James G. Skinner is a retired world wide telecommunications executive and ex-Honorary British Consul in Spain. For the past twenty years he has lived in Vigo and has observed through the press the constant flow of drugs from Latin America into Europe via the coast of Galicia. Living in Spain has also given him an insight into the fight on terrorism, especially the Basque Separatist movement ETA.
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Jan Oskar Hansen is a poet, story teller and seafarer, born in Stavanger, Norway. He joined the merchant navy at 15 and spent most of his life at sea until settling in the early 90's in Portugal. His poetry has been widely published in hard copy and online, worldwide. Reviewers have generally commented that a love and honoring of living things stands out in Hansen's work, and deep humility; that it reveals with unflinching honesty man's shortcomings in his efforts to love, telling what there is to tell in a first person, deeply resident universal voice.
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Janet K. Brennan, aka jb Stillwater, poet and author lives in the foot hills of the Sandia Mountains in the high desert of New Mexico with her husband, Arthur, and a great gray cat named Amos... Although a native New Englander, she has traveled the world, having spent time living in Pirmesanes Germany, as well as Montecchia di Crossara, Italy Home for her is the desert. Each time she has left to live in another part of the world, she has longed for her return to what she has determined is her "muse"
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Mr. Jayanti M. Dalal, B.Sc. (Hons.), a businessman and writer, was born in Kapadwanj (Gujarat), India on December 28, 1935. Since his days in school in Umreth, of Gujarat State, he took keen interest in reading a large number of fiction and short stories available in the village library. To date, 22 books, including 14 novels, 3 collections of short stories, and 5 compilations, have been published. He was the first Gujarati writer whose Gujarati Novel ‘Ankhane Sagpan Ansoona’ translated into English named ‘Ordeal of Innocence’ first time published in U.S.A. in 2005 by Ivy House Publishing Group.
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Jaydeep Sarangi is a bilingual writer, academic, editor and translator with several seminal books to his colourful cap. He has delivered keynote addresses in several national and international seminars and conferences and read his poems in different continents. He has been anthologised widely in several shores. One of the reviewers has made an honest observation by calling him Bard on the Banks of Dulong . Sarangi is the Vice President, GIEWEC (head office at Kerala) and one of the founder members and the Vice President of SPELL (Society for Poetry, Education, Literature and Language), Kolkata. Anchored in Kolkata, his poetry defies boundaries and resonates with glocal experiences.
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Jean LeBlanc teaches at Sussex County Community College in Newton, New Jersey, USA. She is the executive editor of the Paulinskill Poetry Project, a small press dedicated to the philosophy that all poetry is local. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals, as well as in her four collections which include Just Passing Through (Paulinskill Poetry Project 2007) and At Any Moment (Backwaters Press 2010), as well as two books with Modern English Tanka Press.
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Jean-Philippe Guéant from Nord, France; 35 years painting experience; theoretician of abstraction. "What I am interested in painting is not the painting itself, but what is beyond the painting, besides the plastic aspect. The painter's part is to make visible what is not. I intend to draw the way, to trace the path, from the real world to the invisible, from the divided-state to the unity; this, by a global perception of both the world and the work; suddenly the light appears within the color, the original light."
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During the Summer of 1977 Jerry Gallagher left his Job as a Counselor for the Pennsylvania Bureau of Correction and with his long time Friend, Hal, left on a nearly Two Month Trip through the United States and Canada. Jerry's Latest Book, "Lonesome Travelers: An American Journey," is a Non Fiction Novel documenting the Road Trip Adventures of Jerry and Hal as they traveled Through The United States and Canada from Pennsylvania to the West Coast and back East to Phoenix, Arizona, where they dropped off Hal's Cousin's Mercury Monarch, the car the Duo had been traveling in on their Long Distance Drive before returning by plane to Pennsylvania.
Jerry Gallagher's Fourth Published Book and Second Novel "The Man On The Grassy Knoll - The Assassins" is the First Book in a Series which Spans Decades and Deals with some of the most important Political and Moral Issues of the 20th Century. In "The Assassins" Author, Jerry Gallagher puts a new Fictional Spin on the Nightmare Assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on November 22nd,1963 by combining some very Disturbing and Controversial Truths with some even more Disturbing and Controversial Fictional Elements.
