L.L. Barkat, Editor, Tweetspeak Poetry, T. S. Poetry Press, and Every Day Poems
Recently, I sat outside every day for a year. Not all day. Just the time it took to drink a cup of tea or maybe get rained on. That was the year I learned to love winter best. I have a book on writing and creativity called Rumors of Water and a poetry book InsideOut: poems. You can find me as a Managing Editor at The High Calling, a Staff Writer at The Curator, or my blog Seedlings in Stone. Follow me on Twitter @llbarkat
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Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, Contributing Writer, Tweetspeak Poetry
I teach English, Creative Writing, and Literature & Theology at Fordham University in New York City. I’m obsessed with certain things (including Moby Dick, Frank Sinatra, and The Saints). In addition to being a writer and teacher, I’m a mother to three delightful (and surprisingly well-adjusted) twenty-something sons. My most recent book of poems is Saint Sinatra, and I have an upcoming book on Flannery O’Connor’s theological imagination, The Province of Joy (Paraclete Press, 2012). You can visit me at angelaalaimoodonnell.com.
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Claire Burge, Photo Features Editor, Every Day Poems, Vice President of App Development, T. S. Poetry Press
I have been described as part chaos, part rocket fuel. I delight in the unknown and treat life like a playground. I’m fascinated by sensuality, science and strangers. Good writing and heart photography are my soul passions. As for you… let’s get to know each other shall we? @claireburge
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Sarah Elwell, Contributing Photographer, Every Day Poems
I am a writer from beside an old stony sea, at the edge of the known world. I am, as are we all, light against earth – everything else is just the layering of story. You can visit me at Knitting The Wind. @knittingthewind
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Tania Runyan, Editor, Every Day Poems
I live in Lindenhurst, Illinois, a sort-of suburb, sort-of small town, where the deer and the minivans play. I'm mama to three poetry books—A Thousand Vessels, Simple Weight, and Delicious Air—and three (much cuter and noisier) human children. When not writing or spending time with the family, I tutor high school students, play Celtic fiddle and mandolin, and get gloriously muddy in the garden. Visit me at TaniaRunyan.com • • • Kelly Sauer, Contributing Photographer, Every Day Poems I’m a work-at-home-mom who launched a wedding photography business in 2010. A poet-photographer and incurable restless heart, I make fine art out of real life as I focus on authentic relationships and transparent branding. @kellysauer • • • Karen Swallow Prior, Contributing Writer, Tweetspeak Poetry I live in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains where I love to run. When I’m not running or reading or writing, I get to talk about the books I love at Liberty University where I also happen to chair the department of English and Modern Languages. I write regularly for Her.meneutics, the women’s blog at Christianity Today. You can follow me on Twitter @LoveLifeLitGod • • • David K. Wheeler, Consulting Editor, T. S. Poetry Press I’m the author of Contingency Plans: Poems and the independently produced album There There. You can occasionally find me at The High Calling, Burnside Writers Collective, and The Morning News. Somebody thought it would be good to have my writing in The Pacific Northwest Reader, an essay collection from Harper/Delphinium, and so it is. Visit me at Dave Writes Right or follow me on Twitter at @daviewheeler • • • Emily Wierenga, Art Features Editor, Every Day Poems I am a Canadian who’s addicted to color. This is why I paint, write, travel and garden. You can find me, dreadlocked mother of two, @emily_wierenga, or on Facebook at Emily Theresa Wierenga. Stop by my writing site at Imperfect Prose or my art store. • • • Glynn Young, Editor and Twitter-Party-Cool-Poem-Weaver, Tweetspeak Poetry I live in St. Louis where I’m the team lead for Online Strategy & Communications for a Fortune 500 company. I write poetry, short stories and fiction, and I love to bike. You can find me at The High Calling as a Contributing Editor and at my blog Faith, Fiction, Friends or follow me on Twitter @gyoung9751. • • • We also need to thank Eric Swalberg and Bradley J. Moore, for being so fun and bantering on Twitter. That led to our very first Twitter poetry party, which led to this site, which led to an award-winning small press, which led to a Daily called Every Day Poems. And Rod Karmenzind, who graciously lent his art (the header) right from the beginning, not knowing it would someday go this far. • • • Guest Writers Who’ve Appeared at Tweetspeak John Estes I’m Director of Creative Writing at Malone University, a small school in the Quaker tradition located in Canton, Ohio. If you live outside Northeast Ohio you most likely have never heard of the place (and if you know anything of Canton at all it’s probably something do with the NFL Hall of Fame). I’m also the author of Kingdom Come, as well as two chapbooks. You can find out more about my work and read my occasional blog at JohnEstes.org • • • Joel Jacobson I live in Colorado with my beautiful wife, two busy little boys, and Haiku the Wonder Lab. My days are rounded out with teaching high school English and creative writing, blogging about faith and art, and writing poetry. As if that’s not enough, I am an avid fan of baseball and football. You can follow me on Twitter @jejpoet • • • Julia Spicher Kasdorf I’m an associate professor of English and women’s studies at the Pennsylvania State University and teach in the MFA program in creative writing. I have two collections of poetry with the University of Pittsburgh Press, and a third, Poetry in America, debuted this fall. Eve’s Striptease was named one of Library Journal‘s Top 20 Best Poetry Books of 1998, and Sleeping Preacher won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and the Great Lakes College’s Association Award for New Writing. You can visit me at my website. • • • Dave Malone I’m living a thousand lives in one (so please don’t tell me differently)—a couple of those are poet, playwright, and fiction writer. I call the southern Missouri (Missourah down here) Ozarks home. The title for my e-newsletter, If I Had a Nickel, is rooted in a phrase from my Ozark grandfather. I write about romance, sensuality, and nature. You can find what I’m up to via my website or Twitter. • • • Bradley J. Moore I’m a full-time executive who likes to write about the joys and challenges of connecting business life with spiritual life. You can find me at Shrinking the Camel or follow me on Twitter at @shrinkingcamel
I have just joined your site, and look forward to learning and sharing all that is available. I love writing poetry and have for many years. I would love an opportunity to share my work, find out how to make some money using my gift, and look forward to meeting those people who write and share my desire.
I don’t have much money, but know somewhere out there, is a beginning for everyone with a dream.
I found your amazing site through Face book Called Every Day Poems. I have been writing poetry for many years. I also have been keeping journals all of my life. One of my many passions is writing , and this past September I, took a wonderful creative writing class . My teacher inspired me to pursue my dream further! So this being said I would love the opportunity to share my poetry and other work (creative non fiction) and someday see some of my poetry published in print for others to enjoy.
mon. 1/16/12
I just read for the first time today the entry on EveryDay Poems….’Fingerplay’, but there was no author listed. Just curious who it was. I see on this ‘tweetspeakpoetry’ page who the Contributors are, but who goes with what?
just curious.
thanks!
Jody Collins
Yes – what a delight to see your faces as I start the morning!