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Celestial K. has been a poet since she learned to rhyme in elementary school. She holds a BA in English and minor in Music from Wesleyan College and a Masters in Teaching from the former Augusta State University, now Georgia Regents University, and teaches high school English.
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A recently retired baby boomer poet freed finally after working 40 years for “The Man” and sometimes “The Woman," Michael attends no more useless meetings under florescent lights in stuffy windowless rooms. Now he’s able to devote serious time to making better poems when he’s not, of course, trying to satisfy his wife’s legendary Honey-Do List.
In 2009, Michael had this to say:
"My apprenticeship as a poet over the past 20 years has prepared me for my latest project – The Patti Poems, poems (and some prose) about my wife. This project will be my magnum opus, what I will spend the rest of my life on. It is all I care about, all that is important to me. It (and she) has become a bit of an obsession. And, oh woe is me, it definitely has a mind of its own, pulling me all over the place, so far becoming a collection of 21 books. But well, so often we do these things simply because we must. Patti is my climb up Mount Everest. I must try my best to capture the pure, ethereal beauty of this most incredible woman, not only the most beautiful woman I have ever known, but the most beautiful person I have ever known. I’m not certain, quite honestly, if I am up to the task, that I have the talent and poetic apparatus to be successful, but well, what choice do I have really? Where is Dante when I need him? He has sent me off through Purgatory and into Paradise all by myself."
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Scott Blackwell is a former resident of San Francisco and a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute (1997). His poetry is published in Tiger’s Eye, Caveat Lector, Iodine Poetry Journal, The Stray Branch and Tribeca Poetry Review. He currently resides in Champaign, Illinois.
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Cynthia A. Ventresca is as of this writing a student at the University of Delaware, pursuing her degree in English, with a concentration in creative writing. She works by day as a supervisor at a local utility company. There she uses her left brain attributes, but always feel happiest indulging her right side. We take great pleasure in welcoming her poetry to Eye On Life.
Several of Cynthia's works were published in the 2013-2014 edition of Caesura Literary Magazine, journal of the University of Delaware.
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Maria S. Picone is a creative writing MFA student at Goddard College. She just completed a residency at the Starry Night Retreat in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, and she plans to do volunteer work in Cambodia this fall. Maria's work is forthcoming or recently published in the Nassau Review, the Pitkin Review, and Able Muse.
Her website is mariaspicone.com, or you can follow her on Twitter @mspicone.
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BJ Muirhead is a writer and photographer whose aim is to achieve what Melville called 'visible truth', or the absolute apprehension of the conditions of things, as experienced.
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Ashley Warren is a Minnesota native currently living in Minneapolis but has plans to flee back to San Francisco after only a year away. Always fighting her peripatetic urges, her poetry frequently digs into the nature of 'place' and asks, "What is the importance and purpose of 'here'?" She explores this question through themes of freedom, struggle and loss with a specific interest in sound as she writes her poetry.
You can find Ashley's work in The Full Moon Poetry Society, which includes an award for 2nd best poem of 2011. Additionally, her work has been published multiple times in The Elohi Gadugi Journal, one of her short stories was published in The Cynic and her first published poem appeared in The Southwest Journal.
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Phillip A. Ellis is an Australian freelance critic, poet and scholar. His work includes The Flayed Man, Symptoms Positive and Negative, Arkham Monologues and Four Ballades on the Crawling Chaos. He is the editor of Melaleuca. Phillip's website is at http://www.phillipaellis.com/
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H.E. Mantel-O’HaroHalola, Aquarian male, of Hallandale Beach, Florida; award-winning poet/writer/editor/mentor, published extensively in print and Internet e-zines, journals, anthologies, including Ascent Aspirations, Shampoo, Record Magazine, The Apocalypse, A Hero's Journey Anthology, International War Veterans Poetry Archive, Poetry By Moonlight Anthology, Dilate, Concisely, Contrary, A Dream In The Clouds, Doors Anthology (I & II), World Artist Network Magazine, Anthology Of Food, Poetry Soup (Featured Poet/Competition Award Winner), The National Quarterly, Caper, Eye On Life (Featured Poet/Competitions Award Winner), Hennen’s Observer (Featured Poet/Competitions Award Winner), In Other Words: Merida; Amelia Earhart Tribute Journal, Hobo Code Project, Young Artists Photography Competition (Poetry Contest Winner), “It’s So Margate” (Contest Winner), Editor, "Hope And The Heart Of Gritty Sand" -Angela Mary Piraino; awaiting the publication of poetry collections, "Bananas' On The Moon...A Collection Of Revisionist Haiku", and "Sophistigates: A New Book Of New Poetry;" musician-vocalist-songwriter, an avid reader, athlete, nutritionist and devotee of holistic health through vegan lifestyle, ecology and his writing to help our Earth to heal.
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Honorable Mention, EOL Poetry Contest 2010-2011:
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Pascale de Comarmond lives in Kent, England. She is a poet and contemporary artist who uses the wonderful colours generated from the seascape and sunsets of Thanet for her Turneresque paintings. She also writes poetry for children and is presently working on a novel.
Her poem, Forgive Me Kate, was longlisted in the Fish 2012 Poetry Competition.
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