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Ali Ashhar is a poet, short story writer, and columnist from Jaunpur, India. He is the author of Mirror of Emotions , a poetry collection published by Notion Press in 2021. Following the release of his book, he was chosen as the Best Debut Author for the year 2021 by The Indian Awaz. Ashhar was also the recipient of an India Prime 100 Authors Award. His works have been published extensively in the...

K.G. Munro is an author and poet from Scotland. Her poetry has been featured in numerous publications, such as Indian Periodical , Poetry Potion , Splendeur magazine , A Thin Slice of Anxiety , Spillwords , Fevers of the Mind , Friday Flash Fiction , and Poet Magazine . She also has a poetry collection coming out soon.

Joel O'Connor is an Australian poet who likes to draw on scientific research to create poems about the connection between science and magic in the natural world. His love of poetry began in his younger years, and he won his high school's poetry award during his last two years there. That award inspired him to create Poetry Australia, a non-profit organization to help promote and support po...

(Marked explicit for light use of adult language) Hannah Pearl is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, with a degree in psychology. Over the years, she has worked in special education and customer service. Pearl is a published author with A.B. Baird Publishing . The company saw potential in Pearl’s poetry, which is how her debut collection- Laughing with My Hair Up- was born. She is also published in the...

(marked explicit for the usage of old slang words that may be offensive ) John Keats was born on October 31, 1795, in Moorgate. His parents were Thomas and Francis Keats, and John was the eldest of four children. While attending the Clarke's School, Keats enjoyed the classics and history, but he left to study medicine after his mother passed in 1810. However, his love of writing never wavered,...

If you write poetry, I want to read it!!! That's why Present Poetry Podcast offers this  OPEN SUBMISSION CALL  for poets of all ages, types, and genres!  Submit a biography, links you want to share, and five (5) poems to  PresentPoetryPodcast@Gmail.com  or through the form at  LadyErynn.com/Present-poetry-podcast.  Any length, style, genre, and subject are welcome, but please include a content...

Evaleen Stein was born on October 12, 1863, in Lafayette, Indiana, where she remained for her entire life. In 1886, Evaleen wrote her first poem and sent it to the Indianapolis Journal for publication. They loved it, and she contributed to the journal (and other newspapers) for several years. This was only the beginning of Evaleen's writing career, and she published eleven volumes of stories a...

Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was born in La Celle Saint Cloud, France, on July 27, 1870. His father was Louis Belloc, a French lawyer, and his mother was renowned English writer and women's advocate Bessie Rayner Parks. Hilaire married Elodie Hogan, his long-time love, on June 15, 1896, after his graduation from Oxford. The two had five children before her death in 1914. During his distin...

Virna Sheard was born Virna Stanton on April 12, 1860, just after the Vernal Equinox. She lived in Cobourg, Ontario, with her aunt as her parents- photographer Eldridge Stanton and his wife Elizabeth- traveled through the US taking war pictures. She later moved to Toronto to attend school and remained there for the rest of her life. In 1884, she married Dr. Charles Sheared, Toronto's first chi...

James William Foley was born on February 4th, 1874, in St. Louis, Mo. He moved to Fort Abraham Lincoln in North Dakota in the late 1870s, following his father's career as a military man. There, James attended school until the family moved to Bismark, where he eventually graduated from high school in 1888. He then moved to Medora for a year to attend the University of South Dakota before spendi...

James Parkerson is a tragic example of a poet lost to history because, despite my research, there are very few facts about this poet to offer you. I do know that he was English-born and lived in Norwich for most of his life. He's also the eldest son, as indicated by his full name of James Parkerson Junior, and was possibly a religious or spiritual type. He published nine collections of poetry...

Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa was born on June 13, 1888, in Lisbon, Portugal. In 1896, Fernando sailed to South Africa with his mother to join his stepfather, a consul in Durban. There, he received his education at the St. Joseph Convent School, run by Irish and French nuns. In 1899, Fernando moved to the Durban High School and quickly became fluent in English. He also developed an appreciation...

Brandon Nguyen was born in California where he continues to live. Following the nationwide pandemic, he would often write his thoughts down in the form of poetry. Flowers, sunsets, and whatever else he saw helped inspire what he writes today. When he's not writing poetry, Brandon enjoys reading, making coffee, cooking, and video games. Brandon submitted his poetry through the form at Present-P...

