The LKMNDS Podcast

Rahil Najafabadi is an emerging writer and a professional artist who has sold original collections of watercolor and pastel paintings since 2016. She hopes to publish her own poems, fictional short stories, and illustrated children's books under the pen name "Miss Hill." Growing up in Connecticut, most of her work includes elements of the cold northeastern state in both color and style.

Aarya Srivastava is a young poet who sees big dreams with small eyes. She has been published in many magazines and wants to aim even higher in the literary world. The ink of her thoughts and her pen of hard work helps elevate her to the next level in her writing career. 

Laurie Kuntz is an award-winning poet and film producer. She has published one poetry collection (Somewhere in the Telling, Mellen Press) and two chapbooks (Simple Gestures, Texas Review Press and Women at the Onsen, Blue Light Press), as well as an ESL reader (The New Arrival, Books 1 & 2, Prentice Hall Publishers). Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her chapbook, Simple Gestures, won the Texas Review Poetry Chapbook Contest. Recently retired, she lives in an endless summer state of mind. You can find a portfolio of her work at the following website: https://lauriekuntz.myportfolio.com/home-1

Emma Crone is an English major and aspiring writer at Baldwin Wallace University with a passion for fiction and poetry. She's been featured as a poetry author in Baldwin Wallace University’s 2020 edition of their student arts publication The Mill, and won an award for commended short stories from the Wilbur and Niso Smith Foundation's 'Authors of Tomorrow' contest.

Laurie Kuntz is an award-winning poet and film producer. She has published one poetry collection (Somewhere in the Telling, Mellen Press) and two chapbooks (Simple Gestures, Texas Review Press and Women at the Onsen, Blue Light Press), as well as an ESL reader (The New Arrival, Books 1 & 2, Prentice Hall Publishers). Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her chapbook, Simple Gestures, won the Texas Review Poetry Chapbook Contest. Recently retired, she lives in an endless summer state of mind. You can find a portfolio of her work at the following website: https://lauriekuntz.myportfolio.com/home-1

Nina Murray is a Ukrainian-born American poet, translator, and diplomat. Her most recent collection of poetry is the chapbook Minor Heresies (The Heartland Review Press, 2020).

Savage The Poet is a Nuyorican Poet/Healer born and raised out of Brooklyn, NY. In love with words and the effect poetry has on changing and uplifting human emotion, his poems ripple off of influences like Elizabeth Acevedo, Maya Angelou, and Pedro Pietri. Savage’s writing is inspired by Afro-Latino Spirituality, poverty, women, and the everyday forces of nature. In the flawed, yet perfect, blend of poetic beauty and raw emotion…he is also known as the hood’s preacher and therapist.

Simon Havok traveled the world during his time in the US Air Force. He has previously been published in the Air Force Times, Literary Yard and Scarlet Leaf Review. In 2019, Havok finished his first autobiographical book of poetry entitled Through The Eye & Mind of A Frail Vessel. When not writing, he enjoys raising his four amazing sons.

Clarence Carter Boucher is blind in one eye; the other eye has been saved for now by multiple surgeries and changes in treatment. Carter’s eye has some field loss and contrast loss. He also has nerve damage in his hands from a car wreck in which he was dead on impact. The EMTs clocked him as dead for 16 minutes. Clarence Carter came back to a broken neck and four years of therapy to regain his fine motor control. In addition, he has Type II Diabetes.

Clarence Carter Boucher’s children’s books are published by Richard C. Owen. His poetry has been published in numerous anthologies including, Poems by the World’s Best Living Poets. He won the International Golden Poet Award and was featured in About the Author. Carter can be found and contacted with the following information:

www.boucherart.com

[email protected]

Ranjith Sivaraman is from Kerala, a small state in India. He is a poetry lover and a fan of true love. This is a short poem dedicated to all those who were lucky enough to experience true love and those who believe in love of life. Ranjith can be found on social media at: https://twitter.com/asranjith