Bud Backen

lives in duluth, minnesota most of the time. Been other places but prefers his home. Works at a bakery in a custodial sense. Lives alone because the cat died.

high jinx

thicket

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THE PAUL BUNYAN BALLROOM

Subhaga Crystal Bacon

(she/her) is a Queer poet living in rural Washington on unceded Methow land. She is the author of four collections of poetry including Surrender of Water in Hidden Places from Red Flag Poetry, and Transitory, forthcoming from BOA Editions.

What She Said

Tohm Bakelas

works as a social worker in a psychiatric hospital. He is the singer of Permanent Tension and runs Forced Abandonment Records when he feels like it. His poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies such as Outlaw Poetry Network. He was born in New Jersey, currently reside there, and will die there.

Willow Harvest

Jason Baldinger

is the author of several books including the chaplet, Fumbles Revelations (Grackle and Crow), and a forthcoming collection Fragments of a Rainy Season (Six Gallery Press). Recent publications include Unconditional Surrender, Uppagus, Lilliput Review, Rusty Truck, Dirtbag Review, In Between Hangovers, Your One Phone Call, Winedrunk Sidewalk, Anti-Heroin Chic, Nerve Cowboy Concrete Meat Press, and zombie logic press. You can hear Jason read some poems at jasonbaldinger.bandcamp.com.

He said only eat half

Devon Balwit

writes in Portland, OR. She has five chapbooks out or forthcoming: How the Blessed Travel (Maverick Duck Press); Forms Most Marvelous (dancing girl press); In Front of the Elements (Grey Borders Books), Where You Were Going Never Was (Grey Borders Books); and The Bow Must Bear the Brunt (Red Flag Poetry). Her poems can be found in The Cincinnati Review, The Stillwater Review, Red Earth Review, The Fourth River; The Ekphrastic Review; Noble Gas Quarterly Muse A/Journal, and more.

Burning by One’s Body

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WE ARE PROCESSION, SEISMOGRAPH

DOG-WALKING IN THE SHADOW OF PYONGYANG

Spirit Spout

Danny P. Barbare

has been writing poetry for 35 years. He has been published locally, nationally, and abroad. He works as a janitor at a local college that he attended.

Funeral Service

The Janitor Says We Have to Serve

Cynthia Bargar

is Associate Poetry editor at Pangyrus. Her poems have appeared or are upcoming in many journals including Driftwood Press, SWWIM Every Day, Rogue Agent, Book of Matches, and in the book, Our Provincetown: Intimate Portraits by Barbara E. Cohen (Provincetown Arts Press, 2021). Her poetry collection, Sleeping in the Dead Girl’s Room, came out from Lily Poetry Review Books in January, 2022.

Transmutation

Late Summer | Abingdon Sq. | West Village | NYC

Rusty Barnes

grew up in rural Appalachia but has lived in East Boston and Revere, MA for the past twenty years with his wife, poet Heather Sullivan, and their family. He’s published his work in more than two hundred journals and anthologies. His poetry chapbooks include Redneck Poems and Broke, and his full-length poetry collection, I Am Not Ariel, appeared in 2013. His latest novel is Knuckledragger. On Broad Sound, Nixes Mate’s first book, was published in 2016.

Down Shirley Street

Belle Isle Marsh

Outlier

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ON BROAD SOUND

JESUS IN THE GHOST ROOM

LOVE POEM #56

Gene Barry

was an Irish Poet, Art Therapist and a Psychotherapist who died in 2021. He had been published widely both at home and internationally. His poems have been translated into Arabic, Irish, Hindi, Albanian and Italian. Barry was the founder of the Blackwater International Poetry Festival. He was a publisher and editor with the publishing house Rebel Poetry. His books and chapbook include, Stones in Their Shoes,(2009), Unfinished Business (Doghouse Books, 2013), and Working Days (Authors Press, 2016).

Fishing

Dousing our Genoa

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FLAKING THE ROPE

Tina Barry

is the author of Beautiful Raft, and Mall Flower. Her writing can be found in Best Small Fictions 2020 (spotlighted story) and 2016, Drunken Boat, Inch Magazine, Nasty Women Poets, A Constellation of Kisses and elsewhere.

While my Mother Dreams of Judge Judy

I tell Henrietta about my father’s mistress

Gary Beck

has spent most of his adult life as a theater director, and as an art dealer when he couldn’t make a living in theater. He has 11 published chapbooks with 3 more accepted for publication. His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway. His poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines. He currently lives in New York City.

Traveler’s Aid

Mark Belair

has published in numerous journals, including Alabama Literary Review, Harvard Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review. He is the author of seven collections of poems. His most recent books are two works of fiction: Stonehaven (Turning Point, 2020) and its sequel, Edgewood (Turning Point, 2022). Find more at markbelair.com

The Cord

Megan Bell

is a displaced Pittsburgh-native, living on the edge of Cayuga Lake. She enjoys levitating, wearing as few clothes as possible at any given time, & drinking gin neat. Maybe a lime. She is currently in a Master of Science program for Acupuncture & Chinese internal medicine.

I live on a Finger Lake now

The First Time We Had Sex, We Got Sweaty &

Laurel Benjamin

created a secret language with her brother. She has published in Lily Poetry Review, Sheila-Na-Gig, Burningword, Eunoia, Glassworks, and South Florida Poetry Journal. She is a reader for Common Ground Review, has featured in the Lily Poetry Salon, and received a Best of the Net nomination from Flapper Press.

To Mark Doty on his discussion of his poem “Brilliance”

FJ Bergmann

is the poetry editor of Mobius: The Journal of Social Change (mobiusmagazine.com). She lives in Wisconsin and fantasizes about tragedies on or near exoplanets. Her work has appeared in Asimov’s SF, Polu Texni, Soft Cartel, Spectral Realms, Vastarien, and elsewhere. She thinks imagination can compensate for anything.

Op Lit

Absences

Robert Beveridge

makes noise and writes poetry in Akron, OH. Recent/upcoming appearances in The Literary Yard, Big Windows, and Locust, among others.

Perfectionist

Strips of Cooked Flesh

Meeting

Difficult To Cure

The Golem Platoon Arrives at the Ardennes (August 1914, Colorized)

Lynn Bey

has published short stories and flash fiction published in The Literarian (nominated for a Pushcart award), New World Writing, The Binnacle (nominated for a Pushcart award and joint winner of the Eleventh Annual Ultra-Short Competition), Digital Americana, Scribble Magazine, The Brooklyner, Birmingham Arts Journal, and other magazines.

Reasons, Bulleted, and Instruction

Byron Beynon

is the author of The Echoing Coastline (Agenda), A View from the Other Side (Moonstone Press) and Where Shadows Stir (The Seventh Quarry Press). His work has appeared in Nixes Mate Review, English: The Journal of the English Association, The London Magazine, Black Fox Literary Magazine, Poetry Wales, Poetry Ireland Review, Wasafiri, and the human rights anthology In Protest (University of London and Keats House Poets). He lives in Swansea, Wales.

The Orangery Garden

AFRICAN DAISIES

Brett Biebel

teaches writing and literature at Augustana College in Rock Island, IL. His (mostly very) short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Chautauqua, the minnesota review, The Masters Review, Great River Review, and elsewhere. He can be reached at brettbiebel@augustana.edu.

Alliance

Sarah Bigham

teaches, writes, and paints in Maryland where she lives with her kind chemist wife, three independent cats, an unwieldy herb garden, several chronic pain conditions, and near-constant outrage at the general state of the world tempered with love for those doing their best to make a difference. A Pushcart nominee, Sarah’s poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in a variety of great places for readers, writers, and listeners. Find her at sgbigham.com.

Squeezed

Produce

Today’s Goddesses: My Daily To-Do List

Elizabeth Birch

lives in Plymouth, Massachusetts. She writes poetry and hybrid pieces that intertwine themes of nature, history, geopolitics, and personal narrative. Her poetry is published in forthcoming issues of Yellow Arrow Journal and The Tiger Moth Review.

My Sagittarius A*

Mary Birnbaum

was born, raised and educated in New York City. She has studied poetry at the Joiner Institute in UMass, Boston. Mary’s translation of the Haitian poet Felix Morriseau-Leroy was published in the anthology Into English (Graywolf Press). Her work is forthcoming in J Journal. She hosts a reading series with the Jamaica Pond Poets in Massachusetts.

Devil’s Proverbs

Heidi Blakeslee

Heidi Blakeslee has been writing poetry for 22yrs. She’s published a memoir, The White Cat, a novel, Strange Man: The Edgar Allan Foe, and two poetry books, The Empress of Hours, and Should the Need Arise: Poems. She is the founder of the “Poetry in the Park” festival, which ran for four years in Erie, Pa. She currently lives in Pittsburgh with her longtime partner James Trevison and her seven cats.

Girl Poetry

my vagina is a battleax

Soft Music

Oprah’s Frozen Pizza

haunted relics

CL Bledsoe

is the author, most recently, of Trashcans in Love. He lives in northern Virginia with his daughter and blogs, with Michael Gushue, at medium.com/@howtoeven.

The Color Blue Is Never Mentioned By Homer

Paul Bluestein

is a physician (done practicing) and blues guitar player (still practicing). He began writing poetry in 2017 at age 70. His first book-length collection – Time Passages – was published in 2020 by Silver Bow Publishing.

January Daybreak

Rick Blum

has been chronicling life’s vagaries, often with a humorous spin, for more than 30 years. His writings have appeared in The Literary Hatchet, The Satirist, and WINK magazine, among others. He is also a frequent contributor to the Humor Times, and has been published in numerous poetry anthologies.

The Heartache of Forgotten Foodstuffs

Mela Blust

is a writer residing in rural Pennsylvania. She is an active member of many online publications, including medium.com. Her work is forthcoming in Abstract Magazine.

Older Boys

Ace Boggess

is the author of two books of poetry: The Prisoners (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2014) and The Beautiful Girl Whose Wish Was Not Fulfilled (Highwire Press, 2003). Forthcoming are his novel, A Song Without a Melody (Hyperborea Publishing), and a third poetry collection, Ultra-Deep Field (Brick Road). His writing has appeared in Harvard Review, Mid-American Review, RATTLE, River Styx, North Dakota Quarterly and many other journals. He lives in Charleston, West Virginia.

The Tingler

Doug Bolling

has published in Posit, BlazeVOX, Redactions, Wallace Stevens Journal, Connecticut River Review, The Missing Slate (with interview), and Common Ground Review among others. He has received Best of the Net and Pushcart nominations. and several awards, most recently the Mathiasen Award from the University of Arizona’s Humanities publication. He has taught at several academic institutions and lives in the Chicago environs.

