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The Poetry Box LIVE (June 11, 2022)

May 22, 2022 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

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The Poetry Box LIVE – June Edition!

June 11, 2022 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern)

Featured Poets:

  • Angela Hansen (NE) – author of Fencelines
  • Christopher Bogart (NJ) – author of This Conversation
  • Anne Coray (AK) – author of Late Fall Bucolics

Enjoy a Video from the Show:

ABOUT THE POETS 

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Angela Hansen was born and raised in the farmland of northeast Nebraska. She spent her childhood immersed in family and everything outside: the grove of trees, the crooked bridge down by the creek, and the surrounding countryside. Angela attended country school through 8th grade, graduated from Wayne High School, and received a bachelor’s degree in English Writing from Wayne State College. Her dream of writing and illustrating children’s books was overcome with the practicality of working steady jobs, which over the years included librarian, assistant manager of a bookstore, baker at a college coffee shop, paraoptometric, paraprofessional at an elementary school, and presently, running her own business as a house painter.

Angela lived in St. Louis, MO, and LaGrange Park, IL, before moving back to Nebraska. She bought an acreage outside Carroll, where she lives with her three children, four goats, and a Ridgeback mix puppy. She enjoys baking, woodworking, gardening, creating, and finding just the right word. Her poetry has been published in Nebraska Life Magazine and shared at a few readings over the years.

Angela considers her faith in God the only reason she survived over 16 years of domestic violence and why she continues to heal, to find beauty in the world, and joy in her farmer and their kids.

You can order Angela’s new book HERE

 


Book cover of This Conversation, photography and design by Robert R. Sanders

Christopher Bogart, author of 14: Anotolgia del Sonoran

Christopher Bogart is a working poet and writer who has earned an MA in Creative Writing, and is presently working on an MFA, at Monmouth University.

In 2015, Bogart was chosen as First Runner Up for Monmouth University’s inaugural Joyce Carol Oates Award for Excellence in Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Non-Fiction. In 2017, he was chosen as one of two finalists for The Brian Turner Literary Prize for Fiction. In 2018, his chapbook about the Yuma 14, titled 14: Antología del Sonoran, was awarded third place in The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize and was published in October of 2018 by The Poetry Box. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for his poem, “Abraham Morales Hernandez.”

In April of 2020, The Poetry Box published his chapbook titled Breakpoint about America in the era of Donald Trump, and a full-length book of poetry in May about the plight of Central American migrants, titled The Eater of Dreams.

On August 1, 2005, he had presented a paper on the importance of poetry in the teaching of literature and writing to the Oxford Round Table at the Oxford Union Debate Hall at Oxford University.

He is presently working on his first novel, tentatively titled The Beast, about the plight of two Central American teenagers who flee poverty and crime in search of a better life in the United States.

You can order Christopher’s book HERE

 


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Anne Coray is the author of the novel Lost Mountain (West Margin Press) as well as three poetry collections—Bone Strings, A Measure’s Hush, and Violet Transparent. She is also the coauthor of Crosscurrents North: Alaskans on the Environment.

The recipient of fellowships from the Alaska State Council on the Arts and the Rasmuson Foundation, she divides her time between her birthplace on remote Lake Clark (Qizhjeh Vena) and the coastal town of Homer, Alaska.

You can order Anne’s new book HERE

 


Filed Under: past events, Poetry Box LIVE, Readings & Events Tagged With: Angela Hansen, Anne Coray, Christopher Bogart, Poetry Box LIVE, Reading

The Poetry Box LIVE (May 14, 2022)

April 12, 2022 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

The Poetry Box LIVE – May Edition!

May 14, 2022 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern)

Featured Poets:

  • Nathan Fryback (OR) – author of Shells in the Sieve
  • Tara L. Carnes (TX) – author of Built to Last
  • John L. Miller (OR) – author of Olympic

Enjoy a Video from the Show:

ABOUT THE POETS 

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Tara L. Carnes is a musician, writer, teacher, and spiritual director. She has an MA from the University of North Texas and spent over thirty years working as a music educator and church musician.  In 2012, as part of her coursework for the Haden Institute (Niagara, Ontario) spiritual direction program, she began writing poetry.

She loves using the rhythms of words to embrace both the dark as well as the light in her work.

