Bedell Phillips
Performing with the slam group Blood on the Floor since 2006, Bedell Phillips is known as a local New Hampshire poet. Until 2010, that is, when she participated in the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. There she met Illya Kaminsky, who had been in her home town of Exeter for the Visiting Poet post. The international venue excited Bedell and she returned in 2011 as a student of Thomas Lux. In addition, she studied with Barbara Helfgott Hyett and has performed her poetry in many venues including Porter Square Books, Café Expresso, and the Del Ray Cultural Center in Florida. Her first book, Edges of Waves, launched on July 14 and is now in its second printing.