Excavations 17

Mark Borczon

has spent the last thirty years working for the Office for Students with Disabilities at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. He grew up in Erie Pennsylvania. Spent many years dreaming and roaming the streets. Started writing poems in the eighties. Published some in the ’zine great nineties. Trying to learn his way into the online world of words.

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HE WAS A GOOD FATHER

Matt Borczon

is a nurse and Navy sailor from Erie, PA. He has published four books of poetry, A Clock of Human Bones (Yellow Chair Review), Battle Lines (Epic Rites Press), Ghost Train (Weasel Publishing), Sleepless Nights and Ghost Soldiers (Grey Boarders), and The Smallest Coffins are the Heaviest (Epic Rites Punk Chapbook). He was a recipient of the Emerging Artist Grant in his hometown of Erie.

Day Dreams

Brain Dead

Erie is an outlaw love song

A nose for my own

December in Erie, PA

Tuesday

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CAPP ROAD

BODY BAG

Jodi Bosin

is a Philadelphia based writer and social worker with poetry published in Always Crashing, Metatron Press, and Peach Mag. Find her on the front porch and on Instagram @jodi_bosin.

bird with a pearl earring

Heather Bourbeau

has published in 100 Word Story, Alaska Quarterly Review, The MacGuffin, Meridian, The Stockholm Review of Literature, and SWWIM. She has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has worked with various UN agencies, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia and UNICEF Somalia.

Beautiful Death

Janet Bowdan

has published in APR, A Poet’s Siddur, Hobartpulp and elsewhere. She teaches at Western New England University and lives in Northampton with her husband and son. Her chapbook, Making Progress (Finishing Line, 2018), has a cool cover drawn by one of her lovely stepdaughters.

Husbandry, or, London Pubs You Should Try

Christine Boyer

has been published in The Little Patuxent Review, The Tahoma Literary Review, and So It Goes: the Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, among others. She is a student with Harvard University Extension School and lives in Massachusetts. Her website can be found at www.christine-boyer.com.

Hunger

G. F. Boyer

has published poems in The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, RHINO, Heron Tree, and elsewhere. She lives in rural Pennsylvania, where she manages the Clementine Unbound poetry journal and works as a freelance editor. Her book, Missile Hymnal Amulet, will be released in 2018 by FutureCycle Press.

A Short History IV

Final Deployment

Richard E. Brenneman

has returned to writing poetry after many years working for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He has been published in The Rimrock Poets Magazine, and The Denver Post Magazine in Colorado, in San Jose, California and also in England and locally. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts spending time writing poetry, continuing his genealogical research, seeking kindred spirits and people watching.

Incriminating

Charles Brice

won the 2020 Field Guide Magazine Poetry Contest. His chapbook, All the Songs Sung (Angel Flight Press), and his fourth poetry collection, The Broad Grin of Eternity (WordTech Editions) arrived in 2021. His poetry has been nominated for the Best of Net Anthology and three times for a Pushcart Prize.

Switching Lanes

Alan Britt

was invited, in August 2015, by the Ecuadorian House of Culture Benjamín Carrión in Quito, Ecuador as part of the first cultural exchange of poets between Ecuador and the United States. In 2013 he served as judge for the The Bitter Oleander Press Library of Poetry Book Award. He has published 15 books of poetry, his latest being Violin Smoke (Translated into Hungarian by Paul Sohar and published in Romania: 2015).

Anniversary

Friday Night

Rebecca Brock

is the author of The Way Land Breaks (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions 2023). In 2022, she won the Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Poetry Contest at The Comstock Review and the Kelsay Book’s Woman’s Poetry Prize. She is a reader for SWWIM. You can find more of her work at Murphy

Lisa Brognano

is the author of a romance novel, A Man for Prue (Resplendence, 2017). Her poetry has appeared in both national and international literary journals. She holds two master’s degrees, one in English and one in Art. Nixes Mate published her book of poetry, The Willow Howl in 2017. Currently, she lives in New York with her husband.

First Date

Hailing a Taxi

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The Willow Howl

Paul Brookes

is the author of Rats for Love: The Book, (Bristol Broadsides, 1990), The Fabulous Invention Of Barnsley, (Dearne Community Arts, 1993), the illustrated The Headpoke And Firewedding (Alien Buddha Press), the llustrated The Spermbot Blues (OpPRESS), and A World Where (Nixes Mate). More of him can be found at thewombwellrainbow.wordpress.com.

You Find Yourself

A Winter

Designs in Nature : Photo Essay

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A WORLD WHERE

SHE NEEDS THAT EDGE

Mary Lou Buschi

has published in many literary journals such as Radar, Ploughshares (forthcoming), The Laurel Review, West Trestle, among others. Her second full length collection, Paddock, was published by Lily Poetry Review Books in 2021. For more information: maryloubuschi.com

Uncuntable

Gravitas

Tom Daley

is a recipient of the Dana Award in Poetry and the Charles and Fanny Fay Wood Prize from the Academy of American Poets, as well as the author of two plays, Every Broom and Bridget – Emily Dickinson and Her Irish Servants and In His Ecstasy – The Passion of Gerard Manley Hopkins, which he performs as one-man shows. FutureCycle Press published his first-full length collection of poetry, House You Cannot Reach – Poems in the Voice of My Mother and Other Poems, in 2015.

I Imagine My Dead Brother Battling the Woodward Fire in Point Reyes

Jettison

DENNIS DALY

has published six books of poetry and poetic translations. He has recently published reviews in Ibbetson Street, The Notre Dame Review, the Fox Chase Review, and the Somerville Times. Daly’s translation of Sophocles’ Ajax was recently performed at Skidmore College. Visit Daly’s blog, Weights and Measures.

HOW TO SET A RUBY

Andrew Darlington

has masses of material published in all manner of strange and obscure places, magazines, websites, anthologies and books. His latest poetry collection is The Poet’s Deliberation On The State Of The Nation (Penniless Press), and his new fiction collection A Saucerful Of Secrets is now available from Parallel Universe Publ.

Elvis Presley Discusses the Nature of Reality …

Holly Day

has been a writing instructor at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis since 2000. Her poetry has recently appeared in Hubbub, Grain, and Third Wednesday, and her newest books are The Tooth is the Largest Organ in the Human Body (Anaphora Literary Press), Book of Beasts (Weasel Press), Bound in Ice (Shanti Arts), and Music Composition for Dummies (Wiley). hollylday.blogspot.com

The Difference

White Stripe

Larry O. Dean

is the author of Activities of Daily Living (2017), Brief Nudity (2013), Basic Cable Couplets (2012), abbrev (2011), About the Author (2011), and I Am Spam (2004). He is also an acclaimed singer-songwriter whose latest solo album is Good Grief (2015). For more info, go to larryodean.com

Woman with Dog (Frau mit Hund)

Mark DeCarteret

lives in New Hampshire. His two most recent books, lesser case (20212) and For Lack of a Calling (2018) were published by Nixes Mate.

The Last Hours of Christmas

Winter Rental

The Sea Watchers

cape ann

The Year I Went Without Electricity

Function Room

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LESSER CASE

FOR LACK OF A CALLING

LOST POEM

Judy DeCroce

is a former teacher, is a poet/flash fiction writer who has been a frequent contributor to Palettes and Quills. Also published in An Upstate of Mind, Amethyst Review, Front Porch Review as well as Writers & Books. She is a professional storyteller and teacher of that genre. Judy lives and works in upstate New York with her husband, writer Antoni Ooto.

Something is Up

Our Game

William DeGenaro

is a Michigan-based teacher and writer and a two-time Fulbright scholar. His creative work has appeared most recently in Pop Matters, Literary Orphans, and Shot Glass Journal.

Hiking At Yarmouk

Karen DeGroot Carter

lives in Denver. Her first novel, One Sister’s Song, was published by a small press; her short stories have received awards and mentions from Writer’s Digest and Glimmer Train Stories; and her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in Publishers Weekly, California Quarterly, and other publications.

Trace of Memory

Stephan Delbos

the first Poet Laureate of Plymouth, Massachusetts, is the author of the poetry chapbook In Memory of Fire (Cape Cod Poetry Review, 2016); and the poetry collections Light Reading (BlazeVOX, 2019); Small Talk (Dos Madres, 2021); and Two Poems (Literary Salon, 2021).

Lobstering

Darren C. Demaree

is the author of seventeen poetry collections, most recently clawing at the grounded moon (April Gloaming, 2022). He is the Editor in Chief of the Best of the Net Anthology and Managing Editor of Ovenbird Poetry. He lives and writes in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.

A Fire Without Light #493

A Fire Without Light #494

A Fire Without Light #495

with an empathy so fatal #40

Emily As The Infinite Gender

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A Fire Without Light

Matt Dennison

has published in Rattle, Bayou Magazine, Redivider, Natural Bridge, The Spoon River Poetry Review and Cider Press Review, among others. He has also made short films with Michael Dickes, Swoon, Marie Craven and Jutta Pryor.

Hartwill Paradise

Dust

David Dephy

is a trilingual Georgian/American poet, novelist, essayist, performer, multimedia artist and painter. He is the author of eight novels, fifteen collections of verse and three audio albums of poetry with orchestra and electronic band and an active participant of American and international poetry and artistic scenes.

The Senses of the Progression

Krikor Der Hohannesian

has published in over 275 literary journals including The South Carolina Review, Atlanta Review, Louisiana Literature, Connecticut Review, Comstock Review, and Natural Bridge. He is the author of three books, Ghosts and Whispers (Finishing Line Press, 2010), Refuge in the Shadows (Červen á Barva Press, 2013) and First Generation (Dos Madres Press, 2020).

The Collywobbles

Lisa DeSiro

works for a non-profit organization and is an assistant editor for Indolent Books. She is also a freelance accompanist. Her publications include Labor (Nixes Mate, 2018) and Grief Dreams (White Knuckle Press, 2017), as well as several poems in journals and anthologies. Read more at thepoetpianist.com.

On her deathbed, she said

American Sentences

Plovdiv, June 2000

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LABOR

Lori Desrosiers

is the author of Keeping Planes in the Air and The Philosopher’s Daughter, both by Salmon Poetry, a chapbook, Inner Sky (Glass Lyre Press 2015) and Sometimes I Hear the Clock Speak (Salmon Poetry, 2016). She edits Naugatuck River Review, a journal of narrative poetry and Wordpeace, an online journal dedicated to peace and justice. She teaches at Lesley University MFA program.

