Yagni Payal is a multifaceted creative artist. She has been writing poetry since her very early years. Her poems have appeared in The Copperfield Review, Danse Macabre, Quiet Magazine, and UK’s Forward Poetry. A playwright, actor, and director, also a wife and mother to 2 beautiful children, Yagni lives in southern California. CrystallineBy Yagni PayalBlindfolded, she slipsand swims, likea mermaidwho […]

Heather Thorne is a college student pursuing a degree in nursing. She resides in Maysville WV with her husband and son. Her hobbies include baking, community theater, gardening, and being outdoors. She enjoys writing in a journal for personal reflection. BrokenBy Heather ThorneMy heart is empty and broken.Like a crystal vase crashed on the tile.Fragments […]

Kenneth Weene’s most recent poem to appear here was Poem without title (June 2012). Lowery dayBy Kenneth WeeneThe town enshrouded by mist and cloud,a lowery day as some might say.The children waiting for their busstomp impatiently aboutlike young horses wanting hay.The flowers are unhappytheir petals fearing rain,but tomorrow the sun will shineand they’ll come out to play.It […]

Carol Smallwood co-edited (Molly Peacock, foreword) Women on Poetry: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing by Successful Women Poets (McFarland 2012); Compartments: Poems on Nature, Femininity and Other Realms (Anaphora Literary Press 2011) was nominated for the Pushcart. Women Writing on Family: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing (Key Publishing House 2012) is her most recent book. Her sixth anthology for […]

Terri Kirby Erickson is the author of 3 collections of poetry including In the Palms of Angels (Press 53, 2011), which won a 2012 Nautilus Silver Award for Poetry and was the Gold Medal winner for poetry in the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ted Kooser’s American Life in […]