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January 2019:

Aquarium

Grafting

Larry Schug lives with his wife, dog and three cats near a large tamarack bog in St. Wendel Twp., Minnesota. He is retired from a life of various kinds of physical labor and currently volunteers as a writing tutor and a naturalist. His latest book is At Gloaming with North Star Press. His website is Larry Schug, Poet.

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December 2015:

• Memorials of Plastic Flowers

• Irregular

• My Buddies Girlfriend

• Bluebird on the Roof

Michael L. Newell was a long time expatriate teacher (over twenty years) who has recently retired to coastal Oregon after living in thirteen other countries on five continents.  He has also lived in thirteen of the United States.  His work has been published in, among other places, Aethlon: The Journal of Sports Literature, Bellowing Ark, Culture Counter, Ship of Fools, Lilliput Review, and Rattle.  He has had a number of books and chapbooks published.  Among them are Traveling without Compass or Map (Bellowing Ark Press), A Long Time Traveling, Seeking Shelter, and Collision Course (all from Four Sep Press).

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December 2015:

• An Unveiling

• Vox Populi

• What Was That You Said

Alex Ranieri is a poet whose work focuses on the beauty of the line between; whether that be the line between good and evil, reality and imagination, or myth and the mundane. She has worked as a musician, an artist, and actor, and a fiction writer, as well as a poet. Most recently, she was published in the Winnetka Current and the journal Ceremony, and performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. You can find her online at Alexandra Ranieri "The Evangelist of Poetry".

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December 2015:

• Glamour

• Orpheus and Eurydice

• Sisohpromatem

Frank C. Praeger is a retired research biologist who has had poetry published in the UK, USA, Canada, Ireland and Australia.  

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December 2015:

• Coming to it then Falling Away

• Shadowy and Human

• Hieroglyphics of the Ordinary

• Slouching Towards Somewhere

Other Poems by Frank C. Praeger:

• Getting On

• Get Away

• Blue Jays and Adder's-tongue

• It Had Not Been Planned

I have a philosophical mind and a poetic heart, am 20 years old and working towards my associate degree in communications. For as long as I can remember I have had an overwhelming passion for writing-and later on-writing poetry, which I started developing a passion for around the age of 13. I have always been very fond of traditional sonnet and rhyme poetry, such as that of Shakespeare, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sylvia Plath, William Wordsworth, Alexander Pope, along with many others. I love the rawness of the truth these writers seek to speak because it is the same truth I seek in present day humanity.

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November 2015;

• I Remember Who I Was

Allison Grayhurst is a member of the League of Canadian Poets. She has over 625 poems published in more than 310 international journals and anthologies. Her book Somewhere Falling was published by Beach Holme Publishers in 1995. Since then she has published eleven other books of poetry and six collections with Edge Unlimited Publishing. Prior to the publication of Somewhere Falling she had a poetry book published, Common Dream, and four chapbooks published by The Plowman. Her poetry chapbook The River is Blind was published by Ottawa publisher above/ground press in December 2012. In 2014 her chapbook Surrogate Dharma was published by Kind of a Hurricane Press, Barometric Pressures Author Series in October 2014. More recently, she has a chapbook Currents pending publication this Fall with Pink.Girl.Ink. Press. She lives in Toronto with her family. She also sculpts, working with clay; www.allisongrayhurst.com

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November 2015:

• The Wind

• Where Love Draws the Line

• I Heard

• Crush this Colour

• In a Stillness

Other Poems by Allison Grayhurst:

• Dementia

• Resignation

• How does a seed know the sun
  from beneath the earth,
  but by the warmth?

Sreyash Sarkar , is a poet, a qualified painter, a practising Hindustani Classical musician and an aspiring Electrical Engineer.Educated in Kolkata and Bangalore, he has been a student correspondent at The Statesman, Kolkata from his school, South Point. In 2012, in an international poetry competition organized in memoir of Yeats, his poem was shortlisted among 40 other poets from all over the world. His interview was published in the 'The Arty Legume', where he was asked to speak on cubism, existentialism in art and intrusion in a painting. He has been extensively featured in "The Gooseberry Bushes", " Muses", " The Literary Jewels", "Tagore for us", " The Country Cake-Stall" , " The Orange Orchard" etc. Besides, being a freelance writer for several magazines, he is the editor-in-chief of Kalomer Kalomishak, a bilingual magazine, which he founded in 2013.