Jess is an author, artist, non-conformist who is dedicated to writing original stories that are both meaningful and entertaining. Most of her work is fuelled by an intense desire to inspire others to favour social and spiritual values over shallow values. Her website is www.jessINK.com
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Jim McGarrah is the author of ten books. Running the Voodoo Down won the Elixir Press Poetry Prize in 2003. His newest collection of poems, A Balancing Act, was published by Lamar University Press in November of 2018. A memoir of war entitled A Temporary Sort of Peace (Indiana Historical Society Press) won the national Eric Hoffer Legacy Nonfiction Award in 2010. Blue Heron Book Works published McGarrah’s newest nonfiction book in May, 2017 entitled Misdemeanor Outlaw.His poems and essays have been published in The American Journal of Poetry, Barcelona Review, Bayou Magazine, Cincinnati Review, Collateral, December, Innisfree, North American Review, and Southern Indiana Review among others.
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Hello there! Thanks for taking a moment to get to know me. I was raised in Ireland to an Irish father and Australian mother. I am the eldest of five girls. I have an education from the Dublin Institute of Technology in Applied Chemistry. I am a trainer and coach in law of attraction and a master practitioner in neuro linguistic programming (NLP). My passion is dancing Argentine tango, writing songs and poems and I also like to sing and paint. I love to work with people and help them to manifest their visions and dreams! I am very interested in quantum physics and positive psychology and use my poetry to express my thoughts about spirituality, nature and the Oneness of everything.
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Penguins / Pingviner is a bilingual series of haiku centered around ... penguins. Here penguins can be seen as metaphors or real beings either mingling with society as a whole and its mechanics or as World saviors and upholders of the spiritual welfare of the World. Beacuse of their seemingly un-individial appearance they can also play the role of the uknown forces of this World.
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John Rawson has 25 years’ experience in various roles in New Zealand Social Services and aligned industries. He has an Honours Degree in Psychology and Education + 2 years postgraduate training in Child Psychotherapy. He has run his own counseling practice for 4 years and currently works with youth, some children, and adults. He is married with two sons and a large cat.
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John Charles Ryan was born in Neptune City, New Jersey in the United States but has been living in Western Australia since 2008. He is presently writing poetry about the flora of the Southwest corner of Western Australia and some of those poems appear in this collection.
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John McDonald is a retired stone-mason living in Edinburgh Scotland.He came to haiku in the mid - nineties and fell in love with the genre. He writes in Scots - one of the two languages native to Scotland (the other being the celtic rooted Gaelic) He has a web-page of Scots haiku http://zenspeug.blogspot.com which he tries to update daily, and from which most of the enclosed have been taken.
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Published 230 essays, articles, and stories in a variety of national venues. My books: Venice, CA: A City State of Mind; A People's Manifesto; Toward Election 2020: Cancel Culture, Censorship, and Class; The Unmaking of the President, 2020; A Venice Quintet; Jukebox Confessionals (contracted, forthcoming); An Accidental Jesus (contracted, forthcoming). Jukebox and Quintet are short story collections An Accidental Jesus is a novel. The others are literary and op-ed journalism. I publish/edit AMASS Magazine and teach writing at UCI.
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Though grounded with great love and affection for both the haiku traditions of Japan and the West, John Sandbach's haiku represent a clear break and, hopefully, a new, influential, and open beginning in English-language haiku composition that welcomes and values all methodologies, aesthetics and topics, seeing infinite possibilities and equality in every path. Breaking away from what has become the traditional standards in English haiku,
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Joseph Aprile was born in the Bronx, New York, and is a resident of Seattle, Washington. He has traveled extensively and has incorporated many of his life experiences into his work as all writers inevitably must. Writing has always been an integral part of his existence. He has written and published works in different genres including: poetry, fiction and non-fiction. He has a special fondness for poetry since it is, by nature, evocative of the emotions and succinct in style.
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Joseph S. Spence, Sr. is the co-author of two poetry books, A Trilogy of Poetry, Prose and Thoughts for the Mind, Body and Soul (2005), and Trilogy Moments for the Mind, Body and Soul (2006), Winner of The 2009 Best Christian Poetry Book Award from ChristianStoryTeller.com.
