poetry

David Spicer

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

David Spicer has poems in Tipton Poetry Journal, Reed Magazine, Chiron Review, Alcatraz, Gargoyle, unbroken, Raw, Third Wednesday, Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. He has been nominated for a Best of the Net three times and a Pushcart, and is the author of one full-length collection of poems, Everybody Has a Story (St. Luke’s Press, 1987), and five chapbooks, with the latest, From the Wings of a Pear Tree, available from Flutter Press.

In My Younger Years I Loved the Oboe, Volume 4, Issue 2

Jennifer Davis Michael

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Jennifer Davis Michael is professor and chair of English at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, specializing in British Romanticism. Her poems have appeared in 3 Elements Review, Switchgrass Review, Cumberland River Review, Literary Mama, and Mezzo Cammin. She has also published a book of criticism, Blake and the City (Bucknell, 2006).

Remembering How to Build a Fire and Brush Fire, Roadside, North Alabama, Volume 4, Issue 2

Matthew J. Kreglow

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Matthew J. Kreglow is a 2013 graduate of Bowling Green State University’s Creative Writing Program. Currently, he resides in his hometown of Medina, Ohio. In addition to writing poetry and short fiction, Matthew enjoys hiking the local nature trails and photographing wildlife and nature, as well as playing music with the local community band.

Fatal Error, Volume 4, Issue 2

Phil Huffy

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Phil Huffy practiced law long enough. Trained to think on his feet, he continues that custom and then writes things down at his kitchen table. Placements in 2018 number nearly 100 pieces, found in such publications as The Lyric, Better Than Starbucks, Fourth & Sycamore, Bindweed and Eunoia. 

Futurama, Volume 4, Issue 2

Snap and Aviatrix?, Volume 5, Issue 2

GTimothy Gordon

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

GTimothy Gordon’s From Falling was published Summer 2017 (Spirit-of-the-Ram P). Work appears in journals like AGNI, Cincinnati Poetry Review, Kansas Quarterly, The Louisville Review, Mississippi Review, The New York Quarterly, RHINO, Sonora Review, Baseball Bard, among others. Everything Speaking Chinese received the SunStone Press Poetry Prize. Recognitions include NEA & NEH Fellowships and nominations for Pushcarts and The NEA’s Western States’ Book Awards. He divides personal and professional lives between Asia and the Desert/Mountain Southwest.

Dark, and Darker, Dream Wind, November in a Field, and Night Virga, Volume 4, Issue 2

Sarah A. Etlinger

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Sarah A. Etlinger is an English professor who lives in Milwaukee, WI, with her family. Her work can be found on “The Poetry Professors” podcast, Episode 107. Other interests include travel, cooking, and music.

Geraniums 1, Geraniums 2, Two Fools (Pushcart Nomination), Standing in Front of the Montreal Japanese Gardens, Pears, and Ash Wednesday, Volume 4, Issue 2
Book Release, Never One For Promises

Adam Durso

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Adam Durso received his M.F.A. in Fiction from Temple University, in Philadelphia. Like Donald Hall before him, he was born in Hamden, Connecticut; like Thornton Wilder, he prefers to spend his time in New Haven. His poetry has appeared in The Common Ground Review, Chiron Review, Bird’s Thumb, Stoneboat, The Tishman Review, and elsewhere.

Chainmail and Pharmacy Music, Volume 4, Issue 2

Joan Colby

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Joan Colby has published widely in journals such as Poetry, Atlanta Review, South Dakota Review, Gargoyle, Pinyon, Little Patuxent Review, Spillway, Midwestern Gothic, and others. Awards include two Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Literature. She has published 20 books including Selected Poems from FutureCycle Press, which received the 2013 FutureCycle Prize and Ribcage from Glass Lyre Press, which has been awarded the 2015 Kithara Book Prize. Three of her poems have been featured on Verse Daily and another is among the winners of the 2016 Atlanta Review International Poetry Contest. Her newest books are Carnival from FutureCycle Press, The Seven Heavenly Virtues from Kelsay Books and Her Heartsongs just out from Presa Press. Colby is a senior editor of FutureCycle Press and an associate editor of Good Works Review. Website: www.joancolby.com. Facebook: Joan Colby. Twitter: @poetjm.

Me as Terrorist, Volume 4, Issue 2