BIO – Anna Akhmatova (1889-1961) Akhmatova’s early Acmeist poems were sensationally popular during the teens and 20s of the twentieth century. After the Bolshevik revolution her personal life and public career went from crisis to crisis. She was effectively barred from publishing. She continued to write “for the bottom of her chest” as she said….
BIO Gemma Gorga was born in Barcelona in 1968. She has a Ph.D. in Philology from the University of Barcelona, where she is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Spanish Literature. She has published six collections of poetry. The prose poems are from Llibre dels minuts (Book of Minutes, Barcelona, 2006), which won the Premi Miquel de Palol…
BIO Lana Bella is published in over ninety journals, including a chapbook with Crisis Chronicles Press (2015), Aurorean Poetry, Chiron Review, Contrary Magazine, Elsewhere, Poetry Quarterly, and Featured Artist with Quail Bell Magazine, among others. She is also a novelist, wife and a mom living in the US and the coastal town of Nha Trang, Vietnam. ….
BIO . Adele Kenny, founding director of the Carriage House Poetry Series, and poetry editor of Tiferet Journal, is the author of twenty-four books (poetry & nonfiction). Her poems, reviews, and articles have been published worldwide and have appeared in books and anthologies from Crown, Tuttle, Shambhala, and McGraw-Hill. She is the recipient of various…
BIO Ivonne Gordon was born in Quito, Ecuador. She is a poet, literary critic, and literary translator. She has a Ph.D from the University of Callifornia, Irvine in Latin American Literature. She is a Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of Redlands. She has published five books and has two more completed. The…
BIO Since immigrating from Honduras, Lorraine Gow has crossed many other borders: from earning an Education Specialist Masters to writing poems and short stories about the struggles of being black, speaking Spanish, making tamales wrapped in banana leaves and living in a country where the term black Hispanic is stranger than alien. . First Epistle…
By Kalpna Singh-Chitnis There has never been a time when a generation has not faced the challenges that prepare a society to bring transformations necessary to evolve and prosper. Our generation is no exception. The advancement of science and technology has brought the world closer and allowed us to have dialogues we never had before….
The fourth edition of Life and Legends is here, and I want to thank all writers, poets and artists for their unique contributions. . My deepest gratitude to our assistant editor Robbi Nester for reading the submissions, and helping me select the best to share with our readers. I also welcome and thank our…
BIO Adam Middleton-Watts is an oddball British expat writing from South Dakota. When he’s not dissolving in the midst of a savage summer or fattening up for the next brutal winter, he’s writing poems and stories on the backs of unpaid utility bills, and drinking flagons of dark ale. He has had words printed in,…
BIO Retired after nearly 20 years as a pastor and another 20 years as director of Dakota Resource Council, a community organizing enterprise in North Dakota. Mark has also traveled extensively in Latin America. About 50 of his poems were published in various literary magazines from 1975 to 1995. Since last year, Mark began publishing…
BIO Carole Stone’s most recent collections of poems are AMERICAN RHAPSODY, CavanKerry Press, 2012 and HURT, THE SHADOW, Dos Madres Press, 2013. LATE is forthcoming from Turning Point in January, 2016. Her most recent poetry publications are Cavewall, The Bellevue Literary Journal, Blue Fifth Review, Exit 13, Marsh Hawk Review, and Talisman. She is Distinguished…
BIO Richard Nester’s poems have appeared in numerous magazines and journals including Cape Discovery: the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Anthology, Ploughshares, and Seneca Review and on-line in Qarrtsiluni and Inlandia. He was recently the feature poet in the Summer 2015 issue of Floyd County Moonshine. . Horse “[a Jungian concept is] the…
