Kathaleen Donnelly is a 1976 graduate of St. Vincent’s Hospital, School of Nursing, which WAS in Greenwich Village, NYC, currently working as a Nurse Practitioner in Cardiology at Stony Brook Medical Center. She was a member of the Sweetbriar Nature Camera Club, a part of the PFLI (Photographic Federation of Long Island) for many years, learned what makes a good photograph. In 2009, with a little help from her friends, she put together an anthology of Long Island poets and photographers, Paumanok, Poems and Pictures of Long Island, in 2013, Paumanok, Interwoven, and 2022, Paumanok, Transition. She began writing poetry in her 50s, has been published in the Long Island Quarterly and Long Islander’s Walt’s Corner, Songs of Seasoned Women, Oberon, Whispers and Shouts, the Performance Poets Association Literary Review, A Taste of Poetry published by the Walt Whitman Birthplace, Bards Annual, Suffolk County Poetry Review, Towards Forgiveness, The Seventh Quarry-Wales, Childhood-India, Poems of Illness and Healing, Long Island Sounds ~ An Anthology of Poetry From Maspeth to Montauk and Beyond, Writing Outside the Lines and What Have you Lost and Found? A transcript of her own work sits on her desk waiting for its day, See if I Feel the Same. She loves the written word. Web site: www.poetographyLongIsland.com Jay Jii Purveyor of Poetic Cabaret. Curator of the Avant Garden Poetry Amphitheater. Writer. Composer. Adventurer. Romantic. Musician. Thespian. Artist. Film-maker. English Bulldog enthusiast. Stuff like that…

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Paula Curci is the 2022-2024 Nassau County, NY, Poet Laureate. She is the Poet In Residence for Radio Hofstra University where she produces Calliope’s Corner - The Place Where Poets and Songwriters Meet and What’s the Buzz ® on WRHU.ORG and 88.7FM. Paula is a Journal to the Self™ Certified Journal instructor and co-hosts an open mic at the Long Beach, NY, Library where she spearheads the “It’s a Shore Thing” micro-memoir project. Paula is a co-founding member of the poetry and music band, the Acoustic Poets Network ™ and is known for her esthetic style of poetry she calls Posics™. Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan is the first woman to be appointed Suffolk County Poet Laureate (2009-2011). She was awarded by the Walt Whitman Birthplace the title of 2017 Long Island Poet of the Year. She is the founder and president of Long Island Poetry & Literature Repository. She has penned six chapbooks and a children’s book, Would You Hug a Porcupine. Tammy has earned her Ph.D. in Humanities & Culture in the Interdisciplinary Studies program at Union Institute & University. Her dissertation was on: The Healing Power of Poetry. She teaches at Long Island University at the C W Post campus.

Kelly J. Powell is a poet native to Long Island and a graduate of SUNY Binghamton’s Creative Writing Program in 1988. She runs a reading series at bj spoke gallery in Huntington and has performed widely on Long Island and NYC. She also has a long-standing commitment as a single mother to an amazing transgender college senior. She is at work now on a new book of poems called Posthumously Yours. May 25 th , 2023 Russ Green is a Graduate of Hofstra University. Over the years he has been co-editor at Great Weather for Media and has put on poetry and arts events around Long Island and NYC in addition to hosting and curating poetry stages at various festivals. Russ has read his work in cities across America and he runs a reading series and poetry workshop. His book, Gimme Back My Radio, is out with Night Ballet Press. He can usually be found communing with the mountains in Vermont with interesting artist friends or roaming the docks of Port Jeff Harbor at night looking for signs of life in the starry night sky. Russ Green is a Graduate of Hofstra University. Over the years he has been co-editor at Great Weather for Media and has put on poetry and arts events around Long Island and NYC in addition to hosting and curating poetry stages at various festivals. Russ has read his work in cities across America and he runs a reading series and poetry workshop. His book, Gimme Back My Radio, is out with Night Ballet Press. He can usually be found communing with the mountains in Vermont with interesting artist friends or roaming the docks of Port Jeff Harbor at night looking for signs of life in the starry night sky. See less Bohemia, New York

Barbara Southard, Suffolk County Laureate 2019-2021, is a visual artist and writer living in Miller Place, New York. The titles of her poetry books are: Remember, published in 2008, Time & Space, published in 2020, and Long Island Poems, published 2022. She’s an active member of the Long Island Poetry Collective, which has been in existence since 1973. When serving as Suffolk County Poet Laureate, she and the members of the Long Island Poetry Collective held Zoom poetry workshops through the COVID epidemic to enable writers to come together during that time of isolation. The Collective has since continued online workshops, enabling those who live as far away as Australia, to stay connected. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ George Guida is author ten books, including Zen of Pop (Long Sky Media, 2020) and Pugilistic (WordTech Editions, 2015). He teaches writing, literature and cultural studies at New York City College of Technology and curates the Finger Lakes Arts Series at the MacFadden Coffee Company, his family’s cafe in Dansville, New York. Professor, English Department, New York City College of Technology The Uniform: A Novel (2024); Posts from Suburbia: A Novel (2022); Zen of Pop: Poems (2020); New York and Other Lovers: Poems (2020); Pugilistic: Poems (2015); The Sleeping Gulf: Poems (2015); Spectacles of Themselves: Essays in Italian American Popular Culture and Literature (2015); The Pope Stories (2012) The Pope Play (2009); Low Italian (2007); The Peasant and the Pen: Men, Enterprise and the Recovery of Culture in Italian American Narrative (2003) Georgeguida.wordpress.com

J R (Judy) Turek, Superintendent of Poetry for the LI Fair, 2020 Hometown Hero by the East Meadow Herald, 2019 WWBA LI Poet of the Year, NYS 2017 Woman of Distinction, Bards Laureate 2013-2015, 26 years as Moderator of the Farmingdale Creative Writing Group; two Pushcart nominations, recipient of the Conklin Prize for Poetry; editor, mentor, workshop leader, and author of 24 in 24, Midnight on the Eve of Never, B is for Betwixt and Between, A is for Almost Anything, Imagistics, and They Come And They Go. Her new book, DogSpeak supports shelter rescues for North Shore Animal League. She is the 1st Associate Editor for The North Sea Poetry Scene and editor/book chair for Performance Poets Association. ‘The Purple Poet’ has written a poem a day for over 19 years; she lives on Long Island with her soul-mate husband, Paul, her dogs, and her extraordinarily extensive shoe collection. msjevus@optonline.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Douglas G. Swezey received his B.A. in English and Art History from Stony Brook University in 2004, has written as a journalist for many weekly newspapers, was Managing Editor of Government Food Services Magazine and author of Stony Brook University: Off The Record (College Prowler, 2005). He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Bards Initiative, Long Island Poetry Collective at large, and formerly collaborated with the North Sea Poetry Scene. He is the host of the First Fridays Reading Series at the Dog-Eared Bard's Book Shop and co-creator of Super Poem Sunday.