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William S. Tribell is an American poet born in Frankfort, Kentucky, USA as William Stephen Tribell. He is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet, with nominations for Poet Laureate of the state of Kentucky in 2017 and 2019 and the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame in 2018 and 2019. His collection of poetry, 'A Duke's Mixture and a Hill of Beans' featuring a forward by filmmaker and Kentucky lifetime Poet Laureate Lee Pennington, protégé of poet Jesse Stuart, and a cover blurb from Beat Poet Laureate and Hunter S. Thompson's protégé Ron Whitehead received sponsorship for submission to the Pulitzer Prize Nomination in Poetry for 2020 and was accepted. His work has appeared in a number of anthologies, magazines and journals and online under the pseudonyms Walton S. Tissot, and Wilbur S. Tell. Many of his poems have been recorded, spoken word and with instrumentation, most notably by John Blyth Barrymore and Radio Hall of Famer Gary Burbank. As a poet, he was featured in the film Poetry is Dead! (2015) . He is a multimedia artist known for his work as an actor in many films including Drew Fortier's Dwellers (2021) ; the first film released on David Ellefson of Megadeth's production company Ellefson Films, Braden King's adaptation of Carter Sickels' novel; The Evening Hour (2020) , and his audio work with the EMMY winning documentary The Dead Unknown (2015) . An actor, writer, and director, his own short film Girl in the Red Dress (2022) will debut at Cannes Short Film Festival. his short film Returns (2018) was nominated Best Experimental Film at Los Angeles' Olympus Film Festival in 2019. While living in Budapest Hungary, his short films Jacket and Tie (2012) and Budapest (2014) garnered worldwide attention, becoming an early catalyst in the still growing unrest against the curbed civil liberties, and limitations applied to artistic expression legislated by the Hungarian government garnering acknowledgement from many noted authors, artists, and activists including Elmore Leonard, Russell Means, John Trudell, Angie Bowie and David Bowie respectively. In Journalism, Tribell has had thousands of articles and photographs published, receiving a Lighthouse Media Award in 2015. A long-time resident of the French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana, moving fulltime to the city in early 2002. He witnessed Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and its aftermath, remaining in the city to support and help rebuild until 2008. Tribell was an early supporter of Russell Means' Republic of Lakotah proposal. He became a member of the movement in 2007, staying very active in the republic's assertion of independence, working closely with Means until his death in 2012. In 2008, William participated in the United States Presidential Election as Louisiana State Director for U.S. Senator Mike Gravel's campaign, writing an epitomized version of the Senators NI4D; National Initiative for Democracy. Expatriating to Eastern Europe in 2008 and returning the the US in 2013, Tribell moved to Nashville and again served as Campaign Director of the state of Tennessee for Senator Mike Gravel's 2020 Presidential run and Senior Advisor for Mike Gravel's Advocates For Change until the Senators death in 2021.)

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China

Hemp and Mulberry ride the winds, blooms have fallen.
Amid the willow's swayed dance I lie down at night,
Though can take no rest, rambling skies my temple plain.
Terracotta lotus blossom in the moon's light.

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