Meet Larry Wilson aka Dapharoah69 Erotica Poet At SplashHall Poetry

Meet SplashHall Poet Larry Wilson. Larry is also know as Dapharoah69. Larry says, "I have been writing poetry since I was 6 years old at the behest on my teacher. I write to express growth, pain and now sexual liberation. I once turned my back on writing because I was scared of how powerful it made me feel; I found it again, dissed it again and now its my passion. I'm 29 years old and reside in Miami, Florida. I graduated high school and did a short stint in the Army. I was raised in the inner city and survived it, mainly because of my writing.

Larry has been published and co-edited (and contributed a short story and three poems) a book called Voices From Within, which was Body Postive magazines' Book of the Month in 2001. I was just selected by Trimaxx Publishers to be added to their roster of authors to be published next year.

Visit Larry and read some of his erotica poems at SplashHall Poetry.

Meet SplashHall Poet Sandy Benitez aka BitterSweet

Meet Sandy Benitez aka Bittersweet. A military brat, she was born in Selma, Alabama, in October 1970. Her father served 20+ years in the Air Force and her mother is a native of Thailand.

At an early age, Sandy showed talent in creative writing. She consistently achieved the highest grade in elem school for short story writing. Sandy started writing poetry in 1986 at the age of 16. Her English teacher encouraged her to keep writing, noting that she reminded her of Emily Dickinson. But that was probably due more to her demeanor: she was very much the brooding, melancholic poet & was also extremely shy. She graduated from Brent International School in 1988. In 1989, Sandy joined the Air Force, carrying on the family tradition. She was married in 1993 to a fellow service member and they have 2 beautiful children, ages 6 & 2.

She enjoys writing & reading poetry, watching scary movies, alternative rock, astrology, photography, traveling, the paranormal, anything that has flowers, Angels, or butterflies in it. Sandy is now stationed in Wyoming and is counting the days until retirement (which is still 3 or 4 years out). She has had several poems published in literary magazines online and recently started her own online poetry magazine called Flutter. She hopes to publish a book of poems in the future. She goes by the pen name Sandy Hiss, which is actually her maiden name. Sandy can always be found at SplashHall Poetry or her blog Violet Muse.

Quote: "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." by Anais Nin

Enter "Tribute To Women" In CafeRg's Poetry Picture Competition

Enter cafeRg's Splash Poetry Picture 'Tribute To Women' Challenge. The top two poems will be decided by a SplashHall Poetry Members Poll and the Judges score. Among other awards prizes top poem wins a Beautiful Bouquet Of Roses from Kingsgate Diamonds.

How It Works

Judges will award 4 poems a score of 1 to 4. SplashHall Members will then vote for those 4 poems and, based on most votes, each poem will be scored 1 to 4. Ties, should there be any, will be broken and decided by the Judges.

To enter your Tribute To Women poem in CafeRg's Splash Picture Poetry Tribute To Women Challenge, muse Steve Hank's Woman In Felt Hat Art, and post your Tribute To Women poem In The SplashHall Forum Here.

Top poems are also published on our syndicated blogs including Rollin Thunder Poetry, BZoO HomeGrown Radio Blog and SplashHall Art & Poetry.

There is a limit of 1 poem per person per challenge. Poems need to have a Tribute To Women theme and must include something within the picture to be included in the voting and scoring. If there is no reference in your poem to the above art, your poem will be deleted. SplashHall Host and Staff including Rollin Thunder Staff and BZoO Homegrown Radio Staff are not eligible to enter. There is no enter fee. The Tribute To Women Competition is absoluting FREE!

Poems must be submitted and posted in this forum by Monday, August 14, 2006 8:00 PM EST. Scoring and voting will begin. Winners will be announced on Saturday August 26, 2006.

If you're a blogger you will also win blogging credits from the following blogging communities:




Top poems are also published on our syndicated blogs including Rollin Thunder Poetry, BZoO HomeGrown Radio Blog and SplashHall Art & Poetry.

Stephanie Larocque in association with BZoO HomeGrown Radio Presents The Legendary Jimmy D Lane

Jimmy D. Lane

Show Times

Monday 11:00 PM (ET)

Wednesday 11:00 PM (ET)

Friday 10:00 AM (ET)

Saturday 9:00 PM (ET)

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Jimmy D. Lane, featured in a rare music special with Stephanie Larocque. Legendary Bluesman and son of the great Jimmy Rogers. If you’ve heard of any great musicians in the last 40 years, you will know Jimmy D. Lane’s cats!

His father was the legend Jimmy Rogers who helped form the Muddy Waters Band. Listen to the tale of growing up in the household that would forever change Blues as we know it. Jimmy Rogers and Muddy Waters coming up from the Delta to form the Chicago Blues as we know it today.

How it turned Jimmy D. Lane into the torch who would carry on the legacy that was his fathers and make it all his own. Listen in to a personal chat and interview with one of the greats!

Don’t miss this special!

*Artwork courtesy of Joe Klucar

Judy Kronenfeld Teacher, Poet, Poetry Judge - Exclusive Interboard Poetry Community Interview In Association With BZoO Radio and Cloudy Day Art

Click Here To Listen To Judy Kronenfeld Interview MP3

Recently the InterBoard Poetry Community, an elite group of twenty plus online poetry communities such as Poets.Org, Writer's Block, SplashHall Poetry and The Versifier, had their annual poetry awards.

