Munyori Poetry Journal

Welcome to Munyori Poetry Journal, where we publish work by established as well as new writers from any place on earth. We strive for excellence, so we want you to identify us  as that poetry journal you can count on if you are looking for high quality poetry. 

We would like to thank the following poets whose contribution has

made this debut issue possible. These poets exhibit great talent and they set a standard of quality that Munyori wishes to maintain. Before we enter the world of their work, let's meet them first.

Lisa Dominguez Abraham lives in Sacramento and teaches at Cosumnes River College.
Her chapbook, Low Tones,  has just been published by Red Wing Press.  She is currently refining her manuscript, Homesick Blues and is also working with her friend and colleague, Matilde Mukantabana of FORA, on a translation of Rwandan folktales.

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal's poetry and short stories have appeared in Cerebral
Catalyst, Zygote In My Coffee, and Kendra Steiner Editions (who published his first
chapbook in July 2007, called Without Peace).

Cameron Conaway  is a Poet-in-Residence and graduate student  at the University of
Arizona. His poetry is forthcoming in The New Writer and  creative nonfiction in Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature.

Aleathia Drehmer was born in the 70's to set of wanderlust parents.  She has an odd sense of humor and likes to be observant.  Writing started as a portal to another dimension when she was 10 years old....she is still floating in space.  Her work has been published in Laura Hird, The Cerebral Catalyst, Poet Plant Press , Haggard & Halloo, The Clockwise Cat, Wings of Icarus, Word Riot, Silenced Press, and Motherkisser.  She has upcoming work in Rural Messengers Press, Cherry Bleeds, and Mystery Island.  She is a staff writer for Outsider Writers and a co-editor at Zygote in My Coffee.  A collection of her work can be visualized at her blog.

Mayombwe David Simeon is a 28- year-old Ugandan writer/ poet resident in the capital
city Kampala . He has been writing since high school when he chanced on a copy of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. He has since then endeavored to improve his writing and scope by interesting himself in all forms of poetry and reading extensively. Some of his favorites include Robert Lowell, James Wright and Edward Thomas. He has occasionally had a poem or two published in an anthology and  some of his work has been represented on poetry web-zines. He studied Economics but his interests vary.

Jéanpaul Ferro is a poet, short fiction author, and novelist from Providence, Rhode Island. His work has appeared in Hawaii Review, Cortland Review, Portland Monthly, Pedestal Magazine, Dogmatika, and Identity Theory. He is a 4-time Pushcart Prize nominee and a 2-time "Best of the Net" nominee. His  work has been featured on WBAR radio in NYC and his collection of short fiction, All the Good Promises, was published by Plowman Press.

Tawanda Gumbo, MD, graduated from the University of Zimbabwe Medical School,
completed residency in Internal Medicine (with International Health) at Case Western Reserve
University (Metro-Health) and a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at The Cleveland Clinic
Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio. He went back to Zimbabwe in 1999 and joined the Department of
Medicine at the University of Zimbabwe before leaving to become an Assistant Professor of
Medicine at Albany Medical College, and attending in Infectious Diseases at Albany Medical
Center. He has researched in Zimbabwe and published numerous scientific papers on AIDS and other
infectious diseases. He has written the novel The Fire Inside and the poetry collection Songs of a
Flame Lily. He recently won the 2007 National Institute in Health (NIH)Director's
Pioneer/New Innovator Award. Gumbo is an assistant professor of internal medicine at
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.

Mark Jackley lives in Sterling, VA, and is the author of two chapbooks: Brevities and Into the
River Somewhere, available at www.finishinglinepress.com under New Releases..

