Virtual Poetry Reading: New Chapbook Spotlight with Chris Bullard, Hermond Palmer, Connie Scott, and Virginia Watts

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Chris Bullard, author of Going Peaceably to the Obsidian Knife

Chris Bullard is a native Floridian who lives in Philadelphia, PA. He received his B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.F.A. from Wilkes University. His work has appeared in recent issues of Leveler, Muse/A Journal, The Woven Tale, Nimrod, American Journal of Poetry, and The Offbeat. Grey Book Press published his chapbook, “Continued,” in May of 2020.

Hermond Palmer, author of Aquarian Love Poems

Hermond Palmer is a poet, author, and songwriter who has performed his work at spoken-word venues in and around Harlem, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s College of Arts & Sciences and the Wharton Graduate School of Business. He has published three books of poetry; Echoes from the Quiet that I Keep, Words to Fill the Light in You, and What the Ancestors Told Me and I Decided to Listen.

Connie Wasem Scott, author of Predictable as Fire

Connie Wasem Scott makes her home among the pine trees and maples in Spokane, WA, where she teaches writing and literature at Spokane Falls Community College and spends as much time as she can enjoying the outdoors with her Aussie-American husband. Her first full collection, I Come to Know Thirst, was recently accepted for publication by Finishing Line Press (publishing date TBA). Her most recent poems have appeared in American Poetry Journal, The Shore, Cirque, Streetlight, Wild Roof, and Citron Review.

Virginia Watts, author of The Werewolves of Elk Creek

Virginia Watts is the author of poetry and stories found in Illuminations, The Florida Review, CRAFT, Sunspot Literary Journal, Sky Island Journal, Permafrost Magazine, Bacopa Literary Review, Streetlight Magazine among others. Winner of the 2019 Florida Review Meek Award in nonfiction and nominee for Best of the Net Nonfiction 2019 and 2020, she has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize.