Highland Park Poetry welcomes all poets - there is no geographic limitation. For more information on how to become a Participating Poet, query info@highlandparkpoetry.org.
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Emma Alexandra, poet, historian, avid walker and hiker, celebrates her immigrant’s journey from Morocco to Chicago’s Humboldt Park Neighborhood in the early 1960’s to Highland Park, Illinois in 2000 with her poetry collection “It’s Long way from Casablanca to the Shores of Highland Park.” She has collaborated with several Highland Park visual artists such as Sumner Garte, Yelena Klairmont, and Howard Jacobs creating poetry for their work and the artists creating visual art for her poetry. She believes that collaboration between visual artist, musician, performance artist, and poet liberates the human mind’s intriguingly complex Musescape. Most recently she has embarked on a photographic journey, documenting Highland Park’s natural environment from its tiniest inhabitants to those of huge, centuries-old proportions, butterflies to trees. She will assemble these images, into collemblages (collage and assemblage), thereby painting Highland Park’s unique land, city, and people scapes. Poetry will accompany her collemblages. She is dedicated to promoting the artistic and practical preservation of the natural environment whose inspiration is essential to creative health.
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Wendy Anderson is a published poet and longtime professional writer who has taught in the graduate journalism school at Northwestern University. For five years she has led the Poets Attic writers workshops through the Highland Park Community House. She presents creative writing workshops at the Highland Park and other local libraries. If you are interested in learning more about the Poets Attic writers workshops, contact Wendy Anderson at (847) 432-3271 or email writersattic@comcast.net.
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Susan B. Auld lives in Arlington Heights and her poetry has been published both online and in a variety of journals. She self-published her two collections of poetry. She is also a member of the Illinois State Poetry Society and regularly attends the Northwest Cultural Council's Second Saturday Poetry Workshops. She is a past chairperson of the Naperville Writer's Group and she has organized and initiated The Writing place at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library. Susan is an instructor for the High School Township 214 Continuing Education teaching a class that welcomes new writers to the writing life.
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Lois Barr and her husband Lew (proud grandparents) live in Riverwoods with their big black poodle Cammie. Lois studied at Georgetown University’s Institute of Languages and Linguistics. She earned an M.A. in Spanish at Middlebury College’s Spanish School in Vermont and Madrid. Then she returned to her home state to the University of Kentucky where she received a doctorate in Spanish. She taught for many years at Northwestern University and then joined the faculty of Lake Forest College in 1995. She was co-executive producer and director or research on a documentary, Isa: The People’s Diva, that aired on public television all over the U.S. and in festivals around the world. Barr’s early publications dealt with Spanish realist master Benito Pérez Galdós and her two books examine Latin American Jewish literature and culture. Recent publications and lectures focus on Yiddish inserted into Argentine fiction. She has chaired the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and the Latin American Studies Program at Lake Forest. She has studied short story writing at the Highland Park Community House and the Iowa Summer Writing Festival and drawing at The Art Center in Highland Park. Barr likes to write, paint and bike but not at the same time.
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Clara Berman, a native Highland Park-er, received her Master of Music degree from Northwestern University, and other degrees from Sherwood Conservatory and the University of Chicago. A professional teacher and classical soprano who has had her compositions performed, Ms. Berman began writing poetry in grade school and continues to enjoy creative writing. The expression in music and poetry are so similar, Ms. Berman finds it natural to go from one to the other. In addition to her involvement with Highland Park Poetry, Ms. Berman is also a member of the Highland Park and Evanston Music Clubs.
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Herb Berman was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1936, graduated from Indiana University in 1958 with a B.A. in English Literature. He graduated from the University of Louisville School of Law in 1961. He is married to the same lovely woman for 48+ years, has three kids and three grandkids, and has lived in Deerfield in 1968. Herb's interest in poetry and literature took a backseat to earning a living for many years. Since his gradual semi-retirement over the last few years, he has read extensively and intensively and written many poems, several of which have been published. Check out Herb's poetry blog - http://www.deerfieldpoet.blogspot.com. Herb's ambition is to post a new poem each day.
