Dashboard Horus: A Bird's Eye View of the Universe

                                                                    Photograph of James Baldwin from the Carl Van Vechten Collection Writer/designer, Pam Ward just released her poetry book Between Good Men & No Man At All , World Stage Press. She’s published two novels, Want Some Get Some , and Bad Girls Burn Slow , Kensington. A UCLA graduate, recipient of a California Arts Council Fellow, and Pushcart Poetry Nominee, Pam has published in Chiron, Calyx, Voices of Leimert Park and the LA Times and is currently writing a novel about her aunt & the Black Dahlia Murder. Contemplating Baldwin Inside Café de Flore             “For every James Baldwin, there are a whole lot of corpses, a lot of people who went under.” -“ James Baldwin Baldwin almost did it, once.  B...

This year's Pushcart Prize nominees are: Keiko Amano “After the Concert”(prose Jeanie Greenfelder “Time Travel”  (poem) Victor Infante “Traveling by Map” (poem)  Scott Kaestner “The Las Vegas Trip” (poem) Rick Lupert  “At Night With Pizza” (poem)  Annette Sugden “" (poem) Congratulations to the  nominees.:)

  Scott C. Kaestner is a Los Angeles poet, writer, dad, husband, and man who believes the simpler the simple things, the better they become. Google “scott kaestner poetry” to peruse his musings and doings, maybe even buy a book. The Las Vegas Trip Two mushrooms eaten in a 5th floor hotel room doors swing open I walk these streets looking through the prism of foregone conclusions empty promises and unrealistic expectations cigarette smoke clouds fluorescent lights and lady luck she is a ghost here everyone’s looking nothing is found high hopes, heat, cocktails roll the dice - sip bourbon swallow my fate along with the burden of being a stranger in a strange land a daisy soul tripping fire breathing dragon in an arid vacuum of time and space waiting for a win that ain’t coming. © 2024 Scott C. Kaestner

Annette Sugden is a poet whose work has appeared in poeticdiversity , Gentle Strength Quarterly,, and more. She’s lived in Seattle, London, and Los Angeles. Annette currently resides outside of Phoenix with her partner, Michael, their three dogs, and two cats.   She Runs in Silver She runs in silver like an arctic fox (No, that’s not right) She walks inside colors Rains out games and lovers (Still not quite it either) She is not she or they or he or it She is a nebula (No, she isn’t) She stands on my window Invisible, a sylph, not a siren Her secret, silent and just out of reach © 2024 Annette Sugden

                                                                                  © 2024 Alea Celeste Williams Bio:  Alex S. Johnson's poetry has been featured in numerous venues, including 1 3 Mynah Birds, Black Noise, Horror Sleaze Trash, Misfits, Rye Whiskey Review, Dashboard Horus, and Unlikely Stories . His prose and poetry collections Skull Vinyl and The Doom Hippies were acquired by the Widener Library at Harvard University for their cultural significance. John Shirley, co-creator of the Cyberpunk genre and co-author with David J. Schow of the cult classic horror film The Crow wrote of Johnson's dark poetry collection, The Flowers of Doom, "Alex S. Johnson is the Baudelaire of our time; the poet of the underground." His upcoming books include White on White: A Literar...

  Best of the Net Nominations (2025) for Dashboard Horus POETRY Lorraine Caputo “Wraiths” Kelley Whilte “Winnipesaukee, Snow Moon” Ann Tweedy “Self-Guided Tour” Pam Ward “Le Revue Negre” Alex S. Johnson “Maps to Never” Charles A. Perrone “OV” FICTION Matt McGee “ Waiting For Take Off” Leah Mueller “The Other Passenger” NONFICTION Elizabeth Jaeger “Bibimbap” Ndaba Sibanda “ Seeking Refuge” ART Edward Lee “Church, Barcelona”

Bio: Rose Mary Boehm is a German-born British national living and writing in Lima, Peru, and author of two novels as well as eight poetry collections. Her poetry has been published widely in mostly US poetry reviews (online and print). She was three times nominated for a ‘Pushcart’ and once for ‘Best of Net’. Do Oceans Have Underwater Borders? (Kelsay Books July 2022), Whistling in the Dark (Cyberwit July 2022), and Saudade (December 2022) are available on Amazon. Also available on Amazon is a new collection, Life Stuff , published by Kelsay Books November 2023. https://www.rose-mary-boehm-poet.com/ Element 79 gold is one of Peru’s major exports A phalanx of red ants on the multi-hued bark. Scarlet, golden, orange skies falling into black nights. Moments when the earth itself offers no aegis. Deep rifts created over sixty million years ago by giants which lifted and folded sedimentary rocks. Five thousand meters high, five deep. Sea, desert, bland, sand, dry, high, snow and ice, lush,...