. Michael Milligan has worked as a construction laborer, migrant fruit and grape picker, homestead farmer and graphic arts production manager. He is a survivor. He took his MFA in Creative Writing at Bennington College co-founded of Poetry Oasis Worcester and was privileged to be an editor with Diner. His poetry book reviews, fiction and…
. Karla Linn Merrifield has had 800+ poems appear in dozens of journals and anthologies. She has 14 books to her credit. Following her 2018 Psyche’s Scroll (Poetry Box Select) is the 2019 full-length book Athabaskan Fractal: Poems of the Far North from Cirque Press. In early 2021, her Half a World of Kisses will…
. Stephen Mead is a multi-media artist and writer. He is resident artist/curator for The Chroma Museum, artistic renderings of LGBTQI historical figures, organizations, and allies predominantly before Stonewall. https://thestephenmeadchromamuseum.weebly.com/ , New Letters Never for keeps, this heart heavy because it’s full: Anne Sexton’s Damariscotta blue berries bunching up knuckle-ripe with stock sentiments really genuine….
. Jean L. Kreiling is a Professor of Music at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts and the author of two collections of poetry, both available at amazon.com: Arts & Letters & Love (2018) and The Truth in Dissonance (2014). She is a past winner of the Able Muse Write Prize, the Great Lakes Commonwealth of…
. Marina Kazakova (b. Gorky, Russia, 1983) is a Russian-born Belgium-based poet. Published internationally in magazines and journals (Three Rooms Press “Maintenant”, “AntiNarrative Journal”, “Crannog”, “Duck Lake Books”, “Writing in a Woman’s Voice”), Marina is a frequent performer, she has been shortlisted at different poetry/ film-poetry competitions and was awarded various prizes. She is the…
. Patrick Theron Erickson, a resident of Garland, Texas, a Tree City, just south of Duck Creek, is a retired parish pastor put out to pasture himself. His work has appeared in Grey Sparrow Journal, Tipton Poetry Journal, and The Main Street Rag, among other publications, and more recently in Torrid Literature Journal, South Florida…
. Stephen Anderson is a Milwaukee poet whose work has appeared in Southwest Review, Verse Wisconsin, Foundling Review, Twist In Time, Tipton Poetry Journal, New Purlieu Review, Free Verse as well as in numerous other print and online journals. Many of his poems have been featured on the Milwaukee NPR affiliate WUWM Lake Effect Program….
. Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca was born and raised in a Jewish family in Mumbai. She was educated at the Queen Mary School, Mumbai, received her BA in English and French, an MA from the University of Bombay in English and American Literature, and a Master’s in Education from Oxford Brookes University, England. She has taught…
Donna Snyder lives and writes in the borderlands of Mexico and the United States. She founded the Tumblewords Project in 1995 and organizes its free events in El Paso, Texas. She has published three poetry collections, and her poetry and prose have appeared in journals and anthologies. An animal lover, she adopts both from the…
Shanta Acharya DPhil (Oxon) was born and educated in Cuttack, Odisha. She won a scholarship to Oxford, where she was among the first batch of women admitted to Worcester College. After completing her doctoral degree, she was appointed a Visiting Scholar in the Department of English and American Literature and Languages at Harvard University. Since…
. Kedarnath Singh was a Hindi poet, critic, and essayist. He received India’s highest literary honor, the Jananpith Award, and the Sahitya Academy Award. His anthologies include Srishti Par Pahra, Abhi Bilkul Abhi, Zameen Pak Rahi Hai, Yahan se Dekho, Akaal Mein Saaras, Baagh,Tolstoy aur Cycle and Matdaan Kendra Pe Jhapki. Kalpna Singh-Chitnis is…
Born to Argentine parents in Sala Capriasca in 1892, Alfonsina Storni received part of her education in Switzerland, while spending her working years in her country’s capital of Buenos Aires. Storni was familiar, if not a part, of early 20th century modernism, though she has often been characterized as uniquely postmodern. Early influences include…