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Lorraine
Brown, from North Barrington, has been writing poetry
and short stories since childhood. Her poetry and lyrics range from deep and insightful to
humorous and playful. Her poem "Cheaters" received 1st place, non-resident in HPP's 2010 Funny Poetry contest and her poem "Looking Back at Me" received 1st place non-resident in HPP's 2011 Rhyme/Time Poetry Challenge. Her poems "What my momma said" and "He won't eat my soup" were included in CRAM 9 and CRAM 10. “It seems that many of us wear many hats these
days. I have done so all my life. I'm an Actress;
Co-Founder of the Chicago Bulls Cheerleaders (The Luv-A-Bulls); Former
NFL-Chicago Bears Cheerleader (The Honeybears); Writer; Poet and Lyricist;
Realtor; Decorator; Cook; Proud owner of the best dog in the world (Abby the
wonderdog - a.k.a. Abigail Von Rawhide); Blessed wife to the love of my life, Greg.” I share some of my many interests on my blogs,
“A multi-dimensional life” : http://lorrainelorrainelorraine.blogspot.com/
Lorraine finds that journaling is a great way to document her
own experiences, as well as recalling something she may have observed on a
given day. “The best story is the one in progress…the story of each life…all
unique and fascinating tapestries, woven day by day. Writing is
therapeutic for me. It brings me great
joy! It gives me insight, clarity,
perspective and compassion.”
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Michael H. Brownstein has been widely published throughout the small and literary presses. His work has appeared in The Café Review, American Letters and Commentary, Skidrow Penthouse, Xavier Review, Hotel Amerika, After Hours, Free Lunch, Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, The Pacific Review and others. In addition, he has eight poetry chapbooks including The Shooting Gallery (Samidat Press, 1987), Poems from the Body Bag (Ommation Press, 1988), A Period of Trees (Snark Press, 2004) and What Stone Is (Fractal Edge Press, 2005). Brownstein recently relocated to Missouri but maintains his connection with Highland Park Poetry.
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Ron Daiss belongs to the Community Lake College Literary Arts Society. He often emcees for their events and reads at their Poetry and Little Story Slams. He has been an active member of the Antioch Writers, Lake Villa Poets and the Deerfield Poetry Workshop. His poetry collection, Open Range, is free verse depicting the old American West.
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Charlotte Digregorio writes sestina, free verse, and Japanese style poetry. She has published about 250 poems. She has won several literary awards, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Poetry. Her poetry has been translated into Turkish, Russian, Japanese, and French. It has been exhibited in many public places including Cornell University's Mann Library and Shreve Memorial Library in Louisiana. Her undergraduate and graduate degrees are in Italian and French Literatures, the latter from The University of Chicago. Charlotte been on university faculties teaching foreign languages and writing. She is the author of four non-fiction books that are sold in 33 countries, three of which have been adopted as supplemental texts at universities in English-speaking countries. Her books have also been featured selections of book clubs. She has lectured in non-fiction and creative writing; given workshops at writer's conferences throughout the U.S.; has been writer-in-residence at universities; and spoken at libraries and chain bookstores where she signs books. She is often interviewed by major media. Charlotte hosted a poetry radio program on Public Broadcasting.
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Jennifer Dotson studied acting on the East Coast when the siren song of Chicago's storefront theater scene lured her to the Midwest. Along the way she stumbled into writing, first with plays and later poetry. Her writing has been published in East On Central, The Sun and Her Mark 2005. Her poem "Theater" received 1st place in the Free Verse Category of Poets & Patrons 2009 Poetry Awards and her poetry was included in CRAM IV and CRAM6, free chapbooks published and distributed by www.chicagopoetry.com. Jennifer is thrilled that what started as a small idea to recognize local poets in the community has grown and bloomed into Highland Park Poetry. She hopes that HPP will continue to flourish and inspire.
