Robert Tomlinson
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Robert Tomlinson is a nationally recognized Pacific Northwest visual artists, creating large, mixed media drawings on paper and photo-based collages. His work has been featured in 14 solo shows and in over 50 group exhibitions, including shows at the Whatcom Museum of Art, Bank of America Gallery and 12 x 16 Gallery. He has participated in artist-in-residence programs at the Ragdale Foundation, Kala Institute and the Montana Artists Refuge. He is the recipient of a Pollack/Krasner Foundation Grant and has had work reproduced in numerous magazines, journals and newspapers.
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Poem Floating by Colette Jonopulos
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Colette Jonopulos lives, writes, and edits in Eugene, Oregon. Her poetry has appeared in Alimentum, PMS, Clackamas Literary Review, Crab Orchard Review, cho, Big Pulp, and la fovea. Her latest chapbook, Enough of Daylight, was published in 2009 by Uttered Chaos Press. She has recently completed a book, Want, and is currently working on a chapbook titled, honey, wax, silk. When she isn't writing, she can be found co-editing and publishing Tiger's Eye: A Journal of Poetry with JoAn Osborne.
Colette Jonopulos stays up late, eats chocolate, and writes poems about vampires. She currently co-edits and publishes Tiger's Eye: A Journal of Poetry.
between giving birth and dying: poems
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Poem Pastels on Black Paper by Lydia Foster
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Lydia Foster, Eugene, OR, graduated from the Wichita State University, Kansas, with a double major in psychology and creative writing. She went on to study in the MFA program. She has raised two daughters, helped establish a small business, created ink drawings, and deposited many poems in the mouth of a large black trunk. She has been a part of the Eugene writing community since 2003.
Lydia Foster, Eugene, OR, graduated from the Wichita State University, Kansas, with a double major in psychology and creative writing. She went on to study in the MFA program. Lydia has two grown daughters and a pair of very curious cats. Along the way she has helped establish a small business which has been in existence since 1980. " I have come to accept that I am a divided person, as I suspect we all are in varying degrees. With that in mind, I have chosen Timeshare as the working title for the book I am in the process of completing. A voyeur lives in me, and a minister's daughter, and a wild old woman a bit like Yeat's Crazy Jane. They each take a turn at the computer keyboard." Splitting her time between Oregon and Kansas she is most grateful for the support of her fellow poets in Eugene.
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Poem As the City Hums by Charles Thielman
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I am a Poet, Artiste and active shareholder of an independent, lefty Bookstore's collective, I organize and host readings in our adjacent performance venue and at a downtown gallery. I am the Treasurer and Membership Secretary for our county's writers. Organization, see Lane Literary Guild. I'm also the Eugene Unit Chair for the Oregon State Poetry Association.
Born and raised in Charleston, S.C., educated at red-bricked colleges and on Chicago's streets. I've worked as a corrections counselor, truck driver and city bus driver [truly a Whitmanesque experience]. Nowadays, my driving ambition is to be one of the best GrandFathers on the planet for 5 Magical Rascals!
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Poem After the Churn by Nancy Carol Moody
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Nancy Carol Moody was born in Southern California and grew up in a house on a hill from which she watched the Disneyland fireworks on summer evenings. Now living in Eugene, Oregon, Nancy is a member of the Lane Literary Guild and is active in several writing workshops. Additionally, she coordinates (with Sharon Lask Munson) the Springfield Library Reading Series sponsored by the Eugene-Springfield Chapter of the Oregon State Poetry Association. Nancy's poetry has appeared in many literary journals including Poetry Northwest, PANK, Natural Bridge, Bellevue Literary Review, The New York Quarterly and The MacGuffin. Her collection, Photograph With Girls, was published in 2009 by Traprock Books. She is currently at work on a chapbook, Negative Space, as well as a full-length manuscript titled Zorse. Nancy can be found online at nancycarolmoody.com.
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Poem Hovering Like Patience by Quinton Hallett
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Quinton Hallett is the author of three chapbooks, founder of Fern Rock Falls Press, and her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including: Windfall, hipfish, Dona Nobis Pacem, Tiger's Eye, Rattlesnake Review, forthcoming in Collecting Life, Poets on Objects Known and Imagined, and online at Four & Twenty and La Fovea. She has won state and national awards and received residencies from Caldera and Soapstone. Active in the Oregon State Poetry Association, she has chaired the Eugene-Springfield Chapter, served on the Board, and through OSPA, co-coordinates a reading series in Springfield and poet visits to Crow High School in Eugene. Quinton's poems have been on view at the Karin Clarke Gallery in Eugene, Oregon, the Rane and Taos Galleries in Taos, New Mexico in collaboration with artists Dennis Gould, the late Bill Rane, and Nancy Delpero, respectively. Her new chapbook, Refuge from Flux, was released by Finishing Line Press in January 2010.
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Poem The Way Things Are, Mostly by Nancy Carol Moody
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Poem Dissolution of Opposites by Colette Jonopulos
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Poem Sand Blown Over Mirrors by Charles Thielman
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Poem Superimposed by Lydia Foster
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Poem Recall Due to Sudden Unintended Acceleration by Karen Clausel
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Poem Fetus by Kella Hanna-Wayne
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Kella Hanna-Wayne is a native Eugenian and does not yet have any publishing credits. She has participated in the 1st and 3rd Thursday workshop group for a year, has a gluten free cooking blog, and is working on a poetry series to raise awareness for abusive relationships. She sings, bakes constantly, dances argentine tango and blues, and loves to put words to what she sees. She hopes to return to college at the University of Oregon and major in English Literature.
- Likes the good kind of music.
- Proclaimed bohemian but denies it.
- Singing baking tango breathing addict/poet.
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Poem When Demons Blink by Quinton Hallett
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Poem Plummeting by Laura LeHew
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Poet - Karen Clausel
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Karen Clausel is enjoying the emergence of her artist archetype, making jewelry, writing poetry, and writing her memoir about her experiences as a pioneer in women's ordination. Karen has over 30 years experience as a professional delving deeply into the human story and exploring psychotechnologies for emotional healing and spiritual evolution. She is a United Methodist clergywoman who has written countless sermons, created innovative liturgies, and edited many less memorable church newsletters. In her private practice as a psychospiritual therapist, she facilitated 7 on-going weekly therapy groups, numerous weekend Intensives, and was fascinated with the process of assisting clients re-write their "life scripts." Karen received her Doctorate of Ministry from Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC. Her poetry has been published in Tiger's Eye, Heartlodge, and in two anthologies, The Quizzical Chair and Word Quilts. She was the Contest Chair for the Oregon State Poetry Association. Karen lives in Eugene, OR.
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Poem First Word by Kathryn Ridall
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Kathryn Ridall came to poetry late in life after a long career as a psychotherapist and university instructor. Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies including Tiferet, Pearl, Kalliope, and The Texas Observer. She is the author of the chapbook, The Way of Stones (Finishing Line Press, 2009), and editor of the anthology, When the Muse Calls: Poems for the Creative Life. She has recently relocated to Eugene, Oregon where she lives with her husband, photographer Roger Barry. Her website is kathryn-ridall.com.
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