Join us on Tuesday, March 1 at 7 p.m. EST (4 p.m. PST) for a night of poetry and prose featuring Bennington Writing Seminars alumni Elaine Fletcher Chapman, Lauren Davis, Monica Minott, Miriam O'Neal, and Cheryl Pappas.
Elaine Fletcher Chapman is the author of a new volume of poems, Reservoir, published by Saint Julian Press, Hunger for Salt also published by Saint Julian Press and a letterpress chapbook, Double Solitude published by Green River Press. She is an Assistant Professor (Adjunct) teaching Literature at Old Dominion University. Chapman worked on staff at The Bennington Writing Seminars, Bennington College for 18 years. She founded The Writer’s Studio where she teaches poetry, nonfiction and ongoing classes and two online classes, On Keeping a Journal and Yoga Nidra & Sacred Writing. For the last 40 years she has worked as a therapist in private practice. She is a Certified iRest Yoga Nidra teacher. Her poems have been published in Hoot, Cloudbank, Poetry Pacific, 8 Poems, Rabid Oak, The Tishman Review, The EcoTheo Review, The Cortland Review, Connotation, The Sun, Calyx, Poet Lore, 5AM, Salamander, and others. She was guest blogger on The Best American Poetry Blog and The Solstice Literary Magazine blog. www.elainefletcherchapman.com .
Elaine’s books can be purchased here.
Lauren Davis is the author of Home Beneath the Church (Fernwood Press) and When I Drowned (Aldrich Press, forthcoming), and the chapbooks Each Wild Thing’s Consent (Poetry Wolf Press), and The Missing Ones (Winter texts). She holds an MFA from the Bennington College Writing Seminars, and her work has appeared in publications such as Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, and Ninth Letter. Visit her at LaurenDavisAuthor.com.
Purchase Home Beneath the Church here.
Monica Minott is the author of two collections of poetry, Kumina Queen and Zion Roses. She was awarded first prize in the inaugural Small Axe poetry competition and her poems have been published in The Caribbean Writer, Small Axe, Cultural Voice Magazine, SX Salon, Jubilation, Coming Up Hot: featuring Eight New Poets from the Caribbean, The Squaw Valley Review, and BIM magazine. Monica Minott is also a Chartered Accountant. She received two awards in Jamaica’s National Book Development Council’s annual literary competitions for book-length collections of her poetry. Nadi Edwards said “Zion Roses’ complex contemplations are woven from Minott’s adroit and fluid shifting between temporalities.”
Miriam O'Neal's The Body Dialogues (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2020) was nominated for a Massachusetts Center for the Book Award. Her work has appeared in AGNI, Blackbird Journal, The Galway Review, North Dakota Quarterly, and other journals. Her first collection, We Start With What We’re Given, was published by Kelsay Books in 2018. A 2019 Pushcart nominee, she was also a finalist for the 2019 Disquiet International Poetry Prize and the 2020 Princemere Poetry Prize. A portion of her translation of Italian poet Alda Merini’s Rose Volanti appeared in On The Seawall, in Fall of 2019. See more at miriamoneal.com.
Purchase The Body Dialogues here.
Cheryl Pappas is an American writer living outside Boston. Her poetry has appeared in The Chattahoochee Review, HAD, and elsewhere. She is the author of the flash fiction collection The Clarity of Hunger, published by word west press (2021). Her website is www.cherylpappas.net.
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