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Nols Nathankski and Dr. Lee Campbell meet at betwixmass to make poems, talk queer love and gardening.Dr Lee Campbell is an artist, poet, filmmaker, co-curator of POW! Play on Words (a regular spoken word platform in London along with Colin B. Osborn) and Senior Lecturer at University of the Arts London.His debut poetry collection ’See Me: An (Almost) Autobiography’ was published by London Poetry Books in November 2024. Other publications of his poetry include The Atticus Review, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Otherwise, You Are Here - The Journal of Creative Geography, Queerlings, Streetcake. Step Away Magazine, London Grip and Flight of the DragonFly. His chapbook ‘Queering the Landscape’ was shortlisted for the 2024 Broken Spine Chapbook Poetry Competition. In 2025, he headlined at many established poetry platforms including The Word Zoo, Rhymes and Stitches, Big Trouble and Medway Poetry Night, Testing Grounds and The Poetry Shack. His experimental performance poetry films have been selected for many international film festivals and prizes since 2019 including shortlisted for Best Poetry Film at the Out-Spoken Poetry Prize 2023, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London. Dr Lee Campbell has performed at 150 open mics this year!Nols and Lee make poems with prompts from Sarthak MukherjiLee shouts outPlay On WordsColin B OsbornRedeeming FeaturesEliza FiverKeep Nols happy in 2026 by subscribing to the patreon www.patreon.com/makepoetryweirdagain