Contributors
Sam Alec is a mostly unknown artist currently residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Some impressive accomplishments include: successfully evading desensitization, a few major demolitions and reconstructions of personal belief systems, a well-cultivated affinity for the ugly and uncomfortable, a handful of lessons learned the hard way, and staying alive this long. More poems are published or forthcoming through Troublemaker Firestarter and Hidden Peak Press.
Ace Boggess is author of six books of poetry, most recently Escape Envy. His writing has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Notre Dame Review, Harvard Review, Mid-American Review, and other journals. An ex-con, he lives in Charleston, West Virginia, where he writes and tries to stay out of trouble. His seventh collection, Tell Us How to Live, is forthcoming in 2024 from Fernwood Press.
Alan Catlin has three full length collections of poetry slated for 2023: How Will the Heart Endure (Kelsay Books), Listening to the Moonlight Sonata (Impspired) and Bar Guide for the Totally Deranged (Roadside Press).
Lenny DellaRocca is founding editor and former publisher of South Florida Poetry Journal. He’s the author of four poetry collections, and his work has appeared in One, Slipstream, Nimrod, Seattle Rev., POEM, Laurel Rev., Fairy Tale Rev, The Meadow and Hawaii Pacific Rev. Poems forthcoming in Cimarron Rev and North Dakota Quarterly. He was interviewed by Grace Cavalieri for The Poet and The Poem on NPR and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has invented the Epoem, a new form on display at his new poetry journal, Witchery, which is embedded online at South Florida Poetry Journal.
Livio Farallo is co-editor of Slipstream and Professor of Biology at Niagara County Community College. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in North Dakota Quarterly, J Journal, Panoplyzine, Triggerfish, Otoliths, Ginosko, Beatnik Cowboy, and elsewhere.
Margaret Gibson, Poet Laureate of Connecticut, has published 13 books of poems, most recently The Glass Globe, the third book in a trilogy that includes Broken Cup and Not Hearing the Wood Thrush. A new book, DRAW ME WITHOUT BOUNDARIES, will arrive in the Fall, 2024. AWARDS: The Lamont Selection, Melville Kane Award, Connecticut Book Award. She was a Finalist for the National Book Award, 1993, and for the Poets’ Prize, 2016. With a grant from the Academy of American Poets, she edited an anthology, Waking Up to the Earth: Connecticut Poets in a Time of Global Climate Crisis. Visit her website at <www.MargaretGibsonPoetry.com>
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Stand, Washington Square Review and Rathalla Review. Latest books, Covert, Memory Outside The Head, and Guest Of Myself are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in the McNeese Review, Santa Fe Literary Review and Open Ceilings.
Carol Hamilton has retired from teaching 2nd grade through graduate school in Connecticut, Indiana and Oklahoma, and from storytelling and volunteer medical translating. She is a former Poet Laureate of Oklahoma and has published 19 books and chapbooks: children’s novels, legends and poetry. She has been nominated for Best of the Net and ten times for a Pushcart Prize. She has won a Southwest Book Award, Oklahoma Book Award, David Ray Poetry Prize, Byline Magazine literary awards in both short story and poetry, Warren Keith Poetry Award, Pegasus Award and a Chiron Review Chapbook Award, Editor’s Choice Book for Main Street Rag.
James Harms is the author of nine books of poetry including, most recently, Rowing with Wings (Carnegie Mellon University Press). Newer work appears or is forthcoming in The Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review, Salt, Catamaran, and other journals. He has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN and the MacDowel Colony, among other distinctions, as well as three Pushcart Prizes.
Lou Jones has been a freelance photographer maintaining a studio in Boston, Massachusetts for many years. He has traveled to 62 foreign countries on assignment for Fortune 500 companies (Nike), institutions (Major League Baseball), foundations (Boston Foundation), magazines (Paris Match, Time/Life, National Geographic), and has covered thirteen Summer & Winter Olympic Games. His photography has been exhibited around the globe at places like Smithsonian Institution, DeCordova Museum, Griffin Museum of Photography, Roxbury Community College, Fitchburg Art Museum and Kayafas Gallery, and is in the permanent collections of Harvard University, Boston Athenaeum, Wellesley, Texas Tech University and Boston Public Library. One current long-term project is photographing all 54 countries in Africa (www.panAFRICAproject.org). Visit his website at <www.fotojones.com>
Leslie Anne Mcilroy won the 1997 Slipstream Poetry Chapbook Prize for Gravel, the 2001 Word Press Poetry Prize for her first full-length collection Rare Space, and the 2018 Gemini Flash Fiction contest. Other collections include Liquid Like This (2008) and Slag (2014). Leslie’s writing appears in The Adirondack Review, Grist, Jubilat, The Mississippi Review, PANK, Poetry Magazine, New Ohio Review, The Texas Review, Vox Populi and more. Her memoir, The Red Door: An Historical Memoir of The Squirrel Hill Cafe was published by Main Street Rag in 2020. Leslie writes for Libsyn in Pittsburgh, PA, where she lives with her dog Butter.
Frederick Pollack is the author of two book-length narrative poems, THE ADVENTURE and HAPPINESS, both Story Line Press, the former reissued 2022 by Red Hen Press; and three collections of shorter poems, A POVERTY OF WORDS, (Prolific Press, 2015), LANDSCAPE WITH MUTANT (Smokestack Books, UK, 2018), and THE BEAUTIFUL LOSSES (Better Than Starbucks Books, forthcoming 2023). Pollack has appeared in Salmagundi, Poetry Salzburg Review, The Fish Anthology (Ireland), Magma (UK), Bateau, Fulcrum, Chiron Review,Chicago Quarterly Review, etc. Online, poems have appeared in Big Bridge, Hamilton Stone Review, BlazeVox, The New Hampshire Review, Mudlark, Rat’s Ass Review, Faircloth Review, Triggerfish, Home Planet News (2022), etc.
Myra Tejada Rasmussen is currently a part-time professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington (UNCW), teaching undergraduates journal writing and poetry. She has a BA in English from The University of Notre Dame and an MFA in Poetry from UNCW. Myra was a Semi-Finalist for the NC Literary Review James Applewhite Poetry Prize and a Finalist for the Poet’s Billow Pangaea Poetry Prize. She loves to travel internationally with her family, writing about all their adventures, as well as run long distances, row, and cook. She resides in Wilmington, NC with her husband Erik and 7yr old daughter Zealie.
Jon Riccio is the author of Agoreography and two chapbooks, Prodigal Cocktail Umbrella and Eye, Romanov. He publishes a monthly poetry craft article, “Teaching Takeaways,” at 1-Week Critique.