Stuck at Atlanta Airport or what we did for our 17th anniversary

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NO WORDS

Steven Deutsch

lives in State College, PA. Some of his recent publications have or will appear in Pirene’s Fountain, Evening Street Review, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Bookends Review, Waymark Literary, The Red Eft Review, Thimble, The Mark Review, Boston Literary Magazine, Rat’s Ass Review, RavensPerch, MacQueen’s, 8 Poems, Louisiana Lit, Burning-word Literary Journal, Third Wednesday, Softblow, and the Muddy River Poetry Review. His Chapbook, Perhaps You Can, was published in 2019 by Kelsay Press. His full length book, Persistence of Memory was published in 2020 by Kelsay. Steve’s third book of poetry, Going, Going, Gone, was published last year.

Breakdown

Memorial Service

Bitterness

Collector

Thad DeVassie

is the author of This Side of Utopia (forthcoming from Červená Barva Press). His work has appeared in Poetry East, New York Quarterly, North American Review, West Branch, NANO Fiction, PANK, and Unbroken, among others. A lifelong Ohioan, he is the founder of a brand messaging + storytelling studio in Columbus, and is the co-founder of JOY VENTURE, a podcast and platform for sharing stories of unlikely and risk-taking entrepreneurs.

Scotch Pine Elegy

Mari Deweese

lives outside of Memphis, and dreams of a place with an actual autumn. When she is not busy with that and other similarly useless pursuits, she is probably writing, thinking about writing, or cleaning the kitchen. Her first book, Kinky Keeps the House Clean, was published by Nixes Mate Books in 2017.

Forgive-Me-Not

I Was Thinking About

#MeToo

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KINKY KEEPS THE HOUSE CLEAN

THE MILKY BODY

SERIES

GALILEI

Mary Ann Dimand

lives with one husband, one son, two cats, and many outgrown hockey sticks. She is busy converting a small horse property to a small farm.

Spheres and Influences

Hadley Dion

is a writer, audio editor, and filmmaker from Los Angeles. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Scapegoat Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, FreezeRay Poetry, Jupiter Review, Remington Review, Bandit Fiction, and more. She loves volunteering at her local cat rescue, ghost stories, and crafting punch needle rugs.

Roanoke

Cat Dixon

is the author of Eva, and Too Heavy to Carry (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2016, 2014). She has poems (co-written with Trent Walters) in They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing (Black Lawrence Press, 2018). Her poetry and reviews have appeared in Sugar House Review, Midwest Quarterly Review, Coe Review, Eclectica, The Lake, Yes, Poetry, and Mid-American Review.

The Heart Rages On

Susan Mann Dolce

Lost at Sea is the most recent from a series of over 200 poems written for Susan’s husband of 30 plus years, Frank J Dolce, who died from cancer in 2016.

Lost at Sea

Frances Donovan

has published in The Rumpus, Heavy Feather Review, SWWIM, Solstice, and elsewhere. Her chapbook Mad Quick Hand of the Seashore was a finalist in the Lambda Literary Awards. She holds an MFA in poetry from Lesley University and once drove a bulldozer in an LGBTQ+ Pride Parade. gardenofwords.com. Twitter: @okelle.

On the Ferry to Spectacle Island

William Doreski

lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He has published three critical studies. His poetry has appeared in many journals. He has taught writing and literature at Emerson, Goddard, Boston University, and Keene State College. His new poetry collection is A Black River, A Dark Fall (Splash of Red, 2017).

Like a Clyfford Still Painting

Some Dare Call It Treason

You Believe that Wallace Stevens has Blessed This Space

John Dorsey

is the author of several collections of poetry, including Teaching the Dead to Sing: The Outlaw's Prayer (Rose of Sharon Press, 2006), Sodomy is a City in New Jersey (American Mettle Books, 2010), Tombstone Factory, (Epic Rites Press, 2013), Appalachian Frankenstein (GTK Press, 2015) Being the Fire (Tangerine Press, 2016) and Shoot the Messenger (Red Flag Press, 2017) and Your Daughter’s Country (Blue Horse Press, 2019).

At Padgett’s Place

What Passes for Salvation in Salina, Kansas

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At 45

Lisa M. Dougherty

is the author of the chapbook Small as Hope in the Helicopter Rain (Červená Barva Press, 2018). Other poems of hers appeared in Congeries, Lake Effect, and Redactions. She lives in Erie, PA.

Alongside

Sean Thomas Dougherty

latest book is The Dead are Everywhere Telling Us Things, winner of the Jacar Press full-length book poetry prize, selected by Nickole Brown and Jessica Jacobs. He works as a med tech with disabled folks along the shore of Lake Erie. His website is seanthomasdoughertypoet.com.

Drinking Irish Whiskey on the Red Line or the Missing Puzzle of Shane MacGowan’s Teeth

Lorca

Wendy Drexler

is a recipient of a 2022 artist fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her fourth collection, Notes from the Column of Memory, was published in September 2022 by Terrapin Books. She’s been the poet in residence at New Mission High School in Hyde Park, MA, since 2018, and is programming co-chair for the New England Poetry Club.

Home Sapiens Dead at 300,100

ode to my husband’s underwear

Angela Dragani

is a poet by day, auditor by night. She is currently working on material for a book of poetry highlighting those who suffer from mental illness, as she herself has Bipolar 1. Born in Vancouver, she spent many years in Nunavut and Nunatsiavut before settling in Nova Scotia.

Misguided Pathos

Melanie Du Bose

teaches filmmaking to teenagers in East LA. She is a Los Angeles Arts Activate Fellow and a graduate of the UCLA film school. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Red Flag Poetry Express, antinarrative journal, Right-Hand Pointing / One Sentence Poems, Ekphrastic Review and Contemporary Haibun.

Separated from Others

James H. Duncan

is the editor of Hobo Camp Review and the author of We Are All Terminal But This Exit Is Mine (Unknown Press) and Dead City Jazz (Epic Rites Press). He also reviews independent bookshops at his blog, The Bookshop Hunter. For more, visit jameshduncan.com.

Cold Beer u2014 Cheap Rooms

Loiter

Texas Pacific

Bailey’s Hardware

Kelly Dumar

is a poet, playwright and workshop facilitator who is the author of two poetry collections, All These Cures and Tree of the Apple. Kelly produces the Our Voices Festival of Boston Area Women Playwrights, held at Wellesley College, and she produces the annual Boston Writing Retreat and the weeklong summer Play Lab for the International Women’s Writing Guild, where she serves on the board. You can learn more at kellydumar.com.

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GIRL IN TREE BARK

Howard Faerstein

is the author of the chapbook Out of Order and two full-length collections: Dreaming of the Rain in Brooklyn and Googootz. Poetry and reviews can be found in CutThroat, Rattle, upstreet, Verse Daily, Gyroscope, Peacock Journal, and Connotation. Emeritus adjunct, he’s co-poetry editor of CutThroat and lives in Florence, MA.

Mantis

Iceland

Catherine Fahey

is a poet and librarian from Salem, Massachusetts. When she’s not reading and writing, she’s knitting or dancing. You can read more of her work at Magpie Poems.

Bathtub Marys

Sarah Ferris

is published in RATTLE, Ol’ Chanty, and the upcoming Lummox9. Her chapbook, Snakes That Dance Like Daffodils, was published in April, 2019. A novel is in the works. Sarah has an MA in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica, and a BA in Cinema Studies from NYU. She lives in Los Angeles with her family.

Why I Won’t

Kay Fields

has worn many hats. A former credit analyst for a leading auto company, she has raised rabbits, practiced calligraphy, made a major move to another part of the country where she knew nobody at the age of sixty-seven, and now focuses on her two life-long passions, reading and writing poetry. She has won awards in Tennessee Magazine and The Grace Writer’s contest. Her memoir will be published in the Spring of 2021.

Erudite, Not Quite

Laurie Filipelli

is the author of two books of poems – Elseplace (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2013) and the 2019 Writers’ League of Texas Discovery Prize winner, Girl Paper Stone (Black Lawrence Press, 2018). She lives in Austin where she coaches, edits and blogs as Mighty Writing.

History as Migration

Daniel Fitzpatrick

grew up in New Orleans and now lives in Hot Springs, Arkansas, with his wife and daughter. His poems have appeared in several journals, including 2River View, Coe Review, and Panoplyzine. In addition to writing, he enjoys kayaking the Diamond Lakes, micro-farming, and exploring the Ouachita Mountains.

Burning Leaves

Sara Fitzpatrick

works in animal welfare in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her poetry and fiction have been published in places like The Shore, Feral Poetry, Tampa Review, and X-R-A-Y. Find her at sarafitzauthor.com.

Husk of a Whale

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BURY ME IN THE SKY

Jean Flanagan

is the author of two books of poetry: Ibbetson Street (Garden Street Press) and Black Lightning (Cedar Hill Books). Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including The Broken Cord an anthology on Alzheimer’s edited by Hank Kalet and published by Two Dogs Press. Flanagan teaches in an alternative sentencing program called “Changing Lives Through Literature” and is the Poet Laureate of Arlington, Massachusetts.

Resurrection

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, Word Riot, In Between Hangovers, Red Fez, and The Oklahoma Review.

Before

Mark Fleckenstein

was born in Chicago, grew up in Ohio, Michigan, Connecticut, North Carolina and New Hampshire. After getting his BA in English and MFA in Writing, stopping trying to publish for 25 or so years. His latest poetry collection, A Name for Everything was published Červená Barva Press in 2020.

Recipe Against Despair

Jennifer S. Flescher

has published in or is forthcoming in journals including Poetry Magazine, Lit, The Harvard Review, Poetry Daily and the Blog for the Best American Poets. All of these poems are in the full-length manuscript, Whale Autopsy, which was a finalist in the year's Sawtooth Prize. For ten years she edited and published Tuesday; An Art Project.

Plum Island, August

Dan Flore

has published in various publications. Most recently, his collection When in Roam by Sick Lit Magazine, the arrows on the clock are pointing at me on Channillo.com and his first poetry collection, lapping water, is forthcoming from GenZ Publishing.

6 something am

Southern Comfort

It’s about that hour

Red Focks

creates art and poetry while traveling across the country, and has been to and created in the connected 48 states. Red posts and publishes all of his art, via his Android phone. He has published two books of poetry, Punks Not Nice, and Election Day, both available on Amazon.

Disgruntled Folk Artist Yells at Wind

Sharon Foley

has poems published in Paterson Literary Review, Speckled Trout Review, Solstice, South Florida Poetry Journal, and The Big Windows Review. She has a BA in English from Salve Regina University and an MSW from Simmons University. She worked as a school social worker for many years and is now a private practice psychotherapist.

