Word Salad Poetry Magazine, Volume XIX, No. I

by Bruce Whealton (Editor), Jean Arthur Jones (Editor), MJD Algera (Editor)

Overview

This is the Winter 2013 edition of the poetry magazine. We have been in publication since 1995. We publish original poetry from poets locally and around the globe. Many of our poets have appeared more than once various editions of the magazine that have been published over the years.

Our Featured Poet for this issue is Scott Urban: Scott has three poems titled Decryption, The Hummingbird Poem and Flag at 2:30.

Aside from Scott, we have at least twenty poets to showcase such as Marc Carver, William Doreski, Michael Brownstein, Patricia Wentling, Joe Farley, Abigail Wyatt, Christopher Reilley and Elnaz Rezaei Ghalechi. We would also like to welcome newcomers Sam Talley, Benjamin Blake and Samuel Luck to the Word Salad fold.

Our Editors are Bruce Whealton, Jean Arthur Jones and MJD Algera. Bruce Whealton is the publisher, in addition to being one of the co-editors.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016792033
Publisher:	eBookIt.com
Publication date:	05/31/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	516 KB

About the Author

Bruce Whealton is only one of three editors for Word Salad Poetry Magazine, which is a collection of poetry written by others. The Editors for Word Salad Poetry Magazine are Bruce Whealton, Jean Arthur Jones and MJD Algera. Bruce Whealton is the publisher and web developer for the online version of this publication.

Bruce Whealton began to think of himself as a poet beginning back in 1992, when he shared his poetry at a poetry reading for the first time. This was at the Coastline Convention Center overlooking the Cape Fear River, in Wilmington, NC. He began Word Salad as an online poetry magazine in 1995.

Bruce M. Whealton received his Bachelor's Degree, in Electrical Engineering, specializing in Computer Engineering, from Georgia Institute of Technology in December of 1989. He worked for a number of years at Digital Equipment Corporation in MA prior to the growth and popularity of the Internet. Following that job, he worked with the National Science Foundation developing a VAX-based network programmed in the C language. Since the start of the web and the internet, Bruce was designing and developing websites in various capacities. His first website was an online poetry magazine called Word Salad Poetry Magazine which is still in operation on the web here. Visit that site to see how it has grown. He also is a poet and writer when he is not doing these other activities. Bruce brings his creativity and technical skills to designing and developing web sites.

Bruce Martin Whealton, Jr. was born in 1966, to parents were Bruce Whealton and Kathleen Murphy Whealton. On November 5, 2011 Bruce Married Elnaz Rezaei Ghalechi in Ankara, Turkey. My parents inspired me to excel in certain ways from the beginning. I'm talking about the beginning, specifically. In the early years we are first challenged in school.