Amanda Little Rose is from the small state of Rhode Island (USA). Previously, she served as Executive Editor of The Willow Literary Magazine.
Weep Willow Reeds by Konstantin Nicholas Rega
Born in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Konstantin studies British & American Literature and Creative Writing at The University of Kent in Canterbury, England.
Instructions: On Getting Ready to Die by Gayle Kellner
Instructions: On Getting Ready to Die by Gayle Kellner Please take off my watch I won’t need time beyond the moment any longer Followed by my earrings There will be…
The End of Winter by Adrian Slonaker
Adrian Slonaker works as a copywriter and copy editor in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. Adrian's work has appeared in Aberration Labyrinth, Squawk Back, The Bohemyth, Queen Mob's Tea House, Pangolin Review and others.
Your Fallow Fingers by Kika Dorsey
Kika Dorsey is a poet in Boulder, Colorado, and lives with her two children, husband, and Border Collie. She wakes up every morning and crafts poetry out of dreams, myths, her body, and her travels.
Something by Robert Ronnow
Robert Ronnow's most recent poetry collections are New & Selected Poems: 1975-2005 (Barnwood Press, 2007) and Communicating the Bird (Broken Publications, 2012). Visit his web site at www.ronnowpoetry.com.
O Captain My Captain by Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Feathers in Motion by Brianna Ricotta
Anxiety creates a motion of feathers
that creates a stifling flow
in her body.
And then a rush of air
caught in her chest,
and will not dissipate.
Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore
by Clement Clarke Moore Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney…
The Last Folk Singer by David Lohrey
David Lohrey grew up in Memphis. He graduated from U.C., Berkeley. His plays have appeared in the UK, Switzerland, Croatia and, most recently, in Estonia. They are available online at Proplay (CA).
The Grand Illusion by Maggie Pena
by Maggie Pena I’m sitting alone in the corner of a room- darkness all around, but light above- from somewhere it comes, that little bit, from somewhere unseen, the light…
On Cooking Krakens by Julie Irigaray
Julie Irigaray's work has appeared in various international publications such as Southword, Banshee (Ireland), Shearsman, Mslexia, Tears in the Fence, Envoi (UK) and The Ofi Press (Mexico), among others.
The Vampire and the Ball by Rebecca L. Snowe
Rebecca L. Snowe is a high-fantasy writer who hates cliché’s, loves the dark and gritty, and is working on becoming a tea addict.
The Vulnerability Accident by Tara Rigg
Tara Rigg writes about the complexities, joys, and misunderstandings of grief. She gratefully breathes in the mountain air surrounding her home in Bozeman, Montana where she lives with her husband and three young daughters. Her son
Mindful at Seven by Taylor Winchell
Taylor Winchell was born and raised in San Diego, California. He received a BS from UC Berkeley and an MS from CU Boulder. He currently works as a water resources engineer, focusing on development planning in the Southeast Asia region. His writing has appeared in KQED Public Radio, The Jetset Times, The Boulder Weekly, and the journal of Geophysical
to the bird who flew into my screen door and begged me to end its life by Ralph Bousquet
Ralph Bousquet is a poet and musician from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. His poems have been published in Ponder Review and The Reader. He attends New York University and lives in Brooklyn.
Solo Cliff Climbing by James Gering
I have been an avid writer of short stories and poems for many years. In 2005, I completed an MA in fiction with honours at Macquarie University, Sydney.
A number of my stories
EGGS by Ted Mc Carthy
Ted Mc Carthy is a poet and translator living in Clones, Ireland. His work has appeared in magazines in Ireland, the UK, Germany, the USA, Canada and Australia. He has had two collections published, 'November Wedding', and 'Beverly Downs'.
Solstice by Ashley Farley
by Ashley Farley The summer has ended, Peppermint men with alstormeric bouquets And lavendar women hiding it under their arms, leaving the scented breeze as their ransom note. the tiny…
Monastery of Silence by Milenko Županović
Milenko Županović was born in 1978 in Kotor (Montenegro). By profession he is a graduate marine engineer, but in his free time, he writes poetry and short stories. His stories and poems have been published by many magazines, blogs and websites, mostly in the Europe, U.S. and in Latin America.
