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Featured Poet Barry North

Featured Poet Barry North

Barry W. North is a seventy-five-year-old retired refrigeration mechanic. He lives with his wife, Diane in Hahnville, Louisiana. Since his retirement in 2007, he has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, won the 2010 A. E. Coppard Prize for Fiction, Honorable Mention in the 2011 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards, was a finalist in the 2014 Lascaux Poetry Awards, a semi-finalist in the 2014 Palettes & Quills chapbook contest, a finalist in the 2017 Eggtooth Editions Chapbook Contest…

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Featured Poet Ashley Jones Interviewed by Catherine Hall Kiser

Featured Poet Ashley Jones Interviewed by Catherine Hall Kiser

Ashley Jones’s debut poetry collection, Magic City Gospel, won the silver medal in poetry from the Independent Publishers Book Awards. She has also been awarded; a 2015 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry, a Literature Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize, and the Lucille Clifton…

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