Ken Poyner has lately been seen in Analog, Café Irreal, The Journal of Microliterature, Blue
Collar Review, and many wonderful places. His latest book of bizarre short fiction, Constant
Animals, is available from his web, www.kpoyner.com, and from www.amazon.com. He is
married to Karen Poyner, one of the world’s premier power lifters, and holder of more than a
dozen current world power lifting records. They are the parents of four rescue cats, and two
senseless fish.
Kevin Rabas teaches at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas, and has six books,
including Lisa’s Flying Electric Piano.
Jeff Santosuosso is a business executive and prize-winning poet living in Pensacola, FL. A
member of the Florida State Poets Society, he is co-editor of panoplyzine.com, an online journal
dedicated to poetry and short prose. His poems have appeared in Illya’s Honey, Red River
Review, Texas Poetry Calendar (2012, 2014), Avocet, Red Fez, Alalit, Extract(s), Syzygy and
other online and print publications. You can find him on Facebook.
Beth Sherman received an MFA in creative writing from Queens College, where she teaches in
the English department. Her poetry has been published in Hawaii Pacific Review, Hartskill
Review, Synecdoche and Lime Hawk and is forthcoming in The Evansville Review. Her fiction
has been published in Portland Review and is forthcoming in Joyce Quarterly. Beth has also
written five mystery novels, published by Avon Books, a division of HarperCollins.
John Oliver Simon is one of the legendary poets of the Berkeley Sixties who has grown by
steady dedication to his calling. Published from Abraxas to Zyzzyva, he is a distinguished
translator of contemporary Latin American poetry, and received an NEA fellowship for his work
with the great Chilean surrealist Gonzalo Rojas (1917-2011). He is a board member of California
Poets In The Schools, where he has worked since 1971, and was the River of Words 2013
Teacher of the Year. His ninth full collection of poems is GRANDPA'S SYLLABLES (White Violet
Press, 2015). For his lifetime of service to poetry, the Mayor of Berkeley, California proclaimed
January 20, 2015, as John Oliver Simon Day.
For Akeith Walters, words are the art of his heart and some of his have been published in a
dozen anthologies and numerous literary magazines. He likes to sit at the end of the day with a
cup of ice melting in bourbon while he contemplates the difference between poetry and prose.
The latter is more difficult to pen down, but sometimes when the room quiet and still, the stories
will hang around like cigarette smoke exhaled in frustration.
Despite being a life-long consumer of poetry, Ed Werstein spent 22 years in manufacturing and
union activity before his muse awoke and dragged herself out of bed. His sympathies lie with
poor and working people. He advocates for peace and against corporate power. A member of the
Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and The Hartford Avenue Poets, his poetry has appeared in Verse
Wisconsin, Blue Collar Review, Mobius: Journal of Social Change, Stoneboat, and a few other
publications. His first chapbook, Who Are We Then?, was published in 2013 by Partisan Press.
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