About Cleo Fellers Kocol

Cleo Fellers Kocol (“Freethought Feminist”) began her writing career in the 1970’s. Her early published work, beginning as humor à la Irma Bombeck, went on to include one-woman, many-character plays performed throughout the United States, from Alaska to Florida and Boston to L.A. She taught creative writing to adults. She achievements soon included awards for her stories, a magazine column, a novel in print, two novels published electronically, and authorship of an essay in a college composition textbook. But she knew nothing about poetry. Then she attended a poetry conference, and “felt the top of her head explode.” Since then she concentrated on writing poetry when not traveling with her husband, giving popular talks on history, taking part in community events, or socializing with family and friends. Ostensibly retired, she won one of three grand prizes in the Artists Embassy International Poetry Contest in 2003, and was delighted that Natica Angilly and her group danced the poem at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. She chairs the El Camino Poets of Sacramento and is a member of the Poetry Club of Lincoln. Cleo has two published chapboks, What A Dance We’ve Had and Waikiki Winter and Other Tropical Tales, as well as chapbooks in conjunction with Cleo Griffith, including The Society of Cleo Poets Volume III.