Michael Lee Johnson is a freelance writer and poet, who created over 355 poems
published in over 135 journals and online publications to date. He is a member of Poets &
Writers, Inc and Directory of American Poets & Fictions Writers.  He is a member of The Illinois
Authors Directory and the Illinois Center for the Book.  He has been published in the United
States, Scotland, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Nigeria, Fiji, India, Turkey, and the United
Kingdom.  His personal website can be found here.  Michael Lee Johnson lives in Chicago, IL after
spending 10 years in Edmonton, Alberta-Canada during the Viet Nam era. He is a freelance writer
and poet. He is heavily influenced by Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams,
Irving Layton, and Leonard Cohen.   Recent publications: The Orange Room Review, Bolts of
Silk, Chantarelle's Notebook, The Foliate Oak Online Literary Magazine, Poetry Cemetery,
Official Site of Laura Hird, The Centrifugal Eye, Adagio Verse Quarterly, Scorched Earth
Publishing,   Café Del Soul (The Cynic Online Magazine) and many others.   He is the author of the
paperback poetry book:   The Lost American:  From Exile to Freedom.

Martins Iyoboyi was born in 1972 in Edo State of Nigeria.  He writes from the point of view
of the conviction to enhance the living word, came to poetry through a natural desire to transmit
powerful emotions and the observation of natural events as symptomatic of eternal truths. His
poems have appeared in Zone, The Flask Review, 63 Channels, The Bending Spoons,
International Zeitschrift, and Contemporary Rhyme.

David MacLean was born in Wales though he has lived in Sweden since 1987. As of August
2007, he has poems in about eighty issues of 70 magazines and e-zines. In September 2007 was
"poet in residence" at Poet's Letter and in August 2008 "centre stage poet" in Decanto. Poems are
online at such sites as Zygote in My Coffee, Erbacce, Sein und Werden, Venereal Kittens,
Clockwise Cat, Mad Swirl, Lit Circus, Gold Dust, The Smoking Poet and Haggard and Halloo.
More information about me is online on MySpace and at the Hecale portal.

Lesley Munyuki  is a 20- year- old Zimbabwean political poet studying in London.

Shilla Mutamba was born in Zimbabwe where she studied Medical Laboratory Sciences at
the University of Zimbabwe. She then relocated to the Isle of Wight, UK to take up a post as a
Biomedical Scientist. She has since obtained an MSc in Biomedical Science from the University
of Portsmouth (2002) and now works as a Specialist Biomedical Scientist.  She currently lives in
Coalville (UK) with her husband and their  two girls.  Her first publication was a letter that she
wrote to the Editor of the Zimbabwe Herald when  she was 12 years old.  Her  short stories
and poems (written under her maiden name  Shilla Ndlovu) have also appeared in her former
High School newspapers and magazines as well as other publications in Zimbabwe.  Her
noteworthy achievements include  publication of poems in the Zimbabwe Women Writers'
Anthology (1994),  Tsotso Magazine (1993).  She is currently working on a collection of poems
and hopes to get her first poetry book published in the near future.

Peggy Rambach is the author of the novel Fighting Gravity, published in 2001 by Steerforth
Press, a book of short stories called When the Animals Leave published by Ampersand Press, and
the editor of two anthologies of memoirs published in 2006 by Paper Journey Press. She has
published essays and articles in the Boston Globe, the Journal of the American Medical
Association, and The Guardian.

Tad Richards is president and artistic director of Opus 40, an arts organization in Saugerties,
NY.

 Mary Ann Sullivan is a Doctor of Arts student at Franklin Pierce University in NH. Her  
first novel, Child of War, set in Belfast, Northern Ireland was named a Notable Book in Social
Studies and favorably reviewed in the New York Times.  

Davide Trame an Italian teacher of English. His  collection “Re-emerging” is published as an
email book by Gattopublishing. He has been writing exclusively in English since 1993.

Clarius Ugwuoha studied at the Holy Ghost College,  Owerri and the University of Lagos,
Nigeria. Poet, Playwright, Novelist and  Short Story writer, his works have appeared on various
websites and  in international anthologies; he has also won literary prizes. He is an Editor at
Authorme , an online publication.