Present Poetry

Born and residing in Greece, she holds a degree in English Literature, has completed postgraduate studies in Ethics, and earned a Ph. D. in Philosophy. Her literary work includes poetry, prose, and theatrical plays that explore deep existential themes.

A.S. Coomer is a writer & musician. He was commissioned a Kentucky Colonel for his social & creative work. Books include BIRTH OF A MONSTER, THE FETISHISTS, SONGS FOR LEAVING, FLIRTING WITH DISASTER, SHINING THE LIGHT, MEMORABILIA, & many others. He runs Lost, Long Gone, Forgotten Records , a "record label" for poetry. Follow him at ascoomer.com We're reading poems from Songs for Leavi...

A.J. Brown is a southern-born writer who tells emotionally charged, character driven stories that often delve into the darker parts of the human psyche.  Though he writes mostly darker stories, he does so without unnecessary gore, coarse language, or sex. More than 200 of his stories have been published.

Karen Southall Watts, teaches, consults, and writes in North Carolina. Her works have been featured in multiple online publications as well as the North Carolina Bards Poetry Anthology 2023 and 2024, Gathering 2024, and Letters I’ll Never Send. Karen is a three-time Pushcart nominee for poetry. Her poetry chapbook, Desire, Dreams and Dust was released in April of 2023.

Jenean McBrearty is a graduate of San Diego State University, who taught Political Science and Sociology, and received her Masters of Fine Art from Eastern Kentucky University in 2021. Since 2006, her fiction, poetry, book reviews, and photographs have been published in over two-hundred sixty-five print and on-line journals. She won the EKU Award for Graduate Creative Non-fiction in 2011 for her C...

Mary McCarthy is a retired Registered Nurse who has always been a writer. Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including "The Ekphrastic World," edited by Lorette Luzajic, "The Plague Papers," edited by Robbi Nester, and recent issues of Gyroscope, 3rd Wednesday, Caustic Frolic, Inscribe, and Verse Virtual. Her collection "How to Become Invisible," chronicles a bipolar journey a...

For forty years Paul Tait performed both as a band leader and as a singer/songwriter/pianist. He independently released a series of critically acclaimed recordings, including: "Pop Musician", "Television City", "I Still Believe", “Back In Business”, “Angels Of The City”, "Song to the Moon" “1975”, “Frenemies”, and “I Didn’t Quit I Surrendered”. All of his music is available online. As a poet Paul...

Yichielle Devendra is a teacher. She loves travelling and has lived and worked in Asia and North America. She is constantly inspired by nature and animals. She has her home in Canada with her family and her cats. (Please forgive any mispronunciations)

Pat, a retired Christian teacher and member of SCBWI, has been writing poetry for many years. Her poems are featured in The Agape Review, The Clayjar Review, Pure in Heart Stories, The Way Back to Ourselves, the Heart of Flesh Literary Journal, Words of the Lamb and Vessels of Light. She is also regularly featured in the Southern Arizona Press Anthologies. Pat is also a published contributor to th...

VIRAL GOR, widely known as VIRUS THE POET, is an award-winning Canadian poet and author of Poetry is Motion: Mind, Body & Soul who travels globally to perform on large stages throughout Toronto, Paris, London, San Francisco, Miami, NYC, and more. He received a national award for his poem “Home,” which was later published by the Poetry Institute of Canada. His poetry touches on universal themes...

Ean Teng Lim is a vegan lyricist who like to use poetry to bring awareness to the cause.

Donavan Barrier is a poet and writer from Michigan City, Indiana. His work has been published in The Polk Street Review, the Spill the Ink Poetry Zine and Pan-O-Ply Magazine. When not writing creatively, he works as a journalist for the La Porte County Herald-Dispatch.

*SLIGHT TRIGGER WARNING FOR MENTIONS OF CHILD LOSS* Wendy Wisner is the author of two books of poems, Epicenter and Morph and Bloom. Her third book, The New Life, will be published by Cornerstone Press/University of Wisconsin Stevens-Point, in fall 2024. Wendy’s essays and poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Spoon River Review, The Washington Post, Lilith Magazine, and elsewhere. To learn mor...

