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Meet the Writers Corps Born and raised in Buffalo, N.Y., Pamela Plummer is the author of two volumes of poetry, Skin of My Palms ( 2004) and Meditation on Ironing Boards & Other Blues (1994). A recipient of the Hughes, Diop, Knight Poetry Award from the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing, her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Drumvoices Review, The Ringing Ear, Obsidian III, Eyeball, WarpLand , and Bum Rush the Page––a def poetry jam anthology. A social worker and educator for more than 20 years, Pamela is an alumnus of Lafayette High School, Cornell University, SUNY Buffalo, and has a PhD in Health Education and Health Promotion from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. “The students and teachers with whom I’ve worked are some of the most incredible individuals that I’ve ever met. Creating a space for writing and exploration of language with them has been pure joy.” Sherry Robbins is a poet, teaching artist, and free-lance writer. She has conducted creative writing workshops throughout New York State and abroad since 1977 and works with thousands of students each year. She is also an arts-in-education consultant for the University of Coimbra in Portugal and for Portugal’s Belgais Center for the Study of Arts. Sherry has two books of poetry, Snapshots of Paradise and Or, the Whale. In 2005, she was named the New York State Teaching Artist of the Year by the Association of Teaching Artists. “I would like to say how much I treasure this work we do. It keeps me reading, watching, listening to, and thinking about new ideas, and the sounds and shapes used to express them. Meeting young people from all over the map of circumstance and geography reminds me on a daily basis to pay attention and respect to their courage and to what Keats called “the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of Imagination.” Old truths and new growth are at the core of quality arts education.” Gary Earl Ross is a professor at the University at Buffalo EOC and the award-winning author of more than 170 published short stories, poems, articles, and public radio essays. His books and staged plays include the children’s tale Dots, Matter of Intent (winner of the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America), and the just published Blackbird Rising: A Novel of the American Spirit. A member of Just Buffalo Literary Center, the Dramatists Guild of America, and the Mystery Writers of America, Ross is playwright-in-residence at Ujima Company and in 2008 was awarded a Constance Saltonstall Foundation Fellowship in Play Writing. “Working as a Just Buffalo Writer in Education has exposed me to the wonderful potential of so many young writers that I find my own writing energized. In many students I have seen the IT––drive, creativity, verbal playfulness, and insight––that makes a writer possible. It is my job to nurture that IT, to help a student take the next step on his journey toward writing well.” Siobhán Scarry holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing and an M.A. in Literature from the University of Montana, and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in English at the University at Buffalo with an emphasis on 20th century poetry and poetics. Recent honors include a fellowship to the Djerassi Resident Artists Program and poems chosen as Editors’ Choice in the Fineline Competition for the Prose Poem (2003, 2004, and 2005). She has taught creative writing, composition, and literature at both the university and high school level. “Teaching writing is a natural extension of my work as a creative writer…. My classes are at once laboratories where we study poems and their many forms, workshops where poetry gets “made,” and conversations in which student input is a vital part of the learning process.” Divya Victor has lived and learned in India, Singapore, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Seattle. She has an M.A. in Creative Writing—Poetry and is currently working towards her Ph.D. in English at the University at Buffalo. Her work has appeared in ambit, XConnect, ixnay, generator, dusie, President’s Choice, P-QUEUE, and Drunken Boat and is forthcoming from Little Red Leaves Press. “As a kindergartener in India, I used to practice writing the alphabet with chalk on a 10” by 10” black slate. I am told that I could never get beyond the letter “H”—the slate was simply too small. I did not know how to continue writing once I reached its edge. It was thus that our home’s terracotta tiled terrace was made available to the practice of the alphabet. With chalked hands, and on my knees, I encountered language under a noon sun for years. In teaching poetry, I hope to invite young learners to go beyond that ‘H’, and into the world as wielders of a powerful tool: language.”
Kaitlyn Abel: 22
Zachery Hollander: 17
Kiera Quinlivan: 8
Romeiro Amos: 19
Melina Homsi: 14
Musa Raqib: 20
Blake Antoszek: 11
Andree Hoolihan: 25
Nathaniel Regester: 23
Nathan Areualo: 18
Charise Hunter-Bell: 33
Alexander Riesz: 31
Liz Bailey: 35
Kadeja Jamison: 16
Sean Riley: Picturing Poetry
Gianna Balassone: 20
Tajé Jones: 27
Tyler Ringwood: 21
Mrs. Bauer’s class: 9
Chloe Karmazyn: 13
William Ritchie: 36
René Benoit: 25
Amiyah King:
Shania Rivera: 15
Janay Brooks: 21
Emily King: 24
Alexiss Robinson: 29
Benjamin Brownell: 27
Emily Law: 25
William Saint: 21
Julia Brundin: 12
Devin Londos: 24
Joselyne Santiago: 23
Maddison Budniewski: 9
Alexander Lutkoff: 12
Stephanie Santiago: 35
Ceaira Butler: 23
Caroline Magavern: 15
Riley Schmidt: 32
Nick Buzzanca: 35
Isabelle Mahar: 9
India Seychew: 16
Kayla Carpino: 31
José Martinez: 19
Crystal Shaw: 30
Autum Carter:
Kaitlyn Mayrose: 26
Tamia Shipp: 22
Zoe Crapsi: 9
Mia McClain: 14
Kyle Slomba: 15
Olivia Crowley: 17
Caitlin McNamara: 14
Andrew Straw: 30
Mrs. DeMarco’s class: 26
Susan Miller: 29
Jackson Tarr: 8
Joseph Demmin: 31
Sadi Mohiuddin:
Janine Elliott: 33
Morerees Montgomery: Picturing Poetry
Grace Van Vessen: 11
Kaitlyn Fellows: 8
Debra Morton: 29
Isabella Wadsworth: 10
Tarah Foresta: 36
Jacob Moslow: 32
Thomas Wagner: 11
Robert Gardner: 15
Irenee Nkera: Picturing Poetry
Brianna Wasik: 13
Fatir Glover: 18
Fatima Nor: 24
Zahra West: 22
Emma Goldman: 18
Nathan Null: 33
Melissa White: 26
Tatyiana Gordon: 21
Prince Page: Picturing Poetry
Jonviér Whittington: Picturing Poetry
Stephanie Guynn: 30
Natasha Panepinto: 11
Brendee Winfield: 10
Marla Hairstan: 26
Tajunique Parker: 16
Jacob Yots: 8
Joanna Haque: 14
Lauren Penksa: 8
Melanie Zachritz: 34
Christina Harris: 28
Kianna Pierson: 19
Rodney Henry, Jr.: 27
Isaiah Pride: 17
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Matine Uwangabe: Picturing Poetry