Poetry

"...it was to be the present of a lifetime..."

"...Dead flowers on a cold night..."

"...whooping like they are in a carnival..."

"...it was against the law..."

"...making a mockery of everything..."

"...Warm words were said..."

"...Love and be loyal!"

"...I feel your touch in my soul..."

Pandel Collaros has taught at Bethany College (WV), Ohio State, and the University of Kansas. In addition to writing, he performs and produces music in Nashville.

"Being vulnerable..."

"...legerdemain in the sacred precincts of dothan..."

Andrew Loria is an author who dabbles in a little bit of everything. Born and raised in the colds of Manitoba, Canada, he keeps himself warm by writing about the romantic, the extraterrestrial, the horrific, and the absurd.

Don Edwards lives and writes in Seattle. He is a founding member of True Gospel Bookstore which creates songs of his poems and streams them everywhere.

"...wine brings back harsh memories..."

"...too much of the world feverishly believes in silence..."

"...to notice intensity as splendor..."

"...boats of slavery..."

"...the state that this world finds itself in..."

"...the icy rain, seen from a train..."

Veljko Kotlaja is a historian and PhD student whose work explores national narratives, cultural memory, and the philosophical dimensions of history.

Aritra Basak is a physics student based in Kolkata, India. His work explores authorship, estrangement, and bodily unease through compressed, image-driven prose.

"Driving home from a music club..."

"...in the still midnight of Wyatt’s backyard..."

"...They were whispering things..."

"I woke this morning, free at last..."

"...eyeing his chance, death lurked apart..."

"...in the heat of this early dry june..."

"...A happy harvest is no freak..."

“Just a rebel heart..."

"...Love ignites a quiet flame..."