Andrew Galan is an internationally published poet and co-producer of renowned poetry event BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!. Described by reviewers as ‘riddled with satire’, his poetry is gut, direct, and imagination and reality meeting to eat and fight. Showcased at events including the Woodford, National Folk and Queensland Poetry festivals, and Chicago’s Uptown Poetry Slam, his verse appears in more »
Ashley-Elizabeth Best is from Cobourg, ON, Canada. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in CV2, Berfrois, Grist, Ambit Magazine, Glasgow Review of Books, Lumina, and The Literary Review of Canada. Recently she was shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Her first book, Slow States of Collapse is forthcoming with ECW Press. She lives and writes more »
David Adès is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet currently relocating to Australia after living in Pittsburgh since 2011. He has been a member of Friendly Street Poets since 1979. He is the author of Mapping the World (Friendly Street Poets / Wakefield Press, 2008) commended for the Anne Elder Award 2008, and the chapbook Only more »
Rose Hunter is the author of the poetry books You As Poetry (Texture Press, Oklahoma), [four paths] (Texture), to the river (Artistically Declined Press, Oregon), as well as the chapbook descansos (dancing girl press, Chicago). She is from Brisbane, spent many years in Canada, and is now in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. More information about her is available at Whoever Brought Me Here Will Have To Take Me more »
Vox Pop I thought about where I was until I was there where I thought I understood— the town talking to the city and the words not wasted there— but they couldn’t hear what it is I’m hearing by way of destruction & abandonment & washing up on another shore— being interviewed by Slick Entrepreneurs, more »
The courage season The days. You try to settle them in diaries, but they can’t be Herded, tamed. They’re here to counter, perhaps best Each chess move, your ability to push out from dead corners. Curiosity, action and laughter are contagious as are their Opposites. At crucial times you’ll need to go out on a more »
A POETIC LIFE A few years ago I ran into this poet type who seemed to be alright We would meet occasionally, invariably at gigs, and get right down to the important part of any poetry gig, the drinking… As poets wandered to and from the stage the pair of them sat, quietly, soaking in more »
Fight Song of the Fiddleback The rain tonight dribbled through the silver maple leaves long after it had rained. I sang a few bars of Guy Clark’s “Dublin Blues,” thinking of the spider I hit with a boot this afternoon for nothing but fear and all the pests I am always killing to assuage its more »
By the river at Borva The river’s chorus of dusk birds & what happens to water after boats carve through it at speed. Eloquence is not everything, naming things just reduces them. Defences disband, buses shuttle across the bridge, buoys blink. & like that I find a poem in the frayed ends of a soft more »
JÓZSEF BÍRÓ was born in 19 may 1951 / BUDAPEST / HUNGARY poet – writer – visual artist and performer 1975 to present. an irregular mini–opera in three acts/movements