Sandy Rochelle is a widely published, award winning poet, Actress and filmmaker. Her Documentary film, Silent Journey is streaming on Culture Unplugged. @  http://cultureunplugged.com/storyteller/Sandy_Rochelle Early Dawn I awake coffee in hand ready for battle. The glint of the disappearing sun tantalizes me and questions my motives. The whimper of early dawn inspires. I am redefined by a quiet spirit that takes hold of me. Silence surrounds me with love of the unknown. The air exudes intelligence. What is this life that comforts and confuses me. Different and the same. The Undertaker The undertaker prepares the ground big enough to bury the … Continue reading Sandy Rochelle

Colleen Machut is a teacher and a writer from Sheboygan, WI. She lives there with her husband, Trent, and their son, Desmond. Colleen and Trent write and perform songs in the lakeshore area of Wisconsin. Colleen has poems published or forthcoming in Impspired, Open Skies Quarterly Edition 1, Open Skies Quarterly Edition 3, Jalmurra, Creation and the Cosmos Anthology, Anxious Times Magazine, and CORE: Dance Poems Volume III. Regardless of You You are the rogue one; the brave – Dismissing society’s lines As color-by- number nonsense Meant to inhibit, define, and repress. You are the life breath; The breaker of … Continue reading Colleen Machut

Johnny Francis Wolf is an Autist –– an autistic Artist. Designer, Model, Actor, Writer, and Hustler –– Yes. That.  Worth a mention –– his Acting obelisk –– starring in the  ill–famed and fated, 2006 indie film, TWO FRONT TEETH. The fact that it is free to watch on YouTube might say an awful lot about its standing with the Academy.  Homeless for the better part of these past 8 years, he surfs friends’ couches, shares the offered bed, relies on the kindness of strangers –– paying when can, doing what will, performing odd jobs. (Of late.. Ranch Hand his favorite.)  … Continue reading Johnny Francis Wolf

Born in Mexico, Luis lives in California and works in Los Angeles. His poetryhas appeared in Blue Collar Review, Mad Swirl, Unlikely Stories, and YellowMama Webzine. His latest poetry book, Make the Water Laugh, was publishedby Rogue Wolf Press in 2021. His other books and chapbooks have been published by Deadbeat Press, Kendra Steiner Editions, New Polish Beat, Poet’s Democracy, Propaganda Press, Pygmy Forest Press and Ten Pages Press (ebook). Get Ready I still have fewer gray hairs than brown on my thinning noggin. The trembling has not started yet. Soon, very soon, that may change. Life is not everlasting. I do my … Continue reading Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal

JJ Moonchild is a non-binary poetess and a mixed medium artist from Cape Town South Africa. She greatly enjoys writing YA and New Adult fiction too, she has been writing since a young age, having attended and completed several creative writing courses in her spare time. Her love for art has always driven her writing style and filled her love for expression. She is an explorer of the art of wordplay and literature of all kinds. She spends her days teaching English to learners of other languages as well as art lessons and getting lost in the beautiful romance between … Continue reading JJ Moonchild

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

I am a former teacher of English and for many years worked in social services addressing the needs of residents in affordable housing. There is pure joy for me in sharing my poetry, in relating the many wonders of life and human experiences as a mature observer of people and nature. Rueful I am in bed again, desolate among the company of television voices Hands still tight around an empty glass The day went wrong Labors undone, dreams ignored, friends not loved Though a riot of thoughts may remind me, vespers of evening cannot sober me The hell of a demon’s breath has … Continue reading Kathleen Denizard

James Croal Jackson (he/him) is a Filipino-American poet who works in film production. He has two chapbooks (Our Past Leaves, Kelsay Books, 2021 and The Frayed Edge of Memory, Writing Knights, 2017) with one forthcoming: Count Seeds With Me (Ethel, 2022). He edits The Mantle Poetry from Pittsburgh, PA. (jamescroaljackson.com) Foreheads Clink your skull against my skull. Tulip glasses in the fog at a winery. The pale white of a wedding dress– you wouldn’t call me Western, would you? I’m warm at the brain center. Leave your soft red mark on my red mark so we can walk slowly in the grass toward the fence that keeps … Continue reading James Croal Jackson