Kenneth Salzmann worked with New Virginia Review in marketing and development. Over the years, he served as a poetry judge for several international competitions, while continuing to create his own work. His poetry has appeared in numerous print and online journals and magazines. Formerly a journalist and arts administrator from Woodstock, New York, he lived
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Don Beaudreau has lived at Lakeside for over 10 years. He shares his home with 7 dogs, 2 cats, and a white lab mouse. He is a retired Unitarian Universalist minister, and a retired English and music teacher. A professional jazz and ragtime pianist, Don has raised money for numerous social justice causes. He is
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Born in Chicago, Illinois, Mel Goldberg earned his MA, taught literature and writing in California, Illinois, Arizona, and at Stanground College in Cambridgeshire, England. For seven years, he and his artist wife lived in a small motor home, traveling the US, Canada, and Mexico, selling their creations. They have called Mexico home for 20 years.
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LEGACY Greg Kemp No one can truly know the life lived by the lines or curve of a face, yet the eyes can tell a story that one perhaps glimpses a summary. The bright joyful eyes of a child sings the endless hymn of living, of the playful dance on this earth, leaping ahead into
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RON JANOFF began writing performing and publishing poetry in New York in the 1970’s, took a long hiatus as a Director at New York University, earned his Ph.D. there, went on to teach Latin in Brooklyn high schools, served as President of the New York Classical Club and became a licensed New York City tour
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This month’s Poetry Niche features a tapestry of local poets. Varied voices, varied themes, universally insightful. Reflection Greg Kemp Some pious say that dogs are dirty vermin to be avoided and never touched. How is it that one of God’s noble creatures could fall so low in the spectrum of life? I have seen these
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Bill Frayer, and his wife, Pixie, were in Ajijic for ten years from 2007-2016. That’s when Bill joined the Ajijic Writers Group and started writing poetry seriously. He returned to Maine in 2016, and Pixie passed in 2019. Bill is an active member of the Maine Poets Society and participates in several writing groups. He
Born in Scotland in 1944, Jim McLaughlin and his wife, Joyce, emigrated to Toronto, Canada, in 1969, two days after they married. He worked as a systems developer in the Department of Justice for six years and then became Administrator of the Ontario Police College. They moved to Calgary, Alberta where Jim had been appointed
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Wearing the Green: Poems of Irish Memory and Voice by Mark Sconce These three poems celebrate Ireland’s literary spirit through humor, homage, and history. They honor poets, rebellion, and the enduring cultural power of words, especially when language becomes an act of identity and resistance. A long-time contributor to El Ojo del Lago, Mark Sconce
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GD (Greg) Shaffer is a writer of poetry and short stories who, via Iowa and Colorado, now resides in Ajijic. From his childhood memories of growing up on a small farm in Iowa, to his diverse life experiences, to his fascination with life, death and the natural world, his poems and stories connect to the
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