North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
Poetry by Patricia Davis-Muffett
Three vivid narrative poems from Patricia Davis-Muffett, each of three describing a different experience from the many tragedies of 2020.
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
Poetry by Frances Roberts-Reilly
Poetry from Frances Roberts-Reilly a direct descendant of Abram Wood and the notable family of Welsh triple harpists, fiddlers and storytellers.
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
Poetry by Michael Martin
Quirky contemporary poems from USA's Michael Martin
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
Poetry by Bruce Meyer
Bruce Meyer, First Poet Laureate of Barrie, Ontario, CBC broadcaster, and prolific writer.
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
3 Poems by Carolyn L. Tipton
Carolyn L. Tipton, Berkley poet, professor, and award-winning translator brings autumn alive with these short vivid poems.
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
2 Poems by John Hicks
John Hicks fills his poetry with vibrant colour and sound, in response to the world around him
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
3 Poems by Michael Igoe
Poems from Michael Igoe that appear to go down easy but challenge you to read again.
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
3 Poems by Michael H. Brownstein
Poet Michael H Brownstein sends messages out from Dante’s circles of hellish
loss of physical and mental well being while transcending both.
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
3 Poems by Barry Peters
Barry Peters’ social commentary on tech’s effect on a generation of writers is sometimes wry, often laugh out loud funny. Enjoy the work of this poet from North Carolina.
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Poetry by Carolyn Martin
Writing poetry since her twenties, Carolyn’s first project was to rewrite the Bible. ‘My poems attempt to be simple in words as they grapple with the complexity of being on earth right now.’
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
2 poems by Martina Reisz Newberry
Martina Reisz Newberry, of Upland, California, daughter of a steel worker, storyteller father and a talented, artistic mother, uses words that jostle and ripple in responding to the environment.
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
Poetry by Kathryn de Leon
Kathryn de Leon, longtime poet arriving into world of publishing, writes her discovery of poetry,
of Sylvia Plath, and the fires of '67, subjects familiar to our time
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
Poetry by Cameron Morse
Cameron Morse’s first collection, 'Fall Risk', won Glass Lyre Press’s 2018 Best Book Award.
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
3 Poems by KB Ballentine
KB Ballentine is an award winning, well established poet and teacher of lit, theatre and writing.
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
Poetry by Iago Crybin
Crybin's poetry is melodic, and will repay your taking the time to read his work aloud. The acrobatic play of sound reminds one of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
3 Poems by Kathleen Strafford
In this collection of work, poet, Kathleen Strafford takes a deep dive into memory.
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
Poetry by Kieran Egan
Kieran Egan is lost in the flames of a winter bonfire.
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
Poetry by John H. Sime
John H. Sime has been a freelance writer since college in _Kickapoo Free Press, Wisconsin Poets Calendar, Verse
Wisconsin, Howling Mantra, Hummingbird, Lake City Lights.
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
Poetry by Jane Rosenberg LaForge
Jane Rosenberg LaForge writes poetry, fiction, and occasional essays in New York. Her next full-length collection of poems will be Medusa's Daughter from Animal Heart Press in 2021.
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
Poet, Christian Garduno
Christian Garduno edited the compilation Evolver and his own solo poetry collection Face, while a History undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley.
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
3 poems by Deborah Purdy
Deborah Purdy's work has appeared in Gravel Literary Magazine, Cleaver Magazine, and other publications.
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
2 poems by Alan Cohen
Alan Cohen's writing appears in New England Journal of Medicine (1977), The Road Not Taken (2017) and more
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
Poetry by Mycah Miller
Mycah Miller is a Santa Cruz, CA-based poet, artist, motorcyclist, and student.
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
Poetry by Don Krieger
Don Krieger is a 2020 Creative Nonfiction Fellow.
His work has appeared in Neurology, Live Mag!, Seneca Review, The
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Asahi Shimbun, Entropy, and others.
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
2 poems by Vivian Wagner
Vivian Wagner is an associate professor of English at Muskingum University.
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
3 poems by Don Thompson
Don Thompson's publications include Been There, Done That (2002), Sittin’ on Grace Slick’s Stoop (2006), Turning Sixty (2008), Where We Live (2009), and Everything Barren Will Be Blessed (2012).
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
3 poems by Stacey Curran
Stacey Curran is a New England Press Association award winner, with essays in The Boston Globe Magazine, several weeklies and anthologies.
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
Here is the world she plays, Kelli Allen
Kelli Allen's new collection, Banjo's Inside Coyote, arrived from C&R Press March, 2019.
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
Poetry by Pui Ying Wong
Pui Ying Wong is the author of 'An Emigrant’s Winter' (Glass Lyre Press, 2016) and 'Yellow Plum Season' (New York Quarterly Books, 2010)
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
‘Crazy Horse Canyon’ a poem by Charles Edwards
Charles Edwards has been writing poetry for several years, but his first published work didn't appear until winter 2019.
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
Tickled Pink, poetry by Kevin Kling
Kevin Kling was named the Minneapolis Storyteller Laureate in 2014. He has written five books.   

North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
Poetry by Robert Feldman
Robert Feldman is a founding member of the Bisbee Poets Collective and facilitate the annual Bisbee Poetry Festival.
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
3 poems by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro
Rochelle Jewel Shapiro teaches writing at UCLA Extension
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
2 poems by Louisa Muniz
Louisa Muniz was the Sheila-Na-Gig 2019 Spring Contest Winner for her poem Stone Turned Sand.Â
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
Shagbark Hickories by Joan Colby
Joan Colby’s Selected Poems received the 2013 FutureCycle Prize and Ribcage was awarded the 2015 Kithara Book Prize
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
Poetry by Marguerite L. Harrold
Marguerite L. Harrold's work can be found in The Chicago Review: The Black Arts Movement in Chicago Special Issue, VINYL Poetry, The Matador Review and elsewhere
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
Poetry by Amy Gordon
Amy Gordon’s first chapbook of poems, Deep Fahrenheit, was released by Prolific Press in 2019.
North American Time: With Felicia McCarthy
3 poems by Chelsea Logan
Chelsea Logan is a freelance writer living in Nashville, TN. Her
editorial work has appeared in The Tennessean and her poetry is widely published
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