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Publications

We present a list of authors whose works are published in our collections. If you want to send us stories or poems, please visit the Submit page.

Thanks to Managing Editor Shashi Kadapa. Fiction Editor Savita Narayan, and Poetry Editor Chitali Gawade who edit and curate the collections.

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Aaishah Mayet, Johannesburg, Mother Earth, Inhaling Mosquitoes

Aaron Howitt, US - Would you like whipped cream?

Abdulmueed Balogun, Nigeria - Drama of Ignorance

A. C. Lippert, U.S. - Splinters

Abbie Hart, US - gardening habit; when will i know

Adam Ostaszewski, Poland - Reflection

Abigail Ayornu, Ghana - Palm Tree; Transition
Adrija Chatterjee, India - The Portrait

Adeyeye James Oluwatobi, Nigeria - Shedding the skin of silence

A.H. Thomas, US - Tricky Intermission

Albert Rodriguez, US - Two Men in Davos

Alexandra Dark, U.S. - 2 Poems

Alma Ariaz, Canada - Titled 'Dad'
Afiah Obenewaa, Ghana, Passion

Alicia Aranyi, US - 2 poems
Ahmad Isah Sabo, Nigeria, Abstract.Beloved

Ajani Omowumi, Nigeria - Behind the mask
Akanksha Singh, India - The Big-Blue Umbrella

Akin-Ademola Emmanuel, Nigeria - Resurrection from Bones
Alan Simmons, US - A Dream That Never Came True
Akil Bakshi, India. Forsaken

Al Maginnes, US - 2 poems

Allene Keeney, US - Paradise Upturned

Alice Baburek, U.S. - Guardian Angel
Alicia Thompson, Australia - Purely Aesthetic

Alexander BusyBraini, Nigeria. Dreams Are Truly Messages From God

Alison Grove, Scotland. Pentecost

Allison whittenberg, US - Critical

Alastair Millar, Czech Republic - Drone
Amirah Wassif, Egypt - The creepy dance of red curly hair! 2 poems
Amadu Khan, UK - Lion Mountain

Amanda Eiden, US - Visitors

Ammu Maria Ashok, Dubai - Shadow of Love

Amy Brock, US - Daughters of Pleione

Andrea Ferrari Kristeller, Argentina - 2 Poems

Andrew Davis, UK - The Thief and the Princess, Dance

Andrew Hanson, USA - Slug
Annapurna Sharma, India, Petrichor, Pariah, Earthen lamps and stars; Atrophy ; Power

Annemarie Martel, US - The Awakening

Anne Mikusinski, U.S. - 2 Poems; And Other Reasons; Full Honeymoon

Andrew Lafleche, Canada - Torture Through The Ages

Andre Lepine, US - Mr. One-Liner

Andrew Larter, UK - Gilet Man has Disappeared

Angela Patera, Greece - A Gold Ring With Star-Shaped Rubies
Anila Nair, India - Gandharvan
Anindita Sarkar, India - Two Poems

Ann Privateer, US - Is Love a Microbe
Anne Acho, Nigera.Mine
Antara Roy Oruganti, India. Must be the jazz
Antonia Murguia, US- Beautiful Red Oak Tree

Antoni Ooto, US - 2 Poems; Two Poems
Anjani George, India. Alchemy Allusions, Let Them Be, A New World; Best Actor; Moving On

Anusha. U, India - 2 Poems

Anushree Bose, India - The Feathery Captive, Becoming Beast

Anoucheka Gangabissoon, Mauritius - The Magic; My Flowery Crown

Archana Ramesh, U.S - Chutney Sandwich

Arnab Ghosh, India - The Hue

Arnab Kar, India - Pulp Fiction

Arva Bhavnagarwala, India - U.S. A Bowl of Curd

Astrid Egger, Canada - The Unguarded Moment

Audrey Lewis, US - The Box

Austin Thornton, US - 2 poems

Avital Gad-Cykman, Brazil - Shell of Inocence

Ayin Ships, US - Disposable

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Barbara Kumari, US - Roti

Bart Edelman, US - Proposal; How to Find Love

Bert Barry, US - Restoring
Bear Gebhardt, US - In the Nursing Home

Ben Macnair, UK - Mr Zapruder’s Family Film Night; After the Fall;2 Poems

Ben Wignall, Canada - Seaglass

B.H. James, U.S. - Burn

Bharti Bansal, India - Time

Bharati Mirchandani, India - Learning to Live

Bhavyakirti Singh, India - Routine

Bidisha Satpathy, India - Sweetened Curd

Bill Gottlieb, US - Mom

Biswajit Ganguly, India - Hell

Bob Gielow, U.S. Man Released
Bob McNeil, USA - A Virtual Study of Real Psychosis, A Window View to Who We are

