Poetry Contributor
Rebecca Harmon is a recent graduate from Utah State University. Besides writing, she also loves to dance, sing, act, hammock with her husband, and eat copious amounts of popcorn. Her main goal in life is to inspire people for good.
Fiction Contributor
Vinayak Singh is a 20 year old undergrad from India. He loves skimping on project submissions to read and write.
Ellen Clayton
There’s an immovable tree inside me
carefully planted by my parents
Which they nurtured gently
each day and each year;
the roots growing in the same fertile soil as
An orchard of ancestors
My family keeps this
Fruitful, faithful tree flowering
So I am able to
thrive
I plant my feet firmly
Grow tall
above the cacophony
Of self-doubt and external judgement
And now, it’s my turn
Three tiny people relying on me and their
Father to tend the emerging shoots
of their identity,
Give them tools to flourish and bloom
We hope to cultivate confidence
To yield kindness, joy, strength, resilience
Our legacy:
An
unshakeable
sense of belonging grown from the
Roots
of our family tree
Poetry Contributor
Margaret King is a Wisconsin author who enjoys penning poetry and flash fiction. She has forthcoming work in MoonPark Review and Moist Poetry Journal. She is also the author of the poetry collection, Isthmus.
The Particular Tilt of the Earth (at this time of year)
Visual Art, Poetry Contributor
Sarah is an artist, actress, and poet – recently published by The Bounds Green Book Writers, A Soft Landing, Last Leaves Mag, Nottingham C.A.N and Bloodmoon Poetry. Her latest Art Commission can be seen in the resus ward, A+E Department and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital vaccination hub. Her visual poetry can also be seen in Streetcake Magazine and Nightingale and Sparrow Literary Magazine. Review, and Oprelle Publications, among others.
Fiction Contributor
Zach Murphy is a Hawaii-born writer with a background in cinema. His stories appear in Reed Magazine, Ginosko Literary Journal, The Coachella Review, Mystery Tribune, Ruminate, B O D Y, Wilderness House Literary Review, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, and more. His debut chapbook Tiny Universes (Selcouth Station Press, 2021) is available in paperback and e-book. He lives with his wonderful wife Kelly in St. Paul, Minnesota.
437 Wilton Street (A Brick Story)
Gwyndolyn Hall
After a long winter
a small dragon palm left sitting
too far from a window,
her gentle neck bent at an unnatural angle,
her long green leaves lined in dark red truth,
whispered to me as I carried her to the sun porch:
Don’t feel bad, dear.
When faced with imperfect conditions,
we all twist ourselves towards the light.
Margaret King
The particular tilt of the Earth right now
In the early fall
Allows the setting sun to piece light through the blazing maple trees
The ones we can see from our living room windows
So green in summer we don’t even think of them
Until now or until their leaves fall off
And we no longer have a natural screen between
Us and the rest of the world
If marriage is a perpetual dance
Of spinning toward each other and then apart again
Then we’re just orbiting ourselves
Rather
Please just let me find my way back to you
Over and over again
Through the deer path of your heart
That only I know
Thistles that grow thick to obscure and protect
The delicate rabbit with the quick-beating heart
Deep within and burst into wish fluff
At this time of year
So many wishes
To release on the wind
The Queen Anne’s Lace
That, tightly-bunched
Hides the sleeping caterpillar inside
These secrets only I know
Poetry Contributor
Issa M. Lewis is the author of Infinite Collisions (Finishing Line Press, 2017) and Anchor (Aldrich Press, forthcoming in 2022). She is the 2013 recipient of the Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize and a runner-up for the 2017 Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize. Her poems have previously appeared in The Banyan Review, Linden Avenue Literary Journal, Split Rock Review, Panoply, and Naugatuck River Review, amongst others.
