Considering the pig, a single-minded bestiary.
Poets and artist of US nationality.
Laurel Szymkowiak, United States, (contemporary), poetry includes: Prodigal’s Brother. She is a poet, operations manager and HIPAA privacy officer. Her poems have been published in US 1 Poet, Voices from the Attic, Rune Literary Journal, Del Sol Review, Gyroscope, Perihelion, Loyalhanna Review and elsewhere. She has been part of the Madwomen in the Attic writing community since 2012.
Bill Traylor, United States, (1852?-1949), was a former slave factory worker. In 1939 at the age of 84, he began making pencil drawings and paintings. He had four productive years painting until health concerns curtailed his output. Today Traylor’s work is regarded as among the major triumphs of self-taught art of the 20th century.
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, United States, (b. 1969), poetry includes: From Pigs to the Dogs. Trommer is a poet, storyteller and writer about the creative potential and process. In Colorado she served as Western Slope Poet Laureate (2015-2017). She is the author of many collection of poetry, including Hush, Naked for Tea and The Less I Hold. Trommer is the co-host of Emerging Form, a podcast on creative process with Christie Aschwanden.
Stacy Johnson Tuthill, United States, (1925-2010), poetry includes: ALL THE WAY HOME. Tuthill was a poet, writer and publisher. She founded a small, non-profit literary press, Sound and Color of Poetry (SCOP) Publications in 1976 based in College Park, Maryland. SCOP published Tuthill’s Laurels: Eight Women Poets in 1998, which documented all the women who had served up to that time as US Poets Laureate. Tuthill is the author of five full-length books of poems and two chapbooks.
Ellen Welcker, United States, (b. 1977), poetry includes: Pigs and Slop. Welcker is a poet, literary events organizer. She received her MFA in poetry from Goddard College in 2010. Welcker lives in Spokane, WA, where she works for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry. She also organizes literary events locally for Spark Central and and co-facilitates Scablands Lit, an organization that supports writers in the Inland Northwest.
Janice D. Whittington, United States, (b. 1946), poetry includes: Feral. She is a poet and educator and has taught English and writing for more than thirty years at the high school level. Whittington is the author of a poetry book and a chap book; and is co-editor of The Waltz He Was Born For: An Introduction to the Writing of Walt McDonald. She is also a member of the Lubbock, Texas Ad Hoc Writing Group who share and critique their groups current works – published as well as works-in-progress – and do public readings.
Jake Adam York, United States, (1972-2012), poetry includes: Elegy for Little Girls. York was a poet, editor and educator. He received his MFA and PhD in creative writing and English literature from Cornell University. York was an associate professor at the University of Colorado Denver and Health Sciences Center. He published three books of poetry before his death and a fourth was released posthumously. At the University of Colorado he was an editor for Copper Nickel, a nationally recognized student literary journal which he had helped found.
Kevin Lowell Young, United States, (b. 1970), poetry includes: Ode to Pork and WHOLE HOG. Young is a poet, professor, editor and literary critic. He is Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and Poetry Editor of the New Yorker.