Saudade

ISSUE 1:

 

Anjana Basu works as an advertising consultant in Calcutta. Her poems have featured in an anthology brought out by Penguin India and recently by Authorpress. In America she has been published in Gowanus,The Blue Moon Review,  and Recursive Angel, to name a few. In Canada she has appeared in The Antigonish Review. The Edinburgh Review and The Saltzburg Review have also featured her work,
 

Ace Boggess is the author of two books of poetry: The Prisoners (Brick Road, 2014) and The Beautiful Girl Whose Wish Was Not Fulfilled (Highwire, 2003).  He is an ex-con, ex-husband, ex-reporter and completely exhausted by all the things he isn't anymore.  His writing has appeared in Harvard Review, Mid-American Review, RATTLE, River Styx, and many other journals. He lives in Charleston, West Virginia.

 

Arbind  Kumar  Choudhary (B:1965)  is  a   poet , a  professor  and  an  editor who  credits  more  than  nine  poetry  collections
 

PW Covington's work is inspired by the Beat tradition of the American highway and of travelers everywhere. A figure on the Texas Indie Lit scene since the 1990's, his latest collection, titled "Sacred Wounds" was recently published by Slough Press.  Covington's work has been published by underground 'zines and university presses. He lives alone with his English bulldog.  

 

Darren C. Demaree’s poems have appeared, or are scheduled to appear in numerous magazines/journals, including the South Dakota Review, Meridian, The Louisville Review, Diagram, and the Colorado Review. He is the author of "As We Refer To Our Bodies" (2013, 8th House), "Temporary Champions" (2014, Main Street Rag), "The Pony Governor" (2015, After the Pause Press), and "Not For Art Nor Prayer" (2015, 8th House).  He is the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology. He is currently living and writing in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children. 

 

Rahul Dey writes every day. He has a head full of dreams and a heart where hope floats. Hopefully you'll dream with him.

 

Sue Neufarth Howard is a poet and visual artist, member - Greater Cincinnati Writers League (GCWL) and Colerain Artists.  She received Third Prize and/or Honorable Mention in several Ohio Poetry Day Contests since 1998. Her poems published in Her Limestone Bones: Selections from Lexington (KY) Poetry Month 2013; Pyrokinection and High Coupe online journals; Tic Toc,  Storm Cycle, and Gilded Frame Anthologies - Kind of a Hurricane Press; Cattails online journal; AEQAI online magazine; the Journal of Kentucky Studies - 25th Anniversary Edition; the Mid-America Poetry Review; and The Incliner - Cincinnati Art Museum. Her poetry chapbooks are TreeScapes, EarthWords, In and Out of the Blue Zoo and Haiku Moments, available on amazon.com.

 

Levi J. Mericle is a 28-year-old poet and spoken word artist from Tucumcari, NM. He’s been published in multiple anthologies and lit magazines and journals. His goal now is to write and give readings with material that will help the mentally ill come to peace and terms with their mental illnesses.

 

Gabrielle Montesanti is a recent graduate of Kalamazoo College, where she studied mathematics and studio art.

 

Oluwatosin S. Olabode (Sst) is a Nigerian by nationality. She considesr herself to be an idealist and a futurist. Though a graduate of Biochemistry, her passion is in writing and public speaking.
 

Scott Thomas Outlar spends the hours flowing and fluxing with the ever changing tide of the Tao River while laughing at and/or weeping over life's existential nature. His words have appeared recently in venues such as Dissident Voice, Yellow Chair Review, Syzygy Poetry Journal, and Section 8 Magazine. Links to his published work can be found at 17numa.wordpress.com.

 

Based in the God's own country of Kerala, India, Vidya Panicker’s poems have appeared in The feminist Review, So to speak, Shot glass journal, The new verse news, Three line poetry, Aberration Labyrinth, Bangalore Review, 4and20 poetry and several others.

 

Mark Antony Rossi's poetry, criticism, fiction and photography have appeared in The Antigonish Review, Another Chicago Review, Bareback Magazine, Black Heart Review, Collages & Bricolages, Death Throes,  Ethical Spectacle, Gravel, Flash Fiction, Japanophile, On The Rusk, Purple Patch, Scrivener Creative Review, Sentiment Literary Journal, The Sacrificial ,Wild Quarterly and Yellow Chair Review

 

Hardeep Sabharwal is  from India and his work were previously published in different print and online journals viz. Larcenist magazine,  Literary yard, Writers drawer, Delhi magazine and in some Hindi newspapers,, Last year he won Alfaaz s best poetry competition for my poem HIV Positive.

 

Andrew Scott is a native of Fredericton, NB. During his time as an active poet, Andrew Scott has taken the time to speak in front of a classrooms, judge poetry competitions as well as published worldwide in such publications as The Art of Being Human, Battered Shadows and The Broken Ones. His books, Snake With A Flower, The Phoenix Has Risen and The Storm Is Coming are available now.

 

Armani Scott is a high school student aspiring to become a pharmacists and/or author (poet). He began writing poetry when he was 13 and since then his craft has really grown due to the help of a few mentors. One of his personal goals is to continue to improve his work and also to eventually write a book of poetry that is published. Currently, he is on a dance team in the small town of Nacogdoches, Texas and they go by the name of the Dragonettes.  Spring of 2016 he will actually be a published author in Barrio Writers Vol. 7 I he believes.

 

Cynthia Sharp's poetry has appeared in a number of literary journals, such as Lantern Magazine, Toasted Cheese, Haiku Journal, Three Line Poetry & 50 Haikus and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize & Best of the Net Anthology. She is the editor of Poetic Portions, an anthology of recipes and poems celebrating Earth Day and the author of How to Write Poetry: A Resource for Students and Teachers of Creative Writing. In her spare time, she enjoys photographing the exquisite beauty of nature along the British Columbian coast.

 

Lynn White lives in north Wales. Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. She is especially interested in exploring the boundaries of dream, fantasy and reality. Her poem 'A Rose For Gaza' was shortlisted for the Theatre Cloud 'War Poetry for Today' competition in October 2014 and is published in ‘Poetry For Change’ anthology by Vending Machine Press. Poems have also recently been included in Harbinger Asylum's Literary Journal and 'A Moment To Live By' anthology, Stacey Savage's ‘We Are Poetry an Anthology of Love poems’, Weasel Press anthology ‘Degenerates, Voices For Peace’, Tangent Literary Journal, Amomancies, Dawntreader and various other on line and print journals and anthologies.