Bobbi Sinha-Morey, US - 2 Poems
Brent Holmes, USA - The Illusion of Choice

Brian Ellis, U.S. - Jumping Out of Car Practice

Brian T. Marshall, US - The Date

Brianna Schramm, U.S - My daughter
Bruce Stirling, US - The Devil and Emily Dickinson

Bruce McRae, Canada - Dead End

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Cate Otto, South Africa - Green

Caleb Delos-Santos, U.S. - Electric Sisyphus

Carl Palmer, US - Road Gator, Roses are Red, Snow is White, Army Buddies, Gamblers Hands

Carol-Versannie, US - The Ending
Carl Scharwath, US - Pathway Exploration; Tabula Rasa

Catherine Schuster, US - Safe Surrender

Cathy Adams, U.S. - A Catch
Carphuy Loro (Kafui Avaworyi), Ghana, Fire , Our Beloved Mother Earth, Atomic number 8

Caroline Reddy, US - A Sacred Dance
Carolyn R. Russell, US - Full Moon, The Ladder

C. Bee, US - Girls Like Her

Cecilia Kennedy, US - Touchpoints

Chandrashekhr Vaidya. India - Fire Forest
Chaitali Gawade, India, Longing

Chaturvedi Divi, India - Not Just Another Day
Charles Carter, US - Mother

Charles Halsted, US - 2 Poems, 2 poems
Charlotte Burnett - Rock

Chelsea Wills, US - Practicing the Macarena

Cheryl Block, U.S. - 2 Poems
Cheryl L Caesar, US - Peripheral Vision

Cheryl Tan, Singapore - Ubi Caritas

Chiamaka Okike, Nigeria/ UK - 14 lasts forever
Chikaemerem Obi, Nairobi - Countryman
Chinthu Udayarajan, India. About My Love.

Chinedu Okoro, Nigeria - Dear Makonna

Chantelle Chiwetalu, Nigeria - In the End

Chris Broadribb, Australia - Giant Mutant Antagonist

Christa Lei, US - Pomegranates

Christina Hoag, US - The Escape

Christian Litsey, US - 2 Poems

Christina E. Petrides, South Korea - 2 poems; 2 Poems
Christopher Stolle, USA, Centaurea Cyanus

Christopher Sims, U.S.- Love Jones: The Reprise

Christopher Woods, US - Always
Chitra Gopalakrishnan, India - Light, light, light, in the light

Clinton Siegle, Bolivia - Wandering for food and good books
Conor Barnes, US - The Uncontrite Anchorite

Connor Orrico, US - Hunted By Depression
Cora Tate, Bhutan - Frustrating Little Molecule

Cory Fosco, U.S. - Empty; Parking Lot

Craig Dobson, UK - Two Stories
Craig Rolando Meyer, South Africa. Hot Javal
Cynthia Abdallah, Kenya. The Journey, December

Cynthia Gallaher, US - 3 Poems

Cynthia Russell, US - The Uncanny Mathematician

Dan A. Cardoza, US - My Father

Danny Barbare, US - Collards in the Pot

Damhuri Muhammad, Indonesia - Jungle Kids
D Gallagher, New Zealand - Orbiting the Horizon

Danny Barbare, U.S. - Homemade; The Tree House

Daniel Snyder, US - The Last Campaign

Darrell Smith, U.S. - The Pact
Dave Lewis, South Wales, Embrace the space between, Eve at Rest Bay
David Appelbaum, US - 3 poems, From Separate Entries
David Clémenceau, Germany - Maimed

David Lyons, Ireland - A Wedding date
David Somerset, US - Two Poems

David Rudd, UK - The Other Woman

David Woodward, Canada - Blue's Creation

Debra White, U.S. - She Had A List
Debjani Mukherjee, India. The Third Baby Girl, Samaritan of Winds
Dennis Piszkiewicz, US - Navel Gazing; Cash Transactions; A Boy and His Gun; Local Politics;

Dennis Vannatta, U.S. - The Princess of Belzoni; Two Apples

Dennis Williams, Jamaica - Grandma’s Hands

Dhawal Moral, India - Daffodils

Diana Jenkins, US - In My Youth

Diane Webster, US - 2 poems
Dide Akseymen, UK - Suspense

Dillon Eliassen, USA - Peak Foliage
Disha Senaratne, Sri Lanka - An Eulogy to the Living