Vibha Kashyap is a high school student interested in the creative arts, and they're eager to share their talents with the world. They enjoy expressing themselves through art (especially poetry) and use it to navigate their inner pains and joys. Their greatest goal in life is to reach someone they don't know and connect with them through their emotional poetry.

George Lansing Raymond was born in September of 1839 to Benjamin Wright Raymond, the twice-elected mayor of Chicago, and his wife, Amelia. He attended Phillips Academy in Andover before graduating in 1858 and moving on to Williams College, where he became a prominent member of the Kappa Alpha Society. He then studied at the Princeton theological seminary, where he studied philosophy. After graduat...

Maxwell Bodenheim was born on May 26th, 1892, in Hermanville, Mississippi. In 1900, when Maxwell was eight, the family moved from Mississippi to Chicago. Maxwell remained under the radar until 1912 when he met writer Ben Hecht. The two quickly formed a literary friendship, and Bodenheim published his first poem in 1914, then again in 1917. He married his first wife, Minna, in 1918. They had a son,...

Stuart Brkn Johns was born in 1979 in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He has a deep passion for poetry and is often compelled to express his thoughts and emotions in diverse literary forms, from Prose to Haiku, depending on the creative inspiration of the moment. In 2012, he was diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, which has led to some unique challenges in his personal and professional lif...

Charles Pierre Baudelaire was born on April 9, 1821, in Paris, France to Joseph-Francois Baudelaire (a French civil servant and amateur artist) and his young wife, Caroline. After his father died and his mother remarried, Charles was sent to Lyon for education and boarded there for several years. One of his classmates described him as "much more refined and distinguished than any of our fello...

If you write poetry, I want to read it!!! That's why Present Poetry Podcast offers this OPEN SUBMISSION CALL for poets of all ages, types, and genres!  Submit a biography, links you want to share, and five (5) poems to PresentPoetryPodcast@Gmail.com or through the form at LadyErynn.com/Present-poetry-podcast.  Any length, style, genre, and subject are welcome, but please include a conten...

Gary Clarke moved to the Whaligo steps area of Scotland in 1989 and quickly formed a love of history, nature, music, and blogging. In 2021, he hoped to build up interest in a blogging website ( found Here ) by finding like-minded individuals. During his exploration, he found poetry. Since then, Gary has combined his inspiration from nature, music, and general philosophy into his own form of rhymin...

Tyler Gambill is 30 years old and his hometown is Indianola, OK. A town with a population of about 200 located about 1.5 hours south of Tulsa. He currently lives in Tulsa with a roommate, three cats, and two dogs. In high school, he was a “skater kid,” who got kicked out of Mannford High School for having (and acting) on a deep streak of anti-authority. Starting at 21, and for seven years after, h...

George Edward Farrow was born on March 17th, 1862 in Ipswitch, England. Very little is known about his early life- only that he was educated in London for a time before moving to America to continue his studies. He worked as a clerk for a while in 1891, then declared himself an author in 1901.  During his career, Farrow wrote over 30 books for children- some adventure, some poetry, and some n...

Jubran Khalil Jubran was born on January 6th, 1883, in the village of Bisharri, which was part of the Ottoman Empire back then but is now in modern-day Lebanon.  After his father got into legal trouble, his mother took Khalil and his siblings to the united states in 1895, where they settled in the South End of Boston. Kahlil's mother became a peddler and seamstress, and she opened a shop with...

Nikola Družeta is a 26-year-old from Croatia that enjoys writing poetry. He primarily writes in English but will occasionally write in Croatian as well. He also enjoys video games, music, and martial arts.  According to the author, the poems that inspire him include Invictus by William Ernest Henley and Koza (The Goat) by Mate Balota.  People Call It Poetry is Nikola's debut collection, and it...

Robert Burns was born on Jan. 25, 1759, in Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland. He was the eldest of seven children born to tenant farmers William Burns and Agnes Broun.  When he was 7, his father moved them to a farm near Mount Oliphant, where they began a life of hardship and poverty. That resulted in Burns having little schooling save what his father and tutors could teach him.  In 1774, Burn...