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Mary Jane Gabrielsen began writing poetry in the winter of 2003, noticing an ice-covered window in the office of their late 50’s Colonial. She lives in Deerfield with her husband, Gary, and two sons, Kevin and Brian. With a B.S. degree in Administration of Parks and Recreation from Eastern Illinois University, and graduate studies at DePaul University, she has a keen interest in the influence nature plays in our daily lives, and a fascination with the interplay of familiar characters and their effects upon our perceptions in a fast-paced landscape of visual commonality. Her work has been published in recent editions of East on Central, A Journal of Arts and Letters. She has been a student member of Poet's Attic, Highland Park, since 2003 and enjoys participating in open mic poetry readings at Highland Park Library.
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Sumner Garte took an early retirement so that he could devote full time to painting. Missing the human contact that had always been part of his professional life as a Psychologist, he proposed a group called “Artists Forum” where artists could meet, critique each others work and communalize what is essentially a solitary endeavor. The Fine Arts Center listed the Artists’ Forum in its catalogue. However, the only artists to respond to the offering were writers! So Sumner put them in touch with each other. Highland Park’s Journal of Arts and Letters East On Central was a product that sprang from that group of writers. Through their influence, and with assistance and encouragement from the editor-in-chief, Judy Tepfer, Sumner began to publish his poetry as well as his paintings. Primarily a visual artist but also a person who spent his life using words as a “tool”, Sumner has discovered the use of words as Art. For this he is very grateful to the opportunity for growth provided by East On Central.
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Carol L. Gloor is a semi-retired attorney, writing for forty years, mostly poetry. Her work has appeared in many print and online journals and anthologies, most recently in the magazine Christian Century, print journals Freshwater and Sow's Ear, the anthology A Bird in the Hand: Risk and Flight, and in the online journal Stymie: A Journal of Sport and Literature. Her chapbook Assisted Living will be published by PuddingHouse Books and Music sometime next year. She is a member of the Chicago poetry collective Egg Money Poet.s
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Fred Gordon published his first short story, at sixteen, in the Chicago Daily News. Since then, his fiction and poetry have appeared in many publications, including Opinion, Decade, Sentinel, and East On Central. During World War II, his overseas column, "Strictly Private," ran for two years in Oak Leaves, an Oak Park, Illinois weekly newspaper. From 1983 to the mid-nineties, he published an award-winning financial advisory, Plain Talk Investor, and was frequently quoted in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Barron's, and the Chicago Tribune. Fred Gordon's first book of poetry, Lost and Found, was published in 2006.
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Joan S. Groner is a long time resident of Highland Park. She turned to poetry after almost thirty years of writing corporate annual reports. Her poetry, she says, attempts to come to terms with life's many ironies.
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Cynthia Hahn has been a Professor of French at Lake Forest College, teaching language, literature, culture, film, translation and creative writing since 1990. Hahn's poetry chapbook, Outside-In-Sideout, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2010; it gives voice to the process of grieving. She edits the College's yearly foreign language magazine, "Collage." She writes poetry in French and English and has published poems in "Tusitala," "Matrix," "Collage," "The Christian Science Monitor," and on-line for peuplesmonde.org, and inthemist.org. She also has poems in the volumes, "La Cendre des mots" and "Voyages en cancer." She regularly publishes literary translations (poetry and prose), and has translated Tunisian Hédi Bouraoui, Algerian Noureddine Aba, Lebanese authors Evelyne Accad and Ezza Agha Malak, as well as East African writer Abdourahman Waberi. Her published research is in the areas of franco-Canadian literature, translation studies, and analyses of Lebanese literature and the Tunisian women's movement. Her poetry ranges from haiku as inner landscape to anecdotes associated with caregiving. She is also a member of the Deerfield "Library Poets" and plays bass guitar in a local bluegrass and blues band, "Fast and Cheap."
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Jacqueline Harris was born and raised in Lake County and currently resides in North Chicago, IL. She is a graduate of Shimer College with a BA in Humanities. She is a writer of poetry and short fiction, as well local spoken word artist. She has published two short stories and is currently working on a poetry CD.
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William D. Hicks is a writer who lives in Chicago, Illinois by himself. His poetry has appeared in Outburst Magazine, The Legendary, Horizon Magazine, Breadcrumb Sins, Inwood Indiana Literary Magazine, The Short Humour Site (UK), The Four Cornered Universe, Save the Last Stall for Me and Mosaic. His art appears in The Legendary and as cover art in Anti-Poetry and Sketch.