Leo Jade is a published author and poet living in Delaware, where she enjoys a fulfilling life with her partner and family. She is the author of a collection of poetry titled A Bumble in the Trees and she also has a narrative featured in the upcoming book, Goodbye For Now: True Stories of Life, Love, and Loss. Her works often include themes of love, loss, and resilience, resonating deeply with rea...

Vibha S. Chauhan is the former Principal of Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi. She taught English for over three decades at Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi. She is a translator, writer, critic, and cultural activist working in three languages, English, Hindi, and Bhojpuri. Her novel "Ganga Jamuna Beech" experiments with the Hindi language.

Mukut Borpujari is a graduate of English Literature and a Masters in Computer Application (MCA) degree holder. Based in Guwahati, Assam, INDIA, his has a plethora of poems published in top journals including The Canyon Voices Literary Magazine of the Arizona State University. He was also longlisted in this year's Erbacce-prize for poetry 2024. An active member of the Greenpeace Movement, he ha...

Amy Black is a reading tutor, substitute teacher, homemaker, mentor, writer, and poet. She has two published works with Guthier publications. Learn more about this author on her Facebook Page .

Lexie R. Kunz is a graduate of Utah State University with degrees in English and Communication Disorders. Lexie has been reading and daydreaming stories since she was 5 years old. She enjoys writing poetry and fiction. She has been published in Edify Fiction, Red Fez Magazine, and Peacock Journal.

Victoria Garcia is a creative writer and poet who resides in Panama City Beach, Florida. Her poem "Internal Mechanism of the Otherworldly" was published in Libre. Her poetry pursues the wilds of the conscious and subconscious and contends with the surreal, the existential, and the psychological.

Julie Brandon is a poet, playwright, storyteller, and lyricist. Her new poetry collection, " My Tears, Like Rain " is available on Amazon. Julie's work has appeared in Bewildering Stories, Corner Bar Magazine, Awakenings Review, Poetica Magazine, Writing of Love During War: Poems anthology, Am Yisrael Chai anthologies vol. 1 and 2, Mini Plays Magazine, Of The Book Literary Journal an...

Francis Scott Key was born August 1, 1779, to an affluent family. He grew up on a plantation in what is now Carroll County, Maryland. He graduated from St. John's College in 1796 and read law under his uncle, Phillip Key. In 1802, Francis Key married Mary Lloyd and had eleven children, which they raised in Georgetown. In 1814, Francis Key and Colonel John Skinner dined aboard the HMS Tonnant-...

Francis Barton Gummere was born March 6, 1855, in Burlington, New Jersey to Samuel James Gummere, the first president of the Haverford College- a school founded by his father, John Gummere. In 1910, Francis Gummere published his translation of Beowulf, a book that is widely regarded as "the most successful attempt to render in modern English something similar to the alliterative pattern of th...

Patricia Walsh was born and raised in the parish of Mourneabbey, Co Cork, Ireland.  She has previously published a range of poetry in publications across Ireland, the UK, and the US, and one collection of poetry,  Continuity Errors,   with Lapwing, and two novels,  The Quest For Lost Éire,  and  In The Days of Ford Cortina , in 2013 and 2021 respectively.  She lives in Cork City. A further novel, ...

Catherine Sipher is a writer, poet, and remote piano teacher at Blossom Piano Studio. She is on a mission to empower women on their journeys of self-discovery and transformation by offering poetry and prose that gives voice to their struggles, celebrates their strength, and ignites their belief in their worth. Outside of writing and teaching, she enjoys nature, practicing yoga, and spending time w...

Dr. Calpernia N. Charles is a native of Belize, Central America, and resides in Conyers, Georgia. Dr. Charles is the author of seven children's books written in multiple languages, including Bed Time, Julie B and Me, Daddy's Nose and Toes, Sunday with Grandma Mae, Wondering Wanda, Lunch Dates with Lady Jay, and her most recent Todd the Frog. She hopes that her books will inspire young read...