Present Poetry

Anjetta (Anjie) Williams-Brown, is a Tennessee State University retiree after 22 years of service. She self-published her first poetry book in 2022 and hosts three (3) open mic poetry programs, one (1) author/artist spotlight program, and one (1) talk show. She has poems in anthologies and magazines.

Tom Formaro is a writer, drummer, and dad. His debut poetry collection, Advice and Other Absurdities for My Daughter, was released by Bridge House Publishing in September 2026. His work has appeared in several journals and websites including Janus Head, Indefinite Space, and Exacting Clam, and is forthcoming in BlazeVOX and Chewers by Masticadores. He has also published a novel, The Broken Heart D...

Artemis Craig is a multidisciplinary author, poet, and screenwriter operating at the intersection of leadership, visual design, and narrative storytelling. A graduate of the University of Southern California with a B.F.A. in Screenwriting, Artemis masterfully blends cinematic pacing with the deep, evocative emotion of verse. Artemis is the author of the poetry collection Inspirational Verse for Th...

Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris lives in Southport, NC, with her WolfDog, Tala and Pomsky, Koda. She is a published poet in Cameron Art Museum’s Writers Respond to Art Program. She is a published author in Whisper’s & Echoes, 50 Give or Take by Vine Leaves Press for five stories, and in Visual Verse with her poem Mother Earth. Gypsie-Ami is a current contributing author to Spillwords. Her short...

William "Bill" Waldorf's love affair with poetry began with strict forms like sonnets. Currently he is focused on poems from daily life. He loves to show history has not changed us. Waldorf’s latest book, 101 Stories of Love, invites his readers to explore myriad forms of love—from whispered intimacy to the poignant ache of absence, from shared laughter in a café to the isolation of...

Born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky, Chip Sebastian received a Bachelors in English and Film from the University of Kentucky in 1995, as well as a Masters in Theatre in 2006. Chip teaches martial arts and dance, acts for stage and screen, and does a great deal of voiceover. In addition, he has owned and operated Sebastian's Mobile Massage since 1995. Through these varied activities, Chip ha...

Writer and artist Steven Seidenberg is the author of Coda (Omnidawn 2025), Anon (Omnidawn, 2022), plain sight (Roof Books, 2020), Situ (Black Sun Lit, 2018), Null Set (Spooky Actions Books, 2015), and Itch (RAW ArT Press, 2014). His books have been published in Swedish, Italian, and Portuguese, and his collections of photographs include T he Architecture of Silence: Abandoned Lives of the Italian...

Roberta Batorsky is a poet, science journalist and college educator. She is in several online and in-person poetry and fiction writing critique groups and has put a poetry book together called Perihelion , published last November by Prolific Pulse Press. Her poetry is published in Fine-Lines, Delaware Valley Poets Worksheets, Poets for Science, Prolific Pulse Press poetry compilations (Social Poss...

The Present Poetry Podcast is going on hiatus! Submissions are still open through the form, and we'll be back September 7th!

Adair Heitmann, BFA, is an award-winning poet, storyteller, educator, and artist. Her poems are published in We are Here; Lost Love by Orenaug Mountain Publishing; Connecticut Bards Poetry Review 2025 ; and the Fourth Volume of Connecticut Poets . Her personal narrative essays are published in Animals: Personal Encounters with Spirit Animals and Clarity: Stories About the Moment That Changed it Al...

Enas Rashid is a contemporary artist from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She is a multidisciplinary who grew up with a passion for all forms of art and enjoys illustration, painting, creative writing and sculpting. She believes in expressing the deepest emotions in various surreal ways that transcend form by blending reality and imagination together to create a new way to communicate and connect to people...

Zaha Al-Hmoud is a Jordanian-Canadian poet based in Canada. Born in Jordan, he moved to Canada at six years old. His first collection, The Ache Is What Moves Me, traces the arc of a psychiatric break and the rebuilding that followed, through running marathons, through writing, through refusing to let the clinical world own the language of what happened. The poems are grounded in the body, in sky a...