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Edward P. Kaufman, MSW, LCSW, BCD, is the Director of Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is in private practice in Chicago and Highland Park, Illinois. Mr. Kaufman has written numerous papers on child and adolescent psychotherapy, psychological development and the emotional aspects of teaching and learning. He has written about films and leads professional study groups on films. He is an editor and contributor to AEmotions and Learning Reconsidered: International Perspectives published by Gardner Press in 1993. Mr. Kaufman is interested in music, scuba diving, photography and poetry.
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Robert Klein Engler lives in Oak Park, Illinois and sometimes New Orleans. He is the current president of NewTown Writers in Chicago. Many of Robert’s poems and stories are set in the Crescent City. "Justin the Pirate," is available in the Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly, "Red Beans and Rice," is online at the Drunken Boat, and "The Approach to Pilottown," is at Blithe House Quarterly. His long poem, The Accomplishment of Metaphor and the Necessity of Suffering, set partially in New Orleans, is published by Headwaters Press, Medusa, New York, 2004. He has received an Illinois Arts Council award for his "Three Poems for Kabbalah." Robert's poetry is available for purchase from www.lulu.com - simply search for his name when you visit the Web site.
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Pamela Larson lives in Arlington Heights. Her writing has been published in the Daily Herald, Cram 11 and Cram 12. She has won several Highland Park Poetry contests and is now the mastermind behind this year's The Exquisite Corpse project. Pam enjoys the art of poetry through classical form as well as part of contemporary mixed media. Being published is great but Pam would rather be consumed by poetry than have her poetry consumed. She enjoys coming to Highland Park because she thinks the community does more than others to encourage and share the arts in everyday venues.
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An award-winning writer and editor whose work has appeared in East on Central, Elle, North Shore, and other publications, Carol Spielman Lezak holds a B.A. in fine arts from Boston University and an M.A. in medical librarianship from the University of Michigan. She also studied fine bookbinding under the late William Anthony and is a biographee in Marquis Who's Who in America. Her perspective: While a picture may indeed be worth a thousand words, poets use their love of and skills with language and words to paint their own canvases that can be viewed with the inner eye. Lezak developed an appreciation for the art early on via her mother, whose collection of works by poets as diverse, entertaining, and insightful as Dorothy Parker, Emily Dickinson, Shakespeare, and Ogden Nash stirred her daughter's imagination.
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Mihaela Marcusanu has published three books of poetry, the first one in Romanian in 1996, followed by Standing in Open Doors (2006) and Grains of Light (2007). The latter books may be found, previewed or purchased by visiting www.lulu.com. Mihaela believes that the transition from writing in Romanian to writing in English tremendously enriched her writing. By profession she is an applied statistician, by training a mathematician, but at the end of the day she wants to be remembered as a poet.
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Bruce McNutt is a physician who spent 10 years in private practice and the last 22 years in the pharmaceutical industry. He is the proud father of 4 grown children and has three grandchildren. He has been married to his hero, his wife Martha for 37 years and has a friend—a beautiful golden retriever Barkley who is his constant companion. His family and friends have provided him with the impetus for his poetry which he began creating after the birth of his first grandchild in 2004. Bruce believes that each of us is a poet and need only free the feelings and emotions that are at the core of our being in order to share that poetry with others.
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Arlyn Miller teaches poetry to young people in the schools and in the community through Poetic License, Inc., an organization which she founded and directs. A poet herself, her poems have been published in journals such as Calyx, Jewish Women's Literary Annual, and Literary Bohemian. Two of her poems are to be published in May 2009 in the on-line journal, Literary Mama. She lives in Glencoe with her husband and three children. Check out her Web site at www.poeticlicenseinc.net.
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Khalid Mukhtar lives in Bolingbrook with his wife and three children. He was born and raised in India and emigrated to the US in 1998. He works as a software engineer in Deerfield. Khalid treasures his hour long commute for the uninterrupted quiet time it gives him to compose his poems. He is an avid enthusiast of traditional poetry styles and that is where most of his poems fall with a sprinkling of free verse now and then. He contributes regularly to his blog titled, "Ramblings in Verse" where he solicits feedback from his gradually growing online readership. You can visit Khalid's blog at www.khamuk.com.
