Poetry

"...Man accuses man for The spread of the virus..."

"...Already a hive, the mind's on overtime..."

Long has taught school at the University of North Texas, North Carolina State University, and Saint Louis University. He is now retired and lives with his wife, Kathleen Farrell, in Saint Louis, Missouri, writes a blog entitled "Out the Backroom Window," and plans to expand Backroom Window Press into a small press publishing venture.

"...Trying to scribble over what cannot be unwritten..."

"...Who else could completely miss the white cue ball with his stick..."

"...black and white photos of the dead..."

"...dark places where light is just a flicker of hope..."

"...A line escaped from my friend's poem..."

"...you begin to see the rollercoaster in everything..."

"...Mount Nyiragongo... As if it had been waiting for darkness..."

"...Could the world endure two of me?.."

"...Impatiently waiting for that Tuesday morning class to end..."

Giovanni Mangiante is a poet from Lima, Peru. He has work published in Newington Blue Press, Rusty Truck, The Daily Drunk, Anti-Heroin Chic, Heroin Love Songs, Rat's Ass Review, Three Rooms Press, Fearsome Critters, and more. In writing, he found a way to cope with BPD.

"...my thoughts are turning into clouds...

"...this crapshoot of life crushed my dreams..."

"...Knowing fully well that they are all they've got and so they stick together in unity...

"...trying to meet each person wherever they are..."

"...I hear people cry and hurt just like I do..."

"...The news that the TV channels generate Are of deaths and more deaths ..."

"...People are dying around me, but I can't save them..."

Dan Holt is blues singer/songwriter/recording artist, poet and fiction author from a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. He has produced 11 albums of original music along with various singles and eps.

"...keeps waking up in a strange room..."

Tanner earns minimum wage and writes about it. Help. Help him, for ffs.

"...a gentle drum easing the years into my stomach..."

"...The fairy tale that's posted in Friday's edition..."

"She just is all that magnificent..."

"How do they do all this? Where are they from?.."

"...he braked to a stop on the new bridge..."

"...Idols are for mantles and shrines..."

Linnet Phoenix is a poet born in Scotland, raised in Sussex and currently resides in a village in North Somerset, UK. Her chapbook 'Rusty Stars' is published by Between Shadows Press. Her first full collection 'Urban Mustang' published by ImpSpired is coming soon.