What the Moment Can Bring
Dave Malone holds degrees from Ottawa University and Indiana State University. He is a poet and screenwriter who lives in the Missouri Ozarks, and his most recent poetry book is Bypass (Aldrich Press, 2023).
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Two poems by Alex Stolis
Alex Stolis most recent chapbook, Postcards from the Knife-Thrower’s Wife was recently released by Louisiana Literary Press, http://www.louisianaliterature.org/2024/04/11/new-release-announcement-alex-stolis/
Thirteenth Birthday
CC Hart, is a neurodiversity advocate, artist, and author. She is a founding board member of the International Association of Synaesthetes, Artists, and Scientists (IASAS). CC lives in San Francisco, California, and holds an MFA from the University of San Francisco.
Three Tanka Translations by Jean Gordon Kocienda
Jean Gordon Kocienda is a former Silicon Valley geopolitical risk analyst. Now retired, she volunteers with refugees in the San Francisco Bay Area, translates Japanese poetry, and finishes up her first novel, Girl in a Box: The Story of Yosano Akiko, Japan’s Feminist Poet. (www.accidentalfeminist.net)
Two Poems by Skip Renker
Skip Renker has retired to Petoskey, Michigan after working for many years as an English Professor at Delta College. His poems have been published in numerous journals as well as three books. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee.
Blessed Be
Tara Zafft is a US poet. She is a mother, wife, dancer, seeker, who tried to embrace the ups and downs of life with curiosity, love and wonder.
Of the Act of the Mind
Matt W Miller is the author of Tender the River, winner of the Independent Publishers of New England Book Award, a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Provocateur Award, and the Jacar Press Julie Suk Award. Other books include The Wounded for the Water, Club Icarus, winner of the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize, and Cameo Diner. He was a winner of Nimrod International’s Pablo Neruda Prize, the Poetry by The Sea Sonnet Sequence Contest, the River Styx Micro-fiction Prize, the Iron Horse Review’s Trifecta Poetry Prize. A former Walter E Dakin Fellow and Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry, he lives with his family in coastal New Hampshire.
Three Poems by Mary Jane Philpy-Dollins
Mary Jane Philpy-Dollins’ work appears in The Poetry Machine: Volume 2 (2021), The Poetry Machine: Volume 3 (2022), and the Waco WordFest Anthology (2023). She is the 2023 President of the Austin Poetry Society. She is a nurse living in Texas.
What I Know to Be True
KELLY GRACE THOMAS is a poet, writer, educator, and an ocean-obsessed Aries from Jersey. She is the author of Future Tense (forthcoming from Alice James Books, 2026) and Boat Burned (YesYes Books, 2020). She is the winner of the Jane Underwood Poetry Prize and the Neil Postman Award for Metaphor. Kelly’s poems have appeared in: The Adroit Journal, Best New Poets, 32 Poems, Los Angeles Review, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. www.kellygracethomas.com
Summer 2024 Poetry Contest (Winner Receives a $200 Dollar Prize) Submissions open from June 1 – September 4th
We are pleased to announce our Summer 2024 poetry contest (June 1st – September 4th). The winner will receive a $200 cash prize.