Poets

  Emma Wang is an 18-year-old writer born in Xi’an, China but currently attends Indian Springs School in Alabama. Her work has been recognized by the Scholastic Arts and Writing awards, and has appeared or is forthcoming in Cosmonauts Avenue, TRACK//FOUR, Canvas Literary Journal, Fictional Café, The Harpoon Review, Blue Marble Review, What Are Birds, and more. She founded and co-runs the Goya Writer’s Workshop, an international online workshop for young writers. She reads for Polyphony Lit and serves as Editor-in-Chief for the Mire.

 

On days when she remembers it, she likes to blog at www.lifes-lemons.com.

 

She is usually tired.

 

 

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  Cheryl Caesar is a poet and a writing teacher.   She's found that haiku can be a fun and effective way to take verbal snapshots: walking down the street, in the park or through the pet shop. The last location inspired the haiku series presented here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

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  Robert Epstein, a psychotherapist living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area, is a haiku anthologist as well as a haiku poet.  His latest anthology is, All the Way Home:  Aging in Haiku and his most recent book of haiku is, Turning the Page to Old: Haiku & Senryu. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

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  Dmitry Blizniuk is an author from Ukraine. His most recent poems have appeared The Pinch Journal, River Poets , Dream Catcher, Magma, Press53, Sheila Na Gig, Palm Beach Poetry Festival and many others. Dmitry Blizniuk is the author of "The Red Fоrest" (Fowlpox press, Canada 2018).

He lives in Kharkov, Ukraine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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   Nikhil Parekh (born 27 August 1977) is a poet and author from Ahmedabad, India. He is a 10-time National Record holder for his poetry with the Limca Book of Records India; which is India’s Best Book of Records, Ranked 2nd in the World officially to Guinness Book of World Records.

 

Read more: https://nikhilparekh.net/ 

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   Glenn Ingersoll works for the public library in Berkeley, California where he hosts Clearly Meant, a reading & interview series. He has two chapbooks, City Walks (broken boulder) and Fact (Avantacular).

 

A multi-volume prose work, Thousand (MCTPub) is now available from Amazon.com; e-book at Smashwords. He keeps two blogs, LoveSettlement and Dare I Read. Recent work has appeared in bluepepper, concis, and brass bell.

 

Read more: http://dareiread.blogspot.com or http://lovesettlement.blogspot.com/

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    Mary C. Rowin's poetry has appeared in publications such as Panopoly, Stoneboat, Hummingbird, Solitary Plover and Burningword Literary Journal.

 

Recent awards include poetry prizes from The Nebraska Writers Guild, and Journal from the Heartland. Mary’s poem “Centering,” published in the Winter 2018 issue of Blue Heron Review, was nominated for the Pushcart Press Anthology.

 

Mary lives with her husband in Middleton, Wisconsin.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  Neil Kennedy is a short form poetry enthusiast. He is a librarian with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing.

 

His recent publications include One Sentence Poems, The Road Not Taken, The Orchards, Right Hand Pointing, and Better Than Starbucks.

 

His poem, 'All Day After The Morning Our Dog Caught,' is included in the OPP contest anthology (on Amazon), 'The Best of Kindness.'  You may read his poem vis this OPP page link.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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