Frost’s Roads by Jordi Valls i Pozo
In each shoe is a new path that marks and transforms you. The only certainty is error. From here on, the winding trail begins, of what you will do, what…
Chances by Bob Lind
Singer/songwriter, poet, novelist and playwright Bob Lind helped shape and define the 1960s Folk Rock movement. His lyrics have been taught in colleges and universities throughout the U.S. and Canada, and translated into nine languages.
Peer Review, Curfew by Shelia Murphy
Shelia Murphy is A Gertrude Stein Award winner and the co-founder of the Scottsdale Center for the Arts Poetry Series. She is both a poet and a visual artist. For a more complete bio see her Wiki page.
a solitary thought by Stella Radulescu
Stella Vinitchi Radulescu, Ph.D. in French Language & Literature, is the author of several collections of poetry published in the United States, Romania and France. She writes poetry in English, French and Romanian and her poems have appeared
Approaching Cuttack by Nilesh Mondal
Nilesh Mondal, 23, is an engineer by choice and poet by chance.
He works as a writer for Terribly Tiny Tales and Thought Catalog, and as prose editor for Moledro Magazine.
Mom Recalls How Dad Used to Walk for Miles
James Croal Jackson's poetry has appeared in The Bitter Oleander, Rust + Moth, Cosmonauts Avenue, and elsewhere. His first chapbook, The Frayed Edge
Spring Equinox by Shari Jo LeKane-Yentumi
Shari Jo LeKane-Yentumi (B.A.English/Spanish, M.A. Spanish, Saint Louis University Madrid/St. Louis) lives in St. Louis, Missouri, writes articles, literary
The Road Home by Leonard Henry Scott
Leonard Henry Scott was born and raised in the Bronx, New York where he attended Evander Childs High School. He is a graduate of American University (BS) and The University of Maryland (MLS),
Khor Virap by Alex Vartan Gubbins
Alex Vartan Gubbins was born in Chicago. He has a BA in African Languages and Literature from UW Wisconsin and an MFA from Northern Michigan University. He was the recipient of the 2014 Witter Bynner Translation Grant and a finalist in the North American Review's 2015 James
Lucky Barn by Brian Beatty
Brian Beatty is the author of two recent poetry collections, Coyotes I Couldn’t See (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2016) and Brazil, Indiana (Kelsay Books, 2017).
Not Fair by Carol Hamilton
Carol Hamilton: "I have recent and upcoming publications in Cold Mountain Review, Common Ground, Gingerbread House, Main Street Rag. Sacred
The Moon by Natalie Crick
Natalie Crick, from Newcastle in the UK, has found delight in writing all of her life and first began writing when she was a very young girl. She graduated from Newcastle University with a degree in English Literature
Speaking Through Sand and Salt
My poetry has appeared in The Atlanta Review, Ellipsis, Friends Journal, Mythopoetry Scholar and Poem. One of my poems was set to music by composer Bruce Pennycook of the Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin
Untraveled Tracts by Thomas Cannon
Thomas Cannon's story about his son is the lead story in the anthology Cup of Comfort for Parents of Children with Autism. He also has his humorous novel The Tao of Apathy
The Assassin of Ether by Larry D. Thomas
by Larry D. Thomas Centering the cross hairs of the mercenary squarely on the essence of the atom, he squeezes the trigger of time. For his slingshot of bewilderment, he…
Rumi & the New ‘White Flag’ Physics by Stefanie Bennett
Stefanie Bennett is of mixed ancestry, Italian, Irish, Paugussett-Shawnee. She has published several volumes of poetry, a novel, and a libretto and worked with Arts Action for Peace.
