Mark Powers |
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The September Chosen Poet is Mark Powers Please feel free to email Mark at: markveano@gmail.com |
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I’M HERE The imposing coiled moon— The blackness torqued around her, She spoke with a brother who As she hung on, forever, THE PROPHESY The darkness, THE SOMNOLENCE OF EVE The callow wisp of threadbare night Their hoofing-loo mouths— Then…above, a canonized, pinpricked-white symmetry, Still, in the host of mitigating dark, It, a child mote of falling, angelic, Martian dust, A serious, benign, many-men-shuffling in justice’s backroom, the star Rivaling the greedy, topsoil of the ways of men, And many kickass pomp and steady feet Below, in ego-festered, killer menace of ratcheted men, |
Mark Powers, 66, has been formerly trained in the art and craft of literature since he was 22, when he took his first class in fiction writing at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle Campus. The class, taught by author James Park Sloan (National Book Award nominee for his novel The Last Cold War Cowboy), so inspired him to want to become a fiction writer that he enrolled as an English major the following fall quarter at this university, and thereby received his B.A. in English there. He’s worked in various labor, and clerical (for example, at Encyclopaedia Britannica and Putman Publishing Co.) jobs; and writing positions: for a trade magazine, at Putman, and for two local newspapers, where at one paper he interviewed master crime writer, Eugene Izzi, who so strongly liked this feature story, that he urged Mark to finish a short story. Mark then submitted it to horror author, Mort Castle (currently three time Bram Stoker Award winner), to critique, which led Mr. Castle to become his mentor. Mark thrived under Mort Castle's tutelage, having poetry accepted in journals such as the Oyez Review, Space and Time, and the Riverside Quarterly; and, in anthologies such as the Dan River Anthology, and the First Northwoods Anthology. Also, Mr. Powers had poetry in the comic books, Vampire Girls and Dream Angel. He’s also had poetry published in the illustrated, Death Asylum. Mark Powers had fiction published in the Oyez Review, The Dream International Quarterly, Fantastic Horror, The Southern Literary Messenger; and in the anthology, Masques V, where he cosigned with authors, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson; and in the anthology, All American Horror of the 21st Century: The First Decade 2000-2010.
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