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

                                                                                             © 2024 marie c lecrivain Ann Huang is a multilingual Chinese American poet, filmmaker and visual artist based in Newport Beach, CA. Her poetry has been featured in Denver Quarterly, Alexandria Quarterly, Ruth Stone, FENCE, CONFRONTATION, Poets Choice, Adelaide Lit Mag, Contemporary Verse 2, Rue Scribe, The Blue Mountain Review, The Elevation Review, Helen Lit Mag, The Florida Review, The Bare Life Review, The Bookends Review, Tiny Seed Journal, The Write Launch and Verse Wrights . She's Ephemera 's June 2023 Poet. Her latest manuscript Garden by The Glass Door is the Wisconsin Poetry Series' 2024 Semi-Finalist. The Exit Where are you going so precipitated? Wher...

Los Angeles poet Rick Lupert created Poetry Super Highway ( poetrysuperhighway.com ) and hosted the Cobalt Cafe weekly reading for almost 21 years which has lived on as a Zoom series since 2020. He’s authored 28 collections of poetry, most recently It’s Spritz O’Clock Somewhere, and God Wrestler: a Poem for Every Torah Portion , and edited the anthologies A Poet’s Siddur , Ekphrastia Gone Wild , A Poet’s Haggadah , and The Night Goes on All Night . He writes a Jewish Poetry column for www.JewishJournal.com , and the daily web comic “ Cat and Banana ” with Brendan Constantine. He reads his poetry wherever they let him. At Night With Pizza Waiting for a table at the place where Margherita pizza was invented. A Meloncello Spritz is in my veins and we will dine-in unlike the citizens in the takeout line which goes up the street to where the city is divided in half. This could take a while so I may need wine to continue the magic and fall in love with whoever brings it to us. A platonic ...

  Bio: W Roger Carlisle is a 75-year-old, semi-retired physician. He  currently volunteers and works in a free medical clinic for patients  living in poverty. He is on a journey of returning home to better understand himself through poetry. He hopes he is becoming more humble in the process. A Yearly MIssion Trip From America to Nicaragua Our medical mission has arrived in Nicaragua. Driving along in the cool comfort of our bus, we see donkeys carrying firewood, people walking on dusty roads, carrying food and produce to market, dry gullies, dusty plains, skeletal horses, dry river beds, giggling girls walking to church. Giant Pochote, Acetuna, Jocote, Roble, Caesalpinia, Brosimum trees fill the horizon. The only things protecting the people from the heat. The operating rooms are small, equipped with old refurbished equipment from twenty years ago. The clinics have dirt floors, medicine is in short supply. Outside, a line of children with crossed eyes waiting to be fixed,...

Bio: Alex S. Johnson is a retired English professor, author and editor currently living in Sacramento, California. His current projects include the William S. Burroughs tribute anthology The Junk Merchants Volume 2 , as well as the horror anthology Campfire Bloody Campfire. His poetry has appeared in 13 Mynah Birds , various anthologies and his 2012 collection The Death Jazz, which was praised by the likes of Ellyn Maybe, John Shirley, and Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead. Maps to Never Unscrolling the land across a nodal grid where pulses smoke-spoken prophecies of the high priestess whose brown abundance mothers  A fleet of luminous ships rigged out with blessings, salvos of lyrical weapons hotly tongued Limbs engraved with the language of solar deity jungles seized with a jagged architectural sentience,  manifesting pyramids with steps to meet the sun, Regal crimson snakes, forests of laughing turquoise birds folded from the vastness of origami skies sheen of the muscles of...

Bio: Susan H. Evans lives in Baltimore, Maryland, and writes memoir, poetry, and reflective fiction. She is published in many online, as well as print journals, and magazines.  Displaced   Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. -- Jack Kerouac      The canvas jaws of the sodden suitcase open wide, taking a big bite out of the large rock, the rest of it inflating and deflating like a shabby accordion. Although the water current -- brisk, swirling, and cold –pushes against the case, the baggage clings like a jilted lover.      I wrench the case from the surface of the gray boulder, flops it face down in winter’s sparse grass, and expose it to the overcast day’s hollow eyes. The case seems to gasp, to pant, to sigh. The creek trickles out of its seams, pockets, and tight corners.      A day passes. I return to the scene of the case. It lies still, out of cont...

 Bio:  Edward Lee is an artist and writer from Ireland. His paintings and photography have been exhibited widely, while his poetry, short stories, non-fiction have been published in magazines in Ireland, England and America, including The Stinging Fly, Skylight 47, Acumen and Smiths Knoll.  His poetry collections are  Playing Poohsticks On Ha’Penny Bridge ,  The Madness Of Qwerty ,  A Foetal Heart  and  Bones Speaking With Hard Tongues . He also makes musical noise under the names Ayahuasca Collective, Orson Carroll, Lego Figures Fighting, and Pale Blond Boy. His blog/website can be found at  https://edwardmlee. wordpress.com