Virtual Poetry Reading: Book Release for Shelter in Place by Ben Hyland

Tuesday March 29, 2022 – 7pm – VIRTUAL

Registration Required – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqdqorD4qGd0ZSypQGzm70h7Zx6x9e5Ki

Ben Hyland, author of Shelter in Place, has poetry is collected in three chapbooks, all under his birth name (Ben Heins): The Empathy Thief, Cut Me Free, and Greatest Hits & B-Sides. Ben’s individual poems have appeared in journals such as Hawai’i-Pacific Review, Penumbra, and The Meadow. As a career coach, Ben has helped hundreds of jobseekers find employment. Connect with Ben and follow his work at benhylandlives.com.

Deborah Bayer is a retired Infectious Disease doctor and former cancer patient from Atlantic City, NJ. Her chapbook, Rope Made of Bandages, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in March 2023. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications. She is pursuing a Certificate of Professional Achievement in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University.

Shelley Cohen has been writing poetry since her retirement from the world of work when she exchanged a career in grant writing for the craft of poetry.  Along with the other featured readers, she has ties to the South Jersey poetry scene and frequently uses images from the Shore to inspire her work.

Barbara Daniels’ Talk to the Lioness was published by Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press. Her poetry has recently been accepted by Permafrost, Westchester Review, Philadelphia Stories, and Coachella Review. She received four fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the most recent in 2020.

Cole Eubanks is a retired teacher from the Philadelphia and Atlantic City School Districts. Cole has conducted three workshops for Stockton University’s Teen Arts Festival and has been the featured poet for the Sovereign Avenue Black History Jazz Celebration. In 2010, he won the Literacy Volunteers of America in Atlantic County’s Poet of the Year contest. Cole’s work can be found in Poet’s against War, Inferno No Boundaries, Apiary, Stray Cat, and E Pluribus Unum.

Jacalyn Shelley has been published in several journals including Sugar House Review, Dunes Review, Main Street Rag, and Barely South. Her poems have appeared in several anthologies most recently including Moonstone’s anthologies The Virus and Protest 2021. She is the recipient of three Pushcart nominations.