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I am an American living in Andalusia Spain. I grew up in Chicago, Illinois where I received a BS in English literature from Northwestern University. I hold a J.D. from Loyola School of Law, Chicago, Illinois and I worked as a lawyer in Warsaw, Poland and London, England before turning all my attention to writing and teaching. In 2005 I received my masters in English Literature from the University of London, King's College.
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Born in 1957, K.V.Raghupathi has been writing for nearly three decades. His main forte is poetry. A leading voice in Indian English Poetry, he is currently teaching at Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur. He has published nine collections in addition to four critical works and two books on Yoga. His poetry is rooted in the abundance of philosophy, nature, transcendentalism, imagery and social perspectives. Besides being a poet, his other passions include classical Karnatic music, bird watching and ancient and contemporary Indian philosophy.
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Karla MarKay is a performing artist, educator, and writer who was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She spent several years in Atlanta, Georgia and currently resides in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. As a teen, Karla began writing for personal fulfillment and continued to write occasionally until a few years ago, when she began to experience a renewed sense of motivation, focus, and discipline. Since then, Ms. MarKay has shared her literary work at readings, as part of stage presentations, on the Internet, and as contributions to magazines, newsletters, journals, and anthologies. The Whispers of A Timeless Groove is her first published book of poetry.
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Kathryn Waddell Takara, born and raised in Tuskegee, Alabama, has recently retired as an Associate Professor from the University of Hawai`i at Manoa, Interdisciplinary Studies Program. She also taught in the Ethnic Studies Department, where she developed courses in African American and African politics, history, literature, and culture beginning in 1971. Her poetry has been published in a variety of publications including Interdisciplinary Studies Humanities Journal, Writing Macao (China), Kudzu, Honolulu Stories, Words Upon the Waters,
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Katya Ganeshi (Blond Beast) is well known Russian poetess. She is founder of a new literary style "Overaggressive Masterpiecism". The edition of her book "Blond Beast" has brought to her popularity in all societies of vanguard and literary associations in Moscow. In poetry Katya Ganeshi continues to develop philosophical ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche and Azsacra Zarathustra, also aesthetic ideas of Arno Breker. Beauty of a human body and spirit in Absolute Break, and Spiritual War - the basic themes of her poetic books.
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I grew up in a small suburban town, just north of New York City. I had a great childhood, as my parents did everything they could to provide for my siblings and I. I have come to love my siblings, as the rivalry we had when we were younger was quite intense. This book of poetry represents seven consecutive years of my life (1997-2004) and the numerous phases and mind- sets I experienced. I have been through a number of different struggles, from death to my own personal battle with alcoholism, but have ultimately cleared my mind and finally accepted who I am and what life has dealt me, good or bad.
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Keval Jadwani belongs to a small city of Jamnagar from Gujarat. Books, words and rhymes has always fascinated him. It wasn't too late that he himself started composing the poetries. Since his childhood he has been writing and this is his first book by Cyberwit.net which is his recent collection of poems. Happy reading dear readers.
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I, Kishan Ballurkar, 20, am a third year mechanical engineering student currently studying in VIT Pune. I have done my schooling and junior college from Loyola high school and junior college Pune.
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She writes in 3 different languages viz. Hindi, Gujarati & English. She has written over 2000 poems. “Ehsaas” was her first publication which was a collection of Hindi poems on life. Her poem “Always Remember” is featured in Anne Geddes' “Friends Forever” gift book, who is an internationally acclaimed photographer. “Winter of Hope” is her second publication.
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July 6th 1993, Lawrence was cited by The United States Senate through Joseph I. Lieberman, "I am pleased to offer my most heartfelt congratulations to you upon your designation as one of America's Most Distinguished Poets and your impending induction into the International society of Poets. Once again, please accept my sincere congratulations on your most laudable achievement." The Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York City in conjunction with The Frank Silvera's Writers' Workshop, has several of Lawrence's plays documented.
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My name is Lawson E. Vallery Jr. and I was born in Alexandria, Louisiana; USA in 1943. Before I turned a year old I was moved to Texas. I grew up in the sand hills and oil fields of west Texas around Midland, Odessa and Abilene; "serious" cowboy country.
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