About the Poets

JAN HASSELMAN BOSMAN was raised in Wisconsin, attended UW Madison, and taught in Wisconsin public schools. She is a member of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, The PaperBirch poets of northern Wisconsin, and the Atrocious Poets in Woodstock, IL, where she lives. Her poetry and essays have been printed in the Wisconsin Poets Calendar, The Northwest Herald, and Voices Literary Magazine.

JAN CHRONISTER is a retired English teacher who is grateful she can now spend more time on her own writing and gardening. Her flowers are a constant source of inspiration and often show up in her poetry. Jan has published two full-length poetry collections and five chapbooks.

YVETTE VIETS FLATEN

(Eau Claire, WI) writes award-winning fiction and poetry. Her poetry has recently been published in A is for Apostle Islands, Island Intersections, Bramble, and Red Cedar. She and her husband Dan enjoy travelling, particularly along the shores of Lake Superior.

CAROL GOOD, since retiring as a certified professional facilitator, has redirected her creativity into writing—mostly poetry. Her pandemic projects included publishing of her first poetry collection—Alive & 65: a celebration for her 65th birthday and joining the League of Canadian Poets. Her snappy new website— carolgood.ca—was designed by her long-time friend, Sue Reynolds. She lives in an octagonal century home in Caledon, Ontario with her very handy husband.

MARY PETERS is a contributor to Stitching Earth to Sky, an anthology of PaperBirch Poets, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets (WFOP) calendars, and in various online newsletters. She is a member of an international critique group for women writers. Mary is from Rhinelander and lives in Madison.

PEGGY TROJAN, retired from teaching English, lives in the north woods of Wisconsin next to a trout stream. Peggy is the author of two full-length poetry collections and five chapbooks. Her newest release, PA, won second place in the 2022 Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Chapbook Contest and is a finalist for the 2022 Northeast Minnesota Book Award.

ERIC CHANDLER is the author of Kekekabic (Finishing Line Press, 2022) and Hugging

This Rock: Poems of Earth & Sky, Love & War (Middle West Press, 2017). Chandler lives in Duluth, and he’s happiest on a trail with his wife, two children, and faithful canine companion, Leo.

NAOMI COCHRAN lives along the wild and scenic Namekagon River near Hayward. She has published three chapbooks (Finding Ourselves in Alzheimer’s, Razed Lutheran and The Truth About Everything). Her full-length collection, Fill in the Blank, received a 2018 Wisconsin Library Association Outstanding Achievement in Poetry award. She is a member of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and serves as its membership chair.

CRYSTAL SPRING GIBBINS is a Canadian American writer and artist, founder/editor of Split Rock Review and Split Rock Press, editor of the anthology Rewilding: Poems for the Environment, and author of Now/ Here, winner of the 2017 Northeast Minnesota Book Award in poetry. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and her work has appeared in Coffee House Writers Project, North American Review, Parenthesis Journal, Verse Daily, The Writer’s Almanac, and elsewhere. www.crystalgibbins.com

HOWARD PAAP and his wife Marlene live in Bayfield, Wisconsin. He taught anthropology for thirty years, she worked in supervision in retail sales. They remain busy beside Lake Superior.

DIANA

Drummond, loves sitting near waterfalls to gain inspiration and inner peace. She’s the author of Beacons of the Earth & Sky, Paintings and Poetry

Inspired by the Natural World (Savage Press). For more information and a link to her studio Facebook page, please visit www.dianarandolph.com.

LUCY TYRRELL sums her interests as nature, adventure (mushing, canoeing), creativity (writing, sketching, photography, quilting). After years in Alaska, she traded a big mountain (Denali) for a big lake (Superior). As Bayfield Poet Laureate 2020–2021, she edited A is for Apostle Islands—a community collaboration of art and poetry.

Photographs

By Catherine Lange

By Michael L. Ruth

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Poets

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