Celebrate National Poetry Month with a poe try marathon! Enjoy an afternoon of poetry at the library from some of Col umbus's most revered and celebrated poets.
\nPoet Bios:
\nFred Andrle&rsquo\;s c urrent poetry book is \;rocking in the cradle of the moment\, \;a collection of haiku and other short poems. Fred was host of WOSU Public Media&rsquo\;s Open Line talk show for 20 years until his retirement in 2009.
\nScott Woods is an Emmy award- winning writer and event organizer in Columbus\, Ohio\, and founder of Str eetlight Guild\, a performing arts non-profit. Woods is the author of thre e books. He is a 2018 Columbus Foundation Spirit of Columbus Award recipie nt. He was awarded &ldquo\;Best Columnist in Ohio&rdquo\; in 2023 by the O hio Society of Professional Journalists. He is the founder of Streetlight Guild\, a non-profit performing arts organization. In 2006 became the firs t poet to ever complete a 24-hour solo poetry reading\, a feat he bested s even more times without repeating a single poem.
\nRikki San ter&rsquo\;s poetry has been published widely and has received ma ny honors including several Pushcart and Ohioana book award nominations\, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, and in 2023 she was named Ohio Poet of the Year. \;Her twelfth poetry collection\, \;Resurrection Letter: Leonora\, Her Tarot\, and Me\, is a s equence in tribute to the surrealist artist Leonora Carrington. \; Ple ase contact her through her website\, \;https://rikkisanter.com.
\nSteve Abbott was
a co-founder and co-host of The Poetry Forum in Columbus for nearly 40 ye
ars\, during which it became one of the nation&rsquo\;s longest-running po
etry series. He has published five chapbooks and two full-length collectio
ns\, \;A Green Line Between Green Fields \;and \;
A Language the Images Speaks\, 46 ekphrastic poems \;accompanying
the artworks that inspired them. He has edited two anthologies\, \;
Paula J. Lambert&rs quo\;s fourth full-length poetry collection\, \;As If This Did Not Happen Every Day\, \;is forthcoming from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions. She has authored five chapbooks\, including \;Uncertainty (The On ly Hope We Have)\, just out from Bottlecap Press. Lambert is also a v isual artist\, small-press publisher\, and literary translator. Her work h as been recognized by PEN America and supported by the Ohio Arts Council\, the Greater Columbus Arts Council\, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She lives in Columbus\, Ohio\, with her husband Michael Perkins\, a philosopher and technologist. More at \;https://paulajlambert.com.
\nJerry Roscoe is the author of three collections and a chapbook. He has received an Ohi oana Book Award\, two Individual Artist Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Cou ncil\, published widely in literary magazines\, given numerous readings\, and had poems read by Garrison Keillor on \;The Writer's Almanac. \; \;For ten years he was poetry reviewer and columnist for t he \;Columbus Dispatch.
\nCharlene Fix &rsquo\;s poetry collections are \;Jewgirl \;(Broadstone Books 2023)\, \;Taking a Walk in My Animal Hat \;(Bottom Dog 2018)\, Frankenstein&rsquo\;s Flowers \;(CW Books 2014)\, and \;Flowering Bruno \;(XOXOX 2006). \;Her prose ho mage/film criticism is \;Harpo Marx as Trickster \;(McFar land 2013). Emeritus English Professor at Columbus College of Art and Desi gn\, co-coordinator of Hospital Poets at OSU Medical Center\, and activist for peace and justice\, Charlene is mother of three and grandmother of tw o. Her website is \;charlenefix.com< /a>.
\nJacquelin Smith won the Chiron Review Chapbo ok Contest in 2000 for \;My G-Rated Life. \; \;She ha s been published in a variety of literary magazines. Jacquelin has given r eadings and taught classes on creativity and poetry at the Columbus Cultur al Arts Center as well as at local bookstores.
\nMJ Abell is a catalyst for personal growth and creativity\, drawing on her e xperience as a poet\, SoulCollage®\; \;facilitator and leader of pr ofessional development workshops. \; She has received an OAC Individua l Artist Fellowship for Poetry and won the Thurber House humorous essay co ntest.
\nJack Burgess has been a soldier\, secondar y teacher of English &\; social studies\, labor relations practitioner\ , political organizer\, pre-history researcher\, political consultant\, &n bsp\;and writer whose columns on education\, politics\, and government app ear in \;The Chillicothe Gazette \;and other Ohio newspap ers\, as well as online. He believes poetry should be\, like government\, democratic and accessible. His chapbook entitled \;It&rsquo\;s Alw ays Gettysburg \;was published by Pudding House.
\nKathleen Burgess \;has \;received national awards as well as four Pushcart and two Best of the Net nominations for poems in \;m any journals and anthologies. Editor of \;Reeds and Rushes&mdash\;Pitc h\, Buzz\, and Hum\, Burgess has authored four poetry collections includin g \;The Wonder Cupboard \;and \;What Burden Do Those Trains Be ar Away\, while serving over 20 years on editorial staff for two journals. The retired public school music teacher and husband Jack Burgess live ami d Hopewell World Heritage Site earthworks. \;kathleensburgess.com.
\nKaren Scott is a poet living in Columbus\, Ohio. She is a member and ardent supporter of the Ohio Poetry Association (OPA)\, a past participant in the Women of Appalachia Project\, and a proud member of the SALON writing group. Her work has been published in Common Thre ads [annual OPA members anthology]\, Women Speak [Women of A ppalachia anthology]\, Delirious: A Poetic Celebration of Prince (2016)\, the inaugural issue of the Northern Appalachia Review (2 020)\, Quaranzine published by OPAWL (https://www.opawl.org/quaranzine). She has also been i ncluded in the anthologies American Graveyard: Calls to end gun violen ce (Read or GreenBooks)\; The Dead Pets Poetry Anthology (Tr anscendent Zero Press)\; and the Final issue of Pudding Magazine.
\nLinda Fuller-Smith \;- Once a professional b allet dancer\, Linda Fuller-Smith now enjoys a more sedentary writers&rsqu o\; life. A Central Ohio native\, she also lived a decade in Southern Cali fornia and nearly a year in Florence\, Italy. Linda&rsquo\;s poems engage with both personal experience and history\, and she is currently writing a book of poems related to the 1927 school bombing in Bath\, Michigan that killed her grandmother&rsquo\;s sister. The poet received an Ohio Arts Cou ncil&rsquo\;s Individual Excellence Award and has two grown daughters who amaze her.
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