Besides tough issues such as domestic violence, she writes poetry about nature, spirituality, and motherhood and utilizes them in her spiritual direction practice. Brené Brown stated, “When we deny our stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we get to write a brave new ending.”  Tara looks forward to many years of sharing her experiences, and “living a brave new ending“ through the music of poetry!

Tara’s poetry has appeared in Snapdragon: A Journal of Art and Healing, SageWoman, Cholla Needles, The Poeming Pigeon, and The Very Edge Poems (Flying Ketchup Press). She lives in Texas with her daughter and their handsome, plush, tuxedo cat, Orion.

http://www.taralcarnes.com/poetry/

You can order Tara’s new book HERE

 


Front book cover of Shells in the Sieve

Headshot of Nathan Fryback

Nathan Fryback was born in 1972 onto a small farm in the Rogue Valley outside Medford, Oregon. His parents were schoolteachers, his father also felled timber in the summers for extra money. By 1977 Nathan’s family had relocated 270 miles north, to Eugene, Oregon. Nathan developed an interest in creative writing around the age of 13, writing short stories and poetry. During high school he experimented with photography and acting but always found writing as a more reliable means of expressing himself.

At the age of 18, Nathan took a job as a bread baker in Eugene while attending college. That would be a fateful turn as he has dedicated himself to that profession ever since. Even though the world of academia held components of what interested him, he had developed a passion for the craft of artisan bread baking that had to be explored. Mastering the mechanics of grain fermentation had become the Golden Fleece. Nathan withdrew from college to find opportunities to hone his skill, working at several bakeries in Eugene, sometimes holding 2 jobs or moonlighting as a pastry chef.

Eventually moving to Portland, Oregon, in the mid-90s, he spent long stretches at some of the best bakeries on the west coast, where he works to this day, at a little bakery in Northwest Portland. Still very close with his family (his brother and parents all live nearby), he draws from all of them for his sense of self and outlook on life. All the while, writing, writing, writing… Along the way Nathan’s sons were born in 2000 (Beckett) and 2012 (Leroy). They are the fire in his heart. Nathan lives today in Beaverton, Oregon. with his wife Tina and son Leroy.

You can order Nathan’s book HERE

 


Front book cover of Olympic

Author Photo of John L. Miller

John L. Miller’s poetry was featured at the Elisabeth Jones Art Center’s 2021 Festival of Feelings.  His poetry has also appeared in West Trade Review, Tiny Seed Literary Journal, Wingless Dreamer, Wax Poetry and Art, Third Wednesday: A Literary & Arts Journal, Not a Pipe Publishing’s anthology Shout, River Heron Review, catheXis northwest press, The Esthetic Apostle, the 9Bridges anthology Over Land and Rising, and Glass Facets of Poetry.  His short fiction has appeared in Tethered by Letters.

John is a founder of Portland Ars Poetica, a literary poetry collective serving the U.S. Pacific Northwest and when virtual, anywhere. Portland Ars Poetica’s activities include generative workshops, a book club and performance events.  More information  can be found at https://www.meetup.com/Portland-Ars-Poetica/.

John has lived in Portland, Oregon since 2012, where he started to write poetry after writing almost nothing in verse for 20 years. A writer from as far back in childhood as he can remember and has files on, John was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York.  He wrote his first poem at fifteen, on the New York City subway, on a bookmark that he placed in a copy of Paul Fussell’s The Great War and Modern Memory, which remains on his shelves.  He has a degree in English from Amherst College.

You can order John’s new book HERE

 


Filed Under: past events, Poetry Box LIVE, Readings & Events Tagged With: John Miller, Nathan Fryback, Poetry Box LIVE, Reading, Tara Carnes

The Poetry Box LIVE for KIDS! (Apr 9, 2022)

March 17, 2022 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

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The Poetry Box LIVE – Special Edition for KIDS!

April 9, 2022 @ 2:00 PM (Pacific) / 5:00 PM (Eastern)

Featured Poets:

  • Debbie Hall  – author of  In the Jaguar’s House
  • Pamela R. Anderson-Bartholet– author of  The Galloping Garbage Truck

 

Enjoy a Video from the Show Below:

 

ABOUT THE POETS 

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When Debbie Hall was a child, she dreamed of going on safari in Africa one day.  In the past ten years, she has done just that—three times in fact. She’s also photographed wild animals in many other countries in the world.  Poetry and photography are her twin creative passions. Both her writing and photography have won awards and publication in a variety of journals and magazines.  She is the author of two previous collections of poetry for adults, including her chapbook, Falling into the River (3rd place in The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2019). In the Jaguar’s House is her first book of poetry for young people.  Debbie lives with her family in Escondido, California, near a lake where red-tailed hawks soar, and coyotes sing at night.

