Poets
Anna Evans
Anna M. Evans’ poems have appeared in the Harvard Review, Atlanta Review, Rattle, American Arts Quarterly, and 32 Poems. She gained her MFA from Bennington College. Recipient of Fellowships from the MacDowell Artists' Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and winner of the 2012 Rattle Poetry Prize Readers' Choice Award, she teaches at Rowan College at Burlington County.
Evans’ most recent book is a collection of poems about politics, The Unacknowledged Legislator (No Chair Press, 2019), that shares her hopes and fears for the nation. Her collection, Under Dark Waters: Surviving the Titanic, is out from Able Muse Press, and her sonnet collection, Sisters & Courtesans, is available from White Violet Press. She lives with her family in Hainesport.
Nicole Homer
Nicole Homer’s work can be found in Muzzle, The Offing, The Collagist, Poem-a-Day and elsewhere. A fellow of The Watering Hole and Callaloo and an editor at BlackNerdProblems, Homer served as the 2018 Dartmouth Poet-in-Residence at The Frost Place and was recipient of a 2020 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Homer’s collection, Pecking Order was an Eric Hoffer Poetry Award winner. Online, she’s @realnicolehomer. Offline, she’s working on her next project, Fast Tail.
Photo © Marco Giugliarelli for Civitella Ranieri Foundation, 2019
Gregory Pardlo
Born in Philadelphia in 1968, Gregory Pardlo is a graduate of Rutgers University-Camden. As an undergraduate, he managed the small jazz club his grandfather owned in nearby Pennsauken, NJ. He received the MFA from NYU as a New York Times Fellow in Poetry in 2001 and the MFA in nonfiction from Columbia University in 2016. Pardlo is the author of Totem, winner of the 2007 American Poetry Review / Honickman Prize, and translator of Niels Lyngsoe’s, Pencil of Rays and Spiked Mace (Bookthug, 2004). His poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, The Nation, The New York Times, Ploughshares, Tin House, and two editions of Best American Poetry, as well as anthologies including Angles of Ascent, the Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry. He is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and a fellowship for translation from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has received other fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the Lotos Club Foundation and Cave Canem. He is Poetry Editor for Virginia Quarterly Review and teaches in the MFA program at Rutgers University-Camden. His most recent book is Air Traffic, a memoir in essays published by Knopf in 2018.
Christine E. Salvatore
Christine E. Salvatore teaches literature and writing in the MFA Program at Rosemont College, Stockton University and at a public high school in South Jersey. Her poetry has appeared in many journals including [Pank], The Cortland Review, Diode, The Literary Review, The Southeast Review and elsewhere. Her work is also included in the craft book More Challenges for the Delusional and featured in the art book, Mother Monument by Holly Trostle Brigham and Maryanne Miller.
Reet Starwind
Self-proclaimed 'Interstellar Storyteller,' Reet Starwind is an artist, author, & activist in the Camden area.
Alumni of Rutgers-Camden, Starwind views life itself as a grand poetic experience, candidly deconstructing the human condition through imagery, alliteration, & rhyme.
His poem, 'Icarian' has been published in The Night Heron Barks poetry journal, while 'A Sign of the Times' & 'Inheritance' were performed as part of University of Penn's Whitman 200 celebration & the Camden Arts For Change justice march respectively.
BJ Ward
A long-time host of the Poetry Tent, BJ Ward is a Pushcart Prize-winning poet, experienced workshop leader and event host and is on faculty of Warren County College.
BJ Ward is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Jackleg Opera: Collected Poems 1990-2013 (North Atlantic Books), which received the Paterson Award for Literary Excellence.
His poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, The New York Times, and The Sun, among others, and have been featured on NPR’s “The Writer’s Almanac,” NJTV’s “State of the Arts,” and the website Poetry Daily.
He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and two Distinguished Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
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Paul-Vincent Winters
Paul-Victor Winters teaches at Egg Harbor Township High School in Southern New Jersey and works for Murphy Writing of Stockton University and the Poetry Program of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. He has published poems in an array of journals over decades and has amassed a fine pile of rejection notes for manuscripts over the years.