Gina Stratos, United States, United States, (b. 1972), poetry includes: Still Life. Stratos is a poet, freelance writer & editor. She is a mother and student at Truckee Meadows Community College with plans to continue her degree in English at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is currently working on her first collection of poetry. Stratos is now living with her family in northern Nevada. She enjoys collecting words, sipping buttery Chardonnay, and correcting other people’s grammar.
Jason Strugnell, England, (contemporary/deceased), is a fictional poet from Tulse Hill, in south London. Strugnell’s poems are poor imitations of the poems of his well known predecessors and contemporaries.
Richard von Sturmer, New Zealand, (b. 1957), poetry includes: Palaeolithic Excavations in the Lower Dordogne and a Tonga poems series excerpt. Sturmer is a poet, artist, poet, playwright, film-maker, and musician and has fronted several New Zealand punk/art bands. In 2003 he co-founded the Auckland Zen Centre.
Anonymous, England, (19th century). poetry includes: Christmas Sucking Pig, The Parson and the Suckling Pig and Roasted Sucking-Pig. Here is poetical cookery, popular as poems, ballads or put to music as songs for entertaining public presentation.
Sarah M. “Nettie” Squire Sutton, Canada / United States, (1864-1932), poetry includes: We Miss The Hogs And Cattle. She was a poet, wife and mother. Today, her poems give us a vivid window into a woman’s world one hundred years ago.
Arthur Sze, United States, (b. 1950), poetry includes: Pig’s Heaven Inn. Sze is a poet, translator, editor and educator. He graduated with a B.A. In poetry from the University of California, Berkeley and also also studied classical Chinese. He is a recipient of several awards, including the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry, a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, an American Book Award, and a Jackson Poetry Prize. He was the first Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he lives and is also professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe.
Laurel Szymkowiak, United States, (contemporary), poetry includes: Prodigal’s Brother. She is a poet, operations manager and HIPAA privacy officer. Her poems have been published in US 1 Poet, Voices from the Attic, Rune Literary Journal, Del Sol Review, Gyroscope, Perihelion, Loyalhanna Review and elsewhere. She has been part of the Madwomen in the Attic writing community since 2012.
Maria Takolander, Australia, (b. 1973), poetry includes: The Ashes and Unborn. Takolander is a poet, short fiction writer and educator and currently an Associate Professor in Literary Studies and Professional and Creative Writing at Deakin University in Geelong, Victoria.
