BIO Silva Zanoyan Merjanian is a widely published poet who grew up in Beirut, Lebanon. She moved to Geneva during the Lebanese civil war and later settled in California with her husband and two sons. She is the author of two poetry collections, Uncoil a Night (2013) and Rumor ( Cold River Press, 2015.) Rumor…
BIO Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The Nation, Poetry, Osiris, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. His most recent collection is Almost Rain, published by River Otter Press (2013). For more information, including free e-books, his essay titled “Magic, Illusion and Other Realities” please visit his website at www.simonperchik.com….
BIO Yuan Changming grew up in rural China, began to learn English at 19, and published monographs on translation before moving to Canada. With a PhD in English, Yuan currently edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver, and has poetry appearing in Best Canadian Poetry, BestNewPoemsOnline, Threepenny Review and 1109 others across 37 countries….
BIO A native Ohioan, Carl Boon lives in Istanbul, where he directs the English prep school and teaches courses in literature at Yeni Yuzyil University. Recent or forthcoming poems appear in Posit, The Adirondack Review, The Tulane Review, Badlands, The Blue Bonnet Review, and other magazines. . MY MARY They led you away. The stones…
BIO Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad was born and raised in New York. Her poetry has appeared in Passages North, Chiron Review, The Commonline Journal, Kudzu House Quarterly and Narrative Northeast. She currently lives in New York and practices matrimonial law. . . Eggshells Yolkless eggs underneath your feet will crack only to reveal nothing, so walk…
. BIO Paul Lojeski is the author of the satiric novel, The Reverend Jimmy Pup. His poetry has appeared in Barrow Street, ABZ, Right Hand Pointing, Counterpunch and Paumonok II, an anthology of Long Island poetry and photography. He lives with his wife and daughter in Port Jefferson, NY. . At the Light by the…
BIO Greg Hill is a writer and voice over talent in West Hartford, Connecticut (United States). He has an MFA from Vermont of College of Fine Arts. His poems have appeared recently in Black Heart Magazine; Verse Wisconsin; and Queen Mob’s Teahouse. His poems are not inspired by working a desk job in some media…
BIO Born in January 1983, in Mauritius, Amit Parmessur has appeared in a variety of journals, online and in print, including Ann Arbor Review, Indian Review, Crack the Spine, Harbinger Asylum, Hobo Camp Review, The Writing Disorder, Salt and Red Fez. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Award and Best of the Web. Sometimes…
BIO Judy Kronenfeld is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently, Shimmer (WordTech Editions, 2012) and the second edition of Light Lowering in Diminished Sevenths, (Antrim House, 2012), winner of the 2007 Litchfield Review Poetry Book Prize. She has also published a critical study, King Lear and the Naked Truth (Duke, 1998). Her…
BIO Margaret Saine was born in Germany and lives in Southern California, where she taught Spanish. She writes poetry and short stories in five languages, and regularly translates other poets. She has written prefaces for seven books of poetry. Her books in English are “Bodyscapes,” “Words of Art,” and 5 haiku chapbooks, plus several poetry…
A poetry film directed by Dan Sickles. Produced by Antonio Santini, Adam Uhl, Dan Sickles. I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast from Motionpoems on Vimeo. I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast by Melissa Studdard —After Thich Nhat Hanh . It looked like a pancake, but it was creation flattened out— the fist of God on…
Blackbirds in September: Selected Shorter Poems of Jürgen Becker Review by Kenneth Nichols Paperback: 148 pages Publisher: Black Lawrence Press (December 20, 2015) Language: English and German ISBN-13: 978-1625579386 The myth of the Tower of Babel describes a humanity that has united in the years after the Great Flood. Joined by language and purpose,…
