THE EXHIBITION
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THE EXHIBITION •
BAD GUY
Cole Chaloupka is a former classroom teacher and current college counselor with an undergraduate degree in Marketing and Masters in Teaching. One of his favorite parts of teaching was the creative writing units, where he found he really enjoyed doing the writing prompts alongside the kids.
‘Dual Mourning’
Gabby Rosenzweig is an emerging writer based in NYC where she works as a full-time management consultant. She graduated from UPenn in 2020 with a degree in Communications. She has always been a writer, though she has just begun starting to share with others as she grows her work. She began this journey with the great support from the Gotham Writers Workshop and the community built there.
‘Cure for Pain’
Jonathan Atz is a human. With feelings and desires. One of those desires is to tell stories. And to have a nemesis. If you think you've got the gumption you can find him at @honeyivegotthe on twitter.
‘Prayers’
Sophie Lominska is a sixteen year old aspiring author from Kansas. This work, "Prayers," is a freeform, creative poem detailing her hopes for her life, and the revelations that eventually come along with it. She usually writes short stories and is excited for the chance to share her poetry with the world.
‘Sonnet 39: Dear Eros, My Lover’
Elizabeth Monreal is a young Mexican-American writer based in Las Vegas.
‘The Badger’
Matt Eddy is a a New York based, fable and humor author who likes to write with a taxidermized raccoon by my side. He is fascinated with the macabre and art that brings us closer to understanding ourselves.
‘Voices from the Archives’
Amanda Kluveld is a Holocaust historian and associate professor of history. She has authored several non-fiction books. Coming from a Dutch Indies family, Amanda is the first generation born in the Netherlands, and she brings a unique perspective to her research and writing, blending personal heritage with scholarly rigor.
‘ISLAND OF DREAMS’
Laima Gulbe-Testa's grandmother was a literature teacher and taught her to read and write very early. She remembers reading an article about an asteroid coming close to the Earth already at preschool age feeling so proud about being able to read complicated words. During her twenties she fell in love with the English language and began expressing herself in English. Her native tongue is Latvian. But her interest in songwriting led her to write in English even more. In her writing she's mostly interested in different social groups, global warming, the end of mankind and which direction mankind is taking, psychology and freedom of mind.
‘An Accusation Of Betrayal’
Toria Hill is a living, working artist who works in Acrylics and Mixed media at her studio inside the Winter Street Studios in Houston Texas. In December of 2022 another artist, filled with anger about what he perceived as a betrayal, set a bomb off inside the building and this fire consumed the entire building which held the life work of over 100 artist - including Toria Hill. Although she is not a poet, she had onn piece that, although damaged by smoke, survided the fire. In her pain, anger and loss she scribbled these words across the canvas. It lives to day to remind us all what a spark of anger can do. It is her only publicly diplayed poem today. www.toriahill.art / IG: toriahill.gallery FB: @toriahill.art
‘ON THE CAMPUS LAWN’, ‘DEFINITIVE’ & ‘MIDNIGHT THOUGHTS ON BEING A GOOD DAUGHTER’
Hannah Behrens is a poet, freelance writer, and writing coach. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Colorado. She is a native of Boulder, Colorado, and has lived in the Netherlands since 2016.
‘Mushak’ & ‘Ode to the Banal’
Linda Werbner is a Salem, MA-based writer and therapist. When she isn't cooking eggplant parm in her garret, she enjoys picking her banjo and making quilts for friends and family.
‘Curbed Curiosity’
Pasquale Gee is a 30 year old writer from Brooklyn New York. After posting his writing anonymously online, and it going viral, he decided to publish his first poetry book in 2022, and his second in 2023.
‘THIS IS MY DAY’, ‘BOBOLINKO AT SOMEWHAT SWEET SIXTEEN’ & ‘NEPTUNE’S HIPPOCAMP’
Kenneth Pobo (he/him) is the author of twenty-one chapbooks and nine full-length collections. Recent books include Bend of Quiet (Blue Light Press), Loplop in a Red City (Circling Rivers), Lilac And Sawdust (Meadowlark Press) and Gold Bracelet in a Cave: Aunt Stokesia (Ethel Press). His work has appeared in North Dakota Quarterly, Asheville Literary Review, Nimrod, Mudfish, Hawaii Review, and elsewhere. @KenPobo
MAYBE LATER THE QUID
Roy Haymond Jr. a career classroom teacher, the writer and briefly of a smalltown weekly. Pubs in obscure journals in 16 states and Canada. Retired to a rural enclave, writes and plays tenor sax.
‘The Delicate Peas’ & ‘Time Flies... Slowly’
Annette Young is indebted to the glints of writing that have now entered her life as a tool to hone aspects of joy. Teaching also silhouettes such aspects. Her hope is to continue these embryonic writing encounters so that they become daily fixtures of exploration that are a fulfilling meal that sample various glimpses of daily observations in organic life transactions. She has had the fortune to have a piece of poetry entitled, Swooped, published in From Whispers To Roars Volume 5 Issue I, as well as Spectacle Of Spectacles, published in The Write Launch. She was also graced with the occasion to have her short fiction work, Utensils, published in an anthology entitled, Below The Poverty Line.
‘Heart dissolving under the moon; I'll never surrender; Life forces; The witch protector; Water\melon Road’
Serge Lecomte was born in Belgium. He came to the States where he spent his teens in South Philly and then Brooklyn. After graduating from Tilden H. S. he joined the Medical Corps in the Air Force. He earned an MA and Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in Russian Literature with a minor in French Literature. He worked as a Green Beret language instructor at Fort Bragg, NC from 1975-78. In 1988 he received a B.A. from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in Spanish Literature. He worked as a language teacher at the University of Alaska (1978-1997). He worked as a house builder, pipe-fitter, orderly in a hospital, gardener, landscaper, driller for an assaying company, bartender.