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	New Mexico United States	Favorite Quote “God created man in God's image; man imagines God in man's image - therein lies the confusion! ”

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Favorite Poets

Robert Frost, E.E. Cummings, Maya Angelou, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Browning, T.S. Elliot, Robert Burns, Rebecca Guile Hudson

Favorite Authors

Ghandi, Dean Koontz, Shakespeare, Robert McCammon, Stephen King, Immaculee Illibagiza, Robert Heinlein, Irving Wallace, Taylor Caldwell,

Greatest Influence

Overcoming the Torture Level of Abuse to find my voice

About me

I am an internationally published award-winning poet. I spent my first seventeen years in an insanely violent household, where I experienced severe mental, physical and sexual abuse. In 1998, I started therapy for intense PTSD and a dissociative disorder, which helped save my life and open the doors to my creative voices. I am a firm believer in "Change your MIND, Keep the CHANGE" and do my very best to BE and LIVE the change I wish to see in the world. I belong to the Academy of American Poets, the New Mexico State Poetry Society (NMSPS), am Secretary/Treasurer of the Valencia County chapter of the NMSPS, as well as being appointed their Publicity Chair. Oh, and by the way, I am also the Editor for the NMSPS’ quarterly newsletter, “Language of Enchantment”, and am on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Taj Mahal Review, an international journal of culture, arts, literature and poetry. I was a guest lecturer at the University of New Mexico's Valencia Campus' Creative Writing Class and will be again in Spring Semester. I was a featured reader at a Poetry Event on Friday, January 18, 2008 at Hastings Book Store, in Los Lunas, NM, and was the Headliner at “Steppin' Out Poet's Corner New Moon Poetry Festival” in Socorro, NM on April 6, 2008. I have two books already published, “Out of Cullen Street (A House of Madness)”, and “Painted Poems (Portraits of New Mexico)”, both available at www.harvardbooksellers.com, am having my third book, "Cats (Not the Musical)" under consideration for publication, and am working on three more. Poetry came with me when I came here to earth. Literary Awards: 2007 – Editor’s Choice Award, International Society of Poets 2007 - 1st Prize, Valley Visions Cultural Arts Festival, Los Lunas, NM 2007 - The International Who’s Who in Poetry 2007 – 5th place winner, Poetrysoup.com’s international online contest 2006 – Honorable Mention, Sol Magazine Winter Edition (online) 2006 - International Poetry Award of Excellence; 2005 - 1st prize in Poetrysoup.com's first international online contest; 2005 - International Poetry Award of Excellence; 2005 - The International Who's Who in Poetry 2004 - President's Certificate of Literary Excellence; 2003 - Shakespeare Trophy of Excellence 2003, 2002 - Nominated International Poet of the Year; named International Poet of Merit by the National Society of Poets In addition to singing bass with both the Albuquerque Symphony Adult Choir and the University of New Mexico Valencia Choir, I am a certified peer counselor for the mentally ill, a paraprofessional crisis/suicide line volunteer and Rune and Tarot Card reader. I am a founding member of the Rosa Parks Wall of Tolerance (a public tribute to thousands of Center supporters and others who have advanced the cause of tolerance in America, and a prominent feature of the Civil Rights Memorial Center in Montgomery, Alabama). I am also a founding member of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Project, which commemorates the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and honors his national and international contributions to world peace through non-violent social change. Further, I am a member of Doctors Without Borders, Southern Poverty Law Center, Amnesty International, the Interfaith Alliance & the ACLU. Sample Works Featured online at the following sites, among others: http://www.neopoet.com/waterdragon http://www.poetrypoem.com/waterdragon; http://www.poetrysoup.com; http://waterdragon.gather.com/ http://emergingvisions.blogspot.com/; http://www.writesight.com; http://www.trextop.com/article/category/arts-and-entertainment/poetry/; http://ezinearticles.com/ http://www.poemhunter.com/ http://www.myspace.com/peacegenerator http://gallery.poetshaven.com http://www.poemsabout.com/ http://www.uberarticles.com/articles/indexser.php Books in which my poetry has been published: Along the Rio Grande - 2008 Small Canyons 3 - a Haiku Anthology - 2008 Valley Visions - 2007 Small Canyons 2 - a Haiku Anthology - 2007 The Taj Mahal Review-International Journal of Arts, Culture and Literature: 2003 thru 2008 so far; Explorers (Anthology (2004); The Ferment of Images (Anthology) (2004); Symphonies (Anthology) (2003); Summer & Autumn 2003 anthologies from The People’s Poet in the UK PoetryMagazine.com (Spring, Summer anthologies, 2003) Last, not least, I am a Minister with Universal Ministries.

Recent Work

Created	Updated	Type	Title
15 August 2007	15 August 2007	Poem	God is in the Details
14 August 2007	14 August 2007	Poem	Ballad In A Graveyard
14 August 2007	14 August 2007	Poem	Miracle on a Beach (A Ballad)
1 August 2007	1 August 2007	Poem	Come In, The Wind Dancer (dedicated to Sandy Lynn Sacher, B.S.)
1 August 2007	7 February 2008	Poem	Infinite Sands
2 August 2007	2 August 2007	Poem	Startled Grasshoppers
2 August 2007	2 August 2007	Poem	Little Hands

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My bookshelf


biblio	Left to Tell - Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust	12 March 2008
biblio	Painted Poems (Portraits of New Mexico)	29 February 2008
biblio	OUT OF CULLEN STREET (A HOUSE OF MADNESS)	22 September 2007

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Submitted by andrew on 25 October 2007 - 2:21am.

Congrats

You win the unofficial “most invited members” award.

Keep it up!

Andrew

Submitted by fthillsboomer on 1 February 2008 - 7:01pm.

thanks for conferring buddydom upon me

I am honored and surprised to be the buddy of a Published Poet.
This lowly scribbler thanks you most kindly.

Submitted by waterdragon on 4 February 2008 - 9:46pm.

Aww, Pshaw!

‘T’ain’t nuttin’ to it! We are all creative souls, and quite, quite equal, and it is a pleasure to have you as my buddy, good buddy!

Peace out, yo!

;=)

Reverend Bec Hudson

Shine Your Light
It’s the ONLY Way to Get Rid of the Darkness!

Submitted by Rett on 14 August 2008 - 8:58pm.

Wow

I am going to read as much of your work as possible. Coming from a very abusive father, I left home at 13 with the occasional visit with my mom who had left when I was 11 I can understand a bit of what you went through. Looking forward to reading your poetry. Don’t know how I missed you.
Respectfully,
Rett:
“Life is like a beach. Salty, gritty, somewhat fishy and at other times, downright crabby!” Rett 2008.

Submitted by waterdragon on 3 November 2008 - 7:37pm.