Ashen White

Jennifer Franklin

has published two full-length poetry collections, most recently No Small Gift (Four Way Books, 2018). Her third book, If Some God Shakes Your House, will be published by Four Way Books in 2023. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Blackbird, Boston Review, Broadsided Press, Gettysburg Review, Guernica, JAMA, Los Angeles Review, Love’s Executive Order, The Nation, New England Review, Paris Review, Plume, u201cpoem-a-dayu201d on poets.org, and Prairie Schooner. She lives in New York City. Her website is jenniferfranklinpoet.com.

October

Marc Frazier

has widely published poetry in journals including The Spoon River Poetry Review, ACM, Good Men Project, f(r)iction, The Gay and Lesbian Review, Slant, Permafrost, Plainsongs, and Poet Lore. He has published two books The Way Here, and Each Thing Touches (Glass Lyre Press) in addition to two chapbooks. Willingly, his third poetry book, was published by Adelaide Books in 2019. Find him at marcfrazier.org.

Three Fridas

George Freek

has published in numerous poetry journals and reviews, most recently The Ottawa Arts Review, The Lake, and Triggerfish.

In Spring

Cal Freeman

has published in many journals including The Journal, The Cortland Review, PANK, Southwest Review, Rattle, and Hippocampus. He is the winner of the Devine Poetry Fellowship (judged by Terrance Hayes) and Passages North’s Neutrino Prize. He has been nominated many times for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. His poetry collection Poolside at the Dearborn Inn is forthcoming from R&R Press in 2022. He currently serve as a Writer-In-Residence for Inside Out Literary Arts Detroit.

600,000 Dead

Karen Friedland

has published in Lily Poetry Review, Nixes Mate Review, Vox Populi, Constellations and elsewhere. She received the 59th Moon Prize from Writing in a Women’s Voice, and had a poem hanging on the wall of Boston’s City Hall. Her books are Places That Are Gone, (Nixes Mate, 2019), and Tales from the Teacup Palace (Červená Barva Press). She lives in Boston, and is currently duking it out with ovarian cancer, hoping for a win.

An American Girl

Bait Dogs

New York Apartments in the Late 1980s

Faster and Faster

Ovarian, Stage IIIC

Three Days After Chemo

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PLACES THAT ARE GONE

WINTER LIGHT

Richard Fox

is the author of four poetry collections and the winner of the 2017 Frank O’Hara Prize. When not writing about rock ’n roll or youthful transgressions, he focuses on cancer from the patient’s point of view drawing on hope, humor, and unforeseen gifts.

Rite of Passage #73 – The Hospital Bed

Alan Halford

was born in Dublin, Ireland. Has a life time interest in short story writing, poetry and the Arts. His poetry has appeared in fathers and what must be said, The Blue Max Review, The Galway Review, Madswirl.com, Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts, and The Blue Nib. The Memory Bone a collection of his work, was published in 2017.

Wait

Oz Hardwick

is an award-winning European poet and academic, whose work has been widely published in international journals and anthologies. His most recent collection of prose poems is A Census of Preconceptions (SurVision Books, 2022). Oz is Professor of Creative Writing at Leeds Trinity University (UK).

Desire in the Sixth Ice Age

Max Heinegg

lives, teaches, brews beer, and makes records in Medford, Massachusetts. His first book, Good Harbor, won the inaugural Paul Nemser Prize from Lily Poetry Press. His work has appeared in 32 Poems, The Cortland Review, Thrush, Nimrod, Twyckenham Notes, and Nixes Mate Review.

Keepers of the House

Wyf Thinks of Summer

Sympathy

Picking Crab

Dear Thalia Z.

Matthew Henry

is the author of the Colored page and other collections. He’s an educator who spent money he didn’t have completing an MFA, an MA in theology, and a PhD in education. He writes about education, race, religion, and burning oppressive systems to the ground at MEHPoeting.com.

Pop Quiz for March 19, 2018

Yvonne Higgins Leach

spent decades balancing a career in communications and public relations, raising a family, and pursuing her love of writing poetry. Her first collection of poems is called Another Autumn. Her latest passion is working with shelter dogs. She splits her time living in Vashon and Spokane, Washington. yvonnehigginsleach.com

At Once

Shirley Hilton

has published or is forthcoming in Rattle, Briefly Write, The Edison Literary Review, and Delmarva Review among others. She has lived on both sides of the Mexican/U.S. border and frequently employs both Spanish and English in her work. She is currently completing edits on her first novel.

Inheritance

Mary Beth Hines

writes poetry, short fiction and non-fiction from her home in Massachusetts. Her prose has appeared in journals such as Literary Mama, Madcap Review, and Ruminate. Her poetry can be found in journals such as Crab Orchard Review, Eclectica, Nixes Mate Review, and SWWIM Every Day among others.

Scargo Tower in December

Beltane, 2021

Ruth Hoberman

lives in Newtonville, MA. Since her 2015 retirement from Eastern Illinois University, she has published poems and essays in various journals, including EcoTheo Review, Constellations, Connecticut River Review, SWWIM Every Day, and Ploughshares.

Relativity

Glen Hogard

lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and completed a MA in creative writing at the University of Calgary and an undergrad degree at York University in Toronto. He has published in various chapbook anthologies. His agreement with Twitter can be found @saaski2.

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Doug Holder

is the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press. He is the Arts/Editor for The Somerville Times, and teaches writing at Endicott College in Beverly, MA. For over thirty years he has run poetry groups for psychiatric patients at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Ma. His latest book of verse is Last Night at the Wursthaus (Grey Sparrow Press).

Ozzie and Harriet and the Debutante of 1938

Psycho

Amy Holman

is a poet and literary consultant. She has five poetry books, including Wrens Fly Through This Opened Window, and the prizewinning chapbook, Wait for Me, I’m Gone. Recent poems have been in The Ekphrastic Review, and The Chiron Review, and flash fiction in Club Plum.

BREATHING SPACE

Kenneth Holt

has published fiction in Thrice Fiction, American Fiction 16 Anthology, and TulipTree Publishing’s 2016 Stories That Need to be Told Anthology. A twenty-year veteran of the filmmaking industry, Holt lives in Los Angeles.

Out of the Closet / Into the Tomato Patch

Mary Honaker

is the author of Becoming Persephone (Third Lung Press, 2019) and the chapbooks It Will Happen Like This (YesNo Press, 2015) and Gwen and the Big Nothing (The Orchard Street Press, 2020.) She holds an MFA from Lesley University. She lives in Beaver, West Virginia.

Catalog of Melancholia

Amanda Hope

lives in eastern Massachusetts with her partner and cats. A graduate of Colgate University and Simmons College, she works as a librarian. Her chapbook, The Museum of Resentments, was published by Paper Nautilus in 2020. You can find her on Twitter at @AmandaHopePoet.

Aspens, Probably

Richard Houff

has had poetry and prose published in Aldebaran, Brooklyn Review, Conduit, Louisiana Review, Midwest Quarterly, North American Review, Rattle, and many other fine magazines. His most recent collections are Night Watch and Other Hometown Favorites, from Black Cat Moon Press, and The Wonderful Farm and Other Gone Poems, from FlutterPress.

In A Deserted Farmhouse

Dancing with Anne Sexton on the Charles

I turned to look over my shoulder

Unfrequented Whispers and Returns

Maisie Houghton

published her memoir Pitch Uncertain with Tidepool Press in 2011. She is a member of Poemworks: The Workshop for Publishing Poets and has published poetry in Common Ground Review, Paper Nautilus, Avalon Literary Review, The Café Review, and Third Wednesday. Maisie resides with her husband in Boston, MA.

Call me

Ann Howells

edited Illya’s Honey for eighteen years. Four chapbooks, two published as national contest winners. Three books: Under a Lone Star (Village Books), Cattlemen & Cadillacs (Dallas Poets Community Press), and a new collection, So Long As We Speak Their Names for spring release (Kelsay Books).

Off the Path

Amorak Huey

is author of four books of poems including Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress Publications, 2021). Co-founder with Han VanderHart of River River Books. He also is co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2018) and Slash/Slash (2021), winner of the Diode Editions Chapbook Prize.

The Seediest Motel in Kentucky

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Myself, as Distinct from Vagueness

Phil Huffy

practiced law long enough. Trained to think on his feet, he continues that custom, then writes things down at the kitchen table. Recent placements of his work include Northwest Indiana, Better Than Starbucks, Bindweed, Eunoia, and Plum Tree Tavern.

Leave it Running

Mark Jackley

has published in Fifth Wednesday, Sugar House Review, Natural Bridge and other journals. His new book of poems On the Edge of a Very Small Town is available for free at chineseplums@gmail.com.

All the Hungry Years

Dream of Death

Winter Days

James Croal Jackson

is the author of The Frayed Edge of Memory (Writing Knights Press, 2017). His poetry has appeared in The Bitter Oleander, Rust + Moth, Cosmonauts Avenue, and elsewhere. He has won the William Redding Memorial Poetry Contest and been a finalist for the Princemere Poetry Prize. Find him in Columbus, Ohio or at jimjakk.com.

Forward

So Find Meaning

i met tom hanks

Kim Jacobs-Beck

has recently published a chapbook, Torch (Wolfson Press). Her poems can be found in Gyroscope, Apple Valley Review, SWWIM Every Day, roam literature, Peach Velvet, and Postcard Poems and Prose, among others. A full list can be found at kimjacobsbeck.com A native of metro Detroit, she now lives in Ohio with her husband and three cats. She is the founder of Milk & Cake Press and is a professor of English at the University of Cincinnati Clermont College.

Andromeda

Seth Jani

lives in Seattle, WA and is the founder of Seven CirclePress. Their work has appeared in Chiron Review, Rust+Moth and Pretty Owl Poetry, among others. Their full-length collection, Night Fable, was published by FutureCycle Press in 2018. Visit them at sethjani.com.

Alchemy

Lake-Effect

Hussam Jefee-Bahloul

was born in Lattakia, Syria. He has published two poetry collections in Arabic, فتّاحة الأمل المعلّب (The Opener of Canned Hope), (2008), and طيور تدخن الماريوانا (Birds Smoking Marijuana) (Al-Moutawasset; Milano, Italy, 2017). His first English book of poetry, The Chronicler of Indifference was published in 2018 by Červená Barva Press. He has published translations of American poetry in Arabic literary magazines and journals. He is also the founder of ta’sheeq project, a collaborative artistic project that aims at presenting the work of translated Syrian poets in multi-media performances.

