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Debbi Brody conducts poetry workshops at festivals and other venues through out the Southwest to writers aged twelve through eighty-five. She publishes frequently in Albuquerque's Central Avenue Poetry. Her work has appeared in the Santa Fe Literary Review, Broomweed Journal, Poetica, Taj Mahal Review and other literary magazines. Her latest book, Portraits in Poetry, (Village Books Press, Oklahoma, 2006), as well as her chapbook, FreeForm are available through artqueen58@aol.com. Debbi lives in Santa Fe where she co-owns Canyon Road Contemporary Art. She truly enjoys hearing from her readers through the above email address. |
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Therese Bisceglia Santa Fe, NM artist Therese Bisceglia received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston. She has exhibited and sold through her work throughout the USA, Germany, France and Japan. Therese has been creating new works on clay and wood panel incorporating her love for travel, collage and storytelling. Her recent work can be viewed at http://web.mac.com/tbisceglia
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Julie CummingsJulie Cummings is a poet and teacher living in Denver, Co. She is employed as a technology coordinator of a middle school and as a part time high school poetry teacher. She currently serves as Vice President of Columbine Poets, Inc.
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James Tipton lives in the tropical mountains of southern Mexico where he writes for four different monthly magazines in English as well as for magazines in the States. He is the author of several collections, including Letters from a Stranger (with a Foreword by Isabel Allende), which won the Colorado book award. He is currently trying to complete several book projects, including a new collection of poetry in the ecstatic tradition--The King of Ajijic--as well as a new collection of haiku--Finding Her Dark Hair on the Blue Pillow.
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Don McIver Don McIver is the author of "The Noisy Pen," a 3 time member of the ABQ Slam Team, an award winning radio producer, the media director for the 2005 National Poetry Slam (the largest poetry slam in history), and a Trustee on the Executive Council for PSI. For more info. pleas visit www.donmciver.net.
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TVS and two fingers is a Fort Collins, CO performance poetry troupe that combines word art with sound art, using some very nontraditional instruments and unusual concepts to underscore original poetry. TVS and two fingers is Tim Van Schmidt, Mark Rosoff and Dave Zekman. They have performed in nightclubs, theaters, and schools and toured the eastern United States in 2002.
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Roseanna Frechette & Scott Seeber Roseanna and Scott are performance artists who appreciate dynamic creative process as much as its outcome. They enjoy exploratory adventures of synergistic collaboration while honoring the solo aspect of crafting work. Roseanna Frechette is a published poet, writer and yoga professional with a love of interpretive dance. Scott Seeber is an accomplished musician whose musical journey includes spoken word as well as song. Both perform with "Art Compost and the Word Mechanics" as well as "Fragments of Divine," and both are pleased to share the Sparrows stage.
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SETH-Art Compost & the Word Mechanics Mix poetry, music, spontaneity and a spirit of creative adventure and you get Art Compost & the Word Mechanics. This elastic ensemble of poets, musicians, singers and dancers hails from Denver, CO where for more than 7 years they have been encouraging other poets & singers to join them in an improvisational melding of spoken word & music – sometimes including dance & visual displays. Every Sunday night you can catch their act at Denver's Mercury Café.
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Life-lover Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer lives with her husband and son near the San Miguel River. Her books include If You Listen, Insatiable, Charity and The Christmas Candle Book. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Telluride Council for the Arts and Humanities. |
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Kory Ford lives and loves in LA. Father of an amazing 4 year old, Ben with whom he explores the mysteries of life that you find in each of his hard hitting poems. Just watch out for the punch line. |
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Celeste Labadie's mission on earth is to inspire and be inspired. She strives to make a difference in the world by helping those who have no voice. Her poem, "Love Greater," is published in the 2006, 25th Anniversary WE'MOON desk calendar for women. |
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Kim Nuzzo Kim is a performance poet/actor, a founding member of the Hudson Reed Ensemble, co-founder and Emcee of Live Poetry Night at Zele Cafe in Aspen, Colorado. He's been a featured poet at Town Center Booksellers Poetry Night numerous times and in Melange, a New Age variety show at the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen. I have been writitng since my teens but did not really find my voice until about fifteen years ago. I consider myself to be a self-taught, outsider poet whose main influence has been the milieu of the 1960s and all that entails. I write and perform poetry because it is the best way I know to release the desperate roar inside me.
