Wandering troubadour Lorraine Caputo is a documentary poet, translator and travel writer. Her works appear in over 300 journals in Canada, the US, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa; and 19 chapbooks of poetry – including On Galápagos Shores (dancing girl press, 2019) and Escape to the Sea (Origami Poems Project, 2021). 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) and nominated for the Best of the Net. She has … Continue reading Lorraine Caputo

Victor Clevenger spends his days in a Madhouse and his nights writing.  Selected pieces of his work have appeared in print magazines and journals around the world.  He is the author of several collections of poetry including Sandpaper Lovin’ (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2017), A Finger in the Hornets’ Nest (Red Flag Poetry, 2018), Corned Beef Hash By Candlelight (Luchador Press, 2019), A Wildflower In Blood (Roaring Junior Press, 2020), and Scratching to Get By (Between Shadows Press, 2021).  Together with American poet John Dorsey, they run River Dog. He can be reached at: crownofcrows@yahoo.com dinner served oldest son giggles spatchcock chicken it’s all included human & holy science sold separately for perspective my children … Continue reading Victor Clevenger

Mike Zone is the Editor in Chief of Dumpster Fire Press, the author of  Shedding Dark Places (almost), One Hell of a Muse, A Farewell to Big Ideas and Void Beneath the Skin, as well as coauthor of The Grind.  frequent contributor to Alien Buddha Press and Mad Swirl. His work has been featured in: Horror Sleaze Trash, Better Than Starbucks, Piker Press, Punk Noir Magazine, Synchronized Chaos, Outlaw Poetry and Cult Culture magazine. The truth of it all We were taught to look into the beauty of the mind when beauty faded tarnished by misdeeds and haunted projections… oh, … Continue reading Mike Zone

Mehreen Ahmed is widely published and critically acclaimed by Midwest Book Review, The Wild Atlantic Book Club, DD Magazine to name a few. A winner in The Waterloo Short Story Competition, her short stories are Shortlisted in Cogito Literary Magazine Contest, a Finalist in the Fourth Adelaide Literary Award Contest, and winner in Cabinet of Heed stream-of-consciousness challenge. Her works are Three-time nominated for The Best of the Net Awards, nominated for the Pushcart Prize Award,Two-time nominated for Aurealis Awards. Her book is an announced Drunken Druid’s Editor’s Choice. Scent A faint sweet smell hung in the air. It was … Continue reading Mehreen Ahmed

D. R. James’s most recent of ten collections are Mobius Trip and Flip Requiem (Dos Madres Press, 2021, 2020); his micro-chapbook All Her Jazz is free, fun, and printable-for-folding at Origami Poems Project; and individual poems have appeared in a wide variety of anthologies and journals. He lives in the woods near Saugatuck, Michigan.https://www.amazon.com/author/drjamesauthorpage Dear Consciousness, And you are, you know. I know, I still curse you in the cynical night, in my stumbling through the numbing day, calling you out, indifferent hex on homo sapiens. You’re why I can’t rest in a shower, or in the cool cavity of my skull. Not with the world’s … Continue reading D. R. James

Maria Cameron (a pen name) has discovered a passion for writing mystery novels and poetry. She tends to use vivid sensations and various emotional pallets; Often writes about trains and rural parts because of her childhood. Still, the most common topic is emotional pain. Education: Graduated Psychology from Croatian Studies in Zagreb (November, 2013). She has always been interested in patterns of human behavior and causes of mental illness. She works in Center for Social Welfare (in Zagreb, Croatia) as a Psychologist. She is a mental health professional with over seven years experience within the field. Her everyday job includes … Continue reading Maria Cameron

J. D. Nelson (b. 1971) experiments with words in his subterranean laboratory. His poetry has appeared in many small press publications, worldwide, since 2002. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Cinderella City (The Red Ceilings Press, 2012). Nelson’s work is influenced by the Beat writers, especially the cut-up techniques pioneered by William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac’s spontaneous prose techniques. Most of his work is created through the cutting up and collaging of his own daily freewriting. His work is also influenced by Dada and Surrealism. His poem, “to mask a little bird” was nominated for … Continue reading J.D Nelson

Henry Stanton is a painter and a writer of poetry and fiction with a studio in Old Ellicott City, Maryland.  His paintings, poems and fiction have appeared widely in print and online journals– most recently in Closed Eye Open, Door in The Floor, High Shelf Press, Poets Espresso Review and Tiny Seed Journal.  His most recent published books include Moonbird, published by Cathexis Northwest Press and The Reluctant Spirit published by Holy & Intoxicated Press.  The Way Thru, a book of poems, and The River of What Was, a book of short stories, are scheduled to be published in 2022.  A selection of paintings, poetry and fiction can be found at  www.brightportfal.com.  underside your blue-black skin shines … Continue reading Henry Stanton

Bethany Baker (she/her) is a writer who loves cats and coffee. Her greatest accomplishment is being sober for four years and counting. TAKE ON ME The song comes on and your hair turns black, your jawline, a squiggle, and we’re trapped inside a maze. Take on my debt. Take on my detangler. Take on all this rudderless clutter. We dance in the middle of your bedroom. You knock on the doorframe. I wink. Take on these lies. Take on who dies. Take on the cries. Somewhere a keyboard’s on fire, my hair’s caught in a scrunchy, and an eraser chases … Continue reading Bethany Baker