Philip received his Masters’s Degree in Psychology from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. He has published four books of poetry, Mirror Images and Shards of Glass, Dark Images at Sea, I Never Finished Loving You, and Falls from Grace, Favor, and High Places. His fifth, Forever Was Never On My Mind, will be out Summer of 2023. Two novels, Caught Between (Which is also a 24 episodes Radio Drama Podcast https://wprnpublicradio.com/caught-between-teaser/)  and Art and Mystery: The Missing Poe Manuscript. His next novel, an erotic thriller, Far From Here, will be out Fall of 2023. One play, The Apparition. His current … Continue reading Philip Butera

John Tustin’s poetry has appeared in many literary journals, online and in print, since 2009. fritzware.com/johntustinpoetry contains links to his published poetry online. WATER Your eyes were still water, your hair a gushing spring; your body was quivering steam, your words small hunks of ice; your breath was an ocean, your anger gathered in clouds; your smile condensed on the windows, your sadness languished in a hidden well; your hands were hot water on a stone, you drifted away as subtly as the tide but not before I drank/I bathed/I swam/I drowned. PASSING STORM She was a passing storm But … Continue reading John Tustin

Jasna Gugić was born in Vinkovci, Croatia. She is the Vice-President for public relations of the Association of Artists and Writers of the World SAPS; Global Ambassador of Literacy and Culture for the Asih Sasami Indonesia Global Writers, P.L.O.T.S USA the Creative Magazine Ambassador for Croatia; and a member of Angeena International, a non-profit organization for peace, humanity, literature, poetry, and culture. She is also co-editor of the anthology, Compassion—Save the World, one poem written by 130 world poets.The last important award with a single nomination for Croatia was awarded by UHE – Hispanic World Writers’ Union – César Vallejo … Continue reading Jasna Gugić

Henry is a poet, writer and mental health essayist based in Somerset. In the UK. His work has featured previously in Impspired. Poet on a Pushbike Progress is poor as the poet on a pushbike turns through treacle with wheels that sound of rust. While ghosts of Plath and Pound prepare polymorphic verse to enrich an earth riven with tangerine blare, spinning spokes of jagged thought whirl in ruinous rumination. A head full of fibrous filaments. seeking solace in cobalt calm. The sudden zest of a sunlit shard. A golden clang from a suspended orb. The distant howl of Ginsberg’s … Continue reading Henry Bladon

jacklyn henry is a transfeminine genderqueer writer based in the hell that is Los Angeles. when not searching for the perfect pina colada, jacklyn finds time to write ribald tales of love and woe, pain and power, and men that do her wrong. she has found success at: bare back magazine, alice says go fuck yourself, flying dodo, H S T, pink disco, wicked gay ways, fifth wheel, cream scene carnival, and elsewhere. scars & lies i will never convince you of innocence – impurity and lust vibrate through my veins – there are no stones in my pockets, not … Continue reading Jacklyn Henry

Annie lived in Illinois before moving with her family to Orange County, CA. She now resides in a quiet beach town along the Central Coast of California. She is a poet, essayist, fine art photographer and artist. She has facilitated poetry workshops at local libraries and has been a member of Cambria Writers Workshop for almost 10 years. Connie is also a long-time (22-year) member of the Cambria Writer’s Workshop, where she met Annie about ten years ago. Connie principally writes literary fiction with a focus on historical and multicultural topics. She has published short stories in Appalachian Heritage and Story, poetry in Solo Novo and Carousel.and … Continue reading Connie Gannon & Annie Harpel

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. Plans for Her Friday night included renting a movie she’d heard about, this flick, “House of Wax.” Not the original but a new one that’s supposed to be pretty good. Maybe not as suspenseful or as believable as the other one, but damn, she’d pay … Continue reading Alan Catlin

Rp Verlaine, a retired English teacher living in NYC, has an MFA in creative writing from City College. He has several collections of poetry including Femme Fatales Movie Starlets & Rockers (2018) and Lies From The Autobiography 1-3 (2018-2020). Rp’s work has been featured in Punk Noir, Ygdrasil, and Runcible Spoon.  Community Service Lying in my bed as if certain its hers or will be prison cots ruined her back. She questions why I haven’t asked her real questions Yet no reasons exist to remake my world not while she breathes. Who can’t resist laughing when I say she’s beautiful … Continue reading RP Verlaine

D. R. James, a year into retirement from nearly 40 years of teaching college writing, literature, and peace studies, lives, writes, bird-watches, and cycles with his psychotherapist wife in the woods near Saugatuck, Michigan. His latest of ten collections are Mobius Trip and Flip Requiem (Dos Madres Press, 2021, 2020), and his prose and poems have appeared internationally in a wide variety of print and online anthologies and journals.https://www.amazon.com/author/drjamesauthorpage Early Morning Love Song Despite the moon, nearly full, gliding six inches above the western horizon where that faint line of a Great Lake lies, my couple of cardinals amidst the … Continue reading D.R James

After a couple of decades in Poetry Purgatory, Duke LaRance is more than delighted with the reception he has received at Impspired as well as his paid hangout where he continues to knock ’em out of the park one after another with 12 pieces added to the “Front Page Picks” in three years. Scurry Awake too early again sleep only a dream I wish I could turn my mind off disconnect my brain stem from my medulla oblongata I have had enough seen enough heard enough felt too much switch on the light I am ready to scurry back into … Continue reading Duek LaRance