Keith Badowski, resident of Phenix City, holds a Masters in English Lit from SIU, Carbondale. Some of his poetry has been published in FutureCycle Poetry, Birmingham Arts Journal, Monkey, Rambunctious Review, and Reach of Song. His poetry was also featured on WUGA’s Wordland radio show. His recent chapbook of spontaneous poetry is entitled, My Wife Warned Me and I Did It Anyway. In 2009, he began a stint as President of the Georgia Poetry Society, and he co-founded Brick Road Poetry Press. He led a workshop at the Chattahoochee Valley Writers Conference (2010) entitled, “How to Get Started, How to Keep Going: Poetry Prompts, Exercises, and Springboards for Those Times When Your Muse Takes a Vacation.” At the same conference, he preformed a poetry stunt where, for a donation, he wrote spontaneous poems to order on an antique Royal manual typewriter. He serves as a minister at Epworth United Methodist Church. He dearly loves his wife Christina to whom he dramatically reads detective novels, Robert B. Parker and Rex Stout being favorites. An active "big” in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program, Keith has been known to bring his "little” to local poetry readings.
Ron Self is a lawyer-musician in Columbus, Georgia, and teaches part-time at Columbus State University. He is a frequent participant in poetry readings and workshops and hosts two monthly open mic poetry events in Columbus, GA and Phenix City, Alabama. His work has appeared in Atlanta Review, The English Journal, The Cortland Review, Encore, The Legal Studies Forum, Shout Them from the Mountaintops, and Reach of Song, among other publications. He was the 2008 recipient of the Plains Poets Award and the 2010 San Antonio Poetry Prize, and is a co-founder and editor of Brick Road Poetry Press.
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