Death exercises

Migration

Carrie Jewell

has been teaching high school English for 18 years. Her poems have appeared in The Worcester Review and What Rough Beast. She is a mother of two, an Outward Bound alum, an amateur gardener, and an avid Ferrante fan.

That which doesn’t kill us

Natalie Jill

most recent work has appeared or is upcoming in Free State Review, Oakland Review, Atlanta Review, and Sugar House Review. She is a member of the PoemWorks community in the Boston area.

How to not be scared

Emma Johnson-Rivard

is a Masters student at Hamline University. She received her undergraduate degree in Film Studies at Smith College in Massachusetts and currently lives in Minnesota with her dogs and far too many books. Her work has appeared in Mistake House, the Olive Press, and the Moon City Press.

Sister

Christine Jones

is founder/editor-in-chief of Poems2go and an associate editor of Lily Poetry Review. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals including 32 poems, cagibi, Sugar House Review, Mom Egg Review, SWWIM, Pangyrus, Salamander, Solstice, Passengers Journal, and elsewhere. She is the author of the full-length poetry book, Girl Without a Shirt (Finishing Line Press, 2020) and co-editor of the recently released anthology, Voices Amidst the Virus: Poets Respond to the Pandemic (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2020).

My Eighty-Six Year-Old Father Falls Down Drunk When He Hears the News

What I Want to Say Driving Home After My Mother’s Checkup

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NOW CALLS ME DAUGHTER

Interview and NEURONS: A SERIES OF ERASURE POEMS

Charles Joy

has recently published in 2 Bridges, Pratik, poetrybay, First Literary Review – East, Main Street Rag. Poetry collections: Theme of Line, Fun Poetry, Said the Growling Dog, Percussive, and others. Host, Poetry Night (weekly poetry event) 2017-2020. Poet Laureate, Erie County Pennsylvania, 2018-2021. A child psychiatrist. More at chuckjoy.com.

Beyond Their Horizon

Babitha Marina Justin

is an academic, a poet and an artist. Her poems, short stories and articles have appeared in the Journal of Modern Jewish Literature (Taylor and Francis), Marshal Cavendish, Penguin and many national and international journals. Her books are Of Fireflies, Guns and the Hills (Poetry, 2015), I Cook My Own Feast (Poetry, 2019), salt, pepper and silverlinings: celebrating our grandmothers (an anthology on grandmothers, 2019), From Canons to Trauma (Essays, 2017), etc.

After the Floods

Khadijah Lacina

grew up in Wisconsin’s Kickapoo Valley. After converting to Islam and becoming fluent in Arabic, she and her family lived in Yemen for ten years, until stirrings of war brought them back to the US. She now lives on a homestead in the Missouri Ozarks with her children and various animals. Her writings have appeared in various anthologies and many internet venues. A Slice of Sunshine: The Poetry of Colors was published in 2012, and her chapbooks Nightrunning and Under the Sky have been published by Facqueuesol Books.

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Linda Lamenza

is a poet and literacy specialist in Massachusetts. Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in Mom Egg Review, Constellations, Rogue Agent, Main Street Rag, The Comstock Review, The Tishman Review, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Left-Handed Poetry, was a finalist for Hunger Mountain’s May Day Mountain Chapbook Series.

Oxy

Wintering

SPLASHDOWN

Sam Landry

is completely lost and wants to know where a good place to get pizza is around here. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee for his work published in Outlook Springs, along with his self-publishing on his Magic cards website turnonemagic.com. In his free time he awaits death in Gloucester, MA.

Earhart’s Blackbox

Susanna Lang

published her third collection of poems, Travel Notes from the River Styx, with Terrapin Books in 2017. Tracing the Lines (2013) is available from Brick Road Poetry Press. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Little Star, december, and Verse Daily. She teaches in the Chicago Public Schools.

Dear Yaniris

Kate Langan

is an award-winning author of three books from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. She has freelanced for local, national and international magazines. Her poems have been in The Journal of Wild Culture, Open Door Poetry Magazine, Five Fleas Itchy Poetry, Plato’s Caves Online, and Sweetycat Press’s “The Gift” anthology.

Home

Hannah Larrabee

Wonder Tissue won the Airlie Press Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for a Massachusetts Book Award. She has chapbooks out from Seven Kitchens Press and Nixes Mate. Hannah was selected by NASA to write poetry for the James Webb Space Telescope program and she participated in an Arctic Circle Residency in 2022. hannahlarrabee.com

Introduction to the Climate Change Issue

Dream in Which the World Revealed Itself to Me

On the Nature of Daylight

I Want the Mistakes: A Review of Joey Gould’s Penitent > Arbiter

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DAILY HOROSCOPE

DEAR TEILHARD

Kyle Laws

is based out of the Arts Alliance Studios Community in Pueblo, CO. Recent collections include Faces of Fishing Creek (Middle Creek Publishing, 2018), So Bright to Blind (Five Oaks Press, 2015) and Wildwood (Lummox Press, 2014). She is the editor and publisher of Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press.

Buried With a Mouth Full of Pearls

Portrait of a Father

David Lawton

is the author of the poetry collection Sharp Blue Stream (Three Rooms Press), and serves as an editor for greatweatherforMEDIA. His work has appeared recently in Marsh Hawk Review, Heroin Love Songs, Maintenant 14 and the Pittsburgh anthology from Dostoyevsky Wannabe Cities. David also collaborates with poet Aimee Herman in the poemusic collective Hydrogen Junkbox.

Bygone Whales North of Boston

Francesca Leader

has poetry published or forthcoming in Door is a Jar, the Sho Poetry Journal, Frost Meadow Review, Harpy Hybrid Review, Pluvia Litmag, Roi Fainéant, the Stoneboat Literary Journal, Bullshit Lit, Cutbow Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her translation of an ancient Japanese poem won the Society of Classical Poets’ 2021 Poetry Translation Competition. Learn more about her work at inabucketthebook.wordpress.com.

Apology to a Bird

Jennifer LeBlanc

earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University. Her first full-length book, Descent, was published by Finishing Line Press and named a Distinguished Favorite in Poetry (Independent Press Award). Individual poems have been published or are forthcoming in journals such as Consequence, and The Adirondack Review.

Acedia, Sloth

Edward Lee

has published poetry, short stories, non-fiction and photography in magazines in Ireland, England and America, including The Stinging Fly, Skylight 47, Acumen and Smiths Knoll. His debut poetry collection Playing Poohsticks On Ha’Penny Bridge was published in 2010. He is currently working towards a second collection. edwardmlee.wordpress.com.

Sunday

Brooke Dwojak Lehmann

is a poet who lives in Charlotte, NC. She teaches writing composition to college freshman and works in fashion. These poems are currently from her forthcoming chapbook about Lot’s Wife. She is interested in a modern retelling of the myth, including the burning destruction of the story as it intersects with climate change. You can find more of her work at brookelehmann.com

Lot’s Wife Reflects on the Anthropocene

Lot’s Nameless Wife Takes Inventory

Deborah Leipziger

is a poet, author, and advisor on sustainability. Her chapbook, Flower Map, was published by Finishing Line Press. Born in Brazil, Ms. Leipziger is the author of several books on sustainability. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, her poems have been published in literary magazines in five countries.

The Shyness of Crowns

“Mujer Angel, Desierto de Sonora”

Lauren Leja

documents her daily commute with a photo, training her eye to seek out the tiny beauty in the netherworld between Point A and Point B. More of Lauren’s photos can be seen at InvisibleCommute.com. Lauren’s photo book is available from Blurb.com.

Hands

Invisible Commute

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AIR & OTHER STORIES

ROTOR

Sara Letourneau

is a poet, book editor, writing coach, and the cofounder of the Pour Me a Poem open mic in Mansfield, Massachusetts. Her poetry appears in Amethyst Review, Soul-Lit, Full Mood Mag, Arlington Literary Journal, Muddy River Poetry Review, and Constellations, among others. Visit Sara online at heartofthestoryeditorial.com.

Elegy for Snaefellsjökull Glacier

Anne Hall Levine

studied poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in Tikkun, Poetica Magazine, Voices Israel, Muddy River Poetry Review, and Main Street Rag. Anne lives on Cape Cod where she hosts The Anne Levine Show, a weekly radio talk show on WOMR-FM Provincetown.

Queen Mary’s Collection

Your Office After the Eleventh

Xiaoly Li

is a poet, photographer and former computer engineer who lives in Massachusetts. Her poetry is forthcoming or has recently appeared in Rhino, The Mantle, Big Windows Review, Up the River, The Writers Next Door – An Anthology of Poetry and Prose, and J Journal.

Firefly

Taylor Liljegran

is a poet and educator based in the Greater Boston area. She released her first chapbook The Sessions: Lucy Ricardo Talks to Her Therapist in 2014. Her work is also included in the anthology Best Indie Lit New England: Vol. 2 (Black Key Press 2015). Nixes Mate published Slapstick: the Lucy Poems in 2018.

Transcript from Lucy Ricardo’s Therapy Session (#1)

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SLAPSTICK

Eva Linn

received her M.F.A. in Poetry from Lesley University. Her first chapbook, Model Home (2019) is available from River Glass Books. Her poems have also appeared in journals including Cider Press Review, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, and Lily Poetry Review. She loves cats, strong coffee, and thunderstorms.

Names of Things

Henry Ford Hospital, 1932

Nathan Lipps

lives in Binghamton, New York, where is he is currently a PhD candidate and teaches creative writing. His work has been published in the Best New Poets of 2017, BOAAT, Colorado Review, Third Coast, Typo, and elsewhere.

Grief

Kasy Long

is an Indiana-based freelance writer and editor. She serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Remington Review. Her work has previously been published in Constellate Literary Journal, Inside the Bell Jar, Glass Mountain, Oracle Fine Arts Review, The Sigma Tau Delta Rectangle, and elsewhere.

Golden Shovel

Kerry Loughman

has been published in the Muddy River Poetry Review and on MassPoetry.org now archived under “Poem of the Moment”, and (seems like) a long time ago in Seventeen magazine.

Interlude

I Lick Summer in My Sweat

Richard Luftig

has published in numerous literary journals in the United States and internationally in Canada, Australia, Europe, and Asia. His latest book of poems will be forthcoming from Unsolicited Press in 2019. You can read more at Richard Luftig.

November 21st

Paula Nancarrow

has published in online journals as well as in Artemis, Whistling Shade and Sixfold, where she won the Winter 2020 poetry prize. Work is forthcoming in Martin Lake Journal and Permafrost. Links to material published online can be found at paulareednancarrow.com.

