NEW ROCHELLE, NY — The Poet’s Corner presents Poetic Truths
a poetry extravaganza exploring race,family, and class, with an examination of the spiritual aspects of the soul, and the facets of healing, loss, and liberation from releasing of the past.
Saturday, October 15, 2016, at 6 pm
Featuring:
Michael Collins
Claudine Nash
Lisa Rhodes-Ryabchich
Michael Collins’ poems have received Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared more than 50 journals and magazines, including Grist, Kenning Journal, Pank and Smartish Pace. His first chapbook, How to Sing when People Cut off your Head and Leave it Floating in the Water,won the Exact Change Press Chapbook Contest in2014. A full-length collection,Psalmandala. was published later that year,and a second chapbook, Harbor Mandala,appeared in 2015. Visit http://www.notthatmichaelcollins.com
Claudine Nash’s books include Parts per Trillion (Aldrich Press, 2016) and The Problem with Loving Ghosts(Finishing Line Press, 2014). She also edited the bookIn So Many Words: A Collection of Interviews and Poems with Adam Levon Brown (Madness Muse Press, 2016). Her poems have won prizes from Avalon Literary Review, Eye on Life Magazine, The Song is… and Lady Chaos Press and have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies including Cloudbank, Asimov’s Science Fictions, Star*Line , Yellow Chairs Review, The Westchester Review, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal and The MOON magazine amongst others.
Lisa Rhodes-Ryabchich is the author of We Are Beautiful Like Snowflakes (http://www.finishinglinepress.com, 2016) Her poems have appeared most recently in http://www.praxismagonline, Gather Round: A Collaboration of Cave Canem Workshop and Retreat Poets, and The Journal of Poetry Therapy. She received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and livesPiermont, NY. Her poetry blog is lisarhodesryabchichpoetryblog.wordpress.com