Lonna Kingsbury
Lonna D. Kingsbury, now residing in Milford, Ohio describes herself as a poet born, never without her singing words. Surviving childhood in the tenement row houses of Wicker Park, Chicago, her life-long quest has been to counter the silence of injustice and to provide safe haven for every voice.
Her works appear in and on variant venues including Cincinnatlas, Clifton
Magazine (University of Cincinnati), Collage (Northern Kentucky University),
ICRC, Scrawl, Poetry Repair Shop, Red Crow, River Valley Journal, the
Appalachian Connection among many, many others. She is honored to have
served as both poetry judge and columnist (Penned Inklings) for the International
Fiction and Poetry Society, where she was granted the distinction of Fellow.
The Greater Miami Township Performing Arts Center has bestowed upon her
the honor of Poet Laureate. Named dual nominee of the 1999 Post-Corbet
Awards,
for both Literary Achievement and Community Outreach is among her greatest
honors. The Clermont County League of Women's Voters named her for their
Orpha Gatch Citizenship Award for community service in the year 2000.
She continues her quest to counter the silence through her workshops,
through her television series Countering the Silence, and through her
performances on film, stage, and variant readings. She and her groups
Mill Street's Poets
Anonymous, the Meri Pranxsters, and Countering the Silence are proud to
be continuing contributors to Fine Arts Weekend, Artsapalooza, and National
Poetry Month.
One of her fondest memories will always be her honor as featured poet at Morehead University's Grote Tenth Annual Women's Symposium in Honor of National Women's History Month.
Her current chapbooks In Variant Motif; Stars, Rainbow, Dreams (children's poetry); and Her Mountain Bears Fruit Ever After will soon be joined with Somewhere in the City; her newest anthology.
She has been honored as featured poet for the Chicago North Beach Poets,
and will read in the upcoming Bucktown/Wicker Park, Around the Coyote
Arts
Festival in Chicago this fall. Watch for her in the films The Dream Catcher,
Crocodile, and The Calling.
Ms. Kingsbury is available for workshops, lectures, and readings for
adults and children of all ages. She counts among her most enlightening
experiences her workshops at Grailville, Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Arts
and Cultural
Council of Greater Loveland, Sands Montessori,University of Cincinnati
(Clermont), and Norwood High School.
To read more about her services, log onto counteringthesilence.com.
Lonna can be contacted here
Lonna D. Kingsbury
