Introducing Karolina Gajdeczka

Karolina Gajdeczka is a Polish American writer and poet.  She has lived her whole life in the DC Metropolitan area and is now studying English and creative writing at Mount St. Mary’s University.  She has had work previously published in Lighted Corners, where she is currently the editor.  Karolina has been writing poetry for the past several years and began exploring fiction writing in college.  She loves traveling and spending time outdoors hiking, mountain biking or doing yoga.

KAROLINA GAJDECZKA photo by Ethelbert

POET giovanni singleton MAKES HER DEBUT

Poetry Society of America’s Debut Poets Series
https://psa.fcny.org/psa/poetry/crossroads/new_american_poets/giovanni_singleton_selected_byly/

A CONVERSATION WITH giovanni singleton

Joyful Noise: A Conversation with giovanni singleton
http://www.pen.org/blog/?p=3560

INTRODUCING TO THE E GALLERY - giovanni singleton

giovanni singleton photo by Sarah Collins

writer giovanni singleton is a native of Richmond, Virginia, a former debutant, and founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts, a journal committed to experimental work of the African Diaspora and other contested spaces. Her debut collection, Ascension (Counterpath Press, 2012), is informed by the music and life of Alice Coltrane. singleton has recently been selected for the Poetry Society of America’s biennial New American Series, which recognizes recent first book poets. Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon says, "giovanni singleton lets silence do its work. The poems are minimalist, while engaging a concern for the historical, the personal, the spiritual. I hear Lucille Clifton saying 'the human, the human' when I read this." She is a recipient of a New Langton Bay Area Award Show for Literature and her writing has recently appeared in VOLT, Poet Lore, Zen Monster, and is forthcoming in I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women, What I Say: Innovative Poetries by Black Artists in America, and Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry. Work from her AMERICAN LETTERS series was selected for San Francisco’s 1st Visual Poetry & Performance Festival. She has received fellowships from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Workshop, Napa Valley Writers Conference, Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Writers Workshop, and Cave Canem. singleton has given presentations on writing, editing, graphic design, and publishing at high schools, colleges, and conferences such as the American Literature Association, Series X: Bay Area Women Publishers, and the New York Festival of Literary Magazines. She has received fellowships from the Squaw Valley and Napa Valley Writers Workshops and has served as a guest writer at Cal State Los Angeles, Chabot College, and California College of Arts. Over the past 15 years, she has taught poetry at Saint Mary’s College, Naropa University, and at museums and schools throughout the Bay Area.  She coordinates Lunch Poems, the monthly poetry reading series at UC Berkeley under the direction of Robert Hass. She collects bookmarks and enjoys figs and greek style yogurt.