Two Poems by Carlos Reyes
The Empty Chairs of February (2024) is poet and translator Carlos Reyes’ 16th volume of poetry. He is a world traveler but makes his home in Portland, Oregon at the base of an inactive volcano.
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Eliana Jacobs is a Fulbright Scholar who aspires to become a physician to advocate for the intersectionality of health, education, public health, and writing. She brings awareness towards social determinants of health through her numerous medical poetry publications in Stanford JUSTHEALTH and the Journal of the Student National Medical Association (JSNMA).
Downhill from the Park
The Empty Chairs of February is poet and translator Carlos Reyes’ 16th volume of poetry. He is a world traveler but makes his home at the base of a dormant volcano in Portland, Oregon. Learn more about Carlos here: carlosreyespoet.com.
Brother
Travis Schuhardt is a writer from Long Branch, New Jersey, who specializes in short-form poetry and fiction. His writing is informed deeply by his relationship to his older brother, who spent much of his childhood in-and-out of hospitals due to a prolonged illness.
Hospital
Jacque Margaux is a 22-year-old poet and musician from Upstate New York. He’s a drifter and a job hopper, a starving artist trying to make it in the world. His work is sometimes published on the instagram account of his friend, @notrileycreative
The Night the Power Went Out
Raised in a New York housing project, she practices as a psychologist in Lexington, Massachusetts. Marian Kaplun Shapiro, now in her 80’s, has had Upbringing, her fifth book of poetry, a collection of experimental graphic poems, published by Plain View Press in January January 2023.
Two Haikus by Venessa Lee-Estevez
Venessa Lee-Estevez has been an educator for Miami-Dade County Public Schools for over 21 years. Much of her poetry is inspired by physical pain as she has had surgery for scoliosis, lumbar fusion, and sacroiliac fusion. Writing poetry has been extremely theraputic for Venessa throughout her life and she hopes that her poetry resonates with the people who read her pieces and share similar experiences.
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).
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/
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)