Photo: White Dress 2: Baden Wolfe
Author Bio: Katie Pukash is a writer and poet based in Boise, Idaho. Her work has appeared in The Indianapolis Review, Ink&Nebula, The Rising Phoenix Review, among others. She has received 2019 Best of the Net Anthology nomination for her poem, ‘Curtain Call’. She has also represented Idaho as a member of Team Boise at the National Poetry Slam in 2013, 2014, and 2018.
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Old Man Feeding Seagulls
Photo: Angel in the City: Francisco Serrano
Author Bio: Madeline Wierzal started writing from a young age and soon found her love of telling stories, playing with words nurtured and developed by her very bookish parents. She continues to write and find new ways to develop her voice and share her work. She has been published in several journals: Afterhours, 30 N., and The Asexual. Check out her work at maddwierdpoetry.wordpress.com.
A Connection
Photo: Existence is not denied: Hamed Afroozi
Author Bio: Originally from New York City, Beatrice Agbi is a junior attending high school in rural Massachusetts.
The Art of Cinema
Photo: Untitled: Sophie JiHye Yang
Author Bio: Yejin Suh is a New Jersey high school student who has been recognized by the Scholastic Awards and The Live Poets’ Society. She likes pretzel goldfish and heist movies.
Contentment
Photo: Jump on the Water: Emanuela Franco
Author Bio: Grace Tucker is an American expat living in Chile for the last 23 years. She is an emerging poet who is previously unpublished. When she is not writing or playing piano, she can be found walking her two large dogs on the Chilean beach.
Revolutionaries
Photo: man_city: Ni Petrov
Author Bio: Celine Choi is a junior from A and M Consolidated High School in College Station, Texas. Her hobbies include making dozens of playlists on Spotify and taking Buzzfeed quizzes to find out which Parks and Rec character she is. She is passionate about reading, writing, politics, and music.
Distraction
Photo: 2: Raj Kamal
Author Bio: A native of northwest Georgia, Rebecca Case is currently enjoying the peripatetic life while serving communities across the United States through AmeriCorps NCCC.
Nursery
Photo: Untitled 01: Guilherme Bergamini
Author Bio: Robin Gow is the author of the chapbook HONEYSUCKLE by Finishing Line Press. Their poetry has recently been published in POETRY, New Delta Review, and Roanoke Review. They is a graduate student and professor at Adelphi University pursing an MFA in Creative Writing. They is the Editor at Large for Village of Crickets and Social Media Coordinator for Oyster River Pages. Their first full-length poetry collection is forth-coming with Tolsun Books.
VW Road Trip
Photo: World Travels: Vincent Cinfici
Author Bio: Rhonda Zimlich lives in the Pacific Northwest where she teaches composition at the University of Oregon. She writes about inter-generational trauma and the unbreakable spirit of youth. Her work has appeared in Brevity, Past-Ten, Ink Stains, and others. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Follow her on Twitter @rhondazimlich
STREETLAMPS
Photo: Artificial Lights: Anamaria Cornejo Silva
Author Bio: Ivy Robb is an emerging poet and artist living in northern Minnesota. She has been studying poetry independently for several years and studied poetry as an undergrad for a short time where she truly fell in love with the craft. She holds an Associate’s degree in art and plans to further pursue a writing career in poetry.
Sonnet for the Believer
Photo: Starry Night: Aurelie Crisetig
Author’s Bio: Carl Boon is the author of the full-length collection Places & Names: Poems (The Nasiona Press, 2019). His poems have appeared in many journals and magazines, including Prairie Schooner and The Maine Review. He lives in Izmir, Turkey, where he teaches courses in American literature at Dokuz Eylül University.
Helioscope
Photo Bio: Reporter visual artist and photographic, Guilherme Bergamini is Brazilian and graduated in Journalism. For more than two decades, he has developed projects with photography and the various narrative possibilities that art offers. The works of the artist dialogue between memory and social political criticism. He believes in photography as the aesthetic potential and transforming agent of society. Awarded in national and international competitions, Guilherme Bergamini participated in collective exhibitions in 24 countries.