Jake Sheff is a pediatrician in Oregon and veteran of the US Air Force. He’s married with a daughter and a crazy bulldog. Poems of Jake’s are in Radius, Crab Orchard Review, The Cossack Review and elsewhere. He won 1st place in the 2017 SFPA speculative poetry contest and a Laureate’s Choice prize in the 2019 Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest. Past poems and short stories have been nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology and the Pushcart Prize. He’s also published translations of poetry and reviews of translated poetry collections. SurVision selected three of his poems for Contemporary … Continue reading Jake Sheff

Colin James has a book of poems, Resisting Probability, from Sagging Meniscus Press. He lives in Massachusetts. . The Circular Ruin’s Tenuous Tendencies Emasculated Our Vacation Forever The cramping began in the living quarterswith re-creation cliches.Little sensibility ensued.Windowless, not even a peep holefor look who’s here,come to steal our women.And later at night, micescurrying in the rafters thenall over our fat chance faces. Flacourtia, The Governor’s Plum The contradictions of touch.The modern take,what you can, you will,what you will, you cannot.limped andlisped thus.Better toprepare the groundbefore planting.A receptivesandy soil is best.Drainage should neverbe overlooked.Sun and shade are bothpresumptive of lust. Continue reading Colin James

Anthony loves the way words sound through silence. He is inspired by the nature of the world and the expression of art as humanity decrees to discover itself. He writes to express the overwhelming beauty of the natural world with the inspiring admiration of artistic creativity. Anthony derives most of his inspiration from listening to Classical Music and Jazz, since it is often the mood which invokes him. He has recently been published in, Jerry Jazz Musician, Literary Yard, Shot Glass Journal , and Highland Park Poetry, amongst others. Strung Out Crouched to attentionHair torsioned from theNeck of the violin … Continue reading Anthony Ward

Heath Brougher is editor-in-chief of Concrete Mist Press and former poetry editor of Into the Void Magazine. His work has been published in both print and online. He has published twelve books, the most recent of which “Beware the Bourgeois Doomsday Fantasy” (Sandy Press, 2024). Shadows, Inc  I can’t wear properly weara fake smiley face.I’m too realto deign to phonyism. If I keep up this “integrity” thingthe herd will eventually stop byand tear me to pieces. So it goes, I guess. Afar  The spiral-pulsing thought hit the lonesome highway of the Intellect. The umber and ochre dogs faded to pieces … Continue reading Heath Brougher

Robert Beveridge (he/him) makes noise (xterminal.bandcamp.com) and writes poetry on unceded Mingo land (Akron, OH). He published his first poem in a non-vanity/non-school publication in November 1988, and it’s been all downhill since. Recent/upcoming appearances in Phylum Press, Rat’s Ass Review, and Alone Together: Echoes of Existence in the Modern Abyss, among others. Ordinal The whistles as you walkpast the prison are bombslobbed from behind the walls.You have no recourse with mace,nor legality. You considera job as warden, the efficacyof eighth amendment violationsand you wonderunder which amendment one should filecommon courtesy. Pie Berry-flecked cream, saltof caramel whipped to froth.Incubated in … Continue reading Robert Beveridge

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal was born in Mexico. His lives in California and works in the mental health field in Los Angeles. His poetry has appeared in print and online since the 1980’s. His work has appeared in Blue Collar Review, Fixator Press, Impspired, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Mad Swirl, and Unlikely Stories. His books and chapbooks have been published by Alternating Current Press, Deadbeat Press, Four Feathers Press, KendraSteiner Editions, New Polish Beat, Poet’s Democracy, Rogue Wolf Press, and Ten Pages Press (e-book). Dearest Companion What choice do I havebut make lonelinessmy dearest companion.Don’t feel bad for me?I prefer it this … Continue reading Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal

Swayam Prashant (pen name of Dr. Prashanta Kumar Sahoo) was born in the undivided Cuttack district, Odisha. He was formerly an Associate Professor of English at Sarupathar College, Assam, India. He has written ten books . They are : Evaluation of Textbooks in the Teaching of English; Values in Life ; Knowledge Tree (miscellaneous prose writings); Haiku from the Garden of My Own (poetry); Live Like A Man (poetry); Premras Amrit (poetry in Assamese); Virgin Land Impregnated (a thematic study of Canadian folk songs); Joy of Love (a unique booklet of love poems), Heart of Love (poetry) (published in USA … Continue reading Swayam Prashant

Chitra Gopalakrishnan, a writer based in New Delhi, uses her ardour for writing to break firewalls between nonfiction and fiction, narratology and psychoanalysis, marginalia and manuscript, and tree-ism and capitalism. Continue reading Chitra Gopalakrishnan

Ben Macnair is an award-winning poet and playwright from Staffordshire in the United Kingdom. Follow him on Twitter @benmacnair. Mr Zapruder’s Family Film Night Somewhere, in another Universe,Abraham would sit down with his family,and watch their glory days in the new-fangled Kodachrome.They would sit and delight in how the children had grown,and be embarrassed by their choices in haircuts, clothes and partners.They would sit and reminisce about the good old days,and how the Sixties were a fine time to be alive.In this universe, though Abraham Zapruder is known as the manwho caught a decisive time in World History,one of only … Continue reading Benjamin Macnair

Tim Law is a writer from a little town in Southern Australia called Murray Bridge. A happily married father of three children, family is important to him. Currently working at the Murray Bridge Library as Manager he has dreamed since early high school of becoming a full-time author. Mother Mother givesLove unendingGiving a piece to her daughterHaving a piece for her sonThere is a piece for husbandA piece for everyoneFriends and familyTake and takeSlowly she will disappearMake no mistakeOne day goneWhen you wish she was hereMother fadingWearing thinThieves not ceasing“Where have you been?”There for othersWho is it that is there … Continue reading Tim Law