is 24 and has an Associate’s
degree from Northern Essex Community College in Haverhill, MA — currently
seeking a Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing. She has had poems appear in
Parnassus, The Oak, Potpourri Publications Co., Art:Mag, Poetry Motel, Poet’s
Podium, Limited Editions, Three Cup Morning. I have also published a book in
2002 with the help of Nicolin Fields Publishing Inc. in North Hampton, NH entitled
Masques Unbinding.
Jane Stuart writes poetry, short fiction and prose. Poems published in The
Poet’s Pen, Moments, Red Owl, Haiku Headlines and Listen here, Women
Writing in Appalachia, Westward Quarterly, Medicinal Purposes among others.
Gail Rudd Entrekin teaches English and Creative Writing at Sierra College.
Her previous poetry collections are John Danced (Berkeley Poets Workshop &
Press, 1984) and You Notice the Body (Hip Pocket Press, 1998). Poetry editor
of Hip Pocket Press since 2000, she edited the anthology Sierra Songs &
Descants: Poetry & Prose of the Sierra in 2002. She lives in Nevada City,
California, with her husband and the youngest
of their five children.
Patricia Wellingham-Jones is a former psychology researcher, writer, editor,
lecturer. She is widely published in journals, anthologies and online. She won
the 2003 Reuben Rose International Poetry Prize (Israel) and is a three-time
Pushcart Prize nominee.
Tomás Gayton is a poet, civil rights attorney and world traveler.
John Peterson is the publisher of Poetic Matrix Press.
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