Poet Biographies
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Raymond B. Anderson "The Dangling Man" |
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| Although I spent more than thirty years working at a big university in Manhattan and found it rewarding, making photographs and poems was the most important thing in my life. And now, as I play the endgame, it has become even more so. | |
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David Appelbaum "The Ninth Elixir" |
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| David Appelbaum is a hiker, biker, and builder of stone walls who has lived in the Shawangunks for thirty years. He is author of Nieuw Pfalz (Codhill, 2004). | |
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Nancy W. Beard "Uncle Ike" |
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| Born and raised in Troy, I have a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies from Cornell University and currently work for the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation. I have been the featured poet at the Wordsworth Poetry Series, Kingston. I currently live in Ulster County with my husband and two children. | |
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James Finn Cotter "Suzhou"
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| James Finn Cotter, professor at Mount Saint Mary College, is the author of Inscape, articles on Hopkins, Chaucer, Sidney, and Salinger, poetry in America, Commonweal, The Hudson Review, The Nation, The New York Times, Spirit, and Thought, and translated The Divine Comedy. He is president of the International Hopkins Association. | |
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Kate Hymes "Back To School" |
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| Kate Hymes is a poet and educator. She is a Cave Canem fellow (Cave Canem nurtures emerging and established African-American Poets). Her poems have been published in Peregrine, Cave Canem anthologies and Calling All Poets. Kate leads creative writing workshops in New Paltz, Walkill Valley Writers, an affiliate of Amherst Writers and Artists. | |
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Bobbi Katz "Unavailable: a Love Story" |
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| Growing up when the radio brought jazz tunes and rhyming lyrics right into our living room, I fell in love with words and rhythm. The romance has lasted. I’ve been a fashion editor, a writer for The Cousteau Almanac, and the author of many books for kids, especially poetry collections. | |
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Linda Melick "Housemaid" |
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Linda Melick is a long-time resident of New Paltz. She enjoys writing poetry and is working sporadically on a memoir. She has recently retired from twenty years of teaching at a maximum security prison. |
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Will Nixon "My Late Mother as a Ruffed Grouse"
(Photo credit:Fionn Reilly) |
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Will Nixon has published two chapbooks, When I Had It Made (Pudding House Press) and The Fish Are Laughing (Pavement Saw Press). Locally, his poems have appeared in Chronogram, The Country & Abroad, Prima Materia, and Hunger. His personal essays about the Catskills are at www.mycabinfever.com. |
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Geri Rosenzweig "The Sitar Player and the Rebbe"
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Geri Rosenzweig was born in Ireland. Work published in Nimrod, Poet Lore, Poetry International. Awards: BBC Poet of the Year for her poem “Osprey,” Walt Whitman Society, Long Island, NY for her poem, “Her Black Ankles.” Books: Half The Story (March St. Press), God Is Not Talking (Pudding House Press). |
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Andre Moul Ross "Girl Talk"
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| Andre Ross is an 84-year-old retired veterinarian who, in addition to writing poetry all her life, has also written numerous plays during her 40 years in the Hudson Valley. Her poetry has appeared in the New York Times, the Herald Tribune, Jack and Jill, Children’s Activities (later became Highlights for Children), and Child Life. | |
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Nancy Baker Rullo "Rocks, Wood, Earth, Water and You" - For Tony (Photo Credit: Dion Ogust) |
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Nancy Rullo is a former member of the poetry performance groups “the all right girls” and “The Bardettes.” In 2004 her collaboration with Gay Leonhardt, The Odd God: an introduction, images and poetry, premiered at the Center for Photography at Woodstock and her poem, “Wave Theory,” was featured on Peter Blum’s CD, Singing Bowls and One. |
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Matthew J. Spireng "Floating Things"
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A lifelong resident of Ulster County, Matthew J. Spireng lives in Lomontville in the house in which he was raised. His full-length book manuscript Out of Body won the 2004 Bluestem Poetry Award and will be published in 2005. His poetry has appeared across the United States since 1990. |
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Leo Vanderpot "Frank"
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Leo’s fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in a number of literary journals. Snowbound.com published “Fear,” about his life in Boston. His warped looks at America popped up on BigCityLit.com. His poem “Gerald” appeared in the first issue of Anon, published in Edinburgh, Scotland. |
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