Our Host James is a guitarist, writer, and 4-star cheesecake baker (according to his wife). He was recently published in the Poet’s Choice collection of supernatural poetry, Paranormal, and will be featured in an upcoming edition of the zine Black Stone/White Stone. This is James’s …
Our Host Katrina teaches English and German in a rural community in Osage County, Oklahoma. She has worked in education her entire career. This is her 18th year in the classroom. She has a master’s degree in Higher Education Leadership from Northeastern State University. In …
Our Host Leilya Pitre lives in Ponchatoula, LA, which is known as the Strawberry Capital of the World. She teaches at Southeastern Louisiana University and coordinates the English Education Program. With her students, who are tomorrow’s English teachers, she tries to think of the ways …
Our Host: Jennifer Guyor Jowett I’m a poet! Who are you? Are you – a poet – too? Then there’s a pair of us! Let’s tell! They’ll celebrate – you know. Inspiration o, boy! I was thinking about how much writers love words and wondered …
Our Host Wendy Everard is a high school English teacher and writer living in central New York. Her role as mother and teacher has given her plenty to write about since she started writing personal narrative and poetry, lifelong hobbies that were reignited when she …
Our Host Bryan Ripley Crandall lives in Stratford, Connecticut, where he directs the Connecticut Writing Project and is Associate Professor of English Education at Fairfield University. He gained teaching legs at the J. Graham Brown School in Louisville, Kentucky, a K-12 public school with a …
Our Host Kim Johnson lives in Georgia and serves as District Literacy Specialist for her school system. She is the author of Father, Forgive Me: Confessions of a Southern Baptist Preacher’s Kid and contributor to 2 poetry anthologies, Rhyme and Rhythm: Poems for Student Athletes …
A very special thanks to all our March Open Write hosts: James Coats, Katrina Morrison, Wendy Everard, Rex Muston, and Shelley Martin-Young! We hope to see you all for our month-long poetry celebration: Verselove. See you back here April 1-30! Be sure to subscribe so …
Our Host Rex lives in Keokuk, Iowa and teaches ELA at Keokuk High School. He is actively involved in his community as a member of the Keokuk Public Library Board and the First Christian Church Board. Rex enjoys poetry and photography as artistic forms of …
Our Host Wendy Everard is a high school English teacher and writer living in central New York. Her role as mother and teacher has given her plenty to write about since she started writing personal narrative and poetry, lifelong hobbies that were reignited when she …