James Croal Jackson is a Filipino-American poet who works in film production. His latest chapbooks are Count Seeds With Me (Ethel Zine & Micro-Press, 2022) and Our Past Leaves (Kelsay Books, 2021). Recent poems are in Stirring, Vilas Avenue, and *82 Review. He edits The Mantle Poetry from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (jamescroaljackson.com) Tomorrow we pretend to know tomorrow that we don’t is both the plight and light in living each day a slow burning candle that dies inside the next Hot Air if I knew you were sailing nimbuses in a hot air balloon I would have said yes when you … Continue reading James Croal Jackson

Alice Harrison is a retired teacher who, after living most of her life in a North Wales seaside resort, has recently moved to a town in Middle England She began writing seriously when she joined the Open University Poets in 1992. Her poems have appeared in several magazines. Neighbourhood Beside the sea, between the wars they settled down here: rows of plump, pebble-dashed bungalows, knowing nothing about India, or art deco despite their sunburst facades. Identical curve-topped walls and sit-up-and-beg wooden gates divided their sandy lawns and salty flowerbeds from rudimentary roads of holes and stones, bordered by long grass, … Continue reading Alice Harrison

Simone John-Vanderpool is about to begin her second year as an English Lectrice at the University of Picardie Jules Vernes. She received her BA/MA in Psychology and French from Wesleyan University, and has been teaching English in France since the fall of 2020. Her lifelong curiosity about the human condition and the nature of empathy naturally led her to develop a passion for psychology and of course, the world of literature. Simone is relatively new to the poetry scene, but has been published in The Foundationalist in 2018 and 2020.  Over the years, Simone has also been quite active in … Continue reading Simone John-Vanderpool

Gordon Ferris was born and raised in Finglas, a North West suburb of Dublin. In the early eighties, he moved to Donegal where he has lived ever since. He started writing in 2014 and has had many short stories and poems in publications including Hidden Channel, A New Ulster, The Galway Review, Impspired Magazine, and Lothlorien Poetry Journal. He has also won prizes in the summer 2020 HITA Creative Writing Competition for his poem ‘Mother’ and won the winter competition for his poem ‘The Silence’. Gordon was awarded a Poetry Town Bursary by Poetry Ireland. He also had his first book published … Continue reading Gordon Ferris

KJ Hannah Greenberg tilts at social ills and encourages personal evolutions via poetry, prose, and visual art. Her bold, textural, colorful images have appeared in various places, including, but not limited to: Bewildering Stories, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Kissing Dynamite, Les Femmes Folles, Mused, Right Hand Pointing, Stone Coast Review, The Academy of the Heart and Mind, The Front Porch Review, Tuck, and Yellow Mama. She uses her trusty point-and-shoot camera to capture the order of G-d’s universe, and Paint 3D to capture the chaos of her universe. Sometimes, it remains insufficient for her to sate herself by applying verbal whimsy to pastures where gelatinous wildebeests roam or … Continue reading KJ Hannah Greenberg

The author of ‘Postmarked Quarantine’ has eight books to his credit. He is a journalist, father, and the editor of ‘Words Surfacing’. His works have been translated into twelve languages, published across the globe.  Twitter- https://twitter.com/Kushalpoe You Cannot Return The Award The award comes with no return address, no accolades. You suggest, I should leave my spare key under it outside the door. Now a vine grows round and round the award, a garden gnome. It guards my heaven, my hell. I try to forget it, but it holds the key to the hollow where dreams and nightmares howl and … Continue reading Kushal Poddar

Jacqueline Jules is the author of Manna in the Morning (Kelsay Books, 2021) and Itzhak Perlman’s Broken String, winner of the 2016 Helen Kay Chapbook Prize from Evening Street Press. Her poetry has appeared in over 100 publications including One Art, Potomac Review, The Sunlight Press, Gyroscope Review, and Dark Winter Literary Magazine. She is also the author of fifty books for young readers including Smoke at the Pentagon: Poems to Remember (Bushel & Peck, 2023) and Tag Your Dreams: Poems of Play and Persistence (Albert Whitman, 2020). Visit her online at http://www.jacquelinejules.com After Months in Transit Standing by an … Continue reading Jacqueline Jules

Keith E. Sparks Jr. has been writing from a young age. He has had his work published in various literary journals and magazines and has been nominated for the Pushcart Poetry Prize. More recently he has published multiple collections of poetry including a Compilation Collection of four separate book releases gathered together titled “Gathering Dust” with his most recent release being “Shadowfall,” a collection of Dark Shakespearian Sonnets. Keith is the creator and former editor of Open Skies Quarterly, digital and print publications dedicated to poetic voices. Keith resides in West Virginia with his wife and three children whom are the … Continue reading Keith E. Sparks Jr.

Paul Tristram is a widely published, Welsh writer, who’s currently up to his elbows in Magic, and long may it remain this way. Become Louder (Gatling)… Squalls … Frown eases as ‘Sour’ not only becomes ‘Familiar’ but… ‘Sweeter’. All Hail The Overcomer … Standing Strong and Keened… Razor. To face Head-On Life’s ‘Karmic Armada’ … and GRIT still a Path of Destiny… there is no Faking a man’s Courage inside of… Battle. The Broadsiders glee is temporary … cowards create ‘Obstacles’ and light ‘Fires’… but, Win NO Wars. The Lighthouse Keeper Who Died Twice The Blackest waves come in Winter … Continue reading Paul Tristram

Jerrice J. Baptiste has authored eight books.  Her poetry has been included in the Poetic License—Exhibitions at The Arts Society of Kingston (ASK), and in many reputable journals & magazines such Artemis Journal, The Yale Review, Mantis, The Dewdrop, The Banyan Review, Kosmos Journal, Shambhala Times, The Caribbean Writer, MER, Spirit Fire Review. She has been nominated as Best of The Net for 2022 by Blue Stem. She calls the Hudson Valley New York home.  Sak Kokoye Bare mocha chest through open collar. Black James Dean – you knew you were cool! Your surfing glance charmed women into a daze. … Continue reading Jerrice J. Baptiste