Hummingbirds and Unicorns

In Which No Creature Dies

Ben Nardolilli

currently lives in New York City. His work has appeared in Perigee Magazine, Red Fez, Danse Macabre, The 22 Magazine, Quail Bell Magazine, Elimae, fwriction, Inwood Indiana, Pear Noir, The Minetta Review, and Yes Poetry. He blogs at mirrorsponge and is looking to publish a novel.

Renewing Renewal

Paul Negri

has twice won the gold medal for fiction in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Writing Competition. His stories have appeared in print and on line in The Penn Review, Flash Fiction Magazine, Into the Void, Pif Magazine, Jellyfish Review and more than 30 other publications. He lives and writes in Clifton, New Jersey.

Open 24 Hours

Carl Nelson

is a poet living in a small town on the Ohio River where he moseys about with his dachshund, Tater Tot. He also currently runs the Serenity Poetry Series across the river in Vienna, WV. The first draft of his self-help book, The Poet’s Weight Loss Plan, has just been completed. He has lost 31 pounds and is on Christmas break from his effort to lose 50.

Jukin’

Traveling East to West In West Virginia Takes Some Doing

Heather Nelson

has been poet since college, where she developed her thesis project under the guidance of CD Wright at Brown University in 1991. She returned to writing in 2011 and has since been published in Ekphrastic Review, Lily Poetry Review, Free State Review, Spoon River Review, and others.

Gay Head Beach

Karen Neuberg

is a Brooklyn, NY,-based poet. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Black Moon, Gone Lawn, Inflectionist Review, Muddy River Review, and Verse Daily. She is the author of the full-length poetry collection, PURSUIT (Kelsay Press, 2019) and the chapbook the elephants are asking (Glass Lyre, 2017) She holds an MFA from the New School and is associate editor of the online poetry journal First Literary Review-East.

The Lenni-Lenape called this ground Ihpetonga

Mike L. Nichols

is a graduate of Idaho State University and a recipient of the Ford Swetnam Poetry Prize. He lives and writes in Eastern Idaho. Look for his poetry in Rogue Agent, Tattoo Highway, Ink&Nebula, Rat’s Ass Review, Plainsongs Magazine, and elsewhere. Find more at mikenicholsauthor.com.

Disaster

Steve Nickman

lives in Brookline, Massachusetts and takes part in Poemworks: The Workshop for Publishing Poets. He is a psychiatrist and is working on a book about therapy, The Wound and the Spark. Steve’s poetry is forthcoming or has recently appeared in Nimrod, Summerset Review, Tar River, Tule Review, and JuxtaProse.

In Taos Pueblo

Josh Nicolaisen

taught English for twelve years and is currently an MFA candidate at Randolph College and the owner of Old Man Gardening LLC. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee whose work has recently appeared in Colorado Review, So It Goes, Northern New England Review, Backlash, Concision, and elsewhere. Find him at oldmangardening.com/poetry.

Cold Snap

Dosage

Philip Nikolayev

is editor of FULCRUM, a serial anthology of poetry and criticism. His poetry collections include Monkey Time (2003) and Letters from Aldenderry (2006). New volumes are forthcoming from MadHat and Poetrywala.

A Secret

Arithmetic

Kurt Nimmo

is a long-time small press veteran, the editor of The Smudge Review in the 1970s and Planet Detroit in the 1980s. He lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico, with his wife and cat.

blindness in the sun

Death trip

Kevin Norwood

winner of The Porch Poetry Prize 2020, has poetry published or pending in Edison Review, Evening Street Review, Iowa Review, Litbreak, The Magnolia Review, Nashville Review, Natural Bridge, Plainsongs, Tulane Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and elsewhere.

Pas de Deux

Semiotics

Chad Parenteau

hosts Boston’s long-running Stone Soup Poetry series. His work has appeared in journals such as Résonancee, Queen Mob’s Tea-House, Cape Cod Poetry Review, Tell-Tale Inklings, Off The Coast, Headline Poetry & Press and Wilderness House Literary Review. He currently serves as Associate Editor of the online journal Oddball Magazine. His second collection, The Collapsed Bookshelf, was nominated for a Massachusetts Book Award.

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Open House

Anika Pavel

Anika Pavel was born Jarmila Kocvarova in Czechoslovakia. She became a refugee when the Soviet Union invaded her homeland. She lived in England, Hong Kong and Monte Carlo before settling in New York City, where she is a writer. Her work has been published in BioSories, Potato Soup Journal, Tint Journal and other’s. Her story Encounter With The Future is currently nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

When Silence Is Not an Option

Sarah Pazur

has published in Ilanot Review, Pithead Chapel, Exacting Clam, JMWW, and elsewhere. She holds a PhD in Educational Leadership from Oakland University and lives in Michigan.

Pin Bones

Jared Pearce

has published in Kentucky Review, J Journal, Mobius, Mad Swirl, Linden Avenue, and DIAGRAM. He lives in Iowa.

Change

My four year-old has bruised his foot

Jill Pearlman

is a Rhode Island-based poet exploring ecstasy in the decentered self and world. Her poems have appeared in Salamander, Barrow Street, The Common, Ocean State Review, Crosswinds, Soul-Lit, and Indicia. She has produced several multimedia poetry series: “Trees Road Vertigo,” and “Mirrors: A Conversation with Avivah Zornberg.”

we’d kissed for fleshly return

Jonathan Penton

founded UnlikelyStories.org in 1998, and has run it as a journal of literature, art, and sociopolitical content since. He expanded with Unlikely Books in 2005. He has provided technical and management expertise to arts organizations including the New Orleans Poetry Festival, MadHat, Inc., and Big Bridge.

Travelin’ Light

Simon Perchik

has published in Partisan Review, The Nation, The New Yorker and elsewhere.

Everything on this wall clouds over

Richard King Perkins

is a state-sponsored advocate for residents in long-term care facilities. He lives in Crystal Lake, IL, USA with his wife, Vickie and daughter, Sage. He is a three-time Pushcart, Best of the Net and Best of the Web nominee whose work has appeared in more than a thousand publications.

Pomegranate Explosion

Terry Persun

has been writing and publishing since the early 1970s. His poems and stories have appeared in Wisconsin Review, Kansas Quarterly, Riverrun, Rattle, Hiram Poetry Review, Drop Forge, Bluestem, NEBO, Cirque, Eclipse, Bacopa, and many others. He is the author of six chapbooks and five full-length collections. Terry speaks at writers’ conferences and universities across the country. TerryPersun.com.

Lost

Barry Peters

lives in Durham and teaches in Raleigh, NC. Publications/forthcoming include The American Journal of Poetry, Best New Poets 2018, Baltimore Review, Broad River Review, The Cabinet of Heed, Connecticut River Review, The Dead Mule, Duck Lake Journal, The Flexible Persona, The Healing Muse, The HitchLit Review, and I-70 Review, among others.

Interviewing Wayne Gretzky, Hartford, 1980

Darrell Petska

has published in Flash Fiction Magazine, Flash Frontier, Right Hand Pointing, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, Boston Literary Magazine and elsewhere. With 30 years on the academic staff at University of Wisconsin-Madison, 40 years as a father (seven years a grandfather), and a half century as a husband, Darrell lives outside Madison, Wisconsin.

Finding Words

Jennifer M. Phillips

is a bi-national immigrant, a gardener, and painter living on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Phillips has published poetry in over fifty little poetry journals, including Poetry Pacific, Evening Street, Poem, The Ravens Perch, humanaobscura, Onionhead, Front Range Review, Penine Platform, DASH Literary Review, America, Pensive, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Buffalo Bones, Blueline, Pittsburgh Quarterly, and Orchard Press’s journal Quiet Diamonds.

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Midas-Touch

Daniel J. Pizappi

lives in Knoxville, Tennessee. He is a PhD student, Managing Editor of Grist: A Literary Journal, and co-editor of the anthology Kentucky Writers: The Deus Loci and the Lyrical Landscape (Des Hymnagistes Press, 2016). His work has appeared in Still: The Journal, The Mantle, Your Impossible Voice, and Burningword, among others. Visit him at danielpizappi. Twitter: @DjPizappi.

Before Hudson was Your Name

Anne Elezabeth Pluto

is Professor of Literature and Theatre at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. Her chapbook, The Frog Princess, was published by White Pine Press (1985), and her chapbook Benign Protection by Cervana Barva Press (2016). Nixes Mate published her book Lubbock Electric in 2017 and a chapbook, Chernobyl in 2020. Her latest book, The Deepest Part of Dark was published by Sick Puppy Press in 2020.

Lords of the Wichita

Karakoz

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LUBBOCK ELECTRIC

CHRISTMAS

CHERNOBYL

Kenneth Pobo

has a new book out from Circling Rivers called Loplop in a Red City. His work has appeared in: Mudfish, Nimrod, Hawaii Review, Bay Windows, and elsewhere.

Stung

The Triumph of Death

I Lost A Small Forest

Janet Pocorobba

is Associate Professor at Lesley University and Associate Director of their low-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing. A former writer and contributing editor at Metropolis magazine in Tokyo, her memoirs, essays and reviews have appeared in The Rumpus, Harvard Review, The Writer, Kyoto Journal, Indiana Review, Provincetown Arts, American Athenaeum, and elsewhere.

Why I Live in Adamant

Kushal Poddar

is the author of The Circus Came To My Island (Spare Change Press), A Place For Your Ghost Animals (Ripple Effect Publishing), Understanding The Neighborhood (BRP, Australia), Scratches Within (Barbara Maat), Kleptomaniac's Book of Unoriginal Poems (BRP, Australia), Eternity Restoration Project – Selected and New Poems (Hawakal Publishers, India) and Herding My Thoughts To The Slaughterhouse – A Prequel (Alien Buddha Press).

Losing Skin Into The Deep

Diane Pohl

lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where there are books along the sidewalks. Her poems are published or forthcoming in The Paterson Literary Review, The Lake, Slipstream, The Main Street Rag, and elsewhere. Her prose poem ‘When you were 9’ won an Allen Ginsburg Award.

The 67 Percent

Frederick Pollack

is the author of two book-length narrative poems, The Adventure and Happiness (Story Line Press; the former to be reissued by Red Hen Press), and two collections, A Poverty of Words (Prolific Press, 2015) and Landscape with Mutant (Smokestack Books, UK, 2018). Many other poems in print and online journals.

