Heath Brougher is the Editor-in-Chief of Concrete Mist Press and co-poetry editor of Into the Void, winner of the 2017 and 2018 Saboteur Awards for Best Magazine. He was the recipient of Taj Mahal Review’s 2018 Poet of the Year Award and is a multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. He was recently awarded the The 2020 Wakefield Prize for Poetry. He has published 11 books and, after spending two years editing the work of others, is ready to get back into the creative driver seat. His next book “Where Hammers Dwell” is due for publication in 2021. Built to Die … Continue reading Heath Brougher

Fred Miller is a California writer. Over fifty of his storiesand poems have appeared in publications around theworld in the past ten years. Many may be found on hisblog:  https://pookah1943.wordpress.com WOOLWORTH’S Doors are open, the time is now. Not much longer can we tarry, Got to hurry, time’s awastin’. Doors are open, the time is now. How about skates, perhaps a ball, Just a bit less’n a day’s wage. Baby dolls with choices galore, Blue eyes or green, redheads and blondes. How about one like me, mamma? A firm, steady hand holds me back. Don’t grab, don’t touch, not yet … Continue reading Fred Miller

Anthony Santulli is a New Jersey born writer with a B.A. in Creative Writing and Italian from Susquehanna University. His recent work has appeared in minor literature[s], the tiny journal, Juste Milieu Lit Review, Bartleby Snopes, and Literary Orphans. After Bryn Harrison’s “Repetitions in Extended Time” Gravity, for a day’s worth of alimony. Room after room of waiting gives way to a shallow trench, pooled with printer ink. Portraits of the living point to nowhere. Forward in time is only more time, trailings that orient themselves as spectated objects. How Schoenberg saw his face in the dissonance, the river doesn’t … Continue reading Anthony Santulli

Christine Valters Paintner is an American poet living in Galway, Ireland and the author of twelve books of nonfiction and two collections of poems: Dreaming of Stones (2019) and The Wisdom of Wild Grace, both from Paraclete Press. Her poems have appeared in several journals in North America, UK, and Ireland including Tales from the Forest, Crannog, Stinging Fly, The Blue Nib, Headstuff, The Galway Review, Boyne Berries, impspired, Bangor Journal, Tiferet, Spiritus, Presence, and Anchor. You can find more of her writing and poetry at AbbeyoftheArts.com. Origins If I could peer far enough down a robin’s pulsing throat, would I see notes … Continue reading Christine Valters Paintner

Michael Igoe, city boy, neurodiverse, Chicago now Boston. Numerous works appear in journals online and in print. Recent: sledgehammerlit.com, k’inliteraryjournal.com, featherpenblog.com. Anthologies: The Poets of 2020, Avalanches in Poetry(Fevers of the Mind Press)@amazon.com. National Library of Poetry Editors Choice Award 1997. Twitter: MichaelIgoe5. Urban Realism, Surrealism.( I like the night.) Finding A Dilated Fist                                                                          A still object waits to flare and sputter. Even as an object will tend to dilate. To see it as a ghost of drinks gone cold by force you borrow another pair of eyes. Finding the accord between two islands that forks in waters. A jackpot gambled aware … Continue reading Michael Igoe

Dan Raphael’s poetry collection Maps   Menus   Emanations will come out this June from Cyberwit.  Last year saw the publication of Moving with Every, from Flowstonre Press, and Starting Small, from Alien Buddha Press. Some more recent poems appear in Pangolin, Danse Macabre, Former People, Synchronized Chaos and Ginosko. Most Wednesdays Dan writes and records a current events poem for The KBOOEvening News. Unidentified Satellite Mixing across geography invisible from above what could get through as villages were tight internal communities across dozens of generations always some blood coming in, going out spilled seed, windblown or planted When the odds weren’t right … Continue reading Dan Raphael

Poet and songwriter Paul Ilechko is the author of three chapbooks, most recently “Pain Sections” (Alien Buddha Press). His work has appeared in a variety of journals, including The Night Heron Barks, Rogue Agent, Ethel, San Pedro River Review, Lullwater Review, and Book of Matches. He lives with his partner in Lambertville, NJ. Coming From Torture The twisted gnarl and stump of malignant trees decapitated to make way for trails of looping wire that carry pulsing signals of an archaic technology their tortured limbs chopped flat their sickly gray torsos bending backwards away from the street arched and braced against … Continue reading Paul Ilechko

Chitra Gopalakrishnan, a New Delhi-based journalist and a social development communications consultant, uses her ardor for writing, wing to wing, to break firewalls between nonfiction and fiction, narratology and psychoanalysis, marginalia and manuscript and tree-ism and capitalism. Espying Through The Third Eye Visual: Souparno Banerjee At fifty-nine, the lines on my face and body read as tattoos of aging As a sign that life has played itself out on my anatomy, wholly, thoroughly My frame is a perforation of needle-jabs A brittle commotion of calligraphy honeycombed into contours, craters and ravines A bodywork that the world sees as the archetypal … Continue reading Chitra Gopalakrishnan

Swayam Prashant (pen name of (Dr.Prashanta Kumar Sahoo) was born in the undivided Cuttack district, Odisha. He was formerly an Associate Professor of English at Sarupathar College, Assam, India. He has written six books and two booklets. They are : Evaluation of Textbooks in the Teaching of English (based on his Ph.D. thesis); Values in Life (based on a research project on Vedic and Upanishadic writings); Knowledge Tree (miscellaneous prose writings); Haiku from the Garden of My Own (poetry); Live Like a Man (poetry); Premras Amrit (poetry in Assamese); Virgin Land Impregnated (a thematic study of Canadian folk songs); and … Continue reading Swayam Prashant