Thursday February 8, 2024 – 7pm -Virtual

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David Eberhardt, author of Melange, The Tree Calendar, Blue Running Lights, and Poems from the Website, was born in 1941. He retired in 2010 from 33 years of work in the criminal INjustice system at the Baltimore City jail. With Father Phil Berrigan and two others he poured blood on draft files in 1967 to protest the Viet Nam war. For that action, he spent 21 months in Lewisburg Federal Prison. He has completed a peace movement memoir, For All the Saints: A Protest Primer. In 2020 he won the Enoch Pratt Library/ Little Patuxent Review prize for poetry.

Stephen Jones has lived in Detroit for more than forty years, has worked as a journalist, high school English teacher and university history instructor. He is a student of Zen Buddhism, which sparked his interest in such ancient Chinese poets as Han Shan, Su Tung’p’o, Tu Fu, Li Po, and Po Chu-i. Jones’ poems have appeared in Abandon Automobile, an anthology of Detroit poets; Maxis Review; Poet in the House; Buddhist Poetry Review; Third Wednesday, and Temenos.

Marjorie Moorhead lives and writes at the border of NH/VT. She is author of poetry collections Every Small Breeze, What I Ask, and chapbooks Survival: Trees, Tides, Song  and Survival Part 2: Trees, Birds, Ocean, Bees.  Marjorie’s work appears in journals including Amethyst Review, Tiny Seed Literary, Moist Poetry Journal, Bloodroot Literary, Sheila-Na-Gig, Porter House Review, Poeming Pigeon, Verse-Virtual, What Rough Beast, A River Sings, The Poet’s Touchstone, and others. Her poems are included in anthologies benefitting environmental, women’s, Covid first responder, and refugee aid organizations. She has a poem in The Wonder of Small Things (James Crews, ed. 2023). Marjorie’s local poetry group is 4th Friday Poets.

Daniel Williams has published in many journals and anthologies, he is a long-standing member of Poets’ West, California Federation of Chaparral Poets, Poets & Writers, and the Ina Coolbrith Circle and has poems in Yosemite National Park’s time capsule, a haiku engraved on MAVEN, the Mar’s orbiter, and has been nominated for Pushcart Prize in poetry. His California inspired poems have been featured in Ina Coolbrith Poetry Circle Anthologies, Gathering 14 and Gathering 15.

Samantha Wright, author of Edges Holding Edges and Postcards from the West, lives in the Pacific Northwest. Her poems have appeared in Beyond Words, Prometheus Dreaming, Pontoon Poetry, Minerva Arts, Welter, Cathexis Northwest, among others. Her debut chapbook, Edges Holding Edges, was published by Moonstone Arts in 2022.  She currently divides her time between writing and teaching yoga.

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