Known from Adam

Karen Poppy

has published in numerous literary journals, magazines, and anthologies. She has published two chapbooks, Crack Open/Emergency (Finishing Line Press, 2020), and Every Possible Thing (Homestead Lighthouse Press, 2020). Her new chapbook, Our Own Beautiful Brutality is forthcoming with Finishing Line Press. karenpoppy.com

My True Life on this Earth

Cape Cod Tundra

Kyle Potvin

debut full-length poetry collection is Loosen (Hobblebush Books, 2021). Her chapbook, Sound Travels on Water, won the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award. Her poems have appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Tar River Poetry, Rattle, Ecotone, and The New York Times. Kyle lives in New Hampshire.

Patience, frantic hummingbird

Fabrice Poussin

teaches French and English at Shorter University. Author of novels and poetry, his work has appeared in Kestrel, Symposium, The Chimes, and dozens of other magazines. His photography has been published in The Front Porch Review, the San Pedro River Review as well as other publications.

Gateway to Nowhere

One Way Journey

Ray of Hope

Jack Powers

is the author of Everybody’s Vaguely Familiar. His poems have appeared in The Southern Review, The Cortland Review and elsewhere. He won the 2015 and 2012 Connecticut River Review Poetry Contests and was a finalist for the 2013 and 2014 Rattle Poetry Prizes. Visit his website: Jack Powers.

Unruly Sonnet

Jeanette Powers

is a poet-painter living near a river in mid-Missouri. They are a founding member of FountainVerse: KC Small Press Poetry Fest and have been widely published in lit mags, including Chiron and Gasconade Review, Thimble Lit Mag, The Wild Word and more. jeanettepowers.com or @novel_cliche.

White Lies

Kimberly Ann Priest

is a neurodivergent writer and the author of Slaughter the One Bird as well as three chapbooks, with books forthcoming from Texas Review Press & Unsolicited Press. An assistant professor of first-year writing at Michigan State University, she is the poetry editor for West Trade Review and lives, with her husband, in Maine.

Divorced Middle-Aged Woman Finds Out Her Poems are a Very Hot Commodity

Zofia Provizer

studied Creative Writing and Women and Gender Studies at Lesley University. She has published in MockingHeart Review, Construction, Commonthought, Lesley University’s literary magazine, and by Studio 360, reading on air for them in 2015. She has also been published by grlmag.com.

Dream Sequence

LOSE SIGHT OF HEAVEN SOLD OUT

Donna Pucciani

a Chicago-based writer, has published poetry worldwide in Shi Chao Poetry, Li Poetry, Poetry Salzburg, Agenda, Gradiva, Meniscus, Poetry on the Lake, and other journals. Her seventh and latest collection of poems is EDGES..

Snow at Louveciennes by Alfred Sisley, 1878

Jessica Purdy

teaches Poetry Workshops at Southern New Hampshire University. Her poems and reviews have appeared in Gargoyle, gravel, Hole in the Head Review, The Plath Poetry Project, The Ekphrastic Review, The Light Ekphrastic, SurVision, The Wild Word, isacoustic, Nixes Mate Review, Bluestem, The Telephone Game, and The Cafe Review, among others. She has published one chapbook, Learning the Names, (Finishing Line Press, 2015), and two books STARLAND and Sleep in a Strange House (both Nixes Mate Books, consecutively, in 2017 and 2018).

Accident

The Jar with the Dry Rim

In My Apocalypse

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SLEEP IN A STRANGE HOUSE

SPRINGING

STARLAND

Sheila Rabinowitch

was born in Canada and resides in New York City. She is a retired physician. Her poetry career began at Sarah Lawrence College. Her poems have appeared in several issues of 2 Horatio.

Losses Creep In

Renuka Raghavan

has published in Boston Literary Magazine, Star 82 Review, Down in the Dirt Literary Magazine, Chicago Literati, among others. She is the author of Out of the Blue (Big Table Publishing, 2017) a collection of poetry and prose. She writes and lives in Massachusetts. Visit her at renukaraghavan(dot)com.

Looking for Sagittarius

Grand Finale

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IMAGINED CORRESPONDENCE

THE FACE I DESIRE

Kayla Randolph

is a lover of words. Her piece “Tripping Since the ‛50s” won the award of “Distinction” in nonfiction at the 2021 Emerson College Senior Writing Awards. Her publication credits include Brushfire Literature & Arts Journal, Calling the Beginning from Wingless Dreamer, and Alyssa Milano’s Sorry Not Sorry podcast.

When in the Multiverse

MOVING DAY

Dan Raphael

has been active in the Northwest as poet, performer, publisher and reading host. Everyone in This Movie Gets Paid, his 19th book, came out June 1st from Last Word Press. Current poems appear in Caliban, Great Weather for Media, Mad Swirl, Otoliths and Unlikely Stories.

A Late May Day this Dark Confuses my Sense of Spring

Month Mouth Moth

Elissa Rashkin

is a writer, historian, and professor of cultural and communication studies at the Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico. Her books include The Stridentist Movement in Mexico: The Avant-Garde and Cultural Change in the 1920s, and Women Filmmakers in Mexico: The Country of Which We Dream. Nixes Mate published her first book of poetry, Atomic Time, in 2019.

Kaddish for Chantal

The Chosen People

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ATOMIC TIME

Bill Ratner

is a 9-time winner of The Moth Story Slams, poetry and essays published in Chiron Review, Baltimore Review, Rattle Magazine’s Rattlecast, Pleiades, KYSO Flash, South Florida Poetry Journal, The Missouri Review Audio. Spoken-word performances featured on National Public Radio’s Good Food, The Business, and KCRW’s Strangers. billratner.com.

Mannequin

Sage Ravenwood

is a deaf Cherokee woman residing in upstate NY. She is an outspoken advocate against animal cruelty and domestic violence. Her work can be found in Glass Poetry – Poets Resist, Pittsburgh Poetry Journal, The Rumpus, Massachusetts Review, River Mouth Review, Native Skin Lit, Santa Clara Review, Colorado Review, Pangyrus, PRISM International, and more.

Personal Foul

Joani Reese

is a writer living in darkest Texas. Her cats keep her sane, most of the time.

Hromada

Melissa Rendlen

is a pseudo retired urgent care physician who is spending her new free time reading and writing poetry. She has had work in The Missing Slate, Underfoot Poetry, Plath Poetry Project, Poets Reading the News, Indolent Press What Rough Beast, and L'ephemera to name a few.

Growing Up in the Desert in the Age of Water Coolers

Sitting in the Lecture on Opiods

Robert Rickelman

has published nonfiction stories in Inscape Magazine (where his piece, u201cPhyllisu201d won the Nonfiction Editors’ Choice Award.), Twisted Vine Literary and Arts Journal, The Long Island Literary Journal, Blue River Review and forthcoming from Barely South Review, and The Bitchin’ Kitsch.

Psychokinesis

Kevin Ridgeway

is the author of Too Young to Know (Stubborn Mule Press) and nine chapbooks of poetry including Grandma Goes to Rehab (Analog Submission Press, UK). His work can recently be found in Slipstream, Chiron Review, Nerve Cowboy, Sheila Na Gig, Plainsongs, San Pedro River Review, The Cape Rock, Trailer Park Quarterly, Main Street Rag, Into the Void, Cultural Weekly and The American Journal of Poetry, among others. He lives and writes in Long Beach, CA.

Terminal Island

On the Kitchen Floor

Something I Didn’t Want to Hear

RON RIEKKI

is the author of U.P. (Ghost Road Press), Posttraumatic (Hoot u2018n’ Waddle), and the upcoming My Ancestors are Reindeer Herders and I Am Melting in Extinction (Loyola University Maryland’s Apprentice House Press, 2019) and i have been warned not to write about this (Main Street Rag, 2020).

The Last Word in PTSD is Disorder, Which is Not Exactly the Best Word Choice

Tree Riesener

is the author of Sleepers Awake, winner of the Eludia Award (Sowilo Press), The Hubble Cantos (Aldrich Press), EK (Červená Barva Press), Angel Fever / Triple No. 5 (Ravenna Press), and three chapbooks, Liminalog, Angel Poison, and Inscapes. A new full-length collection, Quodlibet, was published by Ravenna Press in 2019.

tartarus

John Riley

is the founder and publisher of Morgan Reynolds, an educational publisher located in Greensboro, North Carolina. His poetry and fiction have appeared in Smokelong Quarterly, Connotation Press, Fiction Daily, Willows Wept Review, Dead Mule, St. Anne's Review, Metazen, and many other anthologies and journals both online and in print.

Smokestack

David Rodriguez

is a writer and teacher based in New Orleans with an MFA from Florida State University. He has previously been published in the New Orleans Review, The Southeast Review, Poetry Pacific, The Literateur, and The Double Dealer Redux, among other places.

Why I Live with My Parents

Clara Eugenia Ronderos

is a Colombian-American writer. She is a Professor of Spanish at Lesley University. Her recent publications include The Poetry of Clara Eugenia Ronderos: Seasons of Exile (Lewiston NY, Edwin Mellen Press, 2015), Estaciones en Exilio (2010), u00c1brete Sésamo Torremozas, Madrid: 2016) , De Reyes y Fuegos (Torremozas, Madrid: 2018), Después de la F ábula, (Verbum, Madrid: 2018), and Agua que no has de beber (Alciu00f3n, Cu00f3rdoba, Argentina: 2019).

Feliz Cumpleau00f1os

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Unfoldings

Brad Rose

was born and raised in Los Angeles and lives in Boston. He is the author of a collection of poetry and flash fiction, Pink X-Ray (Big Table Publishing) His two new books of poems, Momentary Turbulence, and WordinEdgeWise, are forthcoming from Červená Barva Press. Nixes Mate published de/tonations in 2020. Read more at. Hear more at.

Carwash

The Pleasure of Texas

Climate Change

Inalienable

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DE/TONATIONS

Rae Rozman

is a middle school counselor in Austin, Texas, where she lives with her long term partner. Her poetry often explores themes of queer love (romantic and platonic), brain injury, and education. For poetry and pictures of her rescue bunnies, you can find her on Instagram at @mistress_of_mnemosyne.

An Afternoon in Little Italy

C.C. Russell

lives in Wyoming with his wife, daughter, and three cats. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in Rattle, Word Riot, and The Meadow among other places. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and for Best of the Net. He prefers being cold to being hot.

A Translation of Static in the Darkness

Parenthetical

Near the Carnival

Tagged

Ki Russell

is author of the hybrid genre novel The Wolf at the Door (Ars Omnia Publishing, 2014), the poetry collection Antler Woman Responds (Paladin Contemporaries, 2014) and the chapbook How to Become Baba Yaga (Medulla Publishing, 2011). She is a peer reviewer for the online literary journal Whale Road Review. She teaches writing and literature at Blue Mountain Community College.

