Insomniacathon 2024

George Wallace is Writer in Residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace, first poet laureate of Suffolk County, LI NY, author of 40 books and chapbooks of poetry, published in the US, UK, Italy, Macedonia and India, and a spoken word performer with five albums of his work released.

His most recent work is Resurrection Song (Roadside Press 2023).

John Burroughs: U.S. Beat Poet Laureate 2022-23. He is author of The Wrest of the Worthwhile: Unselected, Uncollected, and New Poems 1983-2023 and Rattle & Numb: Selected and New Poems 1992-2019. 

Ashley Farmer is the author of the essay collection Dear Damage winner of the 2022 International Rubery Book Award in Nonfiction. She is also the author of Beside Myself, a collection of short stories, and The Women, a collection of poetry. White Fields Press will release a new broadside of her work at Insomniacathon 2024. 

Sean Cole, producer of the weekly radio program This American Life, is the author of After These Messages (Lunar Chandelier 2022), One Train (Dusie 2012), The December Project (Boog Literature 2005), and Itty City (Pressed Wafer 2003). White Fields Press will release his new chapbook at Insomniacathon 2024. 

Brendan Lorber is a visual artist, poet, prose writer, and editor who lives in an old observatory just south of Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery. He is author of if this is paradise why are we still driving. He also creates hand-drawn maps of the known poetic and musical universe. These can be found on Etsy and the Insomniacathon book fair. 

Duncan Barlow is the author of A DOG BETWEEN US, THE CITY, AWAKE, OF FLESH AND FUR, and SUPER CELL ANEMIA. His fiction has appeared in The Denver Quarterly, The Collagist, Banango Street, The Apeiron Review, Calamari Press, and Meat for Tea. He is currently revising a novel, a memoir, and a collection of short stories. He is the publisher at Astrophil Press and the managing editor at South Dakota Review.

Jordan Green is an investigative correspondent based in Greensboro, N.C., who covers right-wing extremism for Raw Story. His work has been featured in a host of publications, including the Washington Post, The Daily Beast, The Nation, In These Times and Sojourners. Jordan won the 2023 Folio Award for his January 6th-related investigations and his reporting on right-wing extremism. 

Ron Whitehead. U.S. National Lifetime Beat Poet Laureate Ron Whitehead is the author of 30 books and 40 albums. His newest book, plus accompanying album with The Storm Generation Band, is THE GREAT BLUE HERON of QUASAR POETRY: New & Selected Poems, 1992 – 2022 (TranceMission Press book & sonaBLAST! Records album). OUTLAW POET: The Legend of Ron Whitehead (Storm Generation Films/Dark Star TV). A new broadside of Ron’s work with poet Wang Ping will be featured at Insomniacathon 2024. Ron Whitehead & The Storm Generation Band has performed in Europe and the USA for over a decade. They have recorded eleven albums. 

William F DeVault is the US Beat Poet Laureate Emeritus as well as having been previously crowned the Romantic Poet of the Internet by Yahoo.  He is the author of dozens of books and among his recordings and collaborations had “Nightfall Angel” with European Hardcore artist Ophidian go to #1 in the European charts a few years ago.  He splits his time between Northern Virginia and Southern California. 

Jim Dunn is the author of The Silence is a Junkyard (‎Spuyten Duyvil Publishing)

Soft Launch (Bootstrap Productions), Convenient Hole (Pressed Wafer), and Insects in Sex (Falling Angels Press). His work has appeared in Shampoo, EOAGH, Polis, Battersea Review, Jacket2 and elsewhere. Jim Dunn also published the broadside “A Flight of Stairs for John Wieners” part of the Pressed Wafers “52 Broadsides for John Wieners”.

Kristi Maxwell is the author of eight books of poems, including Goners (Green Linden Press, forthcoming 2023), winner of the Wishing Jewel Prize; My My (Saturnalia Books, 2020); Realm Sixty-four, editor’s choice for the Sawtooth Poetry Prize and finalist for the National Poetry Series; and Hush Sessions, editor’s choice for the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. She’s an associate professor of English at the University of Louisville and a 2022-23 American-Scandinavian Foundation Fellow.

Larry Jaffe Poet-In-Residence at the Autry Museum, co-founder of Poets for Peace, former Poet Laureate Youth for Human Rights, Florida Beat Poet Laureate, Pushcart Nominee, and the recipient of the Saint Hill Art Festival’s Lifetime of Creativity Award. He was recently awarded the Lifetime New Generation Beat Poet Laureate. Poet in Residence Jack Kerouac House in St. Pete. He has six books of poetry: Unprotected Poetry, Anguish of the Blacksmith’s Forge, One Child Sold, In Plain View, 30 Aught 4, Sirens and Man without Borders. 

Jinn Bug is a poet, photographer, gardener, activist, visual artist, and life-long dreamer. Her photography, vignettes and poems have appeared in Appalachian Heritage, New Southerner, LEO Weekly, Fiolet & Wing–An Anthology of Domestic Fabulism, Aquillrelle, For Sale, Pure Uncut Candy, The Rooted Reader and other print and virtual publications.  

Martha Greenwald is the Founding Director, Creator, and Curator of The WhoWeLost Project. Who We Lost: A Portable COVID Memorial, an anthology based on the WhoWeLost website, was published by Belt Publishing (2023). Martha is also the author of the poetry collection Other Prohibited Items, which won the Mississippi Review Prize for Poetry. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Rattle, Nurture, Slate, Best New Poets, The Threepenny Review, and numerous other journals and anthologies.  

PW Covington His work has been featured from The Havana International Poetry Festival in Cuba to The Beat Museum in San Francisco, CA. A multiple Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, in 2019, PW’s collection North Beach and Other Stories was named an International Book Award Finalist in LGBTQ Fiction. Covington lives just off Historic Route 66, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he has appeared in film and television projects such as Better Call Saul and The Cleaning Lady. 

Elizabeth Colon Nelson holds an MFA in Physical Theater from Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theater. She is a poet, activist, and actor. Her broadside “Horizontal Water” was recently published by Cheek Press. 

Chris Dean is a storyteller, spoken word artist and self-proclaimed Magpie Poet who writes from the heart of Indiana where they live with their husband, two dogs and too many cats to mention. Their work has been featured by Cajun Mutt Press, Fevers of the Mind, Dumpster Fire Press, and the upcoming Gal’s Guide Anthology. Their debut Book of poetry, Tales from a Broken Girl, was released in 2023 by Storylines Press.

Belle Townsend is a rural Kentucky born and bred writer, poet, researcher, organizer, baker, multi-media artist, cat mama, and quadruple cancer. Belle has published three poetry collections: The Holy in the Humdrum (2024), The Observer Effect (2023) and Push and Pull (2022). Belle’s writing intimately explores themes of rural life, queerness, girlhood, survival, and community. 

Jonathan S Baker is primarily composed of the stuff of dead stars and suffers from the same insecurities as everyone else.  They are the author of Cock of the Walk (Laughing Ronin Press, 2022) and Long Nights in Stoplight City (Between the Shadows Press, 2023) and Pressure (Two Key Customs, 2023).  They are also co-editor at The Grind Stone and editor-in-chief at Pure Sleeze Press.

Elemen2al the Poet: A performance writer seeking to inspire & enlighten all that hear his poetry. Elemen2al is an MC for the Nuyorican Café in New York. He has published a book of poetry Calamity (2021). His work has also appeared in the anthology I Can’t Breathe Vol 2: A Social Justice Literary Magazine.