Raphael Kosek’s poems have appeared in numerous journals and magazines such as Southern Humanities Review, Briar Cliff Review, Poetry East, Catamaran, The Chattahoochee Review and many others.  She also writes creative non-fiction and lyric essays, two of which have won first place awards at Eastern Iowa Review and Bacopa Review.  Harmless Encounters won the 2021 Jesse Bryce Niles Chapbook Contest…

Kim Ports Parsons’ debut collection Mayapple Forest is forthcoming from Terrapin Books.  Kim grew up near Baltimore, earned degrees, taught for decades, and worked in libraries. Now, she lives next to Shenandoah National Park where she gardens, walks, and writes. Her poetry has appeared in The Galway Review, Cider Press Review, Banyan Review, and other journals. She volunteers weekly for Cultivating Voices…

Theresa Wyatt is the author of Hurled Into Gettysburg, BlazeVox Books, 2018. Besides the powerful tug of history, Theresa divides her creative time between the poetry of place, ekphrasis, eulogy, and the healing aspects of medical narratives. Her poems have appeared in the W. W. Norton anthology, New Micro, A Celebration of Western New York Poets, Buffalo Legacy Publications, Pulse, Spillway, Steel Bellow,…

Perry S. Nicholas is a recently-retired English professor at SUNY Erie Community College in Buffalo, N.Y., where he was awarded the 2008 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Scholarship and Creative Activities and the 2011 President’s Award for Classroom Instruction. He received the SGA’s Outstanding Teacher Award on two occasions. He has been a guest lecturer at Daemen College, Villa Maria…