New Classic Poems – Contemporary Verse That Rhymes

New Classic Poems
Poets’ Biographies
North Wind Whispers, will be released by Neshui
Publishing in 2005. Ms. McVay’s other interests
include mountain biking, hiking, collecting
Native American crafts and attending powwows.
Michael Moreland Milligan is a
Shakespearean actor who has performed at
festivals all around the USA. He has also
performed for Shakespeare and Company, The
Cincinnati Playhouse, St. Louis Rep, The
McCarter Theatre, The Studio Arena Theater,
Charlotte Rep, The Manhattan Ensemble
Theater, and the Poor Box Theatre.
Favorite roles include: Hamlet, Benedik
Mercutio, Mark Antony, Romeo, Krishna, Tom
Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie (with two time
Tony winner Penny Fuller), and Murray Burns in
A Thousand Clowns. Michael’s children’s plays
have been produced at Circle in the Square in
New York. He has written several full length
plays including an adaptation of Jack London’s
The Sea Wolf. He is a graduate of the Juilliard
School where he received the John Houseman
prize. Michael was born in Westerville, Ohio,
USA; and he currently resides in Brooklyn. By
moonlighting as a Shakespearean actor, Milligan
hopes to achieve his dream of one day becoming
a full time professional dilettante.
Pearl Watley Mitchell is the eldest of 10
children, raised in the Southern United States.
She is a retired schoolteacher who taught every
grade from one through twelve. She says that
she taught “all subjects,” especially English and
Math, Adult Education, English-as-a-Second-
Language and Business College. She has three
children and six grandchildren. She was
widowed after 30 years of marriage to a loving
plumber named Pete. Mitchell’s hobbies are
reading, writing, grandchildren, sports, church
and mission trips to South America. She is the
author of Don’t Run for President with Skeletons in
Your Closet (Publish America: 2003). She has
been writing poetry since childhood, and she has
published some of it from time to time. She likes
to experiment with all forms, but prefers
conventional, rhyming poems.
John Nause, Ph.D. recently retired as a high
school Principal after a career of more than 35
years. His first volume of poetry, The Valley, was
published by Borealis Press in 1973. It was
followed in 1976 by The Last Snows of Winter, The
First Breath of Spring, a collections of poems and
short stories. He has published other poems
and short stories in a variety of magazines, and
he recently completed a novel, tentatively titled
Betrayal of Trust. Dr. Nause became involved
with theater as a high school student. He has
performed on Canadian amateur stages in
Ontario and Nova Scotia, directed plays and
written three dramas. John and his wife Dawn-
Marie live in Overton, Nova Scotia, by the
Atlantic Ocean.
Opal M. Norris is a freelance writer, stage
manager and professional storyteller. She was
born in North Carolina, USA in 1982, where she
currently resides while she works towards her
Master’s degree in Fine Arts. Her work has been
published in Tracing the Infinite, Expressions,
Voicenet Anthology 10 and Great Poems of the
Western World.
Michael Pollick’s work has been featured in
Mosaic, HART, Elk River Review, The Iconoclast
and Midwest Poetry Review, among other
publications, and in the political poetry
anthology, Will Work for Peace, edited by poet
Brett Axel. Writers who have influenced him
include ee cummings, William Carlos Williams,
Raymond Carver and Bob Dylan. Born in
Akron, Ohio in 1964, Pollick now lives in the
deep south of the USA with his wife Amy. He
currently writes content for an on-line content
provider service, and he hopes to continue his
poetry career with readings and workshops.
More of his work can be found at
www.angelfire.com/al/collateraldamage .
Sally Anne Roberts says of herself that she “is
a stay-at-home Mom with one daughter, Sarah
Jean. Her husband has been her loving soul
mate for 14 years. Sally has been writing for 30
years. Her accomplishments include over 20
creative certificate awards and ribbons for
writing. In 2003 Ms. Roberts had over 90 of
her poems edited and published in a chap book
called Confetti Leaves (Shadows Ink Publications,
(where all of her poems that appear in this
anthology were first printed.) All the hours, days
and years of writing to become a published poet
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