Poets

    Craig Kittner has lived a lot of places. Fourteen at last count. Providence saw the start of interesting things that DC helped solidify. He found expression through acting and painting over the years but has settled nicely into poetry since 2016. His work has recently appeared in Acorn, bottle rockets, Sledgehammer Lit, the Origami Poems Project, and The Main Street Rag, among others.

   Annette Gagliardi has poetry published in Motherwell, Wisconsin Review, American Diversity Report, Origami Poems Project, Amethyst Review, Door IS A Jar, Trouble Among the Stars, Poetry Quarterly, Sylvia Magazine, and others.  She is co-editor of Upon Waking. 58 Voices Speaking Out from the Shadow of Abuse, We Sisters, 2019. Her first full length poetry book, titled "A Short Supply of Viability" was published in 2022 by The Poetry Box. 

Her most recent chapbook, titled Caffeinated will be coming out in October 2024 through a Swedish publisher, The Island of Wak-Wak. Her work has been in over forty anthologies and in a few online and in-print magazines.

Visit her website at: https://annette-gagliardi.com/

   Kathleen Carlton Johnson is both poet and visual artist. She has 12 chapbooks to her name. Her work has appeared in MacGuffin, Aji, Diner and Barley South to mentioned but a few. Poetry is concentrated language that exposes some truth. When we hear or read a poem it has the ability to share something with the listener. It strikes a universal that we recognize in ourselves, our lives, our community life.

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  Patricia Aya Williams is currently enrolled in the San Diego Writers, Ink Poetry Certificate Program. Her poems have been published in San Diego Poetry Annual, City Works Literary Journal and (upcoming) Writers Resist online journal. She is also an iPhone/iPad digital artist and lives in San Diego with her husband and their French bulldog.

   B. Dixon is an emerging poet whose writing draws on his study of Zen Buddhism and his work with those experiencing homelessness in Boston, MA. His writing has been printed in the J Journal, the *82 Review, the Frogpond Journal, Right Hand Pointing and the Unbroken Journal, among others.

B. Dixon has also contributed articles to the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy's Quarterly Journal, "Cushion and Couch."

  Jon Lotus is resistant to writing biographies about himself in third person. Though he is humble and beyond elated to have been published 17 times, he feels awkward name-dropping universities or magazines. While he prefers to let his work speak for itself, he understands the importance of contextualizing himself for the sake of his potential readers, or those whose fellowship and readership he entrusts the verve of his passion to with unwavering honesty and vigilance.

So, while he is not hiding, he is a natural introvert and prefers to slip a poem under the door rather than speak it before the altar. He is grateful for your attention and for uplifting him.

DS Maolalai is a graduate of English Literature from Trinity College in Dublin and recently returned there after four years abroad in the UK and Canada. He has been writing poetry and short fiction for the past five or six years with some success. His writing has appeared in such publications as 4'33', Strange Bounce and Bong is Bard, Down in the Dirt Magazine, Out of Ours, The Eunoia Review, Kerouac's Dog, More Said Than Done, Star Tips, Myths Magazine, Ariadne's Thread, The Belleville Park Pages, Killing the Angel and Unrorean Broadsheet.

He has been nominated seven times for Best of the Net and three times for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry has been released in two collections, "Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden" (Encircle Press, 2016) and "Sad Havoc Among the Birds" (Turas Press, 2019).

  Jennifer Met lives in a small town in North Idaho with her husband and children. She is a nominee for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net anthology, a finalist for Nimrod's Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, and winner of the Jovanovich Award. Recent work is published or forthcoming in Cimarron Review, Gone Lawn, Juked, Midway Journal, The Museum of Americana, Nimrod, Ninth Letter, Sleet Magazine, and Zone 3, among other journals. Her haiku and haibun have been published in places such as Acorn, Contemporary Haibun Online, Crab Fat Magazine, Foliate Oak, Frogpond, Gravel, Gulf Stream, Haibun Today, The Heron's Nest, A Hundred Gourds, and more.

Her haiku have been selected for the Red Moon Anthology, and twice won a VCBF Sakura Award. She is also the author of the chapbook Gallery Withheld (Glass Poetry Press). www.jennifermet.com