Dan Provost’s poetry has been published both online and in print since 1993.  He is the author of 17 books/chapbooks. Finding Pessoa was released in October, 2023 by Alien Buddha Press. Dan also has a collection of poems, All in a Pretty Little Row, published by Roadside Press which debuted in November 2023. His work has been nominated for The Best of the Net three times and has read his poetry throughout the United States.  He lives in Keene, New Hampshire with his wife Laura, and dog Bella. Worldly Death of Sibling Stillborn, child presence. Pestilence victim?Out of reach, painfully … Continue reading Dan Provost

 Tohm Bakelas is a social worker in a psychiatric hospital. He was born in New Jersey, resides there, and will die there. His poems have been printed widely in journals, zines, and online publications all over the world. He is the author of twenty-seven chapbooks and several collections of poetry, including “Cleaning the Gutters of Hell (Zeitgeist Press, 2023) and “The Ants Crawl in Circles” (Bone Machine, Inc., 2024). trading rocks for pinecones Menacing clouds mixedwith sundowning smiles,things are not going so well. I try trading rocks for pinecones, but kickingthem just doesn’t feel the same. Where do you go … Continue reading Tohm Bakelas

Marianne Szlyk is a professor of English and Reading at Montgomery College. Her poems have appeared in of/with, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, the Sligo Journal, Verse-Virtual, the Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Sheila-na-gig, and Bold + italic,  as well as a few anthologies such as Green Elephant, The Forgotten River and Resurrection of a Sunflower. Her flash fiction has appeared in Mad Swirl and Visual Verse. Her books Why We Never Visited the Elms, On the Other Side of the Window, and Poetry en Plein Air are available from Amazon and Bookshop.    After Looking at Pictures of Colorado, 2015 after“Mobile Home Park. North of Denver.” By Robert … Continue reading Marianne Szlyk

Alan Catlin has several new books in the works including a long series of noir movie poems concluding with three chapbooks in one book under the title Exterminating Angels from Kelsay for mid-year 2022. he also has two chapbooks coming soon as well: Satan’s Kiss from Gutter Snob ad Dream Rider from Orchard Street Press. A Sixties Romance:                                     with words from Charles Bukowski The weekends that began earlier each week and ended later; the new and the old, turning on, dropping out, going more than a little crazy; the war that never seemed to end and our friends who … Continue reading Alan Catlin

Steven Bruce is a writer and multiple-award-winning author. His poems and short stories have appeared in numerous international anthologies and magazines. In 2018, he graduated from Teesside University with a master’s degree in creative writing. An English expatriate, he now lives and writes full-time in Poland. Motto In the shadowed depthsof this heart and mind,a song still rises, despite despair,from this golden canary of mine. Midnight Verse XLII The heart unloved:a cold, empty nightlonging for its moon. Midnight Verse XLIII FOR JASON MATTHEWSThe tides of timewill sweep the truest of friendsto separate shores,but blood will forever reunitein the heart. Treasure … Continue reading Steven Bruce

Mehreen Ahmed is an Australian novelist. Her historical fiction, The Pacifist, is a Drunken Druid’s Editor’s Choice. Gatherings, is nominated for the James Tait Black Prize for fiction. Her short and flash fiction have won in The Waterloo Short Story Festival, Cabinet-of-Heed stream-of-consciousness Challenge, shortlisted by Cogito Literary Journal Contest, shortlisted by Litteratuer RW for Litt Prize, finalist in the Fourth Adelaide Literary Award Contest. A Best of Cafelit 8,three-time nominated for The Best of the Net Awards, nominated for the Pushcart Prize Award. Also, critically acclaimed by Midwest Book Review, DD Magazine, The Wild Atlantic Book Club to name … Continue reading Mehreen Ahmed

Darrell J. Wiens is Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of Northern Iowa, now living and writing short stories in Kansas City, Missouri.  He grew up on a farm near Inman, Kansas.  An award-winning teacher, researcher, and mentor, he is author of 27 scientific papers and 53 research presentations, most co-authored with students from his laboratory.  He has previously published six short stories.  Judy Bryant is a retired bank officer living in Monte Vista, Colorado. She also grew up on a farm near Inman, Kansas.  She contributed to Cowgirls Tough. Cowgirls Tough By Darrell J. Wiens and Judy Bryant … Continue reading Darrell J. Weins

Corinne lives in the South Manchester area of the UK. A specialist teacher of Speech and Drama for over thirty years, Corinne started writing seriously in 2010. Her first placing was as a runner-up in a Writers’ Forum monthly competition and subsequently her work appeared on the Visual Verse website. She enjoys poetry writing courses, and is currently being mentored by Jim Bennett. She is also a long term member of a local writing group. Corinne has had poems published by Indigo Dreams Publishing in Reach Poetry, which also published ‘For The Silent’ and ‘Voices For the Silent –anthologies published … Continue reading Corinne Lawrence

IRMA KURTI is an Albanian poet, writer, lyricist, journalist, and translator and has been writing since she was a child. She is a naturalized Italian and lives in Bergamo, Italy. All her books are dedicated to the memory of her beloved parents, Hasan Kurti and Sherife Mezini, who have supported and encouraged every step of her literary path. Irma Kurti has won numerous literary prizes and awards in Italy and Italian Switzerland. She was awarded the Universum Donna International Prize IX Edition 2013 for Literature and received a lifetime nomination as an Ambassador of Peace by the University of Peace, … Continue reading Irma Kurti

John Dorsey is the former Poet Laureate of Belle, MO. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Which Way to the River: Selected Poems: 2016-2020 (OAC Books, 2020), Sundown at the Redneck Carnival, (Spartan Press, 2022, and Pocatello Wildflower, (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2023). He may be reached at archerevans@yahoo.com. A Thousand Words for nate larsonas we drive through the hillsstopping every few milesso you can snap photosyou talk about your daughterabout how father’s day always hits you hardyou play a mix you made to help work through the painbut you’ll never forget she’s gonethere are a thousand … Continue reading John Dorsey