Issue #13, November 2023

Eric Machan Howd (Ithaca, NY) is a poet, musician, and educator. His fifth collection of poetry, "Universal Monsters," was recently published by The Orchard Street Press. His work has been seen in such publications as Stone Canoe, Nimrod, Slant, Caesura, and Slab. He is currently working on a long erasure project using a work by author H.P. Lovecraft.
 

Graziella Whipple Awabdy is a poet and educational psychologist who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the mother of a high schooler and college student. Besides writing poetry, she also enjoys running, reading, and cooking with her husband. Her work has been published in the Concho River Review.
 

Charlie Steak currently lives in the southwest USA. The winters are great but gardening in summer resembles Armageddon (or maybe Mordor). He has written for Space 55, Synthetic Human, and other organizations. His poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Constellations, Bluebird Word, Dogwood Alchemy, Tangled Locks, and Orion's Beau.
 

Rohan Buettel lives in Canberra, Australia. His haiku appear in various Australian and international journals (including Presence, Cattails and The Heron’s Nest). His longer poetry appears in more than forty journals, including Hare's Paw, The Goodlife Review, Rappahannock Review, Penumbra Literary and Art Journal, Passengers Journal, Reed Magazine, Meniscus and Quadrant.
 

Steve Fay's writing has lately appeared (or is forthcoming) in Comstock Review, Decadent Review, Hamilton Stone Review, Menacing Hedge, Spoon River Poetry Review, Tar River Poetry, The Dew Drop, TriQuarterly, and You Might Need to Hear This. His collection "what nature: Poems" was published by Northwestern UP in 1998. He lives in Fulton County, Illinois.
 

Diane Funston writes poetry of nature and human nature. She co-founded a women's poetry salon in San Diego, created a weekly poetry gathering in the high desert town of Tehachapi, CA and most recently has been the Yuba-Sutter Arts and Culture Poet-in-Residence for the past two years. Diane has been published in Synkronicity, California Quarterly, Whirlwind, San Diego Poetry Annual, Summation, and quite a few other literary journals. Her first chapbook, “Over the Falls” was published this July 2022 from Foothills Publishing. Diane is also a visual artist in mosaic, wool felting, and collage. Her pieces have been in galleries in the Sacramento Valley. noparadise@e.com
 

Nathan Hassall believes in poetry's transformational potential. He weaves dreams, altered states, numinous experiences, and the natural world into his work. Hassall's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Red Noise Collective, La Piccioletta Barca, The Inflectionist Review, and more. He currently serves as the Poet Laureate of Malibu, California. Find out more at www.nathanhassall.com.
 

Will Falk is a biophilic writer and lawyer. The natural world speaks and Falk's work is how he listens. His writing has been published by the Dark Mountain Project, Voices for Biodiversity, Earth Island Journal, Whole Terrain, Braided Way, The Wayfarer, Deep Times, and the San Diego Free Press, among others. His first collection of poetry, "When I Set the Sweetgrass Down" was released by Homebound Publications' Wayfarer Books in April, 2023.