Poets in Fall Hudson View Poetry Digest

Jeffrey Hanson

Jan Oskar Hansen

Karen Kelsay

R.W. Haynes

Stephanie Pope

Jacob Erin-Cilberto

Brett Beiles

Rumjhum Biswas

Priyadarshi Patnaik

Brian Anthony Hardie

Shreekumar Varma

Jim Fuess Art & Biography

Jesse Weiner
World Love Poetry Review

Santosh Kumar

Taylor Graham

Joan Rene Goldberg

Patty Mager

Pamela A. MacBean

Gona Pragasen Naicker

Ravi Naicker

Michael Lee Johnson

Easterine Iralu

Victoria Valentine

Dr. Rita Malhotra

Poet Biographies

Brett Beiles works as a copywriter in Durban, South Africa. Also adjudicates festivals for the SA Speech & Drama Association. Has been published in anthologies and journals in SA and abroad, judged a few poetry competitions, won a couple of prizes, curated and appeared in several festivals. Convened the Live Poets’ Society (LiPS) in Durban 2001-7 (founded in 1995).

Rumjhum Biswas’s fiction and poetry have been published across the globe. One of her poems was long listed in the 2006 Bridport Poetry Prize. She won third prize in the Unisun Publishers’ poetry contest 2007-2008. For more about her writing, visit: www.rumjhumbiswas.com

Jacob Erin-Cilberto is a poet & teacher. He has been writing poetry & prose since 1970, and has taught English composition and literature at John A. Logan College and at Shawnee Community College since 1994. He enjoys teaching poetry workshops for the Heartland Writers Guild in Sikeston, Missouri & the Southern Illinois Writers Guild. His work has been published in numerous magazines & journals. Received a Pushcart Poetry Prize nomination for 2006 & 2007. He has recently published his 10th book of poetry, "against the current".

Joan Rene Goldberg is a teacher who loves to read and write poetry. Her poems can be visited on several online webzines including Eclectica, Snakeskin and Millers Pond.

Taylor Graham is a volunteer search-and-rescue dog handler. Her poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, The New York Quarterly, Southern Humanities Review. She’s included in California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present. Her book The Downstairs Dance Floor was awarded the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize.

Jan Oskar Hansen is a Norwegian poet residing in Portugal. Published books: Murmur from the East, Homecoming, La Strada, End of a Voyage, Letters from Portugal. See also Wikipedia.

After spending many years in San Diego, Jeffrey Hanson and his wife Marilyn moved to Ohio where Jeffrey now teaches English for Hocking College. Life is good, and his writing seems to be going well. After graduating from Ohio University in 2007 with a PhD in writing, Jeffrey’s goal to be published has taken on new importance.

Easterine Iralu is an internationally acclaimed poet and writer. She belongs to Nagaland, from Northeastern India. Easterine Iralu has written and published a number of short stories and anthologies of poetry. She has been a guest of Norwegian PEN from 2005 to 2007 and during this period has traveled and spoken extensively on the idea of self exile, on writing in another country, on Naga literature and on the conflict-torn state of Nagaland. Two of her books have been translated and published in Norway.

Michael Lee Johnson is a poet and freelance writer from Itasca, Illinois.  He is the author of The Lost American:  from Exile to Freedom, www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-46091-7  He has also published two chapbooks available at:  http://stores.lulu.com/poetryboy.  He is presently looking for a publisher for two more chapbooks.  He has been published in USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Scotland, Turkey, Fiji, Nigeria, Algeria, Africa, India, United Kingdom, Republic of Sierra Leone, Israel, Nepal, Thailand, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Finland, and Poland internet radio.  Michael Lee Johnson has been published in more than 240 different publications worldwide.  Audio MP3 of poems are available on request.

Karen Kelsay grew up near the Pacific, and loves writing poetry about the sea.

At the same time, she has written narrative, romantic, and fairy-theme poems that were created with other backgrounds and foreign lands in mind. Her first book, Collected Poems, was published in June 2008, and a chapbook called "A Fist of Roots" will be published this year by Puddinghouse Press.

Santosh Kumar (b. 1946) is a poet, short-story writer and an editor from UP India; DPhil in English; Editor of Taj Mahal Review and  Harvests of New Millennium Journals.

Pamela A. MacBean lives in the North Country of New Hampshire on 48 acres of land affectionately called Go-Pher Wood Farm with her husband and daughter.  Pam is a cancer survivor of one year.  Two books Postscripts in Time Foothillspublishing.com and In the Great North Woods PublishAmerica.com are out in print.  Pam has been a Pushcart Prize nominee.

Patty Mager is a banker and investor who has been writing poetry for ten years.   Patty has been published in literary anthologies including The Elms, Literary House Review, Skyline Magazine, SpinningS Intense Tales, Skyline Review, and Bottlecap Magazine. The Webster-Kirkwood Times recently did an article on Patty and four of her poems were featured. She has also been published in both the American and Fort Worth Haiku Society Journals.

A Mathematician by profession, Dr Rita Malhotra is also a poet and essayist, translator. She is currently a part of the Post Graduate Faculty at the Department of Mathematics, South Campus, Delhi University and "HOD Mathematics" at Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi. She is a PhD. in Mathematics from Delhi University and has been a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Mathematics at The University of Paris IX, Dauphine on a French Government Fellowship. She has published several research papers in India and abroad and has presented them at various International Conferences.

Gona Pragasen Naicker is an activist and a poet based in Durban, South Africa. A Hindu traditionalist, his poems have the consciousness of an Indian in South Africa.

Ravi Naicker is a teacher in English at a school in Durban, South Africa. He writes about the first and second generation of Indians brought by ship to work in sugar cane plantations and their tenacity to make lives better for future generations.

Priyadarshi Patnaik (b. 1969) is Associate Professor, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences,  Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. He has two anthologies of poems  to his credit. He writes poems, short fiction and  essays. He also paints and does photography. He is  currently interested in exploring poetry and painting together.

Stephanie Pope, A teacher, author, poet and mythologist, Stephanie has a BA in education from Walsh University and a master’s degree in mythological studies from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Stephanie has established mythopoetry.com to explore myth-logical possibilities with the language of cyber space, to see from within what images see and to make her poetry-making an e-vocation. A poet who lives and works off the grid, surfacing occasionally in Arizona and New York.

Victoria Valentine is an author who founded Skyline Publications in 2001, publishing writers, poets & artists in three print publications & online several literary websites. www.waterforestpress.com and www.nightwindpublishing.com are the latest editions to the Skyline family, designed to help authors publish & promote their poetry collections, short story collections, novellas and novels. Victoria’s own published books: At The Stroke Of Midnight, 24 tales of terror & The Cutest Little Duckie children’s novella.

Shreekumar Varma is a playwright, poet, children’s writer and columnist. He is an internationally renowned novelist.  He is an adjunct professor in Creative English at the Chennai Mathematical Institute. He lives in Chennai, South India, with his wife Geeta and sons Vinayak and Karthik. He welcomes visitors to www.shreevarma.com.