PK Featured Poet - Index
| 1 - TED SLADE - OCTOBER 2000 |
"I love the compactness
of poetry, it's Tardis quality of being much bigger on
the inside than it appears on the outside." |
| 2 - BARBARA PHILLIPS - NOVEMBER 2000 |
"Writing is like panning for gold; a lot of material is required to yield modest treasure." - Barbara Phillips |
| 3 - FRANK FAUST - DECEMBER 2000 |
"I would write to try to make a still-life out of a situation so as to be able to understand it - almost as a way of reassuring myself that I understood." - Frank Faust |
| 4 - CHRISTINA FLETCHER - FEBRUARY 2001 |
" I like sharp, spare writing that rings true." - Christina Fletcher |
| 5 - LAWRENCE UPTON - MARCH 2001 |
"Some years ago I got fixated on black Ryman felt tip pens and blue Greek exercise books. I'd sit with a bottle of retsina and a big blue book full of white pages which I'd cover with spidery writing... Some of it was ok." – Lawrence Upton |
| 6 - JAMES BELL - APRIL 2001 |
"...genuine poetry has a certain glow that's like finding gold. It's a
wonderful feeling when you see it and recognise it." |
| 7 - CALAYA J. WILLIAMS - MAY 2001 |
| "I think all our poems, songs and stories are young plants whose hope for growth lies in shared soils, however we share." - Calaya J. Williams |
| 8 – GARY BLANKENSHIP - JUNE 2001 |
| "I workshop nearly 100 percent of what I write, and am convinced I would not be writing today without the support and teaching that workshops provide." - Gary Blankenship |
| 9 - M. A. GRIFFITHS (grasshopper) - JULY 2001 |
| "I hope that with all my poems, whatever else I am trying to communicate, I will communicate some of my delight in language and the magic of words.." - M.A. Griffiths |
| 10 - LOUISE WAGENER - DECEMBER 2001 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Most people see people who use a wheelchair to help them be mobile, or people who look different, or have a different sexual orientation as something to be avoided, inconvenient, or downright strange, I see it as my job as a writer to try and put the other side of the coin..." - Louise Wagener | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 - CAROL SIRCOULOMB - JAN 2002 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 12 - MICK MOSS - MAR 2002 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Most of what I write is garbage. It's like cigarettes, they do me no good but I just can't give up. " - Mick Moss | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 - MARYANN HAZEN-STEARNS - JULY 2002 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Writing poetry is something a poet does because it provides a personal satisfaction unlike anything else; it fills a need; it can't be helped. I'd rather write poetry than anything else I can think of, except possibly, teaching others how to express themselves through poetry. " - Maryann Hazen-Stearns | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 – BARBARA OSTRANDER - AUGUST 2002 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "I think all of us have
an innate desire to know and be known. What I write
is simply my efforts to do just that." - Barbara Ostrander
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