Dynamite by Anders Carlson-Wee
by Anders Carlson-Wee My brother hits me hard with a stick so I whip a choke-chain across his face. We're playing a game called Dynamite where everything you throw is…
Channeling Emily by Jean Varda
Jean Varda’s poetry has appeared in The Berkeley Poetry Review, Poetry Motel, Manzanita Poetry & Prose of the Mother Lode & Sierra, Avocet A Journal of Nature Poems,
I’m Beat by Yuma Clark
Yuma Clark lives in New Jersey, where he has been teaching for 11 years. Outside the classroom, his loves are family, learning, and fixing things.
Confessional Box for Those a Tad Off Plumb by Carol Hamilton
I have recent and upcoming publications in Cold Mountain Review, Common Ground, Gingerbread House, Main Street Rag. Sacred Cow. U.S.1 Worksheet, Pontiac Review, Louisiana Literature, Abbey, 805, Poem, Third Wednesday, One Trick Pony, Plainsongs, O.V.S. Magazine, The Aurorean, The 3228 Review, Illya’s Honey,and others
Chirp by Hiram Larew
Larew's poems have appeared most recently in Shot Glass, The Amsterdam Review and, Viator.
An Indian Remedy by Mike Ambrose
Mike Ambrose started writing poetry six years ago at the age of 48 and discovered that poetry provides a balance and perspective that has opened up a whole new way
Letters To Old Girl Friends by Robert Halleck
Robert Halleck is a hospice volunteer and retired banker who has published three collections of poetry. In recent years his poems have appeared in the San Diego Poetry Annual
Nocturnal Rumination by Lydia Wright
by Lydia Wright i have never been a proper lady. my feet are too big and my hands are too calloused. i freely admit i am guilty of my sins,…
Spring in Northern Japan by Sonia Saikaley
Sonia Saikaley’s first book, The Lebanese Dishwasher, co-won the 2012 Ken Klonsky Novella Contest. Her first collection of poetry, Turkish Delight, Montreal Winter, was published in 2012
Suitcaseby Claire Scott
by Claire Scott It’s your father you must come really? she expects me to see him? to travel two thousand miles to see the man who sharp tongued me straight…
Damascus in Syria before the war by Sofia Kioroglou
Sofia Kioroglou is a twice award-winning poet, author of two poetry books, flash fiction writer of ” Cubicle Coma” published by Books’ Journal & Planodion and prolific blogger from Greece.
The Man Arriving by George Moore
George Moore publications include The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, North American Review, Colorado Review, Antigonish, Blast, and Orion. After teaching literature
hot combs catfish crumbs and bad men by Tara Stringfellow
tmstringfellow (Tara Stringfellow) is a poet and an attorney living in Chicago, originally from Memphis, Tennessee and Okinawa, Japan. SThird World Press published her first collection of poetry
Running for Home by Steve De France
Steve De France is a widely published poet, playwright and essayist both in America and in Great Britain. His work has appeared in literary publications in America,
How I Discovered America by Brian Beatty
Brian Beatty’s poems and stories have appeared in numerous print and online publications, including The Bark, Conduit, Dark Mountain (England), The Evergreen Review
ANASTASIA by Louis Gallo
Louis Gallo’s work has appeared or will shortly appear in Southern Literary Review, FictionFix, Glimmer Train, Hollins Critic, Rattle, Southern Quarterly, Litro, NewOrleans Review, Xavier Review
Neuroscience by Harnidh Kaur
by Harnidh Kaur I used to smoke, and a lot, at that, and I quit it, cold turkey one day- it wasn’t easy, my nose still traces the traces of…
A Note About Chi Chi
I am Dustin Lowman. I live in Nashville, TN, and I write poems and songs. Most of my conception of myself is tied up in what I write in my poems and songs, and I have a lot of fun doing it.
Mayo Clinic by Claire Scott
by Claire Scott A hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona Walking distance they said We opened the door to A hundred degree blast We drove two blocks To the Mayo Clinic Met…
PÈRE LACHAISE, PARIS by Beth Boylan
Beth Boylan loves hiking, reading, and eating cheese. She tries to make sense of the world around her through the written word. Beth teaches high school English
Do Not Touch by Mirissa D. Price
At the age of ten, Mirissa D. Price of Tucson, Arizona, awoke to a doctor's rattling prognosis: she would forever remain in a nursing home due to a neurological injury.
