Issue #9, March 2023

Patrick Sylvain is a poet, writer, social and literary critic. Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Published in several creative anthologies, journals, periodicals, and reviews including: African American Review, Agni, American Poetry Review, Callaloo, The Caribbean Writer, Chicago Quarterly Review, Ep;phany, Magma Poetry, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner. Sylvain has degrees from the University of Massachusetts (B.A.), Harvard University (Ed.M.), Boston University (MFA), and Brandeis University (PhD). Sylvain is an Assistant Professor at Simmons University, and he is also on faculty at Harvard University’s History and Literature Division. Sylvain’s poetry chapbook, "Underworlds," is published by Central Square Press (2018). Sylvain is a featured poet on Benjamin Boone’s Poetry and Jazz CD, "The Poets are Gathering" (Oct 2020), and he is the leading author of "Education Across Borders: Immigration, Race, and Identity in the Classroom" (Beacon Press, Feb 2022).
 

Robin Gow is a trans poet and witch from rural Pennsylvania. They are the author of several poetry books, an essay collection, and YA/Middle-Grade novels in verse, including "A Million Quiet Revolutions" and "Ode to My First Car" (FSG Books for Young Readers) and "Dear Mothman" (Abrams Books). Gow's poetry has recently been published in POETRY, Southampton Review, Poet Lore, and Yemassee.
 

Rohan Buettel lives in Canberra, Australia. His haikus have appeared in various Australian and international journals (including Frogpond, Cattails and The Heron’s Nest). His longer poetry recently appears in Hare's Paw, The Goodlife Review, Rappahannock Review, Penumbra Literary and Art Journal, Mortal Magazine, Passengers Journal, Reed Magazine, Meniscus and Quadrant.
 

Alan Hill was born in the UK and immigrated to Canada in 2005. He is the former Poet Laureate of the City of New Westminster, BC (2017-2020), former president of the Royal City Literary Arts Society (RCLAS), and was the editor and curator of "A Poetry of Place: Journeys Across New Westminster," published in partnership with New Westminster Arts Services. His writing has been published internationally and his poetry has appeared in Event, CV2, Canadian Literature, The Antigonish Review, subTerrain, Poetry is Dead, among others. He works in the field of community development and immigrant settlement and lives in New Westminster, BC. His book "In The Blood", was published by Caitlin Press in 2022.
 

T. Clear is a founder of Floating Bridge Press and an EasySpeak Seattle facilitator. She has been writing and publishing since the late 1970’s, and her work has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including Poetry Northwest, The Rise-Up Review, Red Earth Review, Terrain.org, The Moth, Common Ground Review, Crannog, The American Journal of Poetry, Verse Daily and Take a Stand: Art Against Hate. Her book, "A House, Undone," is the 2021 winner of the Sally Albiso Award from MoonPath Press. She is an Associate Editor at Bracken Magazine.
 

David P. Miller’s collection, "Bend in the Stair," was published by Lily Poetry Review Books in 2021. "Sprawled Asleep" was published by Nixes Mate Books in 2019. Poems have recently appeared in Meat for Tea, Hawaii Pacific Review, Turtle Island Quarterly, Clementine Unbound, Constellations, J Journal, The Lily Poetry Review, Ibbetson Street, Redheaded Stepchild, The Blue Pages, and What Rough Beast, among others. His poem “Add One Father to Earth” was awarded an Honorable Mention by Robert Pinsky for the New England Poetry Club's 2019 Samuel Washington Allen Prize competition. He was a librarian at Curry College in Massachusetts, from which he retired in June 2018.
 

Amy Haddad is a poet, nurse and ethicist who taught at Creighton University in Omaha, NE. Her poetry and short have been published in the American Journal of Nursing, Janus Head, Journal of Medical Humanities, Touch, Bellevue Literary Review, Aji, Oberon Literary Journal, Abandoned Mine and the anthologies "Between the Heart Beats" and "Intensive Care: More Poetry and Prose by Nurses" both edited by Cortney Davis and Judy Schaefer, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, Iowa. She is the co-editor of "The Arduous Touch: Women’s Voices in Health Care, "Purdue University Press. Her chapbook, "The Geography of Kitchens," was published by Finishing Line Press in 2021 and her first poetry collection, "An Otherwise Healthy Woman," was published by Backwaters Press, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press in 2022.
 

Todd Williams is a former South Dakota journalist now working in the Middle East. His poetry has been published in a number of online and print journals and anthologies, and he won the 2021 South Dakota State Poetry Society's Chapbook Contest for "Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear."
 

Joyce Gregor is a poet and grant writer/nonprofit consultant, living in Westcliffe, Colorado. She is a graduate of Lourdes University in Sylvania, Ohio. She penned the words of Lourdes University Alma Mater, and her poems and articles have appeared in several magazines and anthologies. Joyce has recently published a gift book, "Flowers of Faith." She served for three years with a team from the National League of American Pen Women Pikes Peak Branch in developing and bringing poetry education and writing to children in the elementary classroom in Colorado Springs. Currently Joyce is writing a non-fiction book on the History of old Colorado Church Structures built before 1900.
 

Lawrence Bridges' poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, and The Tampa Review. He has published three volumes of poetry: "Horses on Drums" (Red Hen Press, 2006), "Flip Days" (Red Hen Press, 2009), and "Brownwood" (Tupelo Press, 2016). You can find him on IG: @larrybridges
 

Sarah Orman is a writer and a lawyer in Austin, Texas. Her poetry and essays have been accepted for publication in BuffaloX8, Narrative, Stonecrop, and Choosing Judaism: 36 Stories (Amazon Books 2020). She is working on a memoir.
 

Daniel A. Rabuzzi (he / him) has had two novels, five short stories, 25 poems, and nearly 50 essays / articles published (www.danielarabuzzi.com). He lived eight years in Norway, Germany and France. He has degrees in the study of folklore & mythology and European history. He lives in New York City with his artistic partner & spouse, the woodcarver Deborah A. Mills (www.deborahmillswoodcarving.com), and the requisite cat. Tweets @TheChoirBoats
 

Casey has been published in numerous journals including The American Journal of Poetry, Better Than Starbucks, The Moth, and 3rd Wednesday. His latest book is "A nest blew down" (Kelsay Books, 2021), and a new collection, "Freak show" (Fernwood Press), is due out in late 2022. Casey has a degree from Reed College.
 

Frederick Pollack is the author of two book-length narrative poems, "THE ADVENTURE" and "HAPPINESS," both Story Line Press; the former reissued 2022 by Red Hen Press. Two collections of shorter poems, "A POVERTY OF WORDS," (Prolific Press, 2015) and "LANDSCAPE WITH MUTANT" (Smokestack Books, UK, 2018). His new collection, "The Beautiful Losses" will be published by Better Than Starbucks Books in September 2023. Pollack has appeared in Salmagundi, Poetry Salzburg Review, The Fish Anthology (Ireland), Magma (UK), Bateau, Fulcrum, Chiron Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, etc. Online, poems have appeared in Big Bridge, Hamilton Stone Review, BlazeVox, The New Hampshire Review, Mudlark, Rat’s Ass Review, Faircloth Review, Triggerfish, etc.