You can order Debbie’s new book HERE

And here’s a sneak peek from the pages of
In the Jaguar’s House:

 


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Pamela R. Anderson is the author of three poetry chapbooks, including Just the Girls: A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies; A Drift of Honeybees (The Poetry Box); Widow Maker (Finishing Line Press), a chronicle of her husband’s cardiac arrests/recovery; and her book of poems for children, The Galloping Garbage Truck (Kelsay Books). Formerly a public radio fundraiser, Anderson hit the jackpot when she retired and began to channel her energies into hiking with her husband, practicing yoga, writing, and reading. She has never owned a red bathing suit.

 

You can order Pam’s book HERE

 

And here’s a little sneak peek of Pam reading “Buttons”

 


Filed Under: past events, Poetry Box LIVE, Readings & Events Tagged With: Children's Books, Debbie Hall, Pamela Anderson, Poetry Box LIVE, Reading

The Poetry Box LIVE (March 12, 2022)

January 26, 2022 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

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The Poetry Box LIVE – March Edition

March 12, 2022 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern)

March Featured Poets:

  • Vivienne Popperl (OR) – author of A Nest in the Heart
  • Ann Farley (OR) – author of Tell Her Yes
  • Juan Pablo Mobili (NY) – author of Contraband

Enjoy a Video from the Show:

ABOUT THE POETS 

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Vivienne Popperl lives in Portland, Oregon. Her poems have appeared in Clackamas Literary Review, Timberline Review, Cirque, Rain Magazine, The Poeming Pigeon, and other publications. She won second place in the 2021 Kay Snow Award for Poetry by Willamette Writers. Her dream landscape is Provence, Southern France, but she considers the Pacific Northwest her home.

You can order Vivienne’s new book HERE

 


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Ann Farley, poet and caregiver, is happiest outdoors. She loves the beach, but she’s also enjoys an early morning walk in the park with her husband and dog. Her poems have appeared in Timberline Review, Willawaw Journal, Verseweavers, The Poeming Pigeon, KOSMOS Quarterly, RAIN Magazine, Gobshite Quarterly and others. Her poems have won first and third place in Oregon Poetry Association contests, and a third place Kay Snow Award for poetry. She lives in Beaverton, Oregon. 

You can order Ann’s new chapbook HERE


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Juan Pablo Mobili was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and is an adopted son of the City of New York. The son of a teacher and a poet, his work tells the story of the joys and tragedies of a citizen of two countries, willing to face life head on.

His poems have appeared in The Worcester Review, The American Journal of Poetry, Mason Street Review, The Red Wheelbarrow Review, The Banyan Review, First Literary Review-East, New Feathers Anthology, and Spirit Fire Review, among many others.

In addition to that, one of his poems received Honorable Mention by the International Human Rights Art Festival for the Creators Justice Awards 2020, while others have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net Anthology. He has also co-written a chapbook of poems in collaboration with Madalasa Mobili, titled Three Unknown Poets, which was published by Seranam Press.

If there’s a thread to his poems, is his lifelong intention to have poetry make the world a more hospitable place.

You can order Juan’s new chapbook HERE

 

 


Filed Under: past events, Poetry Box LIVE, Readings & Events Tagged With: Ann Farley, Juan Pablo Mobili, Poetry Box LIVE, Reading, Vivienne Popperl

The Poetry Box LIVE (Feb 12, 2022)

January 7, 2022 by The Poetry Box 2 Comments

The Poetry Box LIVE – February Edition

February 12, 2022 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern)

February Featured Poets:

  • Sam Love (NC) – author of Earth Resonance: Poems for a Viable Future
  • Beth Bonness (OR) – author of Transition Thunderstorms
  • Mimi German (OR) – author of Beneath the Gravel Weight of Stars

Enjoy a Video from the Show:

ABOUT THE POETS 

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Sam Love at a Climate Rally

Sam Love is the author of new eco-poetry collection, Earth Resonance: Poems for a Viable Future.

After working as an environmental advocate Sam Love made a living creating film and video images. With so much internet visual clutter he decided to transition to poetry where readers can make the movie in their heads. Sam now lives in New Bern, N.C.