Maybe by Myrna Stone
Myrna Stone is the author of four full-length books of poetry: In the Present Tense: Portraits of My Father, a Finalist for the 2014 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry
Salt Marsh Soliloquy by David Sermersheim
taught at The Hotchkiss School for 33 years, have had poems published in "The Aurorean", "Blueline", "Ancient Paths", "Blue Collar Review" "Iodine Review
In Tennessee by Marcus Severns
I was born in Portland Oregon, but have enjoyed a life of travel since I was a young person.
The Wall by Joseph K. Wells
Joseph K. Wells is a businessman, doctor of occupational therapy, adjunct professor and many wannabes. He believes he can write, so he does. He just hopes
The Fish I Catch by Joseph Lisowski
Joseph Lisowski has taught at several colleges and universities, most notably, Duquesne University, Point Park College, The University of the Virgin Islands
Beyond Time by Silviu Crăciunaș
Silviu Crăciunaș is a professor at the “Lucian Blaga” University from Sibiu, Romania, doctor in Mathematics. A while ago, he returned to a somewhat older passion, literature
Peter has gotten a new job by Robert Ronnow
Robert Ronnow's most recent poetry collections are New & Selected Poems: 1975-2005
What the Onion Teaches by Laura Grace Weldon
Laura Grace Weldon lives on Bit of Earth Farm where she’s an editor, nonviolence educator, and marginally useful farm wench. She’s the author of a poetry collection
Rye Shoulders, Cake Breasts by Emily Strauss
Emily Strauss has an M.A. in English, but is self-taught in poetry, which she has written since college Over 300 of her poems appear in a wide variety of online venues and in anthologies
Yellow Found by Larry D. Thacker
Larry D. Thacker is an Appalachian writer and artist. His poetry can be found in past issues of The Still Journal, Kudzu Literary Magazine, The Southern Poetry Anthology,
Tourist Season by Sarah A. O’Brien
Sarah A. O’Brien enjoys dark chocolate and light wordplay. Sarah’s work has previously appeared in The Alembic, Every Writer, The Screech Owl, Snapping Twig
This not the Poem I Most Want to Write by John L. Stanizzi
John L. Stanizzi is the author of the chapbook, Windows. His full length collections are Ecstasy Among Ghosts, Sleepwalking, Dance Against the Wall
Huffy by Jim Landwehr
Jim Landwehr’s poetry collection, Written Life, was released in March of 2015. His first book, Dirty Shirt: A Boundary Waters Memoir was published in 2014.
This, Many Times by darlene anita scott
darlene anita scott is an insatiable daydreamer and so-so runner who likes homemade popcorn and alone time--not necessarily together.
The Path in Autumn by Tom Sexton
Tom Sexton is a former Alaska Poet Laureate. His latest collection is A Ladder of Cranes, University of Alaska press, 2015.
A Majority of Sound by Tom Sheehan
Sheehan served in 31st Infantry, Korea 1951-52, and graduated Boston College, 1956. His books are Epic Cures; Brief Cases, Short Spans; A Collection of Friends
Roadside by Theresa Lockhart
Theresa Lockhart lives and teaches in Michigan. Her work is forthcoming from Kaleidotrope.
I’m Living in Oaxaca by Ken Massicotte
by Ken Massicotte Hay que soñar para vivir One must dream in order to live. 1. I’m living in Oaxaca but I’m harbouring a canoe. I keep it high in…
Veils by Sindhu Verma
I live in Bangalore, India and work in a multinational semiconductor company as a wireless systems engineer. I love working on technology but also have a keen interest in literature
Wisp by Johanne Boulat
by Johanne Boulat When the wind strummed The electric lines I think I finally heard it then – What whisper made The heads of wheat Sway in the timid light…
Clouds by Robin Dawn Hudechek
Robin Dawn Hudechek received her MFA in creative writing from UCI. She has two chapbooks: Ghost Walk, The Inevitable Press, 1997, and Ice Angels
Sexy Under the Snow by Robert Knox
OK, so the rain is tickling the earth
'Good.' 'Maybe good.' 'Not so hard!'
