Nightingale & Sparrow

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  • Donna J. Gelagotis Lee

    Donna J. Gelagotis Lee

    Poetry Contributor

    Donna J. Gelagotis Lee is the author of two award-winning collections, Intersection on Neptune (The Poetry Press of Press Americana, 2019), winner of the Prize Americana for Poetry 2018, and On the Altar of Greece (Gival Press, 2006), winner of the 2005 Gival Press Poetry Award and recipient of a 2007 Eric Hoffer Book Award: Notable for Art Category. Her poetry has appeared in journals internationally, including The Bitter Oleander, Cimarron Review, The Cortland Review, Feminist Studies, and The Massachusetts Review.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    October

     

  • Jason B. Crawford

    Jason B. Crawford

    Poetry Contributor

    Jason B. Crawford is black, bi-poly-queer, and a damn force of nature. In addition to being published in online literary magazines, such as High Shelf Press, Wellington Street Review, Poached Hare, The Amistad, Royal Rose, and Kissing Dynamite, he is the Chief Editor for The Knight’s Library. His chapbook collection, Summertime Fine, was a Short List Selection for Nightingale & Sparrow. Jason is also the recurring host poet for Ann Arbor Pride.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Werewolves

     

  • Mirages

    Mirages

    Mário Santos

    There is no far, nor distance. There is only the light that goes out
    in the darkness of your eyes.
    Suddenly we stopped in a kind of desert. We should feel the
    same sensation as the vegetables that fall asleep in the garden, in
    a contemplative universe, with no other characteristics, just
    contemplation. Here we are: standing in a dream, right in the
    midst of a dream, in the free and imminently spiritual ecstasy
    of those who fly over the plains, while we build roots progressively
    deeper under the lethargy of our feet.

    Mário Santos

  • Donna Vitucci

    Donna Vitucci

    Fiction Contributor

    Donna Vitucci’s stories, poems, and creative nonfiction have been published in print and online since 1990. Her novels In Euphoria, Salt of Patriots, and At Bobby Trivette’s Grave are 5-star-reviewed. Her most recent novel, All Souls, along with the others, is available through Magic Masterminds Press. A Midwestern girl, she has relocated to the North Carolina piedmont, where she enjoys gardening, reading, walking and yoga.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    O’Leary’s

     

  • Rochelle L. Harris Cox

    Rochelle L. Harris Cox

    Poetry Contributor

    Rochelle L. Harris Cox is from Northwest Georgia where she currently teaches writing and literature at Kennesaw State University. Her essays and poetry have appeared in such journals as symplokē, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Crab Orchard Review, Rappahannock Review, Glass, and Fourth Genre. She lives on a smallish mountain in the foothills of the Appalachians with seven-and-a-half cats, a big garden, and a fledgling vineyard.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    a curse of opera (and love)

     

  • Lavinia Kumar

    Lavinia Kumar

    Poetry Contributor

    Lavinia Kumar’s books are The Skin and Under (Word Tech, 2015), and The Celtic Fisherman’s Wife: A Druid Life (2017). Chapbooks are Let There be Color (Lives You Touch Publications, 2016), Rivers of Saris (Main Street Rag, 2013), and Beauty. Salon. Art. (Desert Willow Press, 2019). Her poetry has appeared in U.S., Irish, & UK publications.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    After Ireland’s 1916 Rising, in England

     

  • Samantha Godwin

    Samantha Godwin

    Poetry Contributor

    Samantha Godwin is a graduate of Mercer University and current student at Kennesaw State University’s Masters of Art in Professional Writing program. When not writing, she enjoys teaching students writing techniques.


    @sammigodwin


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Driving at Night

     

  • a curse of opera (and love)

    a curse of opera (and love)

    Rochelle L. Harris Cox

    beside each other in plush darkness, straining,
    becalmed, they yearn for storm. he craves

    herosong and maidenswoon, the ghostly ship
    crossing the stage; she covets his bearded profile,
    hair in a viking tangle, through fear liquid as wine

    and gulped from the glass. i cried for the dead
    men singing, he says later, eyes shadowed by sails

    that tatter and flap like crows’ wings across axe-
    split pine. she will not listen to the bellows
    of warning bass and waning tenor, wanting

    only tears or words that do not fall for her.
    they long to taste that place where lips meet,

    the soft crease that catches saliva, dries it taut
    and white so all kisses sting of dark-sung
    curses. maybe tonight they will turn to each

    other: for dutchmen must sail until love anchors,
    until maidens pledge by shedding skin on stone.

    Rochelle L. Harris Cox

  • Jane Dougherty

    Jane Dougherty

    Poetry Contributor

    Jane Dougherty lives and works in rural southwest France. Her home is surrounded by fields and woodland and their discreet populations, and she is unhappy anywhere else. Her poems and stories have been published in magazines and journals including Ogham Stone, Hedgerow Journal, Tuck Magazine, ink sweat and tears, Eye to the Telescope, the Drabble and Ekphrastic Review.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    A blinding

     

  • Peter Wood

    Peter Wood

    Poetry Contributor

    Peter Wood is a social science researcher most recently based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. His work has been featured in Toasted Cheese Literary Journal, Page & Spine, and Ink & Nebula.


    @notPeterWood


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    My descent into meaning