Poets

    Lennart Lundh is a poet, photographer, short-fictionist, and historian. His work has appeared internationally since 1965.

Photo of poet by Jen Pezzo, June 2015

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    Shloka Shankar is a poet, editor, and self-taught visual artist from Bangalore, India. She enjoys experimenting with Japanese short-forms and myriad found poetry techniques alike. A Best of the Net nominee and award-winning haiku poet, her poems and artwork have appeared in over 200 online and print venues of repute. In addition, she has edited and co-edited six international poetry anthologies since 2016.

Shloka is the Founding Editor of the literary & arts journal Sonic Boom and its imprint Yavanika Press. 

Visit her website: www.shlokashankar.com

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      When not writing, Emalisa Rose enjoys crafting and drawing. She volunteers in animal rescue and tends to cat colonies. Living by a beach provides much of the inspiration for her art. She walks with a birding group on Sundays.

Some of her work has appeared in Writing in a Woman's Voice,  The Red Wolf Edition, Origami Poems Project and other wonderful places. She can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

    Jen Schneider is a community college educator who lives, works, and writes in small spaces in and around Philadelphia.

Recent works include A Collection of Recollections, Invisible Ink, On Habits & Habitats, and Blindfolds, Bruises, and Breakups.

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    Chuck Harp is a writer and winner of the Mad Cave Studios Talent Hunt. He released two poetry collections with Unsolicited Press, What Must Go On and Working Title. In 2021 Chuck released a poetry spoken word/music EP under the name, Katcheen Tongues.

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    Joris Soeding's most recent collections of poetry are Forty (Rinky Dink Press, 2019) and Home in Nine Moons (Clare Songbirds Publishing House, 2018). Soeding’s writing has appeared in publications such as Another Chicago Magazine, Columbia Poetry Review, and Red River Review. He is a fifth grade Language Arts teacher in Chicago, where he resides with his wife, son, daughter, and kittens.

 Photo taken by Christa Poskozim in July, 2021, in front of the statue, "David & Yonatan"

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    Preeth Ganapathy is a software engineer turned civil servant from Bengaluru, India. Her recent works have been published in several magazines such as Last Stanza Poetry Journal, The Ekphrastic Review, Star 82 Review, Panoply Zine, Tiger Moth Review, The Sunlight Press and various other journals. Her microchaps 'A Single Moment' and 'Purple' - have been published by Origami Poems Project. Her work has been nominated for the 2023 Best Spiritual Literature.

     Matt Stefon was religion editor of Encyclopaedia Britannica, poetry editor of West Texas Literary Review, adjunct in English and humanities at Middlesex Community College, and adjunct in comparative religion in Norwich University’s online degree completion program.

He studied at Penn State and Boston University and has two chapbooks and 463 wiffle ball home runs.