The gracious Judy Kronenfeld chose the top poems from winners of the IBPC monthly competition. Judy’s poems have appeared in Poetry International, The Women’s Review of Books, The Portland Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Free Lunch and many other journals, as well as in various anthologies, such as Red, White & Blues: Poets on the Promise of America (Iowa U.P., 2004), and So Luminous the Wildflowers: An Anthology of California Poets (Tebot Bach, 2003). She is the author of a book and two chapbooks of poetry, the most recent being Ghost Nurseries (Finishing Line Press, 2005). She has also published stories, essays, and reviews in journals including The Madison Review, Under the Sun and English Literary History, as well as a (muckraking!) book of scholarship: KING LEAR and the Naked Truth: Rethinking the Language of Religion and Resistance (Duke U.P., 1998). She has taught English at UC Irvine, UC Riverside and Purdue University; she is currently a member of the Creative Writing Department at UC Riverside, where she has been since 1984.

In an exclusive interview for the IBPC and BZoO HomeGrown Radio, Will Brown of Cloudy Day Art talks one on one with Judy about the IBPC judging process, poetry, and Judy herself.

Meet Amber Criste Pyke AKA Mistress Of Solace - SplashHall Poetry Poet

Meet Amber Criste Pyke aka MistressOfSolace. 24 years old. Born in Syracuse, NY and is currently living with her boyfriend, sorry guys, in Upstate, NY.

Amber says her main goal in life is to make a living selling her art. She paints with acrylics, chalking pastels, and draw. Amber has been writing poetry since she was 15. In July she will be at the cherry festival in the finger lakes region (wine country) selling some works of art. Amber says, "I am self taught when it comes to fine arts."

Amber says, "I play the guitar, and am learning more from my boyfriend everyday who is a musician in two bands. I have a twin sister and am very close with her and my nephew. I have no children. I am currently enrolled in a community college in the Humanities program. I take random classes in the liberal arts and spend alot of time in the library.

I just recently had two pastel paintings published in their literary magazine Parnassus. if nothing takes off with my art I plan to enroll in Purchase or Pratt Institute. I love mythology, history, and philosophy, and astronomy.

Reading and learning are my favorite things in life. I am a traveler at heart and am saving up to move to Europe for at least a year. I love to sing and listen to music as I write or paint."

Quote: In every religion there is faith, and that is what God sees. No church or temple opens gods ears, for God can hear a prayer from anywhere. No mans hand could write a human characteristic into the holy spirit, so abolish the thought of fearing God, he is only capable of love.

Amber is an active poet at SplashHall Poetry. You can read her poetry and get to know her better at SplashHall.

Frank Wilson Philly Inquirer's Book Review Editor Interview With Gypsy Art On BzoO HomeGrown Radio

Frank Wison is a poet, writer, an IBPC Judge and the Philadelphia Inquirer's Book Review Editor. Recently Belinda of Gypsy Art interviewed Frank. You can hear the interview online on BZoO Radio. Check the BZoO ShowList for times.

Mr Wilson writes an "Editor's Choice" column each Sunday in the Books section. He has also been a poetry Judge for the InterBoard Poetry Community Competition, IBPC, an elite group of online poetry communities. The IBPC group communities include such poetry boards as, Poetry.About.Com, Poets.Org, SplashHall Poetry and Utne Magazine Community.

Frank is also an avid blogger. His personal blog, Books, Inq., its where you can find Frank daily enlightening us to the most interesting poetry sites, writers sites, book reviews and current events in the world of wordsmithing.

Meet SplashHall Poet Lou Davies-James aka AlluraD

Singer, Songwriter and Poet, Lou Davies-James has been writing under the pen name Allura Dannon for the past nine years. She is a well-loved member of the internet writing community with numerous awards for her breath-catching expression of the human spirit. Weaving her words like gossamer, she draws you into the recesses of a rare and open heart. Ms. James lives with her husband and far too many cats in Northeast Florida. Her first full length volume of poetry, Adrift In the Holy, was published in January of 2006. Previous works: Drawn As Ever and Eternal Insomnia, both published by Under the Arbour Press in Atlantic Beach, Florida. Visit Lou's Personal Website Here.

I have always loved poetry, words themselves and their melodic quality, the emotion they move the heart to, a connection unrivaled by any other form of writing, besides perhaps music itself. My mother read poetry to me as a child and fostered a love of language in me. My parents were both avid readers. I am one of six siblings and we all love to read and are each artistic in our way.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember. I started writing when I was a kid, fourth grade or so. I love rhyming, metered poetry, structured form and subject. I write in traditional as well as free form styles and believe above all that the poet needs to spill their spiritual blood in the words they craft to make them real, recognized and lend them emotional truth.

We are all in different places as far as writing goes. We all have to learn to crawl before we can walk, before we can run, then fly. Keep your dreams in sight and never let them go. More is attainable than you can ever imagine.

Lou aka AlluraD is an active poet at SplashHall Poetry Boards. You can also hear her at the BZoO HomeGrown Radio with her audio poetry.