MUTT Online - Profiles of Top Writers

MUTT Online is happy to report that it has landed exclusive articles written by well known and popular authors and poets from across the globe. MUTT continues to strive to inform it's members of learning how to create exemplary word craftsmanship.
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Magdalena Ball
Magdalena Ball
Aug. 4, 2011 - PRLog -- MUTT Online, Making Us Think Together, is a creative meeting place for artists of various persuasions, including all visual and written forms. MUTT is currently highlighting poetry and prose instructional essays by Joe Kilgore, Richard Murphy, Magdalena Ball, Jean Hollander and Joy Gaines-Friedler.  All are highly accomplished and published. Each brings a perspective on how to write which is as individual as the writers themselves.

Before turning to fiction, Joe Kilgore created television, radio, newspaper and magazine advertising for some of the world’s largest corporations. Over the years, his commercials and ads have been honored with local, regional, national and international awards. He has created and produced advertising in the USA and several other countries.

Joe’s short stories have won awards and been published in anthologies, journals, and online literary magazines such as The Writing Disorder, The writing place at the Write Time, Bartelby $ Snopes, Storychord, Ramble Underground and more. He also has a novel, The Blunder and two of his short stories are featured in the anthology, Award Winning Tales.

Joe loves writing and says, “It’s more fun than living in the real world”.

Richard Murphy has taught literature for 22 years at Bradford College and Emmanuel College and now teaches at VCU.  He is a prolific and awarded writer. His credits include two books of poems, Voyeur (2008 Gival Press Poetry Prize winner) and The Apple in the Monkey Tree; chapbooks Great Grandfather, Family Secret, Rescue Lines, and Hunting and Pecking; poems in hundreds of journals, including Rolling Stone, Poetry Grand Street, Trespass, New Letters, Negative Capability, Segue, Big Bridge, Trespass, foam:e and Confrontation; and essays on poetics in Folly Magazine, Fulcrum, The international Journal of the Humanities, Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, Reconfigurations,  A Journal for Poetics, Poetry  / Literature and Culture, Fringe, Big Toe Review, and Journal of Ecocrticism. Recently, his chapbook manuscript, Crib Sheets, was a 2011 finalist Teacher’s Voice Poetry Chapbook Prize and his chapbook manuscript, Body of Evidence, was a 2011 finalist Eudaimionia Poetry Review Chapbook Prize. To see more of Richard's work go to http://www.muttonline.com


He is currently in the process of writing poems in reply to 20th century European poets. He is also writing essays on his process and on the poets he is reading. In addition to keeping this poetry alive, he is interested in its cultural significance in context of its time and in the development of psychological perspectives on war and gender.

Magdalena Ball runs The Compulsive Reader. Her short stories, editorials, poetry reviews and articles have appeared in a wide number of printed anthologies and journals, and have won local and international awards for poetry and fiction. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from CCNY (New York), an MBA from Charles Surt University (Wagga), and has studied literature on a postgraduate level at Oxford University (UK). She also works as a manuscript assessor for Manuscripts Online, is a member of the Book Connector Advisory Board, an Evaluative Reader for Catchfire Press, and Information Manager for Orica. She is the author of Sleep Before Evening, The Art of Assessment and Quark Soup.

Joy Gaines-Friedler is a poet as well as a professional photographer. the imagery of  Her poems are widely published in literary magazines and journals and she has received numerous awards including 1st place in the Litchfield Review for a series of poems she wrote based on the journal of her friend Jim, who died from AIDS. She also has a book of poetry entitled Like Vapor.

She states, “Art begets art. Artists, I believe are always seeking expression of what it means to be human. Poetry is the most distilled expression of literary art. Reading a poem is like a conversation. It engages the spirit, it asks you to respond. It is there to Shake you up!”

Jean Hollander’s first book of poems, Crushed into Honey, was published by Saturday Press as winner of the Eileen W. Barnes Award. Her second Collection, entitled Mooondog, was a winner in the QRL Poetry Book Series. Her third book of poems, Organs and Blood, appeared in 2008 to good reviews. “Hollander’s language is crisp, precise and finely honed…” exhibiting, “precision of language, simile and metaphor.” She has published hundreds of poems in many literary journals, as well as in Best Poem Anthologies and other collections. She was awarded the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Award three times, and has won 1st Prize of $1000 for a single poem.

Her verse translation off Dante’s Commedia, (with Robert Hollander, a Dante Scholar) was published to enthusiastic reviews in many highly esteemed magazines and newspapers. She was awarded the Gold Medal for Dante Translation from the City of Florence last year.

She has taught literature and writing at Princeton University, Brooklyn College, Columbia University, where she did her graduate work, and The College of New Jersey, where she was director of Writers Conferences for 22 years. She has given over 100 readings of her poetry at various universities, institutions, and poetry festivals, such as Rider College, Modern Poets Series.

MUTT Online is a FREE community art site for writers, poets, photographers and artists. It has profile categories for all the categories. MUTT allows editors, galleries and consumers to find the person, painting or photograph to fit their needs. Members are given the opportunity to display up to fifty photos in each of their galleries at a time. MUTT tries to maximize exposure for each of its members. Their motto is “Why not promote yourself and get free recognition!” Visit http://www.muttonline.com/members for more details.

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MUTT Online is a free community arts site that allows writers, poets, photographers and artists the opportunity to self promote themselves and gain greater recognition. MUTT is striving to bring networking to a whole new level in the community arts field.

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