QLPORYT Presents Women's Power: Global Poetics

Nayma Chamchoun is a British Moroccan, a self taught writer and poet. Her writing is influenced by her cultural duality. She is interested in female voices in the diaspora community, the challenges they face within both communities and the taboos around mental health within their ancestral communities.
She is an active member of british & international poetry community.
Her published poetry collection COVID: THE WORDY WILDS OF A MIND UNDER LOCKDOWN is a cultural fusion poetry collection which explores themes of identity, duality, displacement, loss, race, feminism, culture, family, love and the search for inner peace as experienced alongside the effects of mental health, menopause, the pandemic and world events.

Jennifer M. Garnatz was born in Lucea on the Caribbean Island of Jamaica in 1953. From the age of 4, she was raised in Kingston by her extremely strict single father. Her mother migrated to the UK. Due to his busy work schedule, he immediately placed her in a boarding school, later at diverse private homes. She was also boarded with the nuns at the Convent of Mercy Alpha Academy High School. Seeking independence after graduating, she pursued a secretarial course then worked as a legal assistant.

Creative writing and composing songs have been her passion since early childhood, providing her soul with solace. Excepting her daily communication with God, growing up she had no one to confide in. The first 20 years of her life had its share of traumas, among them, six weeks before her 20th birthday seeing her father’s body lying in a pool of blood with a bullet hole in his head minutes after he was murdered by criminals. Suddenly, she was on her own. Independence came in an undesired manner.

Her sources of inspiration come from her vivid imagination, personal experience, her observations, a word spoken or read, as well as happenings in the world.

In 1980, she spontaneously migrated to Germany to study the language. However, she remained there working as a bilingual management assistant in Hamburg. She also began presenting her poetry in English and German at various literary events in various cities. In 1999, she represented Hamburg at the National Poetry Slam Team Competition in Weimar.

In New York she has appeared onstage at Bar 13, Sugar Sh… Read More

Phynne~Belle is a San Francisco Bay Area poet, writer, and co-director of The Poetry Global Network. She had her poetry included in two poetry anthologies in 2021, Sinew: Ten Years of Poetry in the Brew and The Bronx Memoir Project Anthology Vol. V. This year, she has contributed to PGN’s first anthology, Kaleidoscopoetry, which includes works from poets across the globe. Phynne has one poetry collection titled, Some Days, Here. You can also find her holding her a bimonthly online open mic on 2nd & 4th Thursdays, as well as organize other poetry events and programs through her Phynnecabulary platform that endeavor to make the literary arts (poetry in particular) accessible widely. Phynne used to be a superhero of creatures big and small in a past life. You can follow her on Instagram @phynne_belle and on Twitter @PhynneBelle. To connect with her in more ways, you can go to https://linktr.ee/PhynneBelle

Marianne Tefft is a poet, lyricist and voice-over reader who daylights as a Montessori teacher in Toronto, Canada. Her poems and short stories appear online, in print and on air in North America, Europe, Asia and the Caribbean. She reads regularly at online poetry events, such as Nuyorican Poets Cafe (NYC) and Inspired Poetry Corner (Toronto), and at live events, such as Poets' Lounge (SXM), The Nomads (SXM) and Free Times Art Bar (Toronto). She is the author of Full Moon Fire: Spoken Songs of Love and Moonchild: Poems for Moon Lovers.

When Nona Lea isn’t authoring essays on literature, mythos, and ecology, they work on their debut collection. Their previously published works can be found in twoheadedpress zine, redrosethorns magazine, Koru Magazine, Mayari Literature, Purple Ink Press, and the Delta Literary Journal.

I am a 47 year old citizen of Botswana, Africa. I'm a General Practitioner /Medical Doctor by profession. My interest in Poetry is more spiritual as i find poetry as a medium that connects people at a spiritual level. I didn't study Poetry, I found myself writing poetry every time I was in a certain state of mind. It's like poems just flow through me. I don't plan or research topics or themes, it's just dependent on events that are happening in my life or the world. In 2021, I published a Poetry book called "Love, Consciousness and Humanity: The Path of Silence: The Shadowless Dreamer."

MA Languages: English and Portuguese (Pisa, 1985), BA Literature (Pisa, 2004).
She taught English in Italian high schools from 1987 to 2022.
She devotes herself to fiction, poetry and playwriting.
She writes in Italian, Esperanto and English.
She published a one-act play (“Over & Out” in “History of Common Literature Period”, book 1, 2024) in English. She published 2 novels: “Avventura o morte” (2021) and “Segreti” (2018). Moreover, she published a collection of short stories, “Stagioni” (2023) as well as 5 collections of poems:”Sì shabby chic” (2018), "L’acqua opprime" (2016), “Fruttorto sperimentale” (2016), "Latte & Limoni" (2014), "L’angoscia del pane" (2010). Finally, she wrote 2 one-act plays, “Evoluzioni” (2019) and "Tabelo" (“Table”, 2006), both dealing with mobbing as a supreme artistic form.
Dall’Olio’s dramatic and poetic interests focus on reality as well as society, even if she deals with her own life. As far as poetry is concerned, Dall’Olio needs to confront the literary tradition of her country, whereas the topic of each poem points out the most convenient poetic style. Yet, topics are generally up-to-date, and so final layouts are wholly unpredictable. As for fiction, Dall’Olio deals with reality as much as fantasy mixing different genres of prose and poetry as well as past present and future.