In 1970 Sam worked on the national staff of the first Earth Day. He was a founding editor of the successor group’s magazine Environmental Action and served as Coordinator of the organization which worked to transform the momentum created by Earth Day into legislative changes. Over the years he published numerous articles in mass circulation magazines including Washingtonian and Smithsonian. 

Fly on the Wall Press in Manchester, England published his chapbook Awakening: Musings on Planetary Survival. His poetry collection exploring cracks in our culture, Cogitation, is available from Unsolicited Press and his self-published illustrated children’s book My Little Plastic Bag has won numerous awards including a Nautilus Book Award. It is available in Spanish and English. His poems have appeared in Kakalak, Slippery Elm, Voices on the Wind, The Lyricist, Flying South, Sleet, and other publications. Eno published by Duke University published six of his environmental poems and four were featured on Poetry in Plain Sight posters exhibited throughout North Carolina.

www.samlove.net  •  Twitter: @samlovepoet

You can order Sam’s new book HERE

 


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Beth Bonness was a finalist in The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2021 for her new chapbook, Transition Thunderstorms

Beth Bonness grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the eldest of six girls. She moved to the Pacific Northwest with her Computer Science degree and her husband, where they raised their three daughters. She fell in love with the beach and enjoyed climbing Mt. Hood, once. After decades working in product development and marketing (and one too many acquisitions) she said “good-bye” to high-tech corporate culture…to write.

Her poems have appeared in The Timberline Review, Typehouse Magazine, and Friday’s on the Boulevard. Two of her short film scripts made it to the Willamette Writers FiLMLaB quarterfinals. She is currently working on a post-stroke memoir about saving a 100-year-old mansion with her husband, and a psychological thriller screenplay about sub-conscious personalities. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and writes early in the morning before she wakes up too much.

LinkedIn: Beth Bonness
Twitter: @BethBonness
Website: bethbonness.com

You can order Beth’s new chapbook HERE


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Author Photo of Mimi German

Mimi German was a finalist in The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2021 for her new chapbook, Beneath the Gravel Weight of Stars (previously known as Eyes of Horse Hair)

Mimi German is a poet, an activist, an organizer, and an advocate and co-founder of Jason Barns Landing, a houseless community and transitional village in St. Johns, Portland. She is also a co-founder of People’s Housing Project based in Portland, Oregon. Her poems have been published in The Hopper, The Mantle, Three Line Poetry (Vols. 51 & 52), New Verse News, and recorded and archived as testimony in Portland City Council sessions from 2017- 2020. Mimi divides her time between living in the remote wilderness of Steens Mountain and Portland, Oregon.

You can order Mimi’s new chapbook HERE

 

 


Filed Under: past events, Poetry Box LIVE, Readings & Events Tagged With: Beth Bonness, Mimi German, Poetry Box LIVE, Reading, Sam Love

Luna & LeHew @ Annie Bloom’s (Jan 11, 2022)

December 9, 2021 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

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Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, this event was via Zoom. 

Annie Bloom’s Books  host Laura LeHew and Christopher & Angelo Luna via ZOOM

Tues, Jan 8, 2022
at 7:00 pm (waiting room opens at 6:45)

 

Enjoy a video from the show!


 

Cover-Front-DearJohnYou’ll find yourself deeply moved and inspired by its bold honesty.

Dear John— is a collection of poems that investigate and explore the multi-facets of love by using diverse points of view to reveal romantic love, loving friendships, and love that is complicated. The namesake poem for which this book was conceived, the final poem, “Dear John—,” is an epistolary poem in multiple stanzas ultimately on which the theme of this book is derived. “what happens between the notes // is the living.”

 

CoverFront-ExchangingWisdomA collaboration and celebration of life.

Exchanging Wisdom features poems for and about Christopher’s son Angelo Luna, as well as a few pieces Angelo wrote for Christopher. The earliest poem was written when Angelo was three, and the most recent at age 21. Christopher endeavored to encourage his son to be an autonomous, freethinking individual. Angelo grew to become that and so much more. Taken as a whole, the poems in this collection track the development of Angelo’s personality and the strong bond between father and son.

