Elizabeth Brooks resides in Tampa, Florida. She is originally from Trinidad and Tobago. A lover of life, family,
friends, a good book, lots of laughter and continues
to grow in her faith and accept many challenges. She is a librarian by profession
and a part-time reference librarian at Saint Leo University, St. Leo
Florida. She continues to enjoy reading and sharing her poems with many, at events in Tampa Bay.
March 4, 2016
A Lyrical Poem By Phillip Brown: "Do You Have Peace My Friend?"
Do You Have Peace My Friend?~Phillip Brown
Four Poems By DB Cox: "Spaces-For Charlie Parker", "Shades of Ray", "Take Me To a Place", "Natalie"
DB Cox
is a blues musician/writer from South Carolina. He grew up in a
Southern Baptist Orphanage called Connie Maxwell Children’s Home in
Greenwood, SC. He graduated from high school in 1966, and joined the
Marines Corps right after the Vietnam TET Offensive in 1968. After being
discharged in 1972, he spent several years playing guitar in bars, juke
joints, and honky tonks across the South.
Two Poems By James Diaz: "It's The Music That Gets Us Through", "The Bar At The Edge Of Town"
James Diaz lives in upstate New York. His poems and stories have appeared in Cheap Pop Lit, Chronogram, Ditch, Pismire, My Favorite Bullet, Collective Exile, Commonline Journal, Dissident Voice, Epigraph and The Voices Project.
Two Poems By Ken Allan Dronsfield: 'Music, Tea and a Bun", "Melodious in B Major"
Ken
Allan Dronsfield is a Published Poet/Author/Digital Artist originally
from Hampton New Hampshire, now residing in Oklahoma. He has been
writing for many years and enjoys spending time hiking, playing guitar
and spending time with his cats Merlin and Willa. His published work can
be found at numerous print venues.
Three Poems By David Francis: "Midnight Detour", "Of Their Song", "Mercedes Merengue"
David Francis has produced five albums of songs, one of poems, and "Always/Far," a chapbook of lyrics and drawings. In 2013 his film "Village Folksinger" premiered at Anthology Film Archives in New York. His poems and stories have appeared in a number of journals. http://davidfrancismusic.com
Three Poems By Paul Goldman: "Ancestral Chord", "Breath of Thunder", "Conjoined Rhythm"
Poet Paul Goldman has just released his third collection of ecstatic poetry, which many have favorably compared to the thirteenth century mystic poet Jalal ad-Din Muhammed Rumi. This latest work, Upon Your Canvas published now by River Sanctuary Publishing, is the follow up to Journey Into Oneness and Wild Joy:Ruminations.
Two Poems By Diane Sahms-Guarnieri: "Detached from the body of wind", "As if spring’s floral music is poetry of air."
Diane Sahms-Guarnieri, a native Philadelphian, is the author of three full-length poetry collections: Images of Being (Stone Garden
Publishing, 2011); Light’s Battered Edge
(Anaphora Literary Press, 2015) and Night
Sweat (Red Dashboard Press, January, 2016). More about Diane can be found
at http://www.dianesahms-
Three Poems By Jack D. Harvey: "Music Hath Charm", "Out In the Country", "A.U.C."
Jack D. Harvey’s poetry has appeared in Scrivener, Mind In Motion, Slow Dancer, The New Laurel Review, Bay Area Poets’ Coalition, The University of Texas Review, Innisfree Poetry Journal, The Piedmont Journal of Poetry and a number of other poetry magazines over the years, many of which are probably kaput by now, given the high mortality rate of poetry magazines.
A Poem By Andrew Hubbard: "Music From Stones"
Andrew Hubbard recently moved back to Indiana after ten years in Houston, Texas. He has had five books published, including, most recently, his first book of poetry, "Things That Get You," which was produced by Interactive Press. He was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2015.
Three Poems By Josh Huber: "The State Orchestra Plays the Lakeside Amphitheater", "The Poet", "Morning Walk"
Josh lives in Columbia, MO with his wife, Angela. He recently graduated from the Masters of English program at the University of Missouri and now teaches at several schools in the area. His various works have appeared (or are set to appear) in Storyscape, Foliate Oak, Bridge Eight, Scissors & Spackle, The Missouri Review, and elsewhere.
