The Poésie Collaboration: Poet Partners
Alina Gao | Good Enough White Enough
Alina is a high school student in BC, Canada. She enjoys writing in all styles, but poetry is her favorite. Her work has been featured in Westward Quarterly, Refusion, and GenZ Writes.
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Ari Hofman | (Trigger) Happy Times
Ari Hofman is a junior double majoring in English in the creative writing track and studio art in the drawing track at Principia College. They are from a military family and have lived in ten different places across the US and Germany. Ari enjoys writing fiction and poetry, sketching, and painting. They often find themself exploring the idea of family and a sense of belonging in their work. When not writing or drawing, they can be found collecting inspiration on walks and bike rides or playing tabletop, card and board games with their friends.
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Elizabeth Perrin | Dream Girl
Elizabeth Perrin is a student with an interest in poetry. She would like to pursue a career where she can express herself creatively, including music and poetry related projects. She doesn’t have anything to promote or any work published, but she’s decided to take this opportunity as a starting point.
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Heather Meatherall | I Will Not Tell You
Heather is a teenage poet from Canada. She finds a lot of inspiration from quotes, music and nature. She plans to attend university for computer science in the fall. When she isn't writing poetry, she's crocheting, baking or playing piano.
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Julia Trudell | Dear friend,
Julia is a writer, poet, and podcast host from Ohio. She hosts the podcast 'Running on Empty' which can be found streaming on all platforms. She had her first collection of poems self-published in the summer of 2020 entitled 'blues'. Julia is a current student at the University of Maryland studying communications. In her free time, she likes to paint, watch movies, and go for runs. She is an avid lover of coffee, music, and books.
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Kulsy Kashmiri | Jaws of the Sky
I'm a London based Publishing student, poet and full-time cat lover!
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Marisa Jorgensen | when the world feels heavy
Marisa is a writer from Canada who plans on studying creative writing and publishing. She loves to tell stories through everything she creates, and often experiments with different types of poems and a variety of forms. She hopes to inspire people and have them immerse themselves in many feelings and other worlds when they read her words. When she isn't writing, she enjoys reading, listening to music, painting, crocheting, and photography.
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Samantha Frank | I (Can’t) Imagine
Samantha Frank is a recent graduate of Principia College with a B.A. in English. She's from Massachusetts, Texas, and Illinois. She writes mainly short fiction, often with an emphasis on the aromantic asexual perspective.
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Tara Tasse | Feed
Tara Tasse is a Canadian author and teacher. Last year, she independently published her chapbook “Black Stones" which explores motifs of mental illness and resiliency. When she is not trying to inspire the next generation of writers she can be found at home with her partner, dog, and son.
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Zach Sullentrup | Bathtub
Zach Sullentrup is a songwriter, a poet, and sometimes both. They don't have any published poetic works to plug, but you can check out their solo music as well as their band Tidal Volume anywhere music is streamed or sold.
www.zachsullentrup.com
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