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Hakim BellamyHakim is a still finding his way. Along the way, performance
poetry bumped into him in Albuquerque two years ago. Before that he was a
Microbiologist at a Fortune 500 Drug Company and a Junior College Soccer
Coach in South Jersey. Since then, a Grad Student in Communications in
Journalism at UNM, a radio journalist at KUNM 89.9FM, a Floor Tech at
KOB-TV/NBC Channel 4 in the "Duke City", a performance poetry coach at
South Valley Academy, an Albuquerque City Slam Champ (2005), 2-Time UNM
Word Revolution (Now LOBOSLAM) Champ and a member of 2 National Champion
Poetry Teams (Team Albuquerque NPS 2005 & Team UNM CUPSI 2006).
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Poet, essayist and teacher Michael Adams fell from grace long ago and stumbled to earth just east of the continental divide in Lafayette, Colorado. He performs widely and has published several chapbooks of poetry. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and journals. |
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Barbara Ford Barbara lives in the crosswinds of two mountain passes and still uses a typewriter. She regularly practices designing high altitude wholegrain pancakes, shooting photographs from a moving bicycle, weeding cheatgrass and Russian thistle, and reading poetry on the radio. Her first published poem was in a high school paper. It contained a blaring typo that greatly improved the poem. Life has become increasingly mysterious ever since. |
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Rhonda Cleaver-McCormick is an artist who integrates her love of life
and nature in all she does. She is a jewelry artist, rockhound,
painter, organic gardener, drummer, poet and is embracing life again.
She used to co-host Salida's P3, a monthly poetry, prose and performance
gathering.
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John NizalowskiJohn Nizalowski teaches creative writing and comparative mythology at Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colorado. John Nichols called his first book, the multi-genre Hooking the Sun from Farolito Press, "immensely intriguing and enjoyable." A second book, a collection of poems entitled The Last Matinee, is due out in 2008 from Embers Press. Nizalowski is currently working on a collection of essays entitled Origins and a biography of southwestern author Frank Waters. |
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Lawton Eddy is at home in Salida and in her cabin in the Sangre De Cristos. Her "day job" with KVRH Radio involves selling and writing ads. She dances with the Salida Drum and Dance Troupe, and plays the fiddle. Her poetry is inspired by human foibles and natural beauty. |
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Kit MuldoonA career volunteer, Kit has very little unscheduled time, although most of it is free.
Currently she is advocating with the juvenile justice system for children with behavioral and mental health challenges, as well as offering support to survivors of domestic violence. She also works in animal rescue and her tiny house in Lakewood is a haven for strays of all kinds, both two and four-legged. Often the hostess of community suppers, she loves fostering the sense of connection that happens when people break bread together. In addition to poetry her artistic interests include painting, sculpture and digital photography
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Stewart S. Warren & Human Earth Spoken Word and Groove Ensemble from Del Norte, Colorado,Stewart S. Warren, evocateur, performance poet, and author of Shape Of A Hill listens for signals of social change and the emergence of higher principles arising at any moment, from any person, and found in the simplest of expressions.
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Laurie James It is the soul of birds, the shiny eyes and glistening ragged wings that feed the heart these
days. Time spent at Sand Lake watching, seeking strange rocks in the world around us is what
keeps things sane in a world gone mad. A 36 year Salida resident and Montana native daughter, she
dreams of loons and meadowlarks, dragonflys and clear tumbling waters, red rocks and salamanders.
Sparrows has been a 7 year work of love to keep poetry waging and well.
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Ellen Metrick Ellen Marie Metrick of Norwood, CO is poet, mountain lover, river spirit, mother of a butterfly flower, partner of Soil-Drummer. Teacher of 6 year-olds. Seeker of The Way of Poetry in a busy mother's life. Author of POETisattva, member of EAR poetry performance troupe.
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Kit HedmanKit Hedman is an image maker and truth seeker. He has been writing poetry all his life and still starts every poem as if it were his first. He is the new facilitator for the online poetry list TALKING GOURDS.
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Jude Janett , Early organizer of Sparrows, is currently back at directing and on the board with a group of amazing and magical women. She's working on her second novel and has a book of poetry, "Saudades,"still searching for a way to get into print. She's back in Salida learning how to run a movie theater, but she still loves loud wild entertaining poetry.
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