Josh Crummer is a poet from Saginaw, Michigan. His debut poetry collection, We Are the Raiders, released January 2022. He is currently at work on his second collection, and when he’s not working as a corporate writer by day, he’s teaching college composition at night. Truth, Justice & Building a Better Tomorrow Superman’s PR team quit last month. Since he came out as bi his Twitter page is full of trolls posting death threats every three seconds. Nothing personal; the heat was just too much. Not all posted how God will send him to hell – So many comments demanding answers; … Continue reading Josh Crummer

Margaret‘s 1st poetry collection ‘Fording The Stream’ appeared Sept 2017 under the pen name Jessica De Guyat. She was shortlisted for the Bangor Literary Festival and Crowvus poetry prizes in 2018 and her poems have appeared online, in journals and anthologies, most recently Hedgehog Poetry Press, The Blue Nib, Impspired and forthcoming in Sarasvati. May 2020 saw the publication of her memoir of childhood ‘The Road to Cleethorpes Pier,’ a Haibun fusion of prose and poetry. In July 2020 she won Hedgehog Press’ Full Fat collection competition and ‘Where Flora Sings,’ was published November 2020. Earth Magicke was published by impspired … Continue reading Margaret Royall

MICHAEL MINASSIAN is a Contributing Editor for Verse-Virtual, an online magazine. His chapbooks include poetry: The Arboriculturist and photography: Around the Bend. His poetry collections Time is Not a River, Morning Calm, and A Matter of Timing are all available on Amazon. For more information: https://michaelminassian.com FERME DU VERT A blood curdling scream woke Gordon, and he sat straight up in bed. Next to him the girl who had screamed rolled over and muttered, “ice cream…next door.” Gordon, wide awake and breathless, sat in the darkness of the hotel room, his heart pounding in his chest. Had he been the one dreaming, he wondered? And why wasn’t the … Continue reading Michael Minassian

Sandy Rochelle is a poet- actress and filmmaker. She narrated and produced the documentary film- Artwatch, about famed art historian, James Beck. She is the recipient of the Autism Society of  America’s Literary Achievement Award and hosted the television series-‘On Our Own, winner of the President’s Award. Her Documentary Film, Silent Journey is streaming on:  http://www.cultureunplugged.com/storyteller/Sandy_Rochelle website:  http://sandyrochelle.com Publications include: Black Poppy Magazine, Lothlorien Poetry Review, Trouvaille Review, Poetic Sun, Wild Word, Moon Shadow Sanctuary Press, Writing in a Woman’s Voice, Every Day Writer, Ekphrastic Review, Spillwords Press, Dissident Voice, Amethyst Review, Backchannel Journal, Formidable Woman, Sweetycat Press, Indelible and others. The Cabin … Continue reading Sandy Rochelle

Michael Igoe, city boy, neurodiverse,Chicago now Boston.  Instructor at Boston University Center for Psych Rehab. Numerous works appear in journals and anthologies online and print. Recent: lastleaves.com, Spare Change News(Cambridge MA), alternateroute.org.  National Library of Poetry Editor’s Choice Award 1997. Carson Beach                                                         Crimson waves are in a series as premonition. To search for silence, we climb silent steps without earnest effort. We skip smooth stones, across an eastern water. We overhear neighbors telling us what century they deserve to live in. In ones they can force, some kind of payback. Hoping to be concealed in snowy embankments. A Letter in Greasepaint                                                                   … Continue reading Michael Igoe

Mark Blickley grew up within walking distance of New York’s Bronx Zoo.  He is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and PEN American Center.  His latest book is the text-based art collaboration with fine arts photographer Amy Bassin, Dream Streams. Francesca Schwartz is a widely exhibited New York-based artist and psychoanalyst. Schwartz’s work rests on her fascination with the contents and materials that make up the body.  Her art-making addresses many of the same questions confronted in her practice, finding meaning through the articulation of the unconscious and the necessary, preoccupation with the body, its disappearance, life’s beginnings, and … Continue reading Mark Blickley & Francesca Schwartz

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, The Horror Zine, Weirdbook, The Sirens Call, Spectral Realms, Space & Time, Impspired, Illumen, Altered Realities, Bewildering Stories, Aphelion 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).  Four of her poems have been nominated for Rhysling Awards.  Lori … Continue reading Lori. R. Lopez

Kathleen Sullivan is an intensive care registered nurse who writes to inspire and heal. Mother of two, grandmother of three, she has had poetry & prose, articles, and short stories published online and in print format in professional journals, church magazines, and anthologies in the UK and USA. Born and raised in a predominantly Irish town in West Central Scotland, she now lives on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, in the seaside town of Indian Rocks Beach, Florida. There is always laughter in her home courtesy of the many apps available for video calls with her family members, … Continue reading Katleen Sullivan

Manuela Palacios lectures on anglophone literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain). She has edited, translated and written about Irish, Galician and Arabic poetry. Among the recent anthologies she has edited are Migrant Shores: Irish, Moroccan & Galician Poetry (Salmon Poetry 2017) and Ανθολογία Νέων Γαλικιανών Ποιητών – Antoloxía De Poesía Galega Nova (Vakxikon 2019). Manuela’s research on women’s studies, ecopoetry and the human-animal trope has set her on the stimulating path to creative writing. Vanitas They were not so many who returned as rich indianos boasting opulent Gatsby houses on the Galician north. Others were deceived … Continue reading Manuela Palacios

I promote writing as a therapy. “Got a frown, write it down, Feeling blue, a pen will do” Some of my work is deep, considered and emotive and some is daft. The performing bug has bitten me along with the writing and I am reluctant to hand back the microphone. I have a flat full of poetry, stories and compilations of undefined genres. I will be famous when I am dead (well at least for 15 minutes) John Welsh not dead just resting.  BIG BLACK JAKE A lonesome thirsty cowboy Was staggering down the trail He had been out west … Continue reading John Welsh