Loralee Clark has a fourth chapbook forthcoming: Neolithic Imaginings: Mythical Explorations of the Unknown (Kelsay Press, 2026). Clark has been nominated for three 2026 Pushcart Prizes. She resides in Virginia; her website is sites.google.com/view/loraleeclark. Her Substack, which focuses on the process of creativity, is nosuchthingasfailure.substack.com. Her poems Artistry , The Path: Ways to He...

Clint Frakes is a poet, writer, teacher, and ceremonialist living in Sedona, AZ and the Verde Valley since 1992. His poetry, prose and narrative non-fiction has appeared in nearly 200 journals, magazines and anthologies in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia and Argentina since 1987. He was named one of the Best New Poets of 2008 by former American Poet Laureate, Mark Strand, and received the Joseph...

Ed Ahern resumed writing after forty odd years in foreign intelligence and international sales. He’s had over 600 stories and poems published so far, and twelve books. He works the other side of writing at Bewildering Stories where he squats on the review board, and at Scribes Micro , where he’s the idle figurehead. His book, Peculiar Perspectives, will be published in May 2026 by Prolific Pulse P...

Lindsay Soberano Wilson is a mother, teacher, and author. "The Japanese Red Maple" from Hoods of Motherhood: A Collection of Poems (Prolific Pulse Press, 2023), a bittersweet reflection on motherhood, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her second poetry book, Breaking Up with the Cobalt Blues: Poems for Healing (Prolific Pulse Press, 2024), curating artistry from pain, was featured on C...

Maria Tosti was born in 1965 in Perugia, Italy, and lives in a small Umbrian town crossed by the river Tiber. She writes poems since she was a teenager. She participated at several national and international poetry awards along the years, getting many appreciations. Her poetry is a path of reflections and considerations on the human existence and the life experiences. Creating is a breath of art f...

Eddie D. Wilcoxen is a retired radio broadcaster who worked in Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Virginia, and Ohio before settling in for a thirty year career in Altus, Oklahoma. Selected by Governor Brad Henry as Oklahoma Poet Laureate for 2011 and 2012, Eddie traveled the state and made more than one hundred appearances during his term, sharing his love of poetry and promoting support of the arts....

Hafiz Muhammad Qasim has a unique taste and talent for writing poetry. He has written more than 100 poems on multitudinous issues ranging from love, Adolescent, Mother Nature, etc.

Phillip is a disabled Veteran who lives in Western Colorado with his family. When not at his blue collar job, he enjoys birthing creativity into this world through his writing. Phillip has been published by Black Coffee Creative, The Light Within, and currently in contract with HellBound Books.

I am 32 years young I love, fashion makeup, deep, love, spirituality, my family, children, and spirit to earth and we have a really deep passion for writing. It just comes to. I have a way with words.

Iustin Floroiu, 25, is a teacher, scientist, poet, music producer and published philosophy writer from Bucharest, Romania, looking to help through his creative endeavors. Poems in this episode are: I see the ceiling... (from the volume "From Daylight to Nighttime and Beyond All Over Again") I cried your tears (from the volume "Less) I touched his sight (from the volume "The Emp...

Michael is a husband, father and grandfather. He is also a veteran of the Northern Irish troubles. When writing, he takes inspiration from his surroundings and his life experience.

Angela Fields is a poet and storyteller, writing with emotional depth about love, loss, memory, and heartache. She is drawn to the spaces between life and its echoes, to the human experience at its most intimate and raw. With a deep love for history and the voices of those who came before, she weaves these elements alongside the supernatural in her work. She is currently at work on her first novel...

Native New Yorker LindaAnn LoSchiavo, an award-winning member of British Fantasy Society, HWA, SFPA, and The Dramatists Guild. She released three titles in 2024: "Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems" (Wild Ink), "Apprenticed to the Night" (UniVerse Press), and "Felones de Se: Poems about Suicide" (Ukiyoto). Next: "Cancer Courts My Mother" (Prolific Pulse Pr...