Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Kim Ports Parsons

After working in education for thirty years as a professor, mentor, public-school teacher, and

librarian, Kim now spends as much time as possible on the reading, writing, and sharing of

poetry.

Kim volunteers weekly for the international, intergenerational, intersectional poetry organization,

Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry, because she believes in poetic community. She creates the

graphic designs for the group's events, and is privileged to collaborate with founder Sandra

Yannone and fellow poet Don Krieger on program ideas and management.

She earned her BA in English from Goucher College, her MA with Creative Writing Emphasis

from the University of Maryland-College Park, and her PhD in Creative Writing from the

University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her gratitude overflows for her teachers and mentors --

Elizabeth Spires, Stanley Plumly, Michael Collier, Marcia Southwick, Greg Kuzma, and Hilda

Raz.

Her work appears in many journals, recently in Cider Press Review, The Blue Nib, and Banyan

Review. She is currently seeking a publisher for her full-length manuscript, "The Mayapple

Forest."

Her website can be found here: https://www.kimportsparsons.com/