ONE ART’s November 2026 Reading
Date: Sunday, November 8
Time: 2pm Eastern
Duration: 2 hours
Host: Mark Danowsky (Founder/EIC of ONE ART)
Featured Poets: Betsy Mars, Laura Daniels, J. C. Todd, Barbara Sabol, Lana Hechtman Ayers
FREE event!
(donations appreciated)
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~ About Our Featured Readers ~
Laura Daniels, a neurodivergent poet, is the founder and editor of The Fringe 999 Poetry Forum. Her poems appear in Gyroscope Review, ONE ART, and the Journal of New Jersey Poets, and she received a 2025 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Honorable Mention Award. She facilitates a free, monthly online writing workshop through Mary’s Place by the Sea for women whose lives have been touched by cancer. Her poetry collection Gentle Grasp (Kelsay Books) is available on Amazon. Her saddle-stitched chapbook, Jersey Baked (Four Feather Press), is available directly from the author. She resides with her partner in Mt. Arlington, NJ. Follow her at lauradanielswriter.wordpress.com.
Lana Hechtman Ayers shepherded over 150 poetry collections into print as managing editor for three small presses. Her latest collection of poems is A Hole in the Night (Blue Light Press, 2026). She lives in Oregon on unceded lands of the Yaqo’n people with her beloved husband and fur babies. On clear, quiet nights she can hear the Pacific ocean whispering to the moon. lanaayers.com
Barbara Sabol is an Akron-based poet living near the Cuyahoga Valley National Park whose trails she knows by heart. She is the author of seven poetry collections, and writes both traditional, free verse and short-form Japanese poetry. Her most recent collection is Mapping the Borderlands: Haibun and Tanka Prose (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2025). Barbara’s work has been supported by the Ohio Arts Council and recognized by the Haiku Society of America and the Haiku Foundation. She is a retired speech therapist, forever fascinated with language. Barbara conducts poetry workshops through Lit Cleveland.
J. C. Todd is co-editor of Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War (Scarlet Tanager Books, May 2026). She is author of three poetry collections, most recently the bilingual (English/Lithuanian) What Kept Me Awake/Kas neleido užmigti? and Beyond Repair. Before retiring, she taught in the Creative Writing Program at Bryn Mawr College and the MFA Program at Rosemont College. jc-todd.com
Betsy Mars is a poet, compulsive photographer, and an editor at Gyroscope Review. Her poems have appeared in ONE ART, SWWIM, the California Quarterly, Thimble, and the anthology Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Motown Poetry Review (Madville Press). She is the author Rue Obscure (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions), which was just released, as well as two chapbooks, Alinea, and In the Muddle of the Night, the latter co-written with Alan Walowitz. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net and were chosen as the winner of the Alexandria Quarterly’s First Line Poetry Contest Series and of The Poetry Salon’s Practiced Poets Prize. Her photos have been featured in Spank the Carp, Soul Poetry, and used in Rattle as an ekphrastic prompt. She is a lifelong poet, writing her first poem (at age 5 or so) in Portuguese—an elegy for her cat—while her family lived in Brazil. More at betsymars.com