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Michael Nickels-Wisdom has been writing haiku since 1990, when he discovered Harold G. Henderson’s An Introduction to Haiku in a local public library. Since then, his poems have appeared in The Willow Review, Modern Haiku, The World Haiku Review, Lake County and Its Arts, qarrtsiluni, and elsewhere. In 2002, he was a Haiku International Association contest award winner, and most recently won an honorary mention in 2007's Tokutomi Memorial Haiku Contest. He works as a library technician and lives with his wife and little dog in Spring Grove, Illinois.
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Jenene Ravesloot is a poet and an artist. With a B.A. from Columbia College, Jenene studied drawing, painting and textile design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and interior design at Harrington College. Jenene is a member of the Poets' Club of Chicago, the Haiku Society of America, Poets & Patrons, and ISPS. Her poetry has appeared in Seeding the Snow, Chicago University's Apocalypse 9, Chicago Quarterly Review, After Hours, Rumbunctious Review, Poetic License and other journals. She published her first book of poetry, Loot: Stolen Memories and Tales Out of School in 2008 and completed a jazz CD featuring her lyrics.
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James Reiss's latest full-length book is Riff on Six: New and Selected Poems (Salt Publishing). His work has appeared in such places as The Atlantic, Esquire, The Hudson Review, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Poetry, Slate, and The Virginia Quarterly Review, plus anthologies, textbooks, and Web sites. His first poetry collection, The Breathers (Ecco Press), was nominated for the National Book Award. His fourth book of poems, Ten Thousand Good Mornings (Carnegie Mellon University Press), was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, along with awards from the Academy of American Poets, the College English Association of Ohio, the Ohioana Library Association, the Poetry Society of America, the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y in New York City, and the Pushcart Press. He won 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 Zeitfunk awards from the Public Radio Exchange (PRX) for his reviews of independent radio productions. He is Emeritus Professor of English and Founding Editor of Miami University Press at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He currently lives in Wilmette. His last name rhymes with "peace." His Web site: http://www.jamesreiss.com.
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Apple Rhodes began writing poetry as a freshman at the U of I, Urbana. After not graduating, she moved to San Francisco, where during the late 60's and all of the 70's she became a hippy. Lost in the culture, she stopped writing and made jewelry, leading an exhilarating life as a street artist, selling her wares at Beach and Hyde, the cable car turnaround. The 80's brought her back to Chicago along with a husband and two children. After opening a store in the Depaul area, she realized what a wretched business person she was and began searching for something more creative. With encouragement from her piano teacher, she enrolled at the American Conservatory of Music in Voice Performance. Three years later, again not graduating, she and her piano teacher Bob Benson launched the retro vocal trio called Stardust. She started writing again... whew, finally... but concentrated on song lyrics. Having trouble linking words to melody, she had an epiphany and simply allowed the words to become poems. Hallelujah. She has continued writing in spite of her mind numbing day job as a computer technician. Her poems have been published in East On Central and in 2008 she was a finalist in the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Competition. She now lives in Lincolnshire.
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Gwen Rosman is the author of the musical, Shaw's Farm, set in Australia. Gwen, a resident of Wilmette, earned her B.A. from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and her M.A. from Northeastern Illinois University. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild (New York), Writers Guild America West, and ASCAP. She teaches piano at the Music Center in Winnetka.
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Sue Roupp's poetry swept the awards at the Writers Institute at University of Wisconsin in 2006 and won awards again in 2007. Her poetry has been published in Free Verse and in East on Central She has published numerous freelance articles in a variety of newspapers and literary journals. She is host of Poetry Today a local cable TV show created originally by Jennifer Dotson. Her rouppwrites seminars are offered on the North Shore of Chicago and elsewhere. She is President of Off Campus Writers Workshop (OCWW), a 63-year old writer's group with 200 members hosting weekly lecturers on some topic of writing held Sept. through May every Thursday from 9:30 to noon in the Winnetka Community House. She also lectures on aspects of writing as well as giving uplifting talks encouraging writers to get their voices heard. Sue says: "Poetry writing focuses on an intense emotional connection in an economy of words and carried along by the inherent craft and rhythm of each line. This "less is more" style of writing allows the writer to capture the essence of meaning while providing a universal story through metaphor or the give and take of each word bumping or caressing each other as we move through the poem."
