Marilyn DuHamel

Marilyn DuHamel has a lifelong commitment to the natural world, which is currently expressed through her website/blog, Earth Dialogues, at www.marilynduhamel.com. Her essays foster a deeper connection to animals, plants and landscapes, believing that what we love, we will not turn away from. Her writing has been published in Dark Matter: Women Witnessing. A Licensed Clinical Social Worker, she…

Sage Cohen

Sage Cohen is the author of the poetry collection Like the Heart, the World from Queen of Wands Press and the nonfiction books Fierce on the Page, The Productive Writer, and Writing the Life Poetic, all from Writer’s Digest Books. Her award-winning poetry, essays, and fiction have been published widely. Sage is a graduate of Brown University and the Creative Writing Program at NYU where she was…

Leah Stenson

Leah Stenson has published three poetry books and co-edited two anthologies, including Reverberations from Fukushima:50 Japanese Poets Speak Out (Inkwater Press, 2014.) Reverberations was awarded finalist status in the category of Social Change in the USA Best Book Awards and first place for Poetry in the Pacific Rim Book Festival. Leah lived in Japan for 16 years and traveled to the Fukushima…

John Grey

John Grey is an Australian-born short story writer, poet, playwright, musician, and Providence, RI resident. He has been published in numerous magazines including Weird Tales, Christian Science Monitor, Poetry East, Poem, Agni, Poet Lore, and Journal Of The American Medical Association. The Winner of Rhysling Award for short genre poetry in 1999, John has had plays produced in Los Angeles and…

The Climate, Consciousness and Community Summit

Climate, Consciousness and CommunityA Kosmos Summit Dear Summit-Goers and Interested Friends, If you have registered for the Kosmos Climate, Consciousness, and Community Summit, (April 20-23), thank you! It is going to be a very rich and interactive journey. We are so excited to welcome you to the Summit! ‘What to Bring’ and other important information can be found here. ADDRESS | 350…

Conversations

ConversationsConscious Dialogue on our theme Voices | CCC19 The Lie of the Land | Conversation and Essay By Margaret Elphinstone and Marie Goodwin In this crisis to which we’ve brought ourselves, we can only change what is happening through transforming the way we imagine things. That happens through art. This…

Judith Arcana

Judith Arcana writes poems, stories, essays, and books. In 2018, two of her books came out in new editions from Eberhardt Press: 4th Period English, poems about immigration, and Grace Paley's Life Stories, a biography of the globally-celebrated activist and writer. Poems in Judith's Announcements from the Planetarium (Flowstone Press, 2017) examine memory, wisdom, and aging into new…

Jan Chronister

Jan Chronister writes from her home in Maple, Wisconsin. Her chapbook, Target Practice, was published by Parallel Press (University of Wisconsin) and her full-length poetry collection, Caught between Coasts (Clover Valley Press), was released in 2018. Jan's poems appear in anthologies published by Main Street Rag, Outrider Press, Pure Slush Books, New Rivers Press as well as numerous journals.…

Jake Sheff

Jake Sheff is a major and pediatrician in the US Air Force, married with a daughter and six pets. Jake’s poems are in or forthcoming from Radius, Crab Orchard Review, The Cossack Review, and elsewhere. He won first place in the 2017 SFPA speculative poetry contest. Two poems have been nominated for the 2018 Best of the Net Anthology and one for a 2019 Pushcart Prize. His chapbook Looting…