Volume 5 Issue 1

Richard Weaver

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Richard Weaver lives in Baltimore City where he volunteers with the Richard Weaver lives in Baltimore City where he volunteers with the Maryland Book Bank, and acts as the Archivist-at-large for a Jesuit college. He is the author of The Stars Undone (Duende Press).

The Iago Complex simplified in the womb of time, Volume 3, Issue 1
Interview
A Loose Bottle of beer eludes, A Divided Highway has cloned itself, Bar Rat’s tab is longer, James Joyce’s Challenge, and A Jar of mayonnaise explodes, Volume 5, Issue 1

There Was, The Sungrazer comet, Lovejoy, Email from the Dark Web, and The Anthromorphic Mirror, Volume 5, Issue 2

Lost World, Life in the Bulrushes, Night Heron, Islander, and Last Voyage of the Green Skiff, Volume 6, Issue 1

Simon Perchik

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, Forge, Poetry, Osiris, The New Yorker and elsewhere. His most recent collection is The Osiris Poems published by boxofchalk, 2017. For more information including free e-books and his essay “Magic, Illusion and Other Realities” please visit his website at www.simonperchik.com. To view one of his interviews please follow this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSK774rtfx8

Untitled and Untitled, Volume 3, Issue 1
Untitled, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview
Untitled and Untitled, Volume 4, Issue 2
Untitled, Untitled, and Untitled, Volume 5, Issue 1

Lisa Stice

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Lisa Stice is a poet/mother/military spouse. She is the author of Permanent Change of Station (Middle West Press, 2018) and Uniform (Aldrich Press, 2016). While it is difficult to say where home is, she currently lives in North Carolina with her husband, daughter and dog. You can learn more about her and her publications at lisastice.wordpress.com and at facebook.com/LisaSticePoet. @LisaSticePoet

A Quick Lunch from the Noodle Stand, Volume 2, Issue 1 (Pushcart Nomination)
When Your Substance Is Drained Away, Reduction, and Afternoon One Day When You Were Young, Volume 3, Issue 1
Interview
Judge of The Magnolia Review Ink Award, Volume 4, Issue 1
Book Release, Permanent Change of Station, and Review, Volume 4, Issue 2
Resolutions, Deliver Us, The Selkie, Eat, Not, and Pie Astronomy, Volume 5, Issue 1

David Anthony Sam

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

David Anthony Sam, the proud grandson of peasant immigrants from Poland and Syria, lives in Virginia with his wife and life partner, Linda. Sam’s poetry has appeared in over 90 publications and his poem, “First and Last,” won the 2018 Rebecca Lard Award. Sam’s five collections include Final Inventory (Prolific Press 2018) and Finite to Fail: Poems after Dickinson, the 2016 Grand Prize winner GFT Press Chapbook Contest. He teaches creative writing at Germanna Community College and serves on the Board of the Virginia Poetry Society. 

The Exile Knows This Ghost, Volume 2, Issue 1
End of Romance, Prometheus, and Green Wings, Volume 4, Issue 1
Interview
Superhero at Work, Kind of a Stupid Game, Isn’t It?, and Chain-Smoked Monkeys, Volume 4, Issue 2
Book Release, Final Inventory
Charitable Erasures, Love Loss, Lost and Found, On Finding an Abandoned Firepit, A Pipe of Ghosted Smoke, and alt-right killer, Volume 5, Issue 1
Unfinished, Saturnine Hypotyposis, Inquiry into Matter, The Formation of Standing Waves, The Sea is Everything, and Resurrection, Volume 5, Issue 2

One the Edge of 1969, Beneath the Six-Sided Farmhouse, April 22, 1994–For Linda, The Context of February, October 25, 2001, at 6:45 p.m., and Today (September 11, 2001), Volume 6, Issue 1

Bill Wolak

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Bill Wolak has just published his fifteenth book of poetry entitled The Nakedness Defense with Ekstasis Editions. His collages have appeared recently in Naked in New Hope 2017, The 2017 Seattle Erotic Art Festival, Poetic Illusion, The Riverside Gallery, Hackensack, NJ, the 2018 Dirty Show in Detroit, 2018 The Rochester Erotic Arts Festival, and The 2018 Montreal Erotic Art Festival.

