The Riverwood Poetry Series
Board of Directors

Colin Haskins has authored six books of poetry published by Ye Olde Font Shoppe: No Kisses, Mandlebrats, Sinspiration, Judas Goat, The Bones and Habitual Intemperance.  His new book, Drinking of You, will be coming out this year. 

Kathryn Kelly. In the Celtic tradition of storytelling, Kathryn's poems shape themselves as narrative pieces reflecting her connection to family and the world around her. Kathryn currently teaches English in Portland, CT, where she also runs a creative writing program for middle and high school students. She has taught poetry workshops in schools throughout the state, and has been an invited poet to facilitate workshops with the Litchfield Performing Arts' Project Poetry Live! Her work has appeared in a variety of journals, including The Helix and NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English). She is a member of The Random Meetinghouse Poets.

Julia Morris Paul is an attorney in private practice in Manchester , with an emphasis on elder law. Her poems have appeared in a variety of journals, among them: RUNES, Connecticut River Review, Broken Bridge Review , Common Ground Review and Caduceus. She has received awards from Artists Embassy International’s Dancing Poetry Contest, Late Blooms, and the Arthur Anthony Cultural Arts Foundation. The East Haddam Stage Company selected one of her poems to be performed as part of its 2008 production, Plays and Poetry. She is membership chair of the Connecticut Poetry Society and a director of the Riverwood Poetry Series.
 

Christine Beck is the President of the Connecticut Poetry Society and the Contest Chairperson of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies. Her poems have been published in the anthology, Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge, Grayson Press, 2003,J Journal, John Jay School of Criminal Justice; Passager, Connecticut River Review, Connecticut Poetry Society; Long River Run, and Caduceus, Yale Art Place. Her poems have also won contests in the Connecticut River Review and the National Federation of State Poetry Societies. She is an attorney and instructor of legal studies at the University of Hartford. Her textbook, Forensic Evidence in Court: A Case Study Approach, was published in 2008 by Carolina Academic Press.

Terri D. Klein is a member of Artemis Rising. She lives in Cromwell, Connecticut, where she is a homemaker. She holds a B. A. in comparative literature and an M. B. A. in finance. You can't have too much education for this job. She has been a performance poet since 1998, when she began sneaking down to the local coffeehouse, and lately she has begun sneaking into print.

Yvon Cormier’s work is rooted in drawing life pictures where words owe a greater debt to what they represent than the reverse.

His first collection of Jazz & Blues influenced poetry & prose sketches, titled Life Sketches in Blue (Select Edition), was released May 15, 2008 through D/e/a/d/b/e/a/t/ Press.

To buy a copy, visit D/e/a/d/b/e/a/t Press.

In addition to Riverwood Poetry Series, Dolores Lawler, a West Hartford resident, is also a member of Faxon Library Poets, Connecticut Poetry Society, and a member of the Memoir Writing Group at UConn.  Dolores’s poetry has been published in a number of anthologies, and chapbooks.  She is also occupied with her writing business, The Mightier Pen, which includes trouble shooting letter writing, in addition to other writing services.

Victoria Rivas has been published in many journals including a poem about her other passion, martial arts, in the Journal of Asian Martial Arts. Poems about her hometown, Erie, PA, have been included in two anthologies, Working Hard for the Money from Bottom Dog Press and Along the Lake edited by Sean Thomas Dougherty. Recent publications include poems about her math students. “Keisha’s Gone” placed 43rd in the 77th Writer’s Digest Annual Writing Competition. “Balancing Equation” was published in The Cleave poetry webzine.

Minta White is a freelance flutist and poet. A graduate of the Hartt School of music, she studied with John Wion, earning a BM in flute performance. She is a member of the Faxon Library Poets, and was has been published in their anthologies, Perspectives II and III. She has also had poetry published in two other anthologies.