Grinning Boy in the Photograph

Mosaic

Jason Tandon

is the author of five books of poetry, including This Far North (Black Lawrence Press, forthcoming 2023) and The Actual World (Black Lawrence Press, 2019). His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Beloit Poetry Journal, North American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.

What Happened Here

Ernest Gordon Taulbee

author of the novel A Sibling In Always, grew up in rural Kentucky. He holds a BA and an MA from Eastern Kentucky University and lives in Louisville, KY with his family.

Vacant Houses

Susan Tepper

is the author of eight published books of fiction and poetry. She has received eighteen Pushcart Prize Nominations, a Pulitzer Prize Nomination for the epistolary novel What May Have Been (Červená Barva Press 2010, currently being adapted as a stage play), Best Story of 17 Years of Vestal Review, and other honors. Tepper's new book is a zany road novel titled What Drives Men. susantepper.com.

Where

Mottled

With Rain

Aden Thomas

grew up in central Wyoming. Previously his work has been featured in The Kentucky Review, The Inflectionist Review, and The Chiron Review. He lives north of Denver, Colorado.

July

Love Note

Cammy Thomas

has two collections of poems with Four Way Books: Inscriptions (2014), and Cathedral of Wish (2006), winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award. Her poems are forthcoming or have recently appeared in Tampa Review, Ocean State Review, The Missouri Review and elsewhere. Cammy lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Exclusive in New York for Bergdorf Goodman

Gail Thomas

has published four books, Odd Mercy, Waving Back, No Simple Wilderness, and Finding the Bear. Her poems have been widely published in journals, and awards include the Charlotte Mew Prize from Headmistress Press, the Narrative Poetry Prize from Naugatuck River Review, and the Massachusetts Center for the Book’s “Must Read.”

Trail of Roots

Daniel Thompson

is a graduate of the Creative Writing program from Vancouver Island University. He is a reader and contributor to the Tongues of Fire reading series and has appeared in The Birds We Piled Loosely, Clockwise Cat, Crack the Spine, Grey Sparrow and the Gyroscope Review. He has written several books (novels), all currently seeking publishers. He lives in Victoria, B.C.

Waterslides in Auxiliary Hospital Washroom

Peaco Todd

is a cartoonist and author, co-author and/or illustrator of several books including her most recent effort, Screwnomics: How Our Economy Works Against Women and Real Ways to Make Change. Her non-profit, Earth Comix, develops cartoons for the fight against the poaching of endangered animals, primarily elephants, rhinos and pangolins, and recently published the comic K-9 Tales: Shikar’s Incredible Adventure.

Upon Considering A Photograph On My Studio Wall

Kevin Tosca

is the author of Paris By Night (Holy&intoxicated Publications), The Sage-Femme and The Whore (Analog Submission Press), Questions Are My Only Answers (Alien Buddha Press), and My French (Analog Submission Press). He lives in Berlin.

Toronto, Mon Amour

Kerry Trautman

is a poetry editor for Red Fez. Her poetry books are Things That Come in Boxes (King Craft Press 2012,) To Have Hoped (Finishing Line Press 2015,) Artifacts (NightBallet Press 2017,) To be Nonchalantly Alive (Kelsay Books 2020,) and Marilyn: Self-Portrait, Oil on Canvas (Gutter Snob Books 2022.) Her next book is forthcoming from Roadside Press.

Pathways

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Oven

Meg Tuite

is author of a novel-in-stories, Domestic Apparition, a short story collection, Bound By Blue, and won the Twin Antlers Collaborative Poetry award for her poetry collection, Bare Bulbs Swinging, as well as five chapbooks of short fiction, flash, and poetic prose. She teaches at Santa Fe Community College, is a senior editor at Connotation Press and (b)OINK lit zine, and editor of nine anthologies. Her blog: megtuite.com

Gutted By Generational Reality

Vast Knots of Miscellaneous Lives

M.J. Turner

has published her poems in Spillway, concu012bs, and the I-70 Review. She lives in Massachusetts.

Headfirst

Audiology

John Tustin

is currently suffering in exile on the island of Elba but hopes to return to you soon. fritzware.com/johntustinpoetry contains links to his published poetry online.

Skull on a Chain

Douglas Twells

served in the Peace Corps in India, studied Sanskrit and Hindi at the University of Chicago, and taught English in Iran. After returning to India to complete a research fellowship, he pursued a career in university administration. Retired, Twells lives in St. Louis, writes, and occasionally teaches.

Nature Taking its Course

Connemara Wadsworth

chapbook, The Possibility of Scorpions won the White Eagle Coffee Store Press 2009 Chapbook Contest. She’s been published in Prairie Schooner, Bellevue Literary Review, Valparaiso. and elsewhere. “Mediation on a Photo” was a winner of The Griffin Museum’s Once Upon a Time: Photos That Inspire Tall Tales.

January

What She Gave Us

Will Walker

received his bachelor’s degree in English history and literature from Harvard College. He has attended numerous writing workshops with Marie Howe, Thea Sullivan, Gail Mazur, Robert Pinsky, Alan Shapiro, and Mark Doty. He was also an editor of the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal.

The Best I Can

Jessica Walsh

is the author of two poetry collections and two chapbooks. Her work has appeared in Lunch Ticket, RHINO, Tinderbox, Whale Road Review, Fatal Flaw Lit, and more. A native of rural Michigan, she now lives and teaches in the Chicago suburbs. jessicalwalsh.com

When my daughter tells me I was never punk

Mid Walsh

is a poet, singer, athlete, husband, and grandfather living near the ocean. With an English BA from Yale University and an MBA, he has conducted careers as a carpenter, a hi-tech executive, and a yoga studio owner. His poetry renders his life experiences into the music of language. Mid’s poetry is forthcoming in Lily Poetry Review.

Out of quarantine

JEFF WEDDLE

is the Eudora Welty Prize winning author of Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press. He teaches in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alabama. He has published 11 books, most recently, Good Party (Poetic Justice Books and Arts).

The Chole Vignette

Dance, God Damn it, Dance

No Choice

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COMES TO THIS

HEART OF THE BROKEN WORLD

Megan Wildhood

is a neurodiverse writer, editor and writing coach who thrives helping entrepreneurs and small business owners create authentic copy to reach the people they feel called to serve. She helps her readers feel seen in her poetry chapbook Long Division (Finishing Line Press, 2017) as well as Yes! Magazine, Mad in America, The Sun, and elsewhere. You can learn more about her writing and working with her at meganwildhood.com.

Power Lines

Feral Willcox

is a U.S. born poet and musician currently living in Jokolo, Georgia. Her work has appeared in Per Contra, Rogue Agent, SWWIM, Peacock Journal and elsewhere. She was regularly published and featured in the Plath Poetry Project, was a featured poetry performer at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and has been an annual featured reader at the Chiang Mai, Thailand Magic Theater Poetry group.

sarus

Martin Willitts Jr

is an editor for the Comstock Review. He has 21 full-length collections including the Blue Light Award 2019, The Temporary World. His recent books are Harvest Time (Deerbrook Editions, 2021), All Wars Are the Same War (FutureCycle Press, 2022), Not Only the Extraordinary are Exiting the Dream World (Flowstone Press, 2022). Forthcoming is Ethereal Flowers (Shanti Press, 2023).

The Search

Rain on the Lake

Henry Wise

graduated from the University of Mississippi MFA program in Poetry and the Virginia Military Institute. His poems have previously appeared in Shenandoah, Radar Poetry, Eunoia Review, Tau Creative Journal and Studies in American Culture.

In 1635 John Wise established himself

Stephen Scott Whitaker

is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, a teacher, and a grant writer. Whitaker’s writing has appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, The Rumpus, Great River Review, Fourteen Hills, Oxford Poetry, and other journals.

After a Night of Doom Scrolling

Francine Witte

is the author of four poetry chapbooks, two flash fiction chapbooks, and the full-length poetry collections Café Crazy (Kelsay Books) and the forthcoming The Theory of Flesh (Kelsay Books) Her play, Love is a Bad Neighborhood, was produced in NYC this past December. She lives in NYC.

The First of December

Emily Wolahan

is the author of the poetry collection Hinge (NPRP, 2015). Her poetry has appeared in Puerto del Sol, Sixth Finch, Georgia Review, and Oversound. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Anthropology and Social Change (CIIS) and is a Poetry Editor at Tinderbox Poetry Journal.

We Weren’t Trying to Make It Something It Never Was

Nancy Lynée Woo

is a poet, educator, and community organizer with Artists at Work. She has received fellowships from PEN America, Arts Council for Long Beach, and Idyllwild Writers Week. Her work is inspired by the magic and power of nature. Find her online at nancylyneewoo.com and @fancifulnance on social.

End of the Holocene

Tedo Wyman

a poet living in the Hudson River Valley, has been published in Perceptions Magazine and RiverRiver Journal. Her career has included work as a pianist and chamber musician.

Cold Snap

Nick Zaffiro

is a writer from Massachusetts. He worked closely with Francisco Goldman at Trinity College while he was receiving his BA in English. Nick won the Alumni Prize in English for best short story at Trinity in 2017.

Sophie Podolski

Don Zirilli

writes from New Jersey.

Answering the Crumbs

Driving Home from Your Wake

Jim Zola

has worked in a warehouse, as a security guard, in a bookstore, as a teacher for Deaf children, as a toy designer for Fisher Price, and currently as a children’s librarian. Published in many journals through the years, his publications include a chapbook – The One Hundred Bones of Weather (Blue Pitcher Press) – and a full length poetry collection – What Glorious Possibilities (Aldrich Press). He currently lives in Greensboro, NC.

Bosch & Keaton Hide Behind a Poem About a Deer

Sabotage at the Subliminal Tape Factory

When Kudzu Takes Over

M Jaime Zuckerman

is the author of two chapbooks, most recently Letters to Melville (Ghost Proposal, 2018) as well as poems in BOAAT, Diode, Fairy Tale Review, Hunger Mountain, Palette, Prairie Schooner, Southern Humanities Review, and other journals. She serves as the associate editor for Sixth Finch and a senior reader for Ploughshares. She grew up in the woods but now lives and teaches in Boston, MA.

Ablation

ryki zuckerman

is the author of Looking for Bora Bora (Saddle Road Press, 2013), a bright nowhere (Foothills Press, 2015), Three Poems (University of Buffalo, 2017), and three other chapbooks, is a co-editor of Earth’s Daughter’s magazine. She curates the Wordflight at Red Doors and the Just Buffalo Literary Cafe at CFI series.

out into the darkness

the ghost orchid

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THE GONE ARTISTS