Whoever Loves and As Bells Echo in the Distance, Volume 1, Issue 2
Openness without Seeking and A Scream in the Forest, Volume 2, Issue 2
The Mist Between Foghorns, The Radiance of an Unforeseen Delight, Climbing the Wind, Beyond the Immediate Trapdoor, and Unsettling as the Strobe Light’s Hesitation, Volume 5, Issue 1

Light’s Sudden Hesitation, The Flirtatious Dance of Memory, Involuntary Trance, Curious As Perfume, The Manifestation of a Protoplasmic Vortex, and Equipped for the Paradoxical Continuum, Volume 6, Issue 1

Todd Mercer

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Todd Mercer was nominated for Best of the Net in 2018. Mercer won 1st, 2nd & 3rd place of the Kent County Dyer-Ives Poetry Prizes and the won Grand Rapids Festival Flash Fiction Prize. His digital chapbook Life-wish Maintenance is posted at Right Hand Pointing. Recent work appears in: Leaves of Ink, The Pangolin Review. Postcard Poems and Prose, Praxis and Soft Cartel.

The Tow-Boat Captain and Oceanic Atmospheric, Volume 1, Issue 2
Billy Fell Through (Clam Lake, 1928), Volume 2, Issue 1
EXTERIOR. WILLOW SPRINGS ROAD–NIGHT, Volume 3, Issue 1
Calendar Senior, aka Captain Miracle; Ingenue Meets Gravity; and In the Great Green Room, Volume 5, Issue 1

John Grey

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident. Recently published in the Homestead Review, Poetry East and Columbia Review with work upcoming in the Roanoke Review, the Hawaii Review, and North Dakota Quarterly.

Rain, The Author and Winter Burial, Volume 1, Issue 1
You Read Me Stories, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview
Blue Blood, Manifesto, and Lenny, Volume 4, Issue 2
Falling in Love, I’m in a Painting by Hopper, and Freak-Show, Volume 5, Issue 1

According to its Lights and An Ode to the Morning After, Volume 6, Issue 1

Gary Beck

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director. He has 14 published chapbooks. His poetry collections include: Days of Destruction (Skive Press), Expectations (Rogue Scholars Press). Dawn in Cities, Assault on Nature, Songs of a Clerk, Civilized Ways, Displays, Perceptions, Fault Lines, Tremors, Perturbations and Rude Awakenings (Winter Goose Publishing) The Remission of Order, Contusions and Desperate Seeker will be published by Winter Goose Publishing. Conditioned Response (Nazar Look). Resonance (Dreaming Big Publications). Virtual Living (Thurston Howl Publications). Blossoms of Decay, Expectations and Blunt Force (Wordcatcher Publishing). His novels include: Extreme Change (Cogwheel Press), Flawed Connections (Black Rose Writing), Call to Valor and Crumbling Ramparts (Gnome on Pigs Productions). As part of the continuing series, ‘Stand to Arms Marines’, Gnome on Pigs Productions will publish the third book in the series, Raise High the Walls. Sudden Conflicts (Lillicat Publishers). Acts of Defiance and Flare Up will be published by Wordcatcher Publishing. Extreme Change will be published by Winter Goose Publishing. His short story collections include, A Glimpse of Youth (Sweatshoppe Publications). Now I Accuse and other stories (Winter Goose Publishing). Dogs Don’t Send Flowers and other stories will be published by Wordcatcher Publishing. The Republic of Dreams and other essays will be published by Gnome on Pigs Productions. His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway. His poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines. He lives in New York City.

Check out his website here.

Sightings, Volume 1, Issue 1
Visitations II, Volume 2, Issue 1
Book Release, Tremors, Virtual Living, Perturbations, Blossoms of Decay, Now I Accuse, Sudden Conflicts, Expectations: A Collection of Poetry, Rude Awakenings, Internet Yearnings, Voices of War, Blunt Force: A Collection of Poetry, The Remission of Order, The Republic of Dreams: And Other Essays, Acts of Defiance, Flare Up, Transitions, Contusions, Earth Links, Mortal Coil, The Big Match, Still Defiant, and Desperate Seeker.
Purchase Power II, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview
Clown Show play announcement
Review, Internet Yearnings, Volume 4, Issue 2
Homeless VII, Volume 5, Issue 1
Review, Blunt Force: A Collection of Poetry, The Remission of Order, Volume 5, Issue 1

Hurricane V and Cold Spell, Volume 5, Issue 2

Book Release: Raise High the Walls, Too Harsh For Pastels, State of Rage, Temporal Dreams: A Collection of Poetry, Severance, Extreme Change: A Novel, and Redemption Value

Michael K. Brantley

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Michael K. Brantley is the author of Memory Cards (2015, BRW) and the forthcoming Galvanized: The Unlikely Odyssey of a Carolina Confederate (2019, Univ. of Nebraska). He has an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte and teaches English at N.C. Wesleyan College.

Memory Cards, Volume 1, Issue 1
Number One Pork Chop Man, Volume 5, Issue 1