Present Poetry

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...

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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...

Mimi Bordeaux is a published writer for Medium.com with 3K followers. She also makes photogenic imagery.

LEE PENNINGTON is the author of 23 books including I Knew a Woman (1977) Thigmotropism (1993) and Appalachian Newground (2016)–each nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in poetry. His book, Daughters of Leda (2017) was selected as a finalist for “Best Book of Poetry published in 2017” by the American Book Fest. His Songs of Bloody Harlan was reprinted and re-released in 2019. His most recent book (2019)...

Sara Patricia Kelly is a children’s poet and primary school teacher. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore. Born in Australia, she now lives in Thailand with her family. Her favourite pastimes include singing nursery rhymes, smelling fresh herbs, and making pancakes for breakfast.

Tiriq Rashad is a spoken word artist who states that his work is "where poetry lives in rhythm, and rhythm lives in truth."Recently, he unveiled the music video for the album's lead single “No Regrets,” a deeply personal song that sets the tone for Kiss My Art (out 10/17).Opening with the line “Grief hits like a ton of bricks,” “No Regrets” honors his late mother, who died while help...

Hua Ai (also sometimes published as Nikolina Hua, Nikolina Ai) is a London-based writer with an MA in Media & Communications and a BA in English Literature. Published in Mandarin since fifteen, her English-language poetry has received international recognition and appears across the UK, US, Australia, India, and Uzbekistan. Her chapbook, Exiles Across Time, moves between myth and lived witness...

Barbara Anna Gaiardoni is among the winners of the 7th Basho - an international English Haiku Competition. She has been recognized in The Mainichi’s Haiku in English Best list for 2023 and 2024 and received an Honorable Mention at the Fujisan Tanka Contest 2024. Her Japanese-style poetry has been published in 260 international magazines and translated into 12 languages. Drawing, swimming in the se...

Linda M. Crate (she/her) is a Pennsylvanian writer whose poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews have been published in a myriad of magazines both online and in print. She has fifteen published chapbooks: A Mermaid Crashing Into Dawn (Fowlpox Press - June 2013), Less Than A Man (The Camel Saloon - January 2014), If Tomorrow Never Comes (Scars Publications, August 2016), My Wings Were Made to...