Two Songs By Chris Kempling: "I Am Your Father", "Broken But Still Beautiful"
Chris Kempling started writing professionally
as a book reviewer in 1982 for Canadian
Materials, the journal of the Canadian Library Association. Subsequently, he had a longstanding satire
column entitled Paper Jester in the Quesnel
Cariboo Observer under the pen name of Johnny Quesnel (also syndicated to
four other newspapers). Two stories were
published with the Interior Authors Group (Kamloops, BC) Collected Works, Vol. 1 in 2010, while a poem and story were
anthologized in the British Columbia authors book Voices from the Valleys (Jodie Renner, ed.) 2015. Primarily a religion columnist with the Kamloops This Week newspaper, he dabbles
in stories, poetry, essays and song writing.
Three Poems By Laurie Kuntz: "Style", "Tropical Illusions", "The Woman and Her Shamisen"
Laurie Kuntz is an award-winning poet and film producer. She taught poetry in Japan, Thailand and the Philippines. Recently retired, she lives in an endless summer state of mind.
Five Poems By Marianne Lyon: "Ditty", "A Soprano in Lucca", " Major to Minor", "This Little Light of Mine", "Pipe Down"
Marianne has been a music teacher for 39 years. After teaching In Hong Kong she returned to the Napa Valley and has been published in various literary magazines and reviews such as Colere 2015, Crone 2015, Trajectory 2014, Earth Daughters 2015, Feile-Festa 2015 Whirlwind 2014-2105. She spends time each year teaching in Nicaragua. She is a member of the California Writers Club, Healdsburg Literary Guild.
Three Poems By Don Mager: "January Journal: Friday, January 18, 2013", "March Journal: Saturday, March 16, 2013", "September Journal: Wednesday, September 11, 2013"
Don Mager is a retired university professor who has published several books of poetry. He was the Mott University Professor of English at Johnson C. Smith University from 1998-2004, where he served as Dean of the College of Arts and Letters (2005-2011). He has published more than 200 poems and translations from German, Czech and Russian poets, including “Us Four Plus Four,” an anthology of translations from eight major Soviet-era Russian poets.. He lives in Charlotte, NC.
Three Poems By Donal Mahoney: "Marimba in the Afternoon", "Songwriter's Nightmare", "Marcia and the Locusts"
Donal Mahoney, a native of Chicago, lives in St. Louis, Missouri. His fiction and poetry have appeared in various publications, including The Wisconsin Review, The Kansas Quarterly, The South Carolina Review, The Christian Science Monitor, The Chicago Tribune and Commonweal. Some of his work can be found at http://eyeonlifemag.com/the-poetry-locksmith/donal-mahoney-poet.html#sthash.OSYzpgmQ.dpbs=
Three Poems By Des Mannay: "The New Rock'n'Roll", "Vignettes and Alcohol", "Advertisement Feature"
Des Mannay is the recent winner of the 'rethinkyourmind' poetry
competition (2015). Placed 2nd in the Disability Arts Cymru poetry
Competition 2015. 'Gold Award' winner in the Creative Futures Literary
Awards (2015). Shortlisted for the erbacce-prize for poetry 2015.
Shortlisted in the Welsh Poetry Competition 2015. "Focused on
hard-hitting social issues. Des Mannay’s ‘And the Dead Shall Rise’
expressed his disgust at a fracking company in Wrexham purchasing the
site of a mine disaster still classed as an official gravesite , whilst
‘Would that I have died that night’ was inspired by a letter he had read
on the issue of assisted suicide. These were poems which made a
statement, and his last words - “Beware as prejudice becomes dressed as
rights”' (Sabotage Reviews).
Three Poems By Joan McNerney: "Jazz", "Night Waltz", "Query"
Joan
McNerney’s poetry has been included in numerous literary magazines such
as Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the Muse, Camel Saloon, Blueline,
Poppy Road Review, Spectrum, three Bright Hills Press Anthologies and
several Kind of A Hurricane Publications. She has been nominated three
times for Best of the Net.
Three Poems By Sultana Raza: "Stoned Arias", "Expunging Spell", "Interpreting Notes"
Of Indian origin, Sultana Raza has an M.A. in
English Literature. Her articles have appeared in Flick Feast (UK), Sound on
Sight (USA), the Peter Roe Series (Tolkien Society UK), Le Jeudi, the Wort and
paperjam in English and French.
Sultana Raza’s
poems have appeared in Ancient Heart Magazine (Australia), India Currents (USA), London Grip (UK), Literary
Gazette (USA), Caduceus (Ed. Yale University, USA), Beyond Bree, (an
American MENSA newsletter), the Peter Roe Series, (Tolkien Society UK), The Whirlwind Review (USA), Silver Leaves
Journal #5 (Canada), Muse
India, and The
New Verse News. Recently, more have been published in Catch and
Release (Columbia’s online Journal). More are to appear in Allegro. About: http://sultanaraza.com/about/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/
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