Janet Buck teaches writing and literature at the college level. Her poetry,
humor, and
essays have appeared in The Pittsburgh Quarterly, The Melic Review, Sapphire
Magazine, Recursive Angel, Southern Ocean Review, Lynx: Poetry from Bath,
Apples & Oranges, Oranges & Apples, The Rose & Thorn, Mind Fire,
The Astrophysicist’s
Tango Partner Speaks, Perihelion, Oracle, Poetry Motel, Feminista!, Calliope,
The
Beaded Strand, 2River View, Kimera, Free Cuisinart, In Motion, Athens City
Times,
Conspire, Idling, remark, BeeHive, Gravity, A Writer’s Choice, Niederngasse,
Shades
of December, Maelstrom, and
hundreds of print journals and e-zines world-wide. "On the page," she says,
"is where a
letter drops to its knees. Catharsis, consciousness, and insight are braided
threads of a
trinity, a broomstick which encourages others to swat convoluted cobwebs in
attics of
their own lives. Writing is a private scream with a universal echo that
emerges from
humble accordions of inner-need."
