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The Atlanta Poets Group (APG) began in April of 1997. So in these nine years of doing our thing we have become a group of poets with many poetic 'family resemblances' but no shared manifesto or statement that applies to all of us. The group is centered around weekly meetings, collaborative writing and increasingly public performance -- especially in improvizory and polyphonic modes. Mostly we perform at the LANGUAGE HARM shows we curate every other month at eyedrum but we get out and about in addition to that as well. Several print and online magazines have devoted sections or issues to the group's work, here are the ones available with a click; Muse Apprentice Guild and Moria. Presently the group is collectively editing the 1st issue of a new magazine, Spaltung.

Sandy Baldwin is distributed.

Zac Denton lives somewhere in the state of Georgia (depending on the year). He has been involved with the Atlanta Poets Group for a long time. He is also an active musician in the Atlanta area.

Tracey M. Gagné is a member of the Atlanta Poets Group. She's currently in graduate school. Her poetry has been published in the Journal of Artists' Books, Moria, and Score.

John Lowther  - APGista since incept. po'd for however much longer (not much depending on which P). Poetry Psychoanalysis Philosophy Politics. some here some here some here some here some here and this is something else. not to be confused with john lowther john lowther john lowther john lowther john lowther john lowther or john lowther. poems "broadcast" "taking from the head nor" & "heteronomy" from a work in progress. "morono" an unplanned improvization during which the attempt (which always fails) is to break all associative, sonic, conceptual etc links between words. "[secrete vest romp meant seem drape. be lied]" was written for LANGUAGE HARM when the theme was "sound poetry" and i wanted at least one piece that was a dryly textual response to the theme's demand.

Dana Lisa Petersen grew up in Flushing, NY, and currently makes her home in Decatur, GA. She is an artist and a published poet. Her work has been published in various journals and online publications, including: Mirage 4 Period(ical), Facture, HOW2's feature "Southern Perils - Women Experimental Poets of the South," Moria, Another South: Experimental Writing in the South, and Score. Her chapbook, Essential Core, is available from 3rdness. Dana Lisa is a member of the Atlanta Poets Group.

Mark Prejsnar ... about 8 year ago (or is it 9??) John Lowther and i founded the Atlanta Poets Group; i work as a librarian in Atlanta ... have lived in Brazil and about 8 different states, but have been here for about 10 years; i write and publish poems written for one voice (as here), but spend a lot of my energy on poems for multiple voices (called polyphons); in the APG we do these a lot, ... we perform them frequently around Atlanta, Georgia and the south; my poems which follow are part of the group-submission process that the APG is tossing yr way. They are all part of a manuscript-in-progress called Nation-Bilging.

Randy Prunty - i'm part of the atlanta poets group. my chapbook delusiveness has just been released from 3rdness. i spend a lot of time riding my bike and thinking about evolution and fish and i don't know why. i've never said aloud the word coelacanth but i practice in my mind in case there comes a day.

Michelle Reeves was involved with the Atlanta Poets Group for about a year and a half (2003-2004). She passed away in September, 2004, not long before her 21st birthday. A chapbook of her poetry, titled SIT OWN DERN. STEE A HWHYLE., was published in the Fall of 2005 by 3rdness in Atlanta.

Alka Roy   Born in Ranchi, India (this way you get to learn the name of a city you most likely didn't know) she works in Atlanta as an engineer and pursues other non-capitalist ventures in the area of social/ environmental justice (Kaya Collective) including to understand what exactly this means. She works with movements, sounds & the oral tradition of transmitting and receiving - i.e. poetry, theater, dance - what we (often do &) call performance.

James Sanders - I live in Atlanta, GA. I was born in San Diego in 1972. I have been involved in a writing collective called the Atlanta Poets Group for several years. I have published individually and collectively in various magazines and have appeared in two anthologies. My favorite second generation New York poet is a toss up between Joe Ceravolo and Ron Padgett. My favorite Sesame Street character is Mr. Snuffleupagus (Snuffie to his friends).