ABOUT THE POET

 JOHN ROWE

Author of: 

Detour (a mini chapbook, Eventuality Press, 2019)

Beyond Perspective (Finishing Line Press, 2015)

Winsome Losesome (Eventuality Press, 2010)

At My Wit's Beginning (Eventuality Press, 2003/2007)

Poems have appeared or are forthcoming in:  Bay Area Poets Review,  Brevities,  Bright Stars 4: An Organic Tanka Anthology,  California Quarterly, Carquinez Poetry Review,  The Crazy Child Scribbler,  GRRRRR--A Collection of Poems About Bears (Arctos Press),  Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, haikuniverse (online),  Hawk & Whippoorwill, Ice Cream Poems (World Enough Writers), Inter-Connecting-Circles,  Lilipoh, Lilliput Review,  Medusa's Kitchen (online daily poetry journal), Minotaur,  Out of Our,  The Poeming Pigeon (2022 & 2023 issues),  Poetry Depth Quarterly,  Poetry Super Highway (online), red lights tanka journal,  Remembering (anthology of Poets' Dinner contest winners),  Ribbons,  San Diego Poetry Annual,  San Francisco Peace & Hope (online & print editions) and elsewhere. 

Frequent award-winner in Artists Embassy International's Annual Dancing Poetry Festival Contests, including a Grand Prize (2002) and a First Prize (2010). 

Grand Prize winner in the first Bay Area Poets Seasonal Review Contest 2010. 

In 2008, served on the selection committee for the first poet laureate of Albany, California: Christina Hutchins. 

Co-hosted the Last Word Poetry Reading Series (Berkeley) from 2003-March 2020.

President of the Bay Area Poets Coalition and co-editor of Poetalk journal. 

Currently (September 2020-Present) hosts a monthly (2nd Saturdays, 1:00 PM Pacific) online Zoom poetry reading for the Bay Area Poets Coalition.