Filed Under: past events, Readings & Events Tagged With: Angelo Luna, Annie Bloom's Books, Christopher Luna, Laura LeHew, Reading

The Poetry Box LIVE (Jan 8, 2022)

December 9, 2021 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

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The Poetry Box LIVE – January Edition

January 8, 2022 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern)

January Featured Poets: Chapbook Contest Winners

  • Mary Warren Foulk (MA) – author of Erasures of My Coming Out (Letter)
  • Linda Ferguson (OR) – author of Of the Forest
  • Tricia Knoll (VT) – author of Let’s Hear It for the Horses

Enjoy a Video from the Show:

 

ABOUT THE POETS 

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Mary Warren Foulk is the first-place winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2021 for her chapbook, Erasures of My Coming Out (Letter). She has been published in VoiceCatcher, Cathexis Northwest Press, Yes Poetry, Arlington Literary Journal (Gival Press), Los Angeles Poet Society, Pine Hills Review, Palette Poetry, Visitant, Silkworm, and Steam Ticket among other publications. Her work also has appeared in (M)othering Anthology (Inanna Publications) and My Loves: A Digital Anthology of Queer Love Poems (Ghost City Press). Her chapbook, If I Could Write You a Happier Ending, is forthcoming from dancing girl press (2021). 

Mary has attended several writing workshops and conferences, including The Writers Studio and AWP events, as well as received several artist and educator grants, including from the National Endowment of the Humanities. She recently won the “Teach! Write! Play!” fellowship to the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and her poem “The Inventory of Fumbling” received first place honors. Her poem “portrait of a queer as a young boy” has been nominated for the 2021 Best of the Net Anthology. A graduate of the MFA Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, Mary lives in western Massachusetts with her wife and two children. She is an educator, writer, and activist.

Instagram: @mwfoulk
www.facebook.com/mary.w.foulk
Twitter: @mwfoulk

You can order Mary’s winning chapbook HERE

 


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Linda Ferguson is the second-place winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2021 for her chapbook, Of the Forest. Linda started her career writing software how-to manuals before she even owned a computer. She also worked as a copywriter and journalist until she became hooked on reading, writing and performing poetry when she saw Naomi Shihab Nye, Lucille Clifton and Jimmy Santiago Baca in the Bill Moyers program The Language of Life. Here it was, she realized: a tool to say the unsayable while savoring the pleasure of piecing together intricate word puzzles.

As a passionate community-builder, she teaches affordable creative writing classes for adults and children. Based on her belief that artistic expression should be available to everyone regardless of income or experience, she creates a warm, friendly atmosphere where students are free to delve into imagination and memory to find their voice while relishing the camaraderie of their fellow writers.

A four-time Pushcart nominee, Ferguson is also a writer of fiction and essays. Her first chapbook, Baila Conmigo, was published by Dancing Girl Press, and her collection of feminist persona poetry, Not Me: Poems About Other Women, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in fall 2022.

She’s also an amateur dancer who loves to draw, paint, and shoot the breeze with her husband and their grown children.

Website: https://bylindaferguson.blogspot.com

Instagram: @ljd.ferguson.1

 

You can order Linda’s winning chapbook HERE


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Tricia Knoll is the third-place winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2021 for her chapbook, Let’s Hear It for the Horses.

“A horse. A horse. My kingdom for a horse!” cried King Richard the Third. Tricia Knoll’s father thought this as a child until his practical father detailed the costs and suggested he rent one. Which he did, at Colorado dude ranches. On weekends in suburban Chicago to ride hell bent on trails through cornfields. Her father did everything he could to make sure Knoll loved horses too. Summer horse camps. Riding with her dad in Rocky Mountain National Park summer after summer. Sometimes riding at mad gallops with the suburban men. Horse shows and rodeos. He was at his best in his cowboy boots and pearl snap-button Western shirts.

Knoll has degrees in literature from Stanford University (BA) and Yale University (MAT). She taught high school English. Edited a newspaper for elementary students. Served as Public Relations Director for Portland, Oregon’s Children’s Museum. Acted as the Public Information Officer at the Portland Water Bureau and went to New Orleans as an emergency responder following Hurricane Katrina.

Knoll retired in 2007 to write. Her poetry collections address interactions of wildlife and humans in urban habitat (Urban Wild); people and creatures on an organic farm in Washington State (Broadfork Farm); change in a small town on Oregon’s northern coast (Ocean’s Laughter); her understanding of white privilege (How I Learned To Be White); and relationships that sometimes go askew (Checkered Mates). How I Learned to Be White received the 2018 Human Rights Indie Book Award for Motivational Poetry. She is a contributing editor to the online journal Verse Virtual. For more information, visit triciaknoll.com.

