Miles David Moore

Miles David Moore’s latest book, Man on Terrace with Wine, was published by Kelsay Books in 2020. He is the author of two previous full-length books of poetry—The Bears of Paris (1995) and Rollercoaster (2004), both published by The Word Works—and a chapbook, Buddha Isn’t Laughing (1999), from Argonne House Press. From 1977 to 2020, Mr. Moore was a reporter for Crain Communications Inc. Since 2006, he has contributed a monthly film column to the online arts magazine Scene4. From 1994 to 2017, he organized and hosted the IOTA poetry reading series in Arlington, Va. From 2002 to 2009, he was a member of the board of directors of The Word Works.

Ann Bracken

Ann Bracken has published two poetry collections, No Barking in the Hallways: Poems from the Classroom and The Altar of Innocence; her third collection, Once You’re Inside: Poetry Exploring Incarceration, will be released in 2021. She serves as a contributing editor for Little Patuxent Review, and co-facilitates the Wilde Readings Poetry Series. Her poetry, essays, and interviews have appeared in anthologies and journals, including Women Write Resistance, Mad in America, Fledgling Rag, and Gargoyle. Ann’s poetry has garnered two Pushcart Prize nominations and her advocacy work promotes paradigm change through the power of the arts in the areas of emotional wellness, education, and mass incarceration.

Website: www.annbrackenauthor.com

Book links:

The Altar of Innocence: https://www.amazon.com/ALTAR-INNOCENCE-Poems-Ann-Bracken/dp/0990693953

No Barking in the Hallways: https://www.amazon.com/No-Barking-Hallways-Poems-Classroom/dp/0998147702/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=no+barking+in+the+hallways&qid=1624918404&s=books&sr=1-1

Coming in October: Once You’re Inside: Poems Exploring Incarceration Pre-order at anniebluepoet@gmail.com.

What people are saying about Once You’re Inside:

Language liberates. Ann Bracken, working as a poet/ teacher, shines light into darkness so that prisoners become people of purpose who speak and are heard. Social action, at its truest meaning, reinforces the best in us; and Bracken takes charge in a journey of change not only for prisoners but for herself. The student-prisoners now know what it is to exist with a good practice. At the same time Bracken is writing her owns poems as commentaries. When poetic will and societal issues come together we have a meaningful book; when lyricism and heart come together we have a work of art.

Grace Cavalieri

Maryland Poet Laureate

Ann Bracken’s poetry collection, Once You’re Inside, is jammed with meaningful vignettes about people in prison. Without being the least bit sentimental, she gives the reader insight into

the minds and feelings of a wide range of incarcerated people—real people we can almost know from her poems. Each poem stands well alone, but read the entire book for a truthful portrayal of what life in prison is like.

Laura Bates, Associate Professor of English, Indiana State University

Author of Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard

Lucinda Marshall

Lucinda Marshall is the author of the full-length poetry collection, Inheritance Of Aging Self (Finishing Line Press 2021). She is an award-winning artist and writer whose poetry has appeared in Global Poemics, Broadkill Review, Foliate Oak, The Rising Phoenix Review, and Poetica, among others, as well as in the anthologies "Poems in the Aftermath" (Indolent Books), "You Can Hear The Ocean" (Brighten Press), "Is It Hot In Here Or Is It Just Me?" (Beautiful Cadaver Project), and "We Will Not Be Silenced" (Indie Blu(e) Publishing). Her poetry has won awards from Waterline Writers, Third Wednesday, and Montgomery Magazine.

She lives in Maryland and is the Founder of the DiVerse Gaithersburg (MD) Poetry Reading and of the Gaithersburg (MD) Poetry Workshop, Marshall has also served as a volunteer mentor for the Gaithersburg Teen Writing Workshop, part of a program run by the Maryland Writers' Association.

In addition to writing poetry, Marshall is an award-winning artist who has worked in a variety of mediums, including her most recent work in improvisational quilting.