AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

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Featured AMP member Jeffrey Spahr-Summers, a award-winning photographer by trade, started writing poetry over 30 years ago while living in South Africa. Also known as ZZ Baggins, he is the editor and publisher of The Poetry Victims, an irregular Poem of the Moment email series with guest poets. http://thepoetryvictimsvol4.blogspot.com/

His resumé as a poet is voluminous, and you can read more about it below, but at the moment, my favorite thing about Jeffrey is the magnificent gallery of his photographs that currently resides on AMP. You can find it here: http://www.pluginamp.com/network/image/tid/262

Jeffrey Spahr-Summers is also a former Chicago stage poet, founder of The Chicago Poetry Agenda and a former active board member of The Tulsa Arts and Humanities Literary Arts Council. A former member of The Greater Dallas Community of Writers, he has conducted and participated in numerous poetry workshops and feature readings in the U.S.A.

His poetry is published in these places:

Hammers, Strong Coffee, The Newsletter Inago (featured Poet of the Month), The San Fernando Poetry Journal, Letter X, Erie, The Dallas Review, Scenezines, Voices Israel Anthology, Blinkzine Arts Magazine, Ebb & Flow, The Other Voices International Project, The Poetry Victims, Lily Literary Review (with an interview) , The Coffee Press Journal, Abalone Moon, Poetry Super Highway (Poet of the Week [2004,2005,2006]) , Black Medina, Poems for You, Unlikely Stories, The Argonaut’s Boat, Blinkzine Arts Magazine, Colorado Poets Center, Haggard and Haloo, Poet Express, Interpoetry and CyberMuse.

Jeffrey is in 5 anthologies: American Poetry Anthology (1982) , Chicago Saloon Poets (1992) , Step Into The Light (1992) , and Voices Israel Anthology (2005 & 2007) . Also a photographer by trade, I have read my poetry on the University of Chicago’s radio station.

He has also published 2 books of poetry: Fear of Heights (1984 [Spahr-Summers Publications]) and The Cherry Poems (2006 [Cherry Publications/Lulu]).