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Tania Runyan is the author of A Thousand Vessels (WordFarm), Simple Weight (FutureCycle Press), and Delicious Air (Finishing Line Press), which was awarded Book of the Year by the Conference on Christianity and Literature in 2007. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in many publications including Poetry, Image, Atlanta Review, Indiana Review, The Christian Century, Willow Springs, Nimrod, Southern Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest, and the anthology A Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to Shakespeare. She was awarded an NEA Literature Fellowship in 2011.
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Charles Schwartz
About Charlie...
My east coast upbringing taught me to go for what I want. My career taught me to be respectful of even the smallest changes we make in our lives. For me, I think the voyage of discovery is an amazing description of living, and I hope my ship will not dock for a long time. Riding turbulent seas followed by the doldrums, is a cycle built for creating legacies. I seek the peace and calm of the Sargasso Sea where the beasts of the sea move slowly hither and thither, and great monsters swim languidly and sluggishly out of my sight. I am in the midst of growing as a writer/poet with the passion and the right rhythm to enhance my romantic soul, but pragmatic enough to know I need my spell checker when done. I am always ready to write new chapters in what I hope becomes a never-ending saga of my life.
Charles is a poet and novelist. His works include his first novel: The Originators, and three poetry collections: Poetry Moments, Between the Sheets, and Under My Skin. His website is: www.mywordstore.com
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Jason Shimberg has been writing and reading poetry since his introduction at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado with his first poetry performance at the Penny Lane Coffee House. His influences are the works of Jim Morrison and the surreal times of 'The Beat Generation.' Jason tries to feel the pulse of his current generation, while not forgetting the past. Jason says: “The great thing about writing is there is an eraser.” This makes it a flexible pursuit. “Yoga is to my body as writing is to my mind-it’s a healthy form of expression.” He believes that the power of poetry has planted the seed in which great songs are born. The poet is a surveyor who inspects the lay of the land before the house is built. As we are a dying breed, every community needs a poet. He has backpacked throughout Costa Rica, Colorado, the Pacific Crest Trail, and the Appalachian Trail. Jason is a professional free-lance sports writer. He has written for various outlets including the Chicago Sun-Times. Jason published a memoir/poetry book in 2010 titled, Sum Lucid, which is available on Amazon.com and Lulu.com. He is working on a second project, journaling his 3-month odyssey at an ashram in California. Be sure to visit Jason's blog at http://www.luckytobelucid.blogspot.com.
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Kenny Sommer graduated from Highland Park High School with the class of 1992. He earned a BA in Mass Media and Political Science from DePaul University. In addition to his love of music, art, and poetry, Kenny is a tennis coach. Kenny is a studio drummer, also plays the guitar, bass, a little piano, and sings. He has 50 plus songs available, at cdbaby.com, Itunes, Amazon. Kenny has been published in East On Central in 2005, 2007, and 2008. He has just released a new CD titled “Digital World”
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Judith MK Tepfer was born at the age of 50, before which she had one middle initial and neither the ability nor the inclination to write creatively. Her late-in-life muse directed her to other writers and visual artists and the eventual founding of East On Central, a Journal of Arts and Letters from Highland Park, Illinois. Editor-In-Chief of East On Central, Poet, and freelance editor, Judith's writing is ever-inspired by her husband, two children and amazing granddaughters, as well as by her ancestors, friends, relatives and anyone else she happens to meet. Beware!
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William Vollrath resides in suburban Chicago, where he has finally found time to focus on writing after paying some dues as a stockbroker, grave digger, ad salesman, English instructor, real estate appraiser, bartender, father and husband...in no particular order. He has participated in a number of Chicago area poetry readings and has been published in regional journals and on assorted poetry websites.
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