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2007 - 2008 Officers:

President: Gary Lisman

Gary Lisman has ten years of management experience, including positions that involved operational auditing and creating business plans. Gary was on the 2006 RochesterInk planning committee and served as a venue captain the previous year. Gary has been a member of Just Poets since its inception, and is a member of the Rochester Area Haiku Group. Gary has had poems published in several anthologies.

email: glisman3@excite.com

phone: 585-461-1634

Vice President: Anita J. Augesen

Anita J Augesen is the Vice President of Just Poets. She is currently an adjunct instructor at Monroe Community College. In the past she was a career counselor and is now cultivating her creative talents as a poet and photographer. Her poems have appeared in several anthologies including Common Intuitions (Palettes and Quills, 2005), Knocking on the Silence (Foothills Publishing, 2005), Hemisphere in These Hands, Poets Respond to Servants of the Map (Writers and Books, 2005). Le Mot Juste 2005 and 2006 (Foothills Publishing, 2005 and 2006). This past year her photo taken during a trip to Denmark was selected to be the cover of Le Mot Juste. She coordinated the Pathways and Doors Photography and Poetry Project which was part of the RochesterInk Poetry Infusion Festival in 2006.

email: ajaugesen@yahoo.com

phone: 585-248-3248

Secretary: Kathy Van Schaick

Kathy lives in an1830 farmhouse in Victor where she discovered that demolition work is almost as much as writing poetry. Her poems frequently reflect her great appreciation of nature, and appear in the Dire Elegies, anthology of endangered species, Le Mot Juste 2006, Common Intuitions, anthology of women writing on women and Listen to the Water, an anthology of The Susquehanna Watershed. Her poem "women fish" won the 2006 S. Portia Steele Memorial Contest sponsored by the San Francisco chapter of the California Writers Club.

email: kvanscha@rochester.rr.com

phone: 585-924-3272

 

 

RochesterInk Representative: Wanda Schubmehl

Wanda Schubmehl is a poet and therapist who has lived in the Rochester, NY area for more than 25 years. She has strong interests in collaborative creative projects (such as the Creative Conversations artist-poet show she developed for the High Falls Gallery in 2005) and in the promotion of poetry as an urgently needed art form. In the fall of 2006, she became the curator of the Genesee Readers Series at Writers and Books. She was Chair of the organizing committee for Rochester's new annual poetry festival, RochesterInk, in 2005 and 2006. Her poetry appears online in Writer-on-line.com, and in print in Rattle, The Language of Color: Writers Respond to Georgia O'Keefe (2006), Dire Elegies: 59 Poets On Endangered Species of North America (2006), Knocking On the Silence: An Anthology of Poetry Inspired by The Finger Lakes (2005), Common Intuitions: A Poetry Anthology of Women Celebrating Women (2005), The Woman In the Mirror: An Anthology of Women Celebrating Women (2004), and Summer Songs: An Anthology from The third Annual Gell Center Summer Poetry Festival (2004), as well as in Le Mot Juste 2005 & 2006. Her two-person, two-page play Hat Hair was read by GEVA actors in 2005, and It Could Never Happen Here will be presented by Latter Day Playwrights in 2007.

email: marleneschubmehl@yahoo.com