Stephen Mead is an Outsider multi-media artist and writer.  Since the 1990s he’s been grateful to many editors for publishing his work in print zines and eventually online.  He is also grateful to have managed to keep various day jobs for the Health Insurance. Currently he is resident artist/curator for The Chroma Museum, artistic renderings of LGBTQI historical figures, organizations and allies predominantly before Stonewall, The Chroma Museum   Down to Zero The china sky shatters and goes clattering against pavement. I sweep up the shards, mine the hard feathers bright. It’s a river sharply winking. Of resignation, of loss—– how can gestures … Continue reading Stephen Mead

Marko Antic was born on October 11th 1980 in Paraćin, Serbia. He is an underground poet and writer.  His work is published in the fanzine “Green Horse” and Serbian and regional poetry anthologies. Diablo Ex Machina They took me into the room and ordered me to sit down. The handcuffs tore my wrists, and the doctor’s forehead glowed with sweat. He asked me about my health. – Bad, doc, bad. I dream of everything these days: pink elephants, old women with machine guns, the Taj Mahal on fire, dead and living relatives – they follow me in a full bus and banging my … Continue reading Marko Antic

Jenny lives in Shankill Co. Dublin, and is originally from the seaside town of Bray. Being near the sea always feels like home. Her husband is Galwegian and they love to spend time there as often as they can. Always curious and drawn to learning she has had a varied career from media to Montessori teaching and is currently working towards her professional HR qualification in Learning and Development. Jenny engages with writing as a creative way to express various aspects of life and experience. She wrote a lot in school before a demanding career and young motherhood took centre … Continue reading Jenny Byrne

My name is Marie Moldovan. I am Canadian armed forces veteran. MOTHER. Artist. Born and raised in Canada. I grew up in a poverty-stricken home, and experienced many hardships (including losses) throughout my life. I have experienced everything from riches to homelessness and yet, keep on keeping on, so I may share my story and hopefully inspire.  “Idiot” When I was but six years old my teacher, A dreadful creature, Hiding behind twenty layers of caked-on make-up. Attempting to represent a label standard, Of prim and proper, called a meeting with my mommy. She claimed to have great concern, Over … Continue reading Marie Moldovan

Ivan Peledov is a poet living in Colorado. He has been published in Unlikely Stories, Eunoia Review, Sonic Boom, Illuminations, and other magazines. Problem Afternoons devour oranges and lemons. A red dog is riding a bicycle in the background. Nature can’t shape all the vices of a tree, shake all its voices off, invisible tongues licking the fiery colors of the sky. A true bird, they say, is a living enraptured problem. Joy The moon collects forged and forgotten dreams and counts stolen wings and helicopters. Mornings destroy the contents of the air, all the invisible towers full of wind, … Continue reading Ivan Peledov

Andrew Scott is a native of Fredericton, NB. During his time as an active poet, Andrew Scott has taken the time to speak in front of classrooms, judge poetry competitions as well as had over 200 hundred writings published worldwide in such publications as The Art of Being Human, Battered Shadows and The Broken Ones. Andrew Scott has published five poetry books, Snake With A Flower, The Phoenix Has Risen, The Path, The Storm Is Coming and Searching andone book of photography, Through My Eyes.  Whispers Of The Calm is his sixth poetry book. To contact Andrew, email …andrewscott.scott@gmail.com Downtown Eastside The streets of the … Continue reading Andrew Scott

Sheena was born in a small town in Northern Ireland and went to University in Dublin. She spent five great years in Liverpool and has now lived in Nottingham, longer than anywhere else. She worked as a Radiologist in Grantham, Lincolnshire for 22 years, and since retirement has been writing, mostly poetry but really anything – except radiology reports. She completed her BA in English Lit. with the OU in 2016. She loves words and images, but also mountains, bogs, beaches, (she goes to Kerry in the West of Ireland for all those) birds and clouds, which luckily she can … Continue reading Sheena Bradley

Susan Darlington’s poetry regularly explores the female experience through nature-based symbolism and stories of transformation. It has been published in Fragmented Voices, Algebra Of Owls, Dreams Walking, and Anti-Heroin Chic among others. Her debut collection, ‘Under The Devil’s Moon’, was published by Penniless Press Publications (2015). Follow her @S_sanDarlington     LOST CHILDREN Dressed in orange and brown, we hid in autumn woods and were never seen again.   We called out to our parents when they beat the path for clues but our voices went unheard.   Now we run and shake trees until leaves tumble with laughter, skip with the dying … Continue reading Susan Darlington

Joe Sonnenblick has been featured in such publications as “The reject” and “Citizen Brooklyn”. Joe is pleased to have been selected by “The Flea Bitten Dog” for their 7th issue which was published in September 2020, and published through “In Parentheses” for their 6th volume of poetry which was released in October 2020.  Joe has been a featured reader up and down the east coast and at The Poets House in NYC. With Spite I Can Achieve All It’s probably a question you need to ask yourself, It will consume you and most assuredly weight heavy on your crown-less noggin There will … Continue reading Joe Sonnenblick

Nancy Byrne Iannucci is the author of Temptation of Wood (Nixes Mate Review 2018). Her poems have appeared in a number of publications including Gargoyle, Ghost City Press, Clementine Unbound, Three Drops from a Cauldron, Dodging the Rain, 8 Poems, Glass: A Journal of Poetry (Poets Resist), Hobo Camp Review, and Typehouse Literary Magazine. Nancy is a Long Island, NY native who now resides in Troy, NY where she teaches history at the Emma Willard School.      The Door Holly hangs from his entryway at the base of a bare magnolia tree / it was dry moss this morning / he must have switched it in the squall … Continue reading Nancy Byrne Iannucci