Knoll lives in the woods of Vermont. Stables for dressage horses, a herd of pintos, and a one-horse family barn are less than a quarter mile in any direction. She smells them on warm days.

You can order Tricia’s winning chapbook HERE

 

 


Filed Under: past events, Poetry Box LIVE, Readings & Events Tagged With: Chapbook Contest Winners, Linda Ferguson, Mary Warren Foulk, Poetry Box LIVE, Reading, Tricia Knoll

The Poetry Box LIVE (Dec 11, 2021)

October 12, 2021 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

The Poetry Box LIVE – December Edition

December 11, 2021@ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern)

December Featured Poets:

  • Maddie Mitchell (Kentucky) – author of WE’RE NOT REAL ANYWAYS
  • Lanser Howard (California) – author of THE SCREAMING SILENCE
  • Rheanna Haaland (Minnesota) – author of CHASING NARCISSUS

Enjoy a Video from the Show:

ABOUT THE POETS 

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maddie mitchell is an 18-year-old poet and writer from paris, kentucky. she graduated from bourbon county high school in 2019, one year earlier than expected, and began attending georgetown college at age 17. she is currently a sophomore and plans to major in english and political science with a minor in spanish. she hopes to one day attend law school in order to become an immigration lawyer. she is also a part of the oxford honors program at her college and plans to spend a semester or two at oxford university in england in the coming years.

The young writer deferred a semester of college during her sophomore year to focus on treatment for several mental illnesses including borderline personality disorder, anxiety, major depressive disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and anorexia nervosa. she was at a residential treatment facility for her eating disorder for over 11 weeks, and she then went through several step-down stages of the recovery process over the span of several months. throughout this process, she wrote many of the poems included in we’re not real anyways. her book also speaks on topics of feminism and lgbtq+ romances. she has hopes that her poetry is relatable to others who deal with similar issues discussed in this, her first book, we’re not real anyways.

Order Maddie’s book HERE


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Lanser Howard began his career as a journalist and then transitioned into film where he wrote and produced an award-winning documentary film and other screenplays. His sole focus now is on poetry and literature with The Screaming Silence as his first full-length book of poetry.

An Oakland, California native, now living in the Sacramento area, Howard travels the country selling food products by day, writer by night.  He has worked extensively with combat veterans filtering their traumatic experiences through his eyes in much of his work to show you their world after the smoke clears, but the gripping pain remains.

Howard’s visceral, minimalistic style paints hard-hitting portraits of the dark and lonely process of fighting through tragedy and loss and how to heal oneself with words, hope and an unwavering strength of self.

Order Lanser’s book HERE


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Rheanna Haaland
Photo Credit: Mark J. Basel

Rheanna Haaland (she/her/they/them) could say this book is about you. But it isn’t.

Haaland was raised by wolves on the prairie but relocated to Minneapolis, after finishing a bachelor’s degree in writing. Unsatisfied with writing alone, they considered several additional lines of work to compliment the necessary exorcism of poetry (including but not confined to copy editor, bookseller, web series producer, script writer, prep cook, pizza transportation specialist and actual batman). Haaland settled finally on pursuing a career as a surgeon.

While currently attending Northwestern Health Science University Haaland also works as a medical scribe in a local emergency room. (Countless HIPPA-compliant stories about will almost certainly prompt future collections. She loves it.)  She will remain in school for the foreseeable future, while continuing to write.

Haaland was the 3rd place winner of the 2018 Erotica Grand SlaMN Championship for spoken word poetry. Their work has appeared most recently in Auk Contraire, and The Same. The poem “—Me, Everyday” was previously printed in the 2019 edition of Red Weather Magazine, alongside many of her other pieces not published in this book. Haaland’s first collection An Eyeful of Hennepin Neon (The Poetry Box, 2018) is available through The Poetry Box website. She lives in Minneapolis with her outspoken tabby cat, Brummell, whose input on molecular geometry and organic chemistry homework is less than helpful. Both of them thank you for reading this far.

Order their book HERE


Filed Under: past events, Poetry Box LIVE, Readings & Events Tagged With: Lanser Howard, Maddie Mitchell, Poetry Box LIVE, Reading, Rheanna Haaland

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