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Issue #24, September 2025

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Poetry
  • CS Crowe is three crows in a trench coat that gained sentience after eating a magic bean. He spends his days writing stories on a stolen laptop and trading human teeth for peanuts. A poet and storyteller from the Southeastern United States, he believes stories and poems are about the journey, not the destination, and he loves those stories that wander in the wilderness for forty years before finding their way to the promised land.
     

  • Aaron is a poet and musician living in Portland, Oregon. His first collection of poetry appears in The Argyle Literary Press. He has written 6 books about medieval music and culture and is a retired professor of music.
     

  • Shannon, a UX designer living in Annapolis, Maryland, finds comfort in rainy days and the written word. When not crafting digital experiences, she's immersed in poetry, often with her cat by her side. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Black Fox, Press Pause Press, and Bodega Magazine among other journals.
     

  • John Dos Passos Coggin is a writer based in the Northern Neck of Virginia. His poetry has appeared in Pangyrus, Cathexis Northwest Press, and The Blue Mountain Review. He also co-manages the John Dos Passos literary estate.
     

  • Emily Jane Bartlett holds a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing, Spanish, and Communication Studies from Mercer University. Her work has appeared in her alma mater's literary and arts magazine, The Dulcimer. Bartlett currently works as a content specialist and lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

Prose
  • Lucy Siegel is a writer based in Los Angeles, currently querying her debut novel. She has been writing for many years and is passionate about exploring themes of personal transformation and the complexity of the human experience in both poetry and poetic prose.
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  • Leigh Ann is a white, deaf, aroace ciswoman who was born on a Tuesday morning. She holds a master’s degree in Deaf Studies (Gallaudet University ’22) and both a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English Literature and Language (Henderson State University ’18, St. Mary’s University TX ’20). You can find more about Leigh Ann and her work, especially her passion for deaf representation in fiction, on her website, slacowan(dot)com.

Music
  • Brian Spahr is a husband, a dad, a musician, a former hospital chaplain, and an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Based in Fort Wayne, IN, Brian's work is to create and hold sacred space for people in their struggles, hurts, and grief through songs, stories, and, spiritual practice. As a singer/songwriter, he has released 2 full-length Albums, an EP, and 2 singles as a solo artist and a full-length album as part of the acoustic duo, “mudhouse.”
     

  • Daniel Klawitter is an award-winning poet and the lead singer/lyricist for the indie rock band Mining for Rain. His digital spoken word/poetry album, What All Cats Know, won Honorable Mention in the 2024 Royal Dragonfly Audio Book Awards. Link to stream the album for free: https://miningforrain.bandcamp.com/album/what-all-cats-know-spoken-poetry-album-by-daniel-klawitter

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