Hail? You give me hail? It's April!
I want a soft touch, an easy touch, a slow hand
Exile by Howie Good
Howie Good’s latest poetry collections are Bad for the Heart (Prolific Press) and Dark Specks in a Blue Sky (Another New Calligraphy). He is recipient of the 2015 Press
Washed Away by Tricia Mccallum
Tricia Mccallum is an author and a writer. You can follow can follow her at Huffington post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tricia-mccallum/ or at Micropoetry http://micropoetry.com/author/celtpoet
Things the dead leave by Rick Richardson
Rick Richardson is a professional archaeologist, an avid reader, dog lover, father, and poet. Rick lives on the coast of North Carolina. His poetry has been published in the University of San Francisco’s
Grasp by Shannon P. Laws
By Shannon P. Laws Mist disappears into clean air Turns into the space between us Once we were something no one could hold All could see, none could breathe An…
ARTIFACTS OF WOMANHOOD by Lana Bella
A Pushcart nominee, Lana has a diverse work of poetry and fiction published and forthcoming with over 140 journals, including a chapbook with Crisis Chronicles
Poinsettias by Larry D. Thomas
Larry D. Thomas, a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, served as the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate. He has published several award-winning collections of poetry.
Akizuki by Joe Helmick
The sonnets Joe has submitted were all composed in and around Fukuoka Japan during his sojourn there as an English teacher in the 1990's. He has also taught English
Money, as viewed by a poet by Edilson A. Ferreira
Mr. Ferreira is a Brazilian poet who writes in English rather than Portuguese, in order to reach more people. Has been published in four printed British Anthologies
An alliance with sleep by Vasudha Chhotray
Vasudha Chhotray teaches politics and development studies at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK. She studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies
Spider Medicine by Angela Muir
Angie Muir is an artist, writer and yogi living in Kailua, Hawaii. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan where she studied English, Theater and Film.
Sonnet nr. 13 by A.M. Hagalin
A.M. Hagalin is an Icelandic writer of a merry age. Due to personal prefrence he writes in English rather than Icelandic. An occasional dilly-dallier & hoodwinker, though only as a hobby
Cantaloupes and bananas by Heather Terry
How long has it been, I wonder, since we’ve shared a cantaloupe?
Since I’ve stayed over night and gotten up early to sit with you?
Eros Takes Time, Time Bites Back by Andrew Kuo
Let me hear
your honeyed prevarications
Fineapple by Amy Ho
I’m a young physician and over half of my life has been poring over tiny font of incredibly drab writing consisting of an inaccessibly idiosyncratic vernacular–
Palindromes by Jennifer Rollings
This is a box in a shoe.
Foot jutting from heel,
bones streamlining skin.
Boxes by S Wallace
S Wallace is a member of Space Coast Writers’ Guild (SCWG), The Space Coast Fiction Writers Critique Group (SCFW), and the Cocoa Beach Writer’s Workshop.
Lover of Jane Eyre by Abigail George
Abigail George, a Pushcart Prize nominee writes a weekly article/commentary for Modern Diplomacy, was recently anthologised in the Sol Plaatje EU Poetry Anthology IV
August Retreat by Cassandra Ricca
Cassandra Ricca, cordially known as Cassie, is a novice writer who loves a good story as much as she does iced hazelnut macchiatos and family outings.
Prairie Summer by Howard F. Stein
Howard F. Stein, a medical, applied, psychoanalytic, and organizational anthropologist, and organizational consultant, is professor emeritus (that is, old
Working Travails by Carole Mertz
Poems by Carole Mertz appear in The Lutheran Digest, Page & Spine, Rockford Review, The Write Place at the Write Time, and WestWard Quarterly.
The Piano And His Boy by April Votolato
April Votolato is a writer and visual artist from Seattle Washington where she lives with her two children, and husband, singer songwriter Rocky Votolato