Annette Daniels Taylor - Street Pharmacist & other poetic tales
Can you open your heart enough to feel their highs and lows? The stories of youth, whose vulnerability at the hands of the streets can be heart rendering enough, is woven into tender, gritty, honesty in Street Pharmacist and other poetic tales. “Annette Daniels Taylor's second poetry collection takes us where she's been: front and center with teens in the criminal justice system, who are fashioned after the daily uncertainties of being born amid blight and unrealized dreams,” writes journalist, editor and filmmaker Leah V. Bennett. “Street Pharmacist is an ode to young minds of the village, a tribute that doesn't disappoint. Observations and interactions infusing these poems with bittersweet candor likely to force hearts and minds wide open.”
A multi-disciplinary artist and educator, Annette Daniels Taylor uses words, images, theater, performance, music and sound to build stories that engage and educate audiences about the American worlds she inhabits. A native of Staten Island, NY, Daniels Taylor lives and works in Western New York and is the author of the poetry collection Hush now...poems to read aloud.
Lisa A. Forrest
Lisa A. Forrest currently serves as Director of Research & Instructional Design at Hamilton College’s Burke Library (Clinton, NY). Prior to arriving at Hamilton, Lisa was an Associate Librarian for SUNY Buffalo State (2004-2013), where she founded the school’s Rooftop Poetry Club. In March 2010, she was introduced to the works of Charles Burchfield through the Heat Waves in a Swamp retrospective at the Burchfield Penny. This breathtaking exhibit sparked a series of poems inspired by Charles Burchfield’s large scale watercolors. As a singer-songwriter, Lisa is especially enthralled with Burchfield’s graphic depictions of sounds, and finds Burchfield’s journal entries a source of quiet encouragement. In the spirit of Burchfield’s art of revision, her most recent series builds upon lines from her own decade-old poetry.
Lisa's creative writing has been featured in ArtVoice, Buffalo News, Damn the Caesars, eco-poetics, elimae, foursquare, The Great Lakes Review, Hot Metal Bridge, Kadar Koli, The Volta, WordWrights, and Yellow Edenwald Field. Other honors received include Pushcart nominations, the “Best of Buffalo: Best Poet” award (ArtVoice, 2011), and the National Public Radio News Directors Incorporated (PRINDI) Award for her radio commentary. Lisa’s collection of poems, To the Eaves, is available from BlazeVOX. Her debut music album, Oh Lake Erie, can be heard on iTunes.
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