The author received a Masters of Liberal Arts in Creative Writing and Literature from Harvard University, College of Extended studies, in 2019. His graduate interest was studying the writing of the Lost Generation living in Paris in the 1920’s. In addition to short stories published in various journals, the author has written a novella, In the Faded Blue Light, serialized in the journal, “The Writing Disorder.” For Emma with Love and Sorrow It was on doctor’s orders that I decided to travel. My liver was rotten or something to that effect. The doc said that it was all due to … Continue reading Don Donato

I am a former teacher of English and for many years worked in social services addressing the needs of residents in affordable housing. There is pure joy for me in sharing my poetry, in relating the many wonders of life and human experiences as a mature observer of people and nature. Attic Man     I have a little house snuggled among the hills of Indigo Valley. It stays cold most of the year where I am, usually April wind shakes through the woods before I can tell the birch from the snow. There is a mean spirit in the air that whips onto … Continue reading Kathleen Denizard

Thasia Anne was a finalist for the last Erie County Poet Laureate search. She is a lifetime Erie, Pennsylvania girl. She has facilitated numerous poetry workshops and women inspired events. Her most heartfelt accomplishment is WOW or Women of Word with a few Man Made Words Thasia Anne organized and performed in readings with multiple artists and poets at Artlore Studio. She has four poems about Lena Logvina’s decorated Suffragettes mannequins. She also organized female poets for a poetry reading for the Artlore show on Healing. Thasia Anne spent hours organizing and bringing poets to the Albion Fair for poetry … Continue reading Thasia Anne

Mubarak Said is the 3rd runner-up of the poetry category of the 2022 Bill Ward Prize for Emerging Writers. His works are forthcoming and published in many literary magazines local and international as World Voices Magazine, Icefloe Press, Literary yard, Beatnik Cowboy, Teen Literary Journal, ILA magazine, the yellow magazine,  Pine Cone Review, Synchronized chaos, Susa Africa, Applied Worldwide, Opinion Nigeria, Today Post, Daily Trust, Daily Companion and elsewhere. The Tale Of A Wrecked Boy I was asked once to sketch The portrait of ghosts and memories. Now, I learn that any child with out The theory of pain in … Continue reading Mobarak Said

Wandering troubadour Lorraine Caputo is a documentary poet, translator and travel writer. Her works appear in over 400 journals in Canada, the US, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa; and 23 chapbooks of poetry – including Caribbean Interludes (Origami Poems Project, 2022) and the upcoming In the Jaguar Valley (dancing girl press). She also pens travel pieces, with narratives appearing in the anthologies Drive: Women’s True Stories from the Open Road (Seal Press) and Far Flung and Foreign (Lowestoft Chronicle Press), and travel articles and guidebooks. Her writing has been honored by the Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada (2011) … Continue reading Lorraine Caputo

Rose Mary Boehm is a German-born British national living and writing in Lima, Peru, and author of two novels as well as six poetry collections. Her poetry has been published widely in mostly US poetry reviews (online and print). She was twice nominated for a Pushcart. DO OCEANS HAVE UNDERWATER BORDERS? (Kelsay Books July 2022) and WHISTLING IN THE DARK (Taj Mahal Publishing House July 2022), are both available on Amazon. Her seventh collection, SAUDADE, is going to be published by Kelsay before the year is out. https://www.rose-mary-boehm-poet.com/ Advent During the War, we made a wreath with fresh pine twigs. … Continue reading Rose Mary Boehm

Nicholas Klacsanzky runs the blog Haiku Commentary and has won a few awards for his haiku. He lives in Burien, Washington and works as a teacher.  Palms I still feel a breeze emanating from my palms. With a broken ocean inside me archaic habitats have shifted with the rush of reconnaissance for a trail to shed the letters of my name with a pliant tongue one mention to the next. Fresh Snow Let me dream of faces not showing our history. My mistakes null like fresh snow. The evening bright and the paths given to me at birth led back … Continue reading Nicholas Klacsanzky

Nina Quigley lives in Inishowen, Co Donegal, and writes poetry and fiction. Her work has been widely published (PIR, HU, Force 10, the Moth,) and won prizes, (Feile Filiochta, Charles Macklin Autumn School, Feile Chathal Bui.)  Her poetry pamphlet “Legacy” was published  by Lapwing Publications in 2001.  She read at Poetry Ireland’s Introductions Series and the Earagail Arts Festival. She read her story “Episode” at a recent tenx9 event. She writes predominantly in English, but has won prizes for poems in Irish, Spanish and Italian. She is also a visual and performance artist, and exhibits and performs regularly with the … Continue reading Nina Quigley

Heikki Huotari attended a one-room school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower. Since retiring from academia/mathematics he has published poems in numerous journals and in five poetry collections. His manuscript, To Justify The Butterfly, won second prize, and publication, in the 2022 James Tate Chapbook Competition. Planck Time Variations 1. An option is illuminated while I hover over it. I am adopted daily. I would have Cher’s hairstyle or have no hair style at all. The tops and bottoms undergo a wholesale mix and match. I’m seeing spots, connecting dots. As Newton’s Law of Edge Detection says, go … Continue reading Heikki Huotari

Lori R. Lopez is an offbeat hat-wearing speculative author, illustrator, poet, and songwriter residing in Southern California.  Her prose and verse have been published in a number of anthologies and magazines including California Screamin’ (the Foreword Poem), Dead Harvest, Impspired, The Sirens Call, The Horror Zine, Weirdbook, Spectral Realms, Space & Time, JOURN-E, Altered Realities, Bewildering Stories, Aphelion, Oddball Magazine, and several H.W.A. Poetry Showcases.  Book titles include The Dark Mister Snark, Leery Lane, An Ill Wind Blows, The Fairy Fly, and Darkverse:  The Shadow Hours (nominated for an Elgin Award).  Five of her poems have been nominated for Rhysling … Continue reading Lori R. Lopez