Nick Bertelson's previous work has appeared in The North American Review, The Coe Review, The Raleigh Review, and The Cortland Review. His latest work will appear in the new issue of Prairie Fire.
Tony Beyer’s new collection, Anchor Stone, will be published in November by Cold Hub Press, Lyttelton, New Zealand. www.coldhubpress.co.nz
Garrison Botts, after a career of wearing a variety of hats (and disguises) in the theater, television and film worlds, has recently begun writing short memoirs, with one to be published this fall in The Tishman Review. He is very grateful to his extraordinary teacher and editor, Margo Perin (margoperin.com).
Don Brandis is a retired healthcare worker living a happily-married hermit’s life in a small town not far enough from Seattle, reading and writing poems, tending our fruit trees and meditating. He writes because good poems are invitations to engage intrinsic values in a culture that only values tools. He has published some poems with Melancholy Hyperbole, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Red Fez and Clementine Unboun, and others.
Kevin Casey is the author of And Waking... (Bottom Dog Press, 2016), and American Lotus (Glass Lyre Press, 2018), winner of the 2017 Kithara Prize. His poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in Rust+Moth, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Connotation Press, Pretty Owl Poetry, and Ted Kooser's syndicated column ‘American Life in Poetry.’
Patrick Connelly was a poetry student of the late John Engles. Following his undergraduate studies at St. Michaels College and Oxford University, Connelly received a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in Boulder before joining the faculty of Yale University as a postdoctoral fellow. He currently lives in Harvard, MA, serves as head of corporate innovation and external research at Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. and is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Brain Tumor Society.
Jonathan Ferrini is a published author and resides in San Diego. He received his MFA in Motion Picture and Television Production from UCLA. Learn more here.
Tesa Blue Flores lives in Manhattan in which she pays a grand for a room smaller than most walk in freezers. She loves watching Casablanca and Breakfast at Tiffany’s, having picnics, and eating tiramisu and tres leches cake. She hope to one day own two dogs a Chihuahua named Bellini and a Pomeranian named Mimosa cause those are fun words to say.
Jack Freeman's work has recently appeared in Amsterdam Quarterly, Bop Dead City, HOUSEGUEST, and elsewhere. He lives in Texas.
Christien Gholson is the author of two books of poetry: All the Beautiful Dead (Bitter Oleander Press, 2016; finalist for the New Mexico Poetry Award), and On the Side of the Crow (Hanging Loose Press, 2006; re-issued by Parthian Books, 2011); and a novel, A Fish Trapped Inside the Wind (Parthian Books, 2011). A long poem, Tidal Flats, was recently published at Mudlark (online), as Issue 63. He lives in New Mexico. He can be found at: http://christiengholson.blogspot.com/
Stephen Gibson’s latest poetry collection, Self-Portrait in a Door-Length Mirror, was selected by Billy Collins as winner of the 2017 Miller Williams Prize from the University of Arkansas Press and was published this past February. He's also published six prior collections: The Garden of Earthly Delights Book of Ghazals (Texas Review Press, 2016), Rorschach Art Too (2014 Donald Justice Prize, Story Line Press, West Chester University), Paradise (Miller Williams prize finalist, University of Arkansas Press), Frescoes (Lost Horse Press book prize), Masaccio’s Expulsion (MARGIE/IntuiT House book prize), and Rorschach Art (Red Hen Press).
J.M.Hall has published a small chapbook collection and over sixty individual poems in literary journals internationally, including multiple Pushcart Prize-winners Ibbetson St. Magazine, Main Street Rag and Shampoo. Since earning his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Vanderbilt University, he has also published a coedited anthology (entitled Philosophy Imprisoned), over thirty peer-reviewed journal articles (including in Oxford University’s Essays in Criticism and Philosophy and Literature), and nine anthology chapters (including in Fulcrum: An Anthology of Poetry and Aesthetics). Finally, he has over twenty years’ experience as a choreographer, dance instructor and performer.
Moriah Hampton teaches in the Writing and Critical Inquiry program at SUNY-Albany. She writes fiction in her spare time.
stone hedra has spent much of her life outside in one way or another. She's lived in cars, teepees, tents, on the road, at rest stops, in train stations on the way to somewhere else, in barns and under boats on stone beaches. She raised 2 kids part of the time in a 2-door hatchback with a dog and a kitchen in an old wooden box. The world is often uncomfortable, she says, for the soft of foot, but it is the most beautiful life partner anyone could ever have.
Richard Jones is the author of seven books from Copper Canyon Press, including The Correct Spelling & Exact Meaning and The Blessing. Editor of Poetry East and its many anthologies—such as Paris, Origins, and Bliss—he also edits the free worldwide poetry app, "The Poet's Almanac." A new book, Stranger on Earth, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon in spring/summer 2018.
Mike Koenig’s work can be seen in Phoebe, Clover, Quiddity, and The Tulane Review.
Michael Lauchlan’s poems have landed in many publications including New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The North American Review, Harpur Palate, Sugar House Review, Canary, Southword, and Poetry Ireland. His most recent collection is Trumbull Ave., from WSU Press.
Patricia Leonard is a 29 year old writer from New York. She has her BA in English linguistics and creative writing. Her work has been featured in Three Rooms Press' yearly anthology, Maintenant 10 and Maintenant 11, as well as in The Voices project, Broke Bohemian and CultureCult. She is a poetry and creative nonfiction writer who always leaves her readers wanting more. Her style is raw and captivating, leaving you with a vivid memory that you'll never forget.
