Just Poets

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Just Poets is a Rochester, NY literary group formed in June 2004 by former Rochester Poets members D.M. Marbach, C.M. Stanek, H.B. Dill and L.D. Divers.

The group's mission is to celebrate poets and poetry. To those ends, it conducts workshops, publications, readings, and networking within the literary community. Just Poets also works to increase public awareness and appreciation of poetry through readings, a speakers bureau, written articles, and sponsored talks, readings and workshops by well-known poets. In 2005, it co-sponsored (with the Arts Minor program at St. John Fisher College) a tribute reading to poet, editor and literary critic Hayden Carruth; in 2006, it co-sponsored (with the Language and Literature Department of Rochester Institute of Technology) poet Cornelius Eady.

The group publishes an annual anthology of member work, Le Mot Juste, and maintains a blog.

The premier issue of the anthology was edited by the group's 2005 Executive Committee (Marbach, Stanek, Geraldine Hogan, and Dill) and was printed and hand-sewn perfect bound by FootHills Publishing of Kanona, NY in May, 2005.

The 2005 issue contains the work of members Frieda Arena, Anita Augesen, Ron Bailey, Margaret M. Baumler, Joy Bennett, Mary DiGennaro, Dill, Divers, Jen Eddy, Hogan, Pat Janus, Trish Johnson, Tim Kelley, Lorran Latham, Gary Lehmann, Gary Lisman, Marbach, Wynne McClure, Joy Lynne Messenger, Phil Morabito, David Michael Nixon, Sal Parlato, Jr., Colleen Powderly, Patricia Roth Schwartz, Ed Scutt, Suzanne P. Slack, Stanek, Roger Walsh, Paula Weld-Cary, David White, and Ruth M. Wright.

As of August 2006, Just Poets was revising its By-laws to allow its board to apply for status as a not-for-profit [[organization; after the resignation of Stanek as vice-president, the board consisted of Marbach, Kathleen Van Schaick, Augesen, and Lisman.