Paul Edward Costa is a poet, spoken word artist, organiser, and teacher. He directs Toronto’s Outer Haven Poetry Night series, is a full member of the League of Canadian Poets, and is a former Poet Laureate for the City of Mississauga. He won the Mississauga Arts Council’s Emerging Literary Arts Award in 2019 and has published in many journals, such as Stanzaic Journal and The White Wall Review. He has recently published Vigils of the Night Office (DarkWinter Press) and Some Half-Human Creature Thing (Mosaic Press). He has featured at many poetry reading series across Canada.

David R. DiSarro is currently an Associate Professor of English at Endicott College in Beverly, MA. His work has previously appeared in The Rye Whiskey Review, Neologism Poetry Journal, Bending Genres, The Rome Review, The Hawaii Pacific Review, among others. David’s first chapbook, I Used to Play in Bands, was published by Finishing Line Press, with a second chapbook, The Overnight Shift, forthcoming in August 2026.

Steven Fortune is a poet, playwright, and collage artist from Sydney, Nova Scotia (Canada) and a graduate of Acadia University. He has released five poetry collections to date, edited several works for others, and has also appeared on CBC Radio, while his work has been featured and read on several online programs.

Ken Gosse usually writes humorous, rhyming verse using traditional meters. First published in First Literary Review–East in November 2016, since then he has been published in various online sites and in print anthologies, including Home Planet News Online, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Academy of the Heart and Mind, The Writers Club, Spillwords, and others. Raised in the Chicago suburbs, now retired, he and his wife have lived in Mesa, AZ, over twenty-five years, usually with cats and dogs underfoot.

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Shift, River And South and Flights. Latest books, Bittersweet, Subject Matters and Between Two Fires are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Rush, Writer’s Block and Trampoline.

Michael Igoe, neurodiverse, city boy, Chicago and Boston. Works appear in journals and anthologies. National Library of Poetry (Owing Mills MD), Editor’s Choice 1997. Best of the Net nomination 2023.  poetry-in-motion.org

Christopher Jones founded Lost Prophet Press, publishing and editing the literary journals Thin Coyote and Knuckle Merchant: The Journal of Naked Literary Aggression for many years. His work has appeared in many places, including The American Literary Review, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Cajun Mutt Press, The Wild Word, Hearth & Coffin and what he’s told was a very nice flowerpot on the Detroit Lakes Poetry Walk. Work is forthcoming from Keeping the Flame Alive, the Literary Underground and others, and his most recent book is Swamp Yankee, from the sadly now-defunct Destructible Heart Press. He is part of the Bosso Poetry group in Minneapolis and lives in West Saint Paul, Minnesota with his family.

Peter Kaczmarczyk is a lifelong writer who only began to seriously pursue poetry in the last few years. Raised in Massachusetts, Peter was willing to leave the comfort of Red Sox country when he learned there were Dunkin’ Donuts in Indiana. His writing is assisted by cats, who think they can do better than him by walking across the keyboard. Sometimes they do. Peter’s work has been included in over 70 journals and anthologies, and he has published three chapbooks. He is co-creator of the Captain Janeway statue in Bloomington, Indiana.

Aryan Kaganof is editor and curator of the South African cultural journal herri (https://herri.org.za/10/).

Casey Killingsworth has work in The American Journal of Poetry, Better Than Starbucks, 3rd Wednesday, Two Thirds North, and other journals. His first book, A handbook for water, was published by Cranberry Press in 1995 (forward by Willard Espy), and a recent book, A nest blew down, was published by Kelsay Books in 2021. His newest, Freak Show (Fernwood Press), was released in June 2024.

Ma Yongbo, born in 1964, Ph.D, representative of Chinese avant-garde poetry, and a leading scholar in Anglo-American poetry, has published over eighty original works and translations since 1986, including 9 poetry collections. He has translated and taught Anglo-American poetry and prose, including the work of Dickinson, Whitman, Stevens, Pound, Amy Lowell, Williams, Ashbery and Rosanna Warren. His translation of Moby Dick has sold over 600,000 copies. He teaches at Nanjing University of Science and Technology. The Collected Poems of Ma Yongbo (four volumes, Eastern Publishing Centre, 2024) comprises 1178 poems, celebrating 40 years of writing poetry.

Bruce McRae, a Canadian musician, is a multiple Pushcart nominee with poems published in hundreds of magazines such as Poetry, Rattle and the North American Review. His latest book, Boxing In The Bone Orchard, is available now via Frontenac House.