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

  Carolyn Adams’ poetry and art have been published in the pages, and on the covers of Wood Cat Review , Steam Ticket , Change Seven Magazine , The Fictional Cafe , and Red Weather , among others. She has authored five chapbooks, with one being a collection of her collage art, entitled What Do You See?                                                                           “Minneapolis Airport” © Carolyn Adams “DC Subway” © Carolyn Adams “20-20”  © Carolyn Adams

Martin Kleinman is a New York City storyteller. He has told his tales of real New Yorkers in his short fiction collection, Home Front , (Sock Monkey Press 2013), in fiction anthologies and literary publications, in www.thisisthebronX.info, and on his blog www.therealnewyorkers.com, as well as in the Huffington Post , and in venues all around New York City – from KGB Bar to Union Hall. A native New Yorker, Marty has written two books on workplace innovation trends, and his new collection of short stories is A Shoebox Full of Money .  “When Paris Beckons” is his latest work. For more information, visit www.martykleinman.com . When Paris Beckons     Paris ignored Nash. His man-child ensemble – tee-shirt, cargo shorts, sneakers, and fanny pack – was considered an American abomination. Everyone, even les flics , dismissed him on sight, with a knowing eyebrow elevation and rueful cluck of the tongue.      Nash knew better. But persistent pandemic lockdo...

  Deborah P Kolodji, a haiku poet from Southern California, and Mariko Kitakubo, a tanka poet from Tokyo, started writing haiku-tanka sequences during the pandemic when they were both unable to travel to poetry readings, conferences, and events. To date, they have written 20 sequences.   Mariko Kitakubo has published six books of tanka including three bilingual ones, “On This Same Star,” “Cicada Forest,” and “INDIGO.” Mariko is an experienced performer who has presented her poetry on at least 234 occasions, 177 of them overseas, in 51 different cities on 5 different continents. She hopes to encourage more poetry lovers worldwide to appreciate and practice tanka. https://www.en.kitakubo.com     Deborah P Kolodji is the California Regional Coordinator for the Haiku Society of America. Her first full-length book of haiku and senryu, "highway of sleeping towns," won a Touchstone Distinguished Book Award from the Haiku Foundation. Her recent e-chapbook, “tug of a black ho...