Ramzi Albert Rihani is a Lebanese American writer. His poems have appeared in several publications in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, South Africa, Romania, India, and China, including ArLiJo, Linnet’s Wings Magazine, Impspired, Valiant Scribe Literary Journal, Indelible Literature and Arts Journal,  Flora Fiction Literary Magazine, Lothlorien Literary Journal, Goats Milk Magazine, Poetic Sun, Last Leaves Magazine, Cacti Fur Journal, Ariel Chart International Literary Journal, Poetry Potion, The Piker Press, Active Muse, Ephemeral Elegies, and The Silent Journey Anthology. He is a published music critic. He wrote and published a travel book, The Other Color – a Trip Around the World in … Continue reading Ramzi Rihani

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

A modern day renaissance man, Antonio Eramo draws inspiration from the complex, the ineffable, the organic and the mechanical. His lyrical, intricate word play, weaves itself through his poetic verse mixing classical form with contemporary style. His works interrogate the relationship between the individual and the psychological, the sexual, and the religious through an exploration of phonics and etymology. His poetry pushes reader to constantly ask what it means to be human in the post-digital, postmodern world.  The Fools Ballad If fools rush in where angels fear to tread then angels know not love nor sacrifice. I battle with this … Continue reading Antonio Eramo

F. Semrin Şahin has firmly established herself as a prominent figure in the Turkish literary community through her writing, which has drawn acclaim for its keen insights about social inequalities, women’s rights and environmental concerns. A member of the PEN Turkey Writers’ Association, she also serves as the chief editor of the literary magazine Edebiyat Nöbeti (Literature Watch), which is based in Turkey, where she was won numerous literary prizes, including first place in the Teachers’ Memoirs competition (2012), the special jury award in the Kaygusuz Abdal Short Story competition (2013), and the Nihat Akkarca Short Story competition for her … Continue reading F. Semrin Sahin

J.B. Shaw is an emerging writer from the Midwest. He has a passion for horror writing and literature in general, and has been published previously on online forums and magazines. Since an early age, he has always been drawn to the horror genre. By day he is an assistant manager at a manufacturing plant. He lives with his wife and child and passes the time writing, is an avid horror film enthusiast, and enjoys cooking. He is currently working on his first full length novel. On Horror and Human Nature The human species is a curious creature, often drawn to … Continue reading J.B Shaw

Joe Bisicchia writes of our shared dynamic. An Honorable Mention recipient for the Fernando Rielo XXXII World Prize for Mystical Poetry, he has written three published collections of poetry as well as over two hundred individual works that have been published in over one hundred publications. His fourth collection is forthcoming from Cyberwit. To see more of his work, visit http://www.widewide.world. Hope On a high untouchable shelf, hope prefers not to be still. Like the mind, it needs not lint, for a dusty brain goes dull. It rather breathe with a thrill. So goes the trapeze. That is hope. So … Continue reading Joe Bisicchia

Pediatrician Kelley White has worked in Philadelphia and New Hampshire. Poems have appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Rattle and JAMA. Her most recent chapbook is A Field Guide to Northern Tattoos (Main Street Rag Press.) Recipient of 2008 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant she is Poet in Residence at Drexel’s Medical School. Her newest collection, NO. HOPE STREET, was recently published by Kelsay Books. Poverty is just a letter away from poetry There are children in these streets laughing their way past walls falling down and newspapers sodden against cracked sidewalks. Cats sun themselves amid piles of chicken bones and … Continue reading Kelley White

James Mulhern’s writing has appeared in literary journals over one hundred and fifty times and has been recognized with many awards. In 2015, Mr. Mulhern was granted a writing fellowship to Oxford University. That same year, a story was longlisted for the Fish Short Story Prize. In 2017, he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His novel, Give Them Unquiet Dreams, is a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2019. He was shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2021 for his poetry. Recently, two of his novels were Finalists for the United Kingdom’s Wishing Shelf Book Awards. A Crystal Wolf Just before the Shoppes of Wilton Manors, where Espresso Boys was located, Gabe and … Continue reading James Mulhern

Clair Chilvers was a cancer scientist, and latterly worked for the UK National Health Service. She divides her time between writing and volunteering for the charity Mental Health Research UK that she co-founded. She lives in Gloucestershire, UK. She started writing poetry after she retired. She studied with Dr Edward Clarke at the Oxford Poets’ Workshop and with Dr Angela France at University of Gloucestershire.  She is a member of a number of Cheltenham writing groups. She has had poems published in online and print magazines including Acumen, Agenda, Allegro, Amaryllis, Artemis, Atrium, the Ekphrastic Review, Impspired, Ink Sweat and … Continue reading Clair Chilvers

Linda Imbler’s poetry collections include seven published paperbacks: Big Questions, Little Sleep First Edition, Big Questions, Little Sleep Second Edition; Lost and Found; Red Is The Sunrise; Bus Lights; Travel Sight; Spica’s Frequency; and Doubt and Truth.  Soma Publishing has published her four e-book collections, The Sea’s Secret Song; Pairings, a hybrid of short fiction and poetry; That Fifth Element; and Per Quindecim. Examples of Linda’s poetry and a listing of publications can be found at lindaspoetryblog.blogspot.com Liquid Emotion Liquid emotion freezes or thaws. It can flow into every crack of time. Grief as cascading shekels and pesetas. Love as … Continue reading Linda Imbler