2025 WINNING POEMS (SEASONS CHANGING) AND BIOS
BY ANNE NYDAM
Anne E.G. Nydam is a writer and artist who, in both words and pictures, seeks to share joy and explore worlds of adventure, wonder, and hope. Her art is relief block printmaking, and she writes short stories, poems, and books. She is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Needham. www.nydamprints.com
BY JOHN HOLGERSON
John L. Holgerson is the author of three poetry collections: Convictions of the Heart (In Case of Emergency Press, 2021); Unnecessary Tattoo and Other Stains on a Stainless Steel Heart (Finishing Line Press 2016); Broken Borders (Wasteland Press 2012). His poems have appeared in print and online literary journals.
BY CLAUDIA SPRINGER
Claudia Springer is a retired Professor of Film Studies and the author of Electronic Eros: Bodies and Desire in the Postindustrial Age, and James Dean Transfigured: The Many Faces of Rebel Iconography. She co-edited a book on film acting with Julie Levinson of Newton. Claudia is currently writing a novel.