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

Stanley H. Barkan is the editor/publisher of the Cross-Cultural Review Series of World Literature and Ar t, that has, to date, produced some 350 titles in 50 different languages. His own work has been published in 15 collections, several of them bilingual (Bulgarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Sicilian).  His latest is Strange Seasons , a poetry and photographic collaboration with Russian artist, Mark Polyakov (Sofia, Bulgaria: AngoBoy, 2007).  He was the 1991 New York City’s Poetry Teacher of the Year (awarded by Poets House and the Board of Education) and the 1996 winner of the Poor Richard’s Award, “The Best of the Small Presses” (awarded by the Small Press Center), for “25 years of high quality publishing.”  In May 2006, he was invited by Peter Thabit Jones, editor of The Seventh Quarry , to be the solo featured poet at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea, Wales.  In the Spring of 2008, he organized the historic—the first such since the death of Dylan Thomas in 195...

Terry Wolverton is author of thirteen books of poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, including Embers , a novel in poems; Insurgent Muse: art and life at the Woman’s Building , a memoir; and her most recent novel, Season of Eclipse . She’s edited sixteen literary compilations. Terry received a COLA Fellowship from the City of Los Angeles, a Publishing Triangle award for nonfiction, and a Fellowship in Poetry from the California Arts Council. She is the founder of Writers At Work, a creative writing studio in Los Angeles, and Affiliate Faculty in the MFA Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles. http://terrywolverton.com The Farthest North I’ve Ever Been Which way is north? I think I once knew but now I’m turned around. There used to be a star to follow, but I can’t find it in the sky. Everything so brightly lit at night in the never- ending city. We’ve blinded the stars. The path ahead, is that north? Feels like earth’s axis has shifted. The road’s off- kilter. Coyotes ca...

  Jeffrey Bryant is a Pushcart-nominated queer poet from Los Angeles. His work has appeared in the LA Weekly , LA Times , Poetic Diversity, New Verse News , Poetrysuperhighway.com , Synkroniciti, Quill and Echo, Tension Literary, Journal of the Plague Years, Coiled Serpent, Altadena Poetry Review, Shadowplay, Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts, Cholla Needles Literary Journal and Tender Hearts Club . He will appear in a forthcoming photography book of Los Angeles poet portraits from Moon Tide Press. His debut collection The Catacombs of Vanished Lovers is out now on Cherry Pie Press. @thecherrypiepress Drive by America ---- is there a stable freeway not wobbling its furious  concrete into screams or its interchanging futures, its off ramps not taken,  all the gas, food, dislodging, the phone sex on the call box,  weigh stations  buckling under the burden  of youthful obsession, all of it one miniature golf course away from heart failure?  where on the G...

  Nicole Goodwin aka GOODW.Y.N. They are longlisted for The Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for 2023 , the 2023 RWW Creative Nonfiction Fellow, as well as the 2018 Ragdale Alice Judson Hayes Fellowship Recipient , while advancing to the 2nd Round of the 2018 Creative Capital Awards . They published the articles “Talking with My Daughter…” and “Why is this Happening in Your Life…” in the New York Times’ parent blog Motherlode . Additionally, their work “Ain’t I a Woman (?/!): Poems,” was longlisted for The Black Spring Press Group’s The Christopher Smart-Joan Alice Prize for 2020 . Ode to Tent Cities Too many tents, harboring The unwanted. Haunted housing, With no walls, bedding, or door mats To bid you welcome and farewell. It’s as if evolution has gone mad, And forgotten who made it so. That the trees did cry wolf; and wind Blows harshly, without even baring a sound. I wonder when we are all left upon the street, Will those whose greedy little thumbs, forefingers, Pinkies, nail-bit...

                                                                                                                                       © John DeAngelo John DeAngelo was born and raised in Greenwich Village. And if asked, he’ll tell you that he has always been an artist, both a poet and visual artist. John is a Vet who served in Vietnam. And whether out of fear of boredom or death, (probably both) he first began writing and photographing seriously. After making it home more or less intact, he received a B.A. in English and subsequently pursued graduate study in Comparative Literature at Rutgers University, where his focus was poetry and was fortunate to ...

  Wandering troubadour Lorraine Caputo is a documentary poet, translator and travel writer. Her works appear internationally in over 500 journals and 24 collections of poetry – including Orinoco Plains (dancing girl press, 2025) and Santa Marta Ayres (Origami Poems Project, 2024). She also authors travel narratives, articles and guidebooks. She is a Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada honoree (2011) and multiple Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee. Caputo has done literary readings from Alaska to the Patagonia. She journeys through Latin America with her faithful knapsack Rocinante, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth . Social media https://latinamericawanderer.wordpress.com https://www.facebook.com/lorrainecaputo.wanderer https://www.instagram.com/lorrainecaputoc https://bsky.app/profile/lorrainecaputo.bsky.social Serenading the Eight-Fifteen I serenade the freight trains with tunes played on a silver pennywhistle The strains of songs the high notes reach ...