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Mary Beth Magee

MS Poetry Society 2025 Poet of the Year; author of Songs of Childhood, Echoes of Years…

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Jerilyn Elise Miripol

accepted to The Ragdale Foundation in 1985; published 3 poetry books…

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the author of two poetry chapbooks, In From The Dark and Keep Moving ‘til The Music Stops and a full-length collection entitled Mapping A Life.

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a Past President of both the Illinois State Poetry Society and Poets & Patrons of Chicago.

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the author of two poetry chapbooks, In From The Dark and Keep Moving ‘til The Music Stops and a full-length collection entitled Mapping A Life.

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sees art and poetry as an expression of the joyous mysteries and the tough realities of life.

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a researcher at Argonne National Laboratory, a poet, and an artist.