Present Poetry

A.J. Brown is a southern-born writer who tells emotionally charged, character driven stories that often delve into the darker parts of the human psyche. 

Karen Southall Watts, teaches, consults, and writes in North Carolina. Her works have been featured in multiple online publications as well as the North Carolina Bards Poetry Anthology 2023 and 2024, Gathering 2024, and Letters I’ll Never Send.

Karen is a three-time Pushcart nominee for poetry. Her poetry chapbook, Desire, Dreams and Dust was released in April of 2023.

Jenean McBrearty is a graduate of San Diego State University, who taught Political Science and Sociology, and received her Masters of Fine Art from Eastern Kentucky University in 2021.

Since 2006, her fiction, poetry, book reviews, and photographs have been published in over two-hundred sixty-five print and on-line journals.

She won the EKU Award for Graduate Creative Non-fiction in 2011 for her Creative non-fiction, Mexicali Mamas, and a Silver Pen Award in 2015 for her noir short story Red’s Not Your Color.

Her How-to book: Writing Beyond the Self: How to Write Creative Non-fiction that Gets Published, was published in 2018, and is now available at Amazon.

Mary McCarthy is a retired Registered Nurse who has always been a writer.

Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including "The Ekphrastic World," edited by Lorette Luzajic, "The Plague Papers," edited by Robbi Nester, and recent issues of Gyroscope, 3rd Wednesday, Caustic Frolic, Inscribe, and Verse Virtual.

Her collection "How to Become Invisible," chronicles a bipolar journey and is now available from Kelsay books, amazon, and the author.

For forty years Paul Tait performed both as a band leader and as a singer/songwriter/pianist.

Yichielle Devendra is a teacher. She loves travelling and has lived and worked in Asia and North America. She is constantly inspired by nature and animals. She has her home in Canada with her family and her cats.

Pat, a retired Christian teacher and member of SCBWI, has been writing poetry for many years. Her poems are featured in The Agape Review, The Clayjar Review, Pure in Heart Stories, The Way Back to Ourselves, the Heart of Flesh Literary Journal, Words of the Lamb and Vessels of Light. She is also regularly featured in the Southern Arizona Press Anthologies.

Pat is also a published contributor to the books, I Chose You, Rescue Dogs and their Humans, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Lessons Learned From My Dog and When Love Wags a Tale, Inspiring Stories of Love, Loyalty and Laughter. Her personal ministry is mailing weekly cards of encouragement to those going through difficult life struggles.

VIRAL GOR, widely known as VIRUS THE POET, is an award-winning Canadian poet and author of Poetry is Motion: Mind, Body & Soul who travels globally to perform on large stages throughout Toronto, Paris, London, San Francisco, Miami, NYC, and more.

He received a national award for his poem “Home,” which was later published by the Poetry Institute of Canada.

His poetry touches on universal themes of love, loss, and the human experience.

To learn more about this poet, visit his website or connect with him on social media.

To purchase a copy of Poetry Is Motion: Mind, Body & Soul, visit his Amazon Page.

Ean Teng Lim is a vegan lyricist who like to use poetry to bring awareness to the cause.

Donavan Barrier is a poet and writer from Michigan City, Indiana. His work has been published in The Polk Street Review, the Spill the Ink Poetry Zine and Pan-O-Ply Magazine. When not writing creatively, he works as a journalist for the La Porte County Herald-Dispatch.