The Author of the collection of poems "Other Cruel Things" by Differentia Press

Author of the collection of poems;Becoming released through Whistling Shade Press

since 1970 john has published upwards of 1,300 poems in hundreds of magazines around the world. in march, his 20th book, CAN'T STOP NOW! will be published. selections of john's work have been translated into several languages, including spanish, swedish, italian, french, japanese and romanian.
john lives in pennsylvania with kathy, his wife of 35 years, and their dog abby. later next year a collection of john's dog poems from over the course of his career will be published. that book is tentatively titled "bark".
to quote the late Todd Moore, in an essay he wrote on John's work, titled BLIND GENIUS AND WILD LUCK,
"The poetry of John Yamrus demands more attention. There is real blood in this man’s work."

Walter E. Butts, the 2009-2014 New Hampshire Poet Laureate, is the author of Radio
Time (forthcoming from Cherry Grove), Sunday Evening at the Stardust Cafe`, which
was chosen as a finalist for the Philip Levine Prize in Poetry and selected winner of the
2006 Iowa Source Poetry Book Prize, and several chapbooks, including What to Say if
the Birds Ask (Pudding House, 2007) and Sunday Factory (Finishing Line Press, 2006).
The recipient of two Pushcart Prize nominations and a Massachusetts Artists Foundation
Award, his poems have appeared recently in Café Review, Cider Press Review, The Fourth
River, Poetry East and Saranac Review, and the anthology The 2010 Poets’ Guide to
New Hampshire. He teaches in the low-residency BFA in Creative Writing Program at
Goddard College.

Scott Owens reads from the book he has co-authored with Pris Campbell.Jane sits in to read 'hers' of the his n' hers parcel of the collection.

Press Bio: I received my MFA from Georgia State University, where I received the Gerard Manley Hopkins Award. My poetry has appeared widely in magazines including Five Points, Prairie schooner, The North American Review, The Cortland Review, Agenda, and Ars Interpres. In 2009, my work was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. I teach writing at the University of New Hampshire and live with my wife and dog in Exeter, NH.

"Blackberries"

It may in the end come to this: memory
the tongue will not abandon to fact,
the dark fruit bobbing in sugared cream. . .
We made our shirts into baskets, dawn
hung dew-luminous on branches,
cricket-thick glade abuzz with rising heat,
our young hands among thorns. It is enough,
perhaps, to have lived this, to have known
the summer air stung ripe, to hold
up against all that is leaving us
these berry-stained t-shirts, fingers
purpled sticky-sweet, the warm cream
dribbling our chins, and this mouth
still bruised with what it can’t say.

— James Rioux

Mimi White has been teaching creative writing for twenty-five years
and was Co-Director of PicturePoets of AIR, a non-profit organization
that provides enriching arts and cultural experiences to teenage
girls. She has been a finalist and a recipient of a NH State
Fellowship in Poetry. Her chapbook "The Singed Horizon" was selected
by Robert Creeley as the recipient of the 2000 Philbrick Poetry
Award. Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, New Hampshire 2005-2007, she is
currently working to reduce the effects of global warming as a member
of Rye, New Hampshire¹s Energy Committee.

S Stephanie lives in Manchester, NH where she teaches English and Creative Writing. She also works as a nurse. Her work has appeared in magazines such as The Birmingham Poetry Review, The Café Review, The Larcom Review, Third Coast, The Southern Review and The Sun. Her chapbook, Throat is available through Igneus Press. She published and co-edited the poetry magazine, Crying Sky: Poetry & Conversation 2005-2007. She has a second chapbook coming out with Pudding House in 2009. This poem came out of the frustration I sometimes feel when I watch the news. That feeling of ones hands being tied in the midst of so much negativity. It may have been my attempt at taking back my day. We do go on with the things we deem important, despite what is happening around us. At this time I was working with Alzheimer's patients. What the News Seemed to Say is also the title poem for my new chapbook. I put the chapbook together after realizing I was a bit of a "news junky" and had several pieces inspired by or incorporating news items in them. I then expanded on the theme news to broaden the theme of the book.

Jared Smith is a prominent figure in contemporary poetry, technology research, professional continuing education. Having earned his BA cum laude and his MA in English and American Literature from New York University, he spent many years in industry and research. Starting in 1976, he rose to Vice President of The Energy Bureau, Inc. in New York; relocated to Illinois, where he became Associate Director of both Education and Research for an international not-for-profit research laboratory (IGT); advised several White House Commissions on technology and policy under the Clinton Administration; and left industry in 2001, after serving as Special Appointee to Argonne National Laboratory.

reading of A Love letter to Darwin