Gopal Lahiri is an India- based bilingual poet, critic, editor, writer and translator with 22 books published, 14 in English and 8 in Bengali, including three joint books. His poetry is also published across various anthologies as well as in eminent journals of India and abroad. He has attended various poetry festivals including World Congress of Poets recently held in India. He is a regular book reviewer of well-known journals in India. He works have been published in 12 countries and in 12 languages. Kolkata Only once through a local train’s window I watch all those silent streets open up … Continue reading Gopal Lahiri

Ahmad Al-Khatat was born in Baghdad, Iraq. His work has appeared in print and online journals globally and has poems translated into several languages. He has been nominated for Best of the Net 2018. He is the author of The Bleeding Heart Poet, Love On The War’s Frontline, Gas Chamber, Wounds from Iraq, Roofs of Dreams, The Grey Revolution, and Noemi & Lips of Sweetness. He lives in Montreal, Canada. The Seaside and Fireside the seaside and fireside and a glass of Arak with ice cubes an anthology of poetry I was browsing and sipping. My intellect and spirit were … Continue reading Ahmad Al-Khatat

Rajnish Mishra is a poet, writer, translator and blogger born and brought up in Varanasi, India and now in exile from his city. His work originates at the points of intersection between his psyche and his city. He edits PPP Ezine and writes at https://rajnishmishravns.wordpress.com/ The Avalanche Death:   a word, a set of symbols; a trigger   to an avalanche alive, with each breath, inhaled and exhaled.   The avalanche of thoughts and images; Rolling down the slopes of past. How common and how strange, is being born to die!   Losses, past, mere outlines that the present fills with … Continue reading Rajnish Mishra

My name is Alycia Hodge. I am a mother, artist and writer from Oregon in the U.S.A. I had two poems published in my youth, in 2001 and 2003, for placing in young writer’s contests. After many years, I am breaking through writer’s block with poetry again. I have plans to publish a collection of my poems and at least two novels of fiction in the future. You can find my poetry on Facebook on the page “Aly Red Letters”. I love being a mom, nature, animals, music, books, and art of all kinds. My biggest hope is that my … Continue reading Alycia Hodge

Colleen Machut is a teacher and a writer from Sheboygan, WI. She lives there with her husband, Trent and her son, Desmond. Colleen and Trent write and perform songs in the lakeshore area of Wisconsin. Colleen has poems published or forthcoming in Open Skies Quarterly, Jalmurra, Creation and the Cosmos Anthology, Anxious Times Magazine, and CORE: Dance Poems Volume III. The Long Way Flame-licked eye-mirrors Leak bloodfire.   Viscosity spins a scarlet spiral, Dripping clotted beads On a white gown.   Pale arm sweeps chest.   Steaming staircase shrouded By moist forest breath Of mossy oak.   Echo.   Dark … Continue reading Colleen Machut

Two lifetimes ago, Catherine performed her poetry in Madrid. Now her main jobs are to write and hang out with her family. Her work has appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Pank, Victorian Violet Press, and The Grief Diaries. Her chapbook, Soul Full of Eye, is published through Aldrich Press.   Find her on twitter @czickgraf. Watch and read more at www.caththegreat.blogspot.com  Paisley Back in college, Nickie gave me a treasure: her paisley polyester blouse patterned with red-green figures like figs.    Some nights, headed home from the library, I’d weave my arms through its sleeves, leaving behind books to tour the trees, … Continue reading Catherine Zickgraf

Reece Beckett is an eighteen-year-old poet, film critic/director, music producer and artist. Filling free time with the arts has become his forte, and whilst he spends most of his time with films, 2020 has been the year for broadening. He will start attending the University of Southampton later this year. Mirror He sat and realised As he looked into the mirror That he was beaten down. Become accustomed to his head spinning, All of his accomplishments were aided by addiction, So what if without the drink, every accolade was fiction? What if without the drink, his brain could never think? … Continue reading Reece Beckett

Lana Bojanić was born in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1992. She published poetry and short stories in various magazines in the Balkan region, Austria, Netherlands and USA. She’s the founder of the literary troupe 90+ that, after many years of preforming together, published a joint collection Someone yells, children grow up. A winner of numerous awards, her first solo poetry collection, Utilities for hunting and time travelling was published in 2020. She currently lives and works in Manchester, UK. My Father’s December The mornings start with a bag of oranges on the passenger seat Later he will cut them, squeeze them, … Continue reading Lana Bojanić

DAH’s ninth poetry collection is SPHERICAL (Argotist Press), and his poems have been published by editors from the US, UK, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Canada, Spain, Poland, Philippines, Singapore, Australia, Africa, Japan and India. He is a multiple Pushcart nominee, Best Of The Net nominee, and the founding editor for the poetry critique group, The Lounge. DAH lives in Berkeley, California where he is working on the manuscript for his tenth poetry collection, and his poems have recently appeared in Poetry Now!, Straylight Magazine, Otoliths, The Cape Rock, Acumen Journal, Sandy River Review, Indian River Review, Junto Magazine, Mad Swirl Magazine, … Continue reading DAH

Courtney Glover is originally from Fulton County, Georgia. She is an amateur writer and photographer. Her passion for both writing poetry and photography started when she was very young. Three poets that greatly inspired her are Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, and Shel Silverstein. Her hobbies include reading, writing poetry, photography, and spending time with her family. Her very first poetry book, “Calypso Dreaming:A Collection of Poetry is available on Amazon. She currently lives with her family in Camden County, New Jersey.  Moonlit Writings     I’ve been blessed with a celestial boon      In moonlight and darkness, I bloom  For my soul is not the … Continue reading Courtney Glover