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November 2015:

• Whirligig

• The Optical Symphony

• The Cage

• The Macrame of Carnal Waves

For thirteen years, John taught English and Latin in a private all-girls school, and in 2010 completed his Ph.D., in which he focused on the pragmatic comedy of the Canterbury Tales. Currently, he is an adjunct instructor at Chatham University in Pittsburgh. He has had many jobs in his life, including archaeological field assistant, obituary writer, and television-screen-factory worker. He has had poem published in such journals as Aries, Abbey, The Chaffin Journal, The Journal (UK), Poets' Espresso Review, Pulsar Poetry Review (UK), and in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. His iPhone is now his primary poetry notebook, and he hopes his negotiation with technology in regard to this ancient art form continues to be successful.

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October 2015 --

On a Roll

Relief Map

I, Executive

Domestic Differences

Decay Lift

Also by John Zedolik:

• EXTINCTION

• GHOST OF A THRILL

• INTAKERS OUTSIDE

• SMALL BLAZE

• WITHIN THE SANCTUM

“I don’t want to be like most other kids who just play on their phones all the time. Those kinds of people are important and we need them as much as anything else, but it’s not what I want to do, and it isn’t what makes me happy.”

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October 2015 --

Paying for a Future

Although I’ve been actively writing poetry for about 30 years, for much of that time I did not actively seek publication of my work.  Recently, however, I was very glad to declare an end to a 20-year hiatus from the practice of submitting my work to journals.  Before that long hiatus, some of my poems were published in journals such as Mind Matters Review, Alternative Press Magazine, and Cokefish.  In addition to the poems appearing in this publication, two other poems have been recently selected for upcoming issues of Down in the Dirt scheduled for the fall of 2015.  Like many poets, I have long found solace and renewal in the natural world; I grew up wandering the beaches of south Florida, spent years wandering the beaches of south Texas, and now enthusiastically wander the lake shores and thick forests of western New York.  I am also a published composer of classical music, and have set a variety of poems to music over the years, including my own work and that of my wife, published poet and fiction writer E. R. Flory. In addition to creative work, most months find me also joyously engaged in the endeavors of teaching courses and overseeing the music program at Jamestown Community College.

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September 2015 --

Nights

Feather Pinball Puzzle

Saying Nothing

Mythologies

Diane Webster enjoys the challenge of picturing images into words to fit her poems. If she can envision her poem, she can write what she sees and her readers can visualize her ideas. She feels that is the excitement of writing.  

Her work has appeared in "The Hurricane Review," "Eunoia Review," "Illya's Honey," and other literary magazines. 

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September 2015 --

• Line Drawn in the Lawn

• We Gather Together

• Reflections Flicker

Also by Diane Webster:

• RUST MUSHROOMS

• SHE GLIDES

• GLOWINGS

• SUNNY ABOVE

• WARM

• MOWER MAN

• HAIKU

• KNEE FREE

• WIND WAKE

• SPRING FEVER

• ANTICIPATION

• TREE HOUSE

• TINGLING FELT

• INVISIBLE AGAIN

• BATH TIME

• OLD LADY RISES

• LOST EARMUFFS

• AWAITING USE

• WHOLE WHEN

• WINDOW CLEANER

John Grey is an Australian born poet and works as a financial systems analyst.  His work has appeared in Poem, Spindrift, Tribeca Poetry Review, the horror anthology, “What Fears Become”, Potomac Review, Hurricane Review and Pinyon.  His work has also appeared in Old Red Kimono, Alimentum,  South Carolina Review, The Pedestal, Prism International, Big Muddy, Slant, Southern California Review and Natural Bridge with work upcoming in the Kerf, Leading Edge and Louisiana Literature.

Read John’s Poems:  

September 2015 -
At First Sight
Takeoff
Where Feelings Get Off
Poetry on the Internet
School, Thirty years On

Also by John Grey -

• SALAD DAYS AND POETRY

• IN CASE YOU HAD PLANS FOR THOSE VIRGINS

• EDUCATION

• BEACH BUM

• IN THE REAL WORLD

• GRANDPA’S AIR SHOWS

• AFTER THE CATCH

• THE HAT IN THE SECOND-HAND STORE

• FAMILY TREE

• TOM AWAITS NEWS

• CORONER'S REPORT

• A STRAND OF YOUR HAIR

• WHAT WE HEAR

• THE HIGH CLIMB

• SHE WRITES WHILE HER MAN SLEEPS

JD DeHart is an English teacher who enjoys writing and publishing fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.  When he writes he tries to reflect on small, honest parts of his world.   He also attempts to capture pieces of life that are absurd and ironic. 

