Joan Leotta plays with words on page and stage. She performs tales of food, family, strong women. Internationally published as an essayist, poet, short story writer, and novelist,  she’s a 2021 and 2022 Pushcart nominee, Best of the Net 2022 nominee, and  2022 runner-up in Robert Frost Competition. Her essays, poems, and fiction appear in Impspired, Ekphrastic Review, Verse Visual, Verse Virtual, anti-heroin chic, Gargoyle, Active Muse, Silver Birch, Yellow Mama, Mystery Tribune, Ovunquesiamo, MacQueen’s Quinterly and others.  Her poetry chapbooks are Languid Lusciousness with Lemon and  Feathers on Stone. For Whom I Weep Black clouds explode, drenching north rim’s edge. … Continue reading Joan Leotta

MH Clay lives and works in Dallas, Texas. He has a poetry page at https://madswirl.com/author/mhclay/. His poetry chapbook, Perhaps This Rain, was published in 2007 with a second edition released in 2010. He has published two poetry collections, sonoffred, Rebel Poetry in Ireland, 2015 and Angst, Mad Swirl Press, 2016 with a second edition released in 2022. Pillars The itch The pull The blink The fool You’ve been The tear The tissue The open issue The scratch The squall The cloud over All your sin Hope is a rope To push uphill Living is lasting But shortly filled The top … Continue reading MH Clay

Hello, I am G.M.H. Thompson. I have been published in a number of different publications that few people have read or even heard of. I have a chapbook out entitled Yard Sale at the Devil’s Petting Zoo that perhaps 30 people have leafed through. I was nominated for a Pushcart once, but didn’t win it. I was born in Cleveland, Ohio. When I was eight, I moved with my family to St. Louis, Missouri. I then received my Bachelor’s at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where I learned little. Then I learned how to play guitar in empty rooms … Continue reading G.M.H Thompson

Lynn White lives in north Wales. Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. She is especially interested in exploring the boundaries of dream, fantasy and reality and writes hoping to find an audience for her musings. She was shortlisted in the Theatre Cloud ‘War Poetry for Today’ competition and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net and a Rhysling Award. Her poetry has appeared in many publications including: Apogee, Firewords, Capsule Stories, Light Journal and So It Goes. In Tune It is still the … Continue reading Lynn White

Ben Macnair is an award-winning poet and playwright from Staffordshire in the United Kingdom. Follow him on Twitter @ benmacnair Autumn Mornings Choose the seat with the clearest view, watch the night sky slowly unveil the beauty of the morning air. Take in the first rays of a sun, hundreds of years into its journey, hear the whistle of the milk man, the slow thrum of the morning, as it wakes up, feels its old bones creaking inside a new body. Watch as the leaves take on a darker hue, see your footprints in the new morning dew. See the … Continue reading Ben Macnair

Annie is a young, queer poet living in Cardiff who began writing poetry as a cathartic process to work her way through grief and trauma. And pretty much any emotion. She has previously been published in Sideways Poetry Journal and Green Ink Poetry. Nothing more than a dream In another world, In my dream, We are in our kitchen and I am pouring you a glass. Montepulciano. You drank that on our first date, You laughed at me when I could not pronounce it. We laugh about it again, In my dream. Nothing bad happened between us, Not in this … Continue reading Annie Tallis

Peter is an Emeritus Professor of Community Psychiatry at Imperial College, London and a consultant in Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. He was formerly the Editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry where he wrote a regular column strewn with rhyming doggerel. He now feels he can graduate to poetry, and sonnets attract him by their need to convert complexity to order. EIS Reunion The Early Intervention Service was set up in 1987. It was one of 17 two-year demonstration projects initiated by the then Conservative government to assist the development of community psychiatry. Although this type of initiative was … Continue reading Peter Tyrer

Margot Block has been writing since the age of fourteen and has been published in Zygote Magazine, Contemporary Verse 2, Juice, Voices, the Collective Consciousness, Grub Street Literary Magazine, Bakwa Magazine, Cholla Needles, Blank Spaces, Black Scat Review and in the online journals BlazeVox, Kaleidoscope Online, the Bombay Review, Oddball Magazine, Brief Wilderness, the Blotter Literary Magazine, Kritikos:A-Postmodern-Journal-of-Cultural-Sound-Text-&-Image, Scissors and Spackle:A-Journal-of-the-Written-Word, the Big Windows Review, the American Diversity Report & the Lothlorien Poetry Journal blog. She participated in the high school mentorship program with the Manitoba Writers Guild, working with Canadian poet, Carol Rose. She won first prize in a … Continue reading Margot Block

Douglas Colston – who finds himself approaching his mid-50s and living at the Sunshine Coast in Australia – has played in Ska bands, picked up university degrees, supported his parents during terminal illnesses, married his love, fathered two great children, had his inheritance embezzled, transitioned into Counselling as a vocation and experienced chronic mental and physical illnesses consequential to workplace harassment. Now, among other things, he is pursuing a PhD. As for his publishing history, in addition to appearing on a number of  occasions in Impspired, his fiction, nonfiction and poetry has been published in traditional and online anthologies and journals including: POETiCA REViEW; Otherwise Engaged Literary and Arts Journal; Written Tales; Inlandia; The Antonym; Rue Scribe; The Seattle Star; Revue {R}évolution; and New Note Poetry. Superstition … Continue reading Douglas Colston

Ken Gosse generally writes light poetry using simple language, meter, and rhyme in verses filled with whimsy and humor. First published in The First Literary Review–East in November, 2016, his poetry is also online with Academy of the Heart and Mind, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Home Planet News, Spillwords, Impspired, and others. He is also in print anthologies from Pure Slush, The Coil, Truth Serum Press, Peking Cat, and others. Raised in the Chicago suburbs, he and his wife have lived in Indiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Germany, Virginia, and now in Mesa, Arizona over twenty years with two or more rescue dogs … Continue reading Ken Gosse