It was a hot summer, and I was “sweating” my physics final exam. I was required to take physics for a second time during summer school after failing the course during the Spring Quarter of my sophomore year in college. I was also “sweating” the grueling, twelve-hour days. I was working as a rideshare driver….
The eyes of the cougar were aflame in the light of the morning sun. The sun cast sparkles off the snow so bright it made him blink. He sat on the bank of the Grand River with one paw lightly resting on a drift of blood-sprinkled snow. He lifted his proud head to smell the…
Shanta Acharya is an internationally recognized name in modern Indian English literature. The canvas of her creativity and literary expressions are as vast as the geography of the continents, where she finds her roots and lives to nurture her art and profession. Shanta Acharya, a poet and a writer, is also a successful business professional….
. Matthew Hunt is an inveterate traveler, mountaineer, and musician. He has released music as Slim Hunt, Slim Rosa, and The Iris Bell and performs regularly. He lives in Washington DC with his wife and children. The Black Swan From far on darkened river shores A flight is set that undoes men’s fortunes For we…
. Holly Day’s poetry has recently appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Grain, and Harvard Review. Her newest poetry collections are Where We Went Wrong (Clare Songbirds Publishing), Into the Cracks (Golden Antelope Press), Cross Referencing a Book of Summer (Silver Bow Publishing), and The Tooth is the Largest Organ in the Human Body (Anaphora Literary…
BIO Ram Krishna Singh, an Indian English poet, has been writing for about four decades. Professionally, till recently, Professor of English at IIT-ISM in Dhanbad, he has published more than 160 research articles, 175 book reviews and 42 books, including You Can’t Scent Me and Other Selected Poems (2016), God Too Awaits Light (2017), Growing Within…
Kunwar Narain An iconic figure in Indian literature, Kunwar Narain is regarded as one of the finest poets, writers and thinkers of modern times. He read widely, across literatures and disciplines, and blended an international sensibility with a grounding in Indian history and thought. He has written in diverse genres, including three epics considered classics…
Translated from the original Hindi by John Vater and Apurva Narain ‘You degenerate insect!’ one inveterate man said to another. The second man, to prove he wasn’t an insect, clawed like a cat at the face of the man calling him one. ‘Animal!’ A new sobriquet, accompanied by a powerful slap, confirms the view…
BIO David Martin is the founder and managing editor of Fine Lines, a non-profit quarterly journal that has published creative writing by “young authors of all ages” since 1992. All writers are welcome to submit their poetry, prose, photography, and artwork. This publication has printed work by authors from all fifty states and forty-three…
. BIO Cameron Morse taught and studied in China. Diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2014, he is currently a third-year MFA candidate at UMKC and lives with his wife, Lili, in Blue Springs, Missouri. His poems have been or will be published in over 50 different magazines, including New Letters, Pamplemousse, Fourth & Sycamore…
. BIO: Christopher DeGroot is the editor of The Agonist. His poetry has appeared there as well as in New English Review and Ygdrasil, A Journal of the Poetic Arts. An Undercurrent I want to understand the largeness of our essential misunderstandings. I want to know my lacking is vast enough for your search….
. BIO Uzomah Ugwu is a poet and writer. She is a political, social and cultural activist. Her focus is on human rights, mental health, animal rights and rights of LBGTQ persons. Her work has been featured in Prelude Magazine, Tuck Magazine and Wild Word and is forthcoming in the Angel City review and Voice…