I think he succeeds. 

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September 2015:

• Gear Up

• Fried Mushrooms

• Fragments of the World

• Start Stop

• Soothsayer

Also from JD DeHart:

• Missing Dog Metaphors

• Superhero City

• Standby

• Photos at the Graveyard

• The Grape House

• The Official

• Suggestions

• The Journey of Davis

• What Plato Said to Socrates

• Art

• An Ode to Heraclitus

• Operative

• Deflation

• Lawnmower Metaphors

See more of JD DeHart's poetry at: Writings -- JD DeHart

Kelly Sullivan is a freelance writer from Ohio. Her recent work was to tie second place in a poetry contest in the May edition of Screaming' Mamas Magazine. In addition to being published in Screamin' Mama's poetry tie for second place, Kelly Sullivan has been published in "The Chief of Police Magazine," "American Baby Contest," and Consumer Network News.  She is a former military wife and has two adult children.

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"Peace Is"

Saloni Kaul, author and poet, first published at the age of ten, has been in print ever since. As critic and columnist , she has enjoyed thirty seven years of being published in leading dailies and magazines.  From time to time Saloni has held many an editorial position and has also won considerable critical acclaim as broadcaster and producer-presenter of radio documentaries and features. Saloni's first volume, a fifty poem collection, was published in the USA in 2009. Subsequent volumes include UNIVERSAL ONE  and ESSENTIALS ALL. 

 As a full-time poet today, Saloni conducts poetry readings and workshops and travels to fairs and festivals as well as book related venues (libraries, museums, cultural institutes, schools and colleges, poetry societies and book clubs)  to promote her poetic production. She collaborates with composers who set Saloni Kaul poems to music and artists who elaborate on her poems at exhibitions, where she gives a Performance or has a Poetry Reading integrated into the Installation. Poetry enthusiasts intent on exploring Saloni Kaul's works may procure the books or stay glued to the web for upcoming poems in publications as diverse as US print magazines Poetry Quarterly , The Horrorzine, Indiana based Tipton Poetry Journal, and online at Eye On Life Magazine, and can cheer Saloni on the Best New Poems website July/August. All for the sake of Poetry!

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Minuet in a Teacup

Saucy Gavotte on a Saucer

Startled as Springboard

Winning the Toss

Waqas Rabbani: "All our lives are in a constant state of flux, our emotions change from moment to moment, there is true joy and there is true sadness and both extremes exist within each of our souls, sadness is a part of being human, so is happiness yet getting addicted to any particular emotion or wanting to create circumstances for feeling emotions is wrong, let the universe sweep you along and experience existence in every moment, let your emotions flow as swiftly as the universe flows , and live your life to the fullest.."

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"Burn the Midnight Oil"

Ally Malinenko is the author of The Wanting Bone (Six Gallery Press) and the novel This Is Sarah (Antenna Books). The poetry book Better Luck Next Year is forthcoming from Low Ghost Press. She lives in the part of Brooklyn that the tour buses don't come to.

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July 2015:

"If Berlin Doesn't Love Me"

"On Trying to Drink Less During Treatment"

J. K. Durick is a writing teacher at the Community College of Vermont and an online writing tutor. His  poems have appeared in Boston Literary Magazine, Thrush Poetry Journal, Black Mirror, Deep Water Literary Journal, Third Wednesday, Shot Glass Journal, Orange Room, Poetry Super Highway, and Rainbow Journal.

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July 2015: 

"My Mother's Poem"

"The Waver"

Also from J. K. Durick:

• Harley

• Between Storms

• Nuisance Calls

• Fairlane

• Balloon

• An Anniversary Poem

• Underage

• Presents

• Death Watch

• Being Young

• Mary

• December Night

• He Laughed

• Left Hand

• Doorman

• Raptor Center

• Graveyard Poem

• Books of Poetry

• Line

• Storming at Us

• Waiting Room

• Airport