Irene Mitchell is the author of Equal Parts Sun and Shade: An Almanac of Precarious Days (Kelsay Books/Aldrich Press, 2017), Minding the Spectrum’s Business (FutureCycle Press, 2015), A Study of Extremes in Six Suites (Cherry Grove Collections, 2012), and Sea Wind on the White Pillow (Axes Mundi Press, 2009). Formerly Poetry Editor of Hudson River Art Journal, Mitchell has served as poetry contest juror, and facilitator of poetry workshops. She is known for her collaborations with visual artists and composers.
Robert Okaji holds a BA in history and lives in Texas. The author of three chapbook collections, his work has appeared or is forthcoming in Posit, Shantih, Clade Song, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, High Window, Reservoir, Crannóg, and
Stan Sanvel Rubin has published in many magazine, most recentlyin American Journal of Poetry, Poetry Northwest, and The Laurel Review. His fourth full collection, There. Here., was published by Lost Horse Press in 2013. He lives on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State.
M. C. Rush currently resides in rural Louisiana, has most recently published poems in The Legendary, Open Letters Monthly, and Lingerpost, and has work forthcoming in Pirene's Fountain.
Claire Scott is an award winning poet who has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. Her work has been accepted by the Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Enizagam and Healing Muse among others. Claire is the author of Waiting to be Called and the co-author of Unfolding in Light: A Sisters’ Journey in Photography and Poetry.
Eliza Segiet has a Master's Degree in Philosophy and completed postgraduate tudies in Cultural Knowledge, Philosophy, Arts and Literature at Jagiellonian University, as ell as Film and Television Production in Lodz. Torn between poetry and drama, she likes to look into the clouds, but keeps both feet on the ground. Her heart is close to the thought of Schopenhauer: "Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it." Her works can be found in anthologies and literary magazines in Poland and abroad (Albania, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina India, Sweden, USA), including the poetry collections "Love Affair with Oneself" [pol. "Romans z sobą"] (Sowello 2013); "Mental Mirages" [pol. "Myślne miraże"] (Miniatura 2014 , II Edition: Sowello 2017); "Cloudiness" [pol. "Chmurność"] (Signo 2016),
and the monodrama "Clearances" [pol. "Prześwity"] (Signo 2015) and farce "Tandem" (Signo 2017).
Hilary Sideris has poems forthcoming in Easy Street and Rhino. She is the author of Most Likely to Die (Poets Wear Prada 2014) and The Inclination to Make Waves (Big Wonderful 2016). Sideris lives in Brooklyn and works for The City University of New York. She has a B.A. in English literature from Indiana University and an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Born and raised in rural Missouri, Ben Sloan has a MFA from Brooklyn College. Having worked as an editor for the magazines Thirst and Mothers of Mud, he currently lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he teaches at Piedmont Virginia Community College and, in the next county over, the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women. His poems have appeared in the Badlands Literary Journal, the Hartskill Review, the Piedmont Journal of Poetry & Fiction, the Ozone Park Journal, the Rabbit Catastrophe Review, The St. Ann’s Review, Off The Coast, and elsewhere.
Lynn Strongin will have several books out in the coming calendar year: her novel Winter Psalm “Three Loves,” to be published by J.B. Stillwell, her two books of poems Power to the Meek and She Decided to Call Her First Child London by Austin Macaulay, London, U.K. And from India’s cyberwit Dark Little Street of Shoes, The Quickening (Poems) and short fiction Little Miracles of Alvaro Street.
John Stupp’s third poetry collection “Pawleys Island” was published in 2017 by Finishing Line Press. His manuscript “Summer Job” won the 2017 Cathy Smith Bowers Poetry Prize and will be published in 2018 by Main Street Rag. He lives near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Yermiyahu Ahron Taub is the author of five books of poetry, including most recently The Education of a Daffodil/Di bildung fun a geln nartstis (2017). He was honored by the Museum of Jewish Heritage as one of New York's best emerging Jewish artists and has been nominated four times for a Pushcart Prize and twice for a Best of the Net award. His short stories have appeared in The Jewish Literary Journal, Jewish Fiction.net, Jewrotica, and Second Hand Stories Podcast. With Ellen Cassedy, he was the winner of the 2012 Yiddish Book Center Translation Prize for Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories by Blume Lempel (Mandel Vilar Press and Dryad Press, 2016). Please visit his website at www.yataub.net.
Aden Thomas grew up on the high plains of central Wyoming. His work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including The Inflectionist Review and Rust + Moth. His first book of poems, entitled What Those Light Years Carry, is available through Kelsay Books. You can find more about him at: www.adenthomas.com.
Richard Weaver lives in Baltimore Maryland where he volunteers with the Maryland Book Bank. His book, The Stars Undone, was taken from a larger collection about the Mississippi artist, Walter Anderson. Four poems later became the libretto for a symphony, Of Sea and Stars, composed by Eric Ewazen of Juilliard. The symphony has been performed four times to date. Publications: Conjunctions, Crack the spine, Dead Mule, Gingerbread House, Kestrel, Louisville Review, Magnolia Review, Modern Poetry Quarterly Review, OffCourse, Quiddity, Southern Quarterly, Steel Toe Review, The Literateur, & Triggerfish.
Mark Young's most recent books are Ley Lines & bricolage, both from gradient books of Finland, The Chorus of the Sphinxes, from Moria Books in Chicago, & some more strange meteorites, from Meritage & i.e. Press, California / New York. A limited edition chapbook, A Few Geographies, was recently released by One Sentence Poems as the initial offering in their new range.
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