I am originally from Flushing, Queens. I went to Queens College and graduated in 1973 with a B.A. in Drama & Theatre. I began writing poetry when I was in high school. Also, I am a painter, starting from about 1969. I have been published in many online magazines and some print magazines. TIDES. In the tides of a million waves the massive owl-eye of a moon forgotten the water of a brain against the pylons stone and deaf Like Quasimodo the grand illusion of sound and the gnashing of swords and sounds of illusion Quasimodo against the pylons deaf … Continue reading Steven Stone

KJ Hannah Greenberg tilts at social ills and encourages personal evolutions via poetry, prose, and visual art. Her bold, textural, colorful images have appeared in various places, including, but not limited to: Bewildering Stories, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Kissing Dynamite, Les Femmes Folles, Mused, Right Hand Pointing, Stone Coast Review, The Academy of the Heart and Mind, The Front Porch Review, Tuck, and Yellow Mama. She uses her trusty point-and-shoot camera to capture the order of G-d’s universe, and Paint 3D to capture the chaos of her universe. Sometimes, it remains insufficient for her to sate herself by applying verbal whimsy to pastures where gelatinous wildebeests roam or … Continue reading KJ Hannah Greenberg

Bio coming soon… The Spirit Waits I try writing beneath your lips But you check your smile. I measure verses in your eyes Prompting you to look aside. Your laugh teaches me How to hear songs of stars But you fold back your voice And walk, making me understand The sound of wind blowing through trees Tearing them apart. Your parted hair allows me To brush through a lane of grasses Creating a cosmic interim of void Or a sonic vacancy from outer space. In that broad chest rumbles thunder and lightning Striking explosives to burn in me And blast … Continue reading Satabdi Saha

Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author residing in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many bears that rifle through his garbage.  His work can be found both in print and online in such places as: Evergreen Review, The New York Quarterly, Impspired Magazine, GloMag, Red Fez, and The Oklahoma Review.  Complete the circle, the roundabout wheels behind wheels, the gears of a long-addled mind; complete the circle, the roundabout, bum smokes from that misshapen storehouse of ears, pulling barrel-chested lighter right from the glowing tangibles below the dash, angle into traffic, remember your school years geometry, how the hypotenuse was … Continue reading Ryan Quinn Flanagan

John Tustin’s poetry has appeared in many literary journals, online and in print, since 2009. fritzware.com/johntustinpoetry contains links to his published poetry online. CHAINS I am much less than those Who doff theirs chains, Break through the wall And into the uncertainty of The darkness outside the place Of our internment. I am more like those Who defy the guards, Spit invective out of our windows’ bars And struggle like worms on hooks All the way to the room Where the men with rifles are waiting To blindfold us and open fire – Putting us out of their misery, The chains rattling … Continue reading John Tustin

Peter Witt is a retired university professor who took up writing poetry in his senior years.  His work has appeared on several online platforms and in a published volume (Poems in the Breeze, Lulu.com). Peter also researches and writes family history (Edith’s War: Writings of a Red Cross Worker and Lifelong Champion of Social Justice, Texas A&M University Press).  Leaving me Softly It’s hard to watch you slip away called by voices I can not hear to an inner world only you can occupy. Through 47 years we’ve greeted each other when the sun casts golden hues over the valley mountains, … Continue reading Peter Witt

I’m fairly new to writing, starting in 2018, and up until now I’m unpublished . The theme of my work is gritty and often blunt I’m heavily influenced by emotional turmoil, social inequality and political absurdity. I grew up in a small pit village in Durham but currently reside in Merseyside. I’m looking to release a book of poetry in the future and I’m currently working on a novella. I’ll have an E please Bob Alive and crackling awaiting that weekend train to euphoria The 5 ticks marked for meagre credits punched electronically Into a withering chasm of make and take … Continue reading Ste Bamberough

John is a social worker working in the field of disability management and holds degrees in social work, rehabilitation services, and psychology.  He is the author of four books of poetry: “March” (2019), “The Seasons of Us” (2019), New Days (2020), and Fragments (2021). His work has appeared widely in numerous literary journals, magazines, and anthologies internationally. John is also a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee and lives in Caledon Ontario, Canada with his wife and two children. Twilight The quiet Grows close On the pond As the sun Dips over the ridge And the snow starts … Continue reading John Drudge

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Sheepshead Review, Poetry Salzburg Review and Hollins Critic. Latest books, “Leaves On Pages” “Memory Outside The Head” and “Guest Of Myself” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Ellipsis, Blueline and International Poetry Review. THAT PICKUP BAR ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB Attention Miss, I am Cliff- that’s with a C from the east side and also an up and comer in a Fortune 500 company and not one of those who denies the evil of the late Gaddafi the Libya leader who had coercion Libyan people to be … Continue reading John Grey

Ann Christine Tabaka was nominated for the 2017 Pushcart Prize in Poetry. She is the winner of Spillwords Press 2020 Publication of the Year, her bio is featured in the “Who’s Who of Emerging Writers 2020 and 2021,” published by Sweetycat Press. She is the author of 15 poetry books. lives in Delaware, USA. She loves gardening and cooking.  Chris lives with her husband and four cats. Her most recent credits are: Sparks of Calliope; The Closed Eye Open, Poetic Sun, Tangled Locks Journal, Wild Roof Journal, The American Writers Review, The Scribe Magazine, The Phoenix, Burningword Literary Journal, Muddy River Poetry Review, The … Continue reading Ann Christine Tabaka