Divyank Jain, India - A Midnight Murder

Divy Tripathi, India - Empathy

Don Campbell, U.S. - 2 poems

Don Thompson, U.S. Two Poems

Dominik Slusarczyk, UK. - The Mile; Soft

Douglas Young, US - The Secret

Doug Jacquier, Australia. - Thou Shalt Not

Doug Stoiber, US - Do-Able

D.R. Garrett, US - Wild Horses; Salvation Mountain
DS Maolalai, Ireland - 2 poems; Somewhere, a code; Night-time: the quays – a light rain; 2 poems

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Edilson Afonso Ferreira, Brazil, 2 Poems; The Saga of a People; An Angel told me; The Day of our Victory; Journeying on Earth

E. Martin Pedersen, Italy - Flower Garden

Edward Schmidt-Zorner, Ireland - Garden of Eden in the banlieue; A job to do
Elaine Barnard, US - Holy Communion

Elian Gamino, US - Drink
Elizabeth Grech, Malta and France, Her Face, Lago di Venere

Elizabeth Morse, U.S. - Two poems; Self-Help

Elizabeth Towers, US - skeletons

Emmitt Barnes, US - Time Travel Log
Emiko Bowers, US - Two Poems
Ena Chelsea Yanga, Phillipines - Recoil

E.P. Lande, US - Mirror, Mirror

Eric Wayne, US - Untraceable
Ernie Brill, US - The Least You Could Do For Your Poor Old Mother
Evanson Njuki, Kenya, Earth.

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Fabrice Poussin, USA, Suspense, Beacon in the Stone

Felicity Goldstein, Australia - From the Water

Fatima Ijaz, U.S. - 2 poems

Fiona Sinclair, UK - A life lesson from Jimi

Frank Talaber, Canada - Making Snow Angels

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Gabrielle Mohamed, Georgetown, Guyana, De Birth ah de free Nashion, Arrhythmia, Sir Loneliness

Gab Godfrey, Canada - 2 poems

Gabriel Piessens, Canada - The Hero Always Dies
Gary Beck, US - 2 Poems; Alien Relations; Frenemy

Garvita Srivastava, India - Souvenir

Gautam Sasidharan, India - Burning Dreams

Gaylene S David, St Vincent & Grenadines - The Call
Gerard Sarnat, USA, Wayward Wind Deconstructed, Sunday Confessions; Not Phil’s Sacred Sperm Spector
Gideon Sampson Cecil, Guyana, Love in Nature.

Ginny Hogan, USA - The Sensitivity Reader
Godswill S. Umoh, Nigeria.The Careless Gift .
Giti Tyagi, India - Two Poems, Speech is Power

Glen Donaldson, Australia - Countdown to Romance, Fitting a Silencer
Guna Moran, India - Memory
Guru Gayatri, India, O! Wind

Gurgen Barents, U.S. - Caligula; Nero

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Hailey Huber, US - For You, Grandma

Hamza Suleiman, US - Used, Served, and Honored

Harry Palacio, U.S. - 2 Poems

Harun Kewa, Nigeria - Dictated Dignity

Hasitha Daswatte, Sri Lanka - Love of Life

Heather Sager, U.S. - Let the Shards Turn into Flowers

Helga Gruendler-Schierloh, USA - Giving Romance a Chance.Two poems
Henri Colt, US - A Death in Quito, My Guardian Angel; Shopping in Darfour
Hervé Suys, Belgium - After the lecture

Heymy Patino Martinez, US - Destroying a perfectly smooth surface

Hiram Larew, US - Picture Perfect

Himanshi Chawla, India - The Last Bye of a Leaf

H.L. Dowless, US - The Pursuit, If For Only Just To Be Forever Free; The Girl in the Crooked Woods
Holly Day, US - One Second to the Next, Anwen

Huina Zheng, China - Heartless

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Ian Robertson, Greece - A Basketful of Vegetables

Ikechukwu Obiorah, Nigeria - Be the Martyr
Ikegwu Michael, Burning Desire
Ilma Qureshi, US - The Madwoman, Wild Skies

Imtiaz Ahmad, UAE - Healing touch of nature

Isabelle B.L, France - Visiting Hours Between Two and Four

Ivan Peledov, U.S. - 2 Poems

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J. Archer Avary, UK - Trouble on Sugarplum Fairy Court

James Alston, Germany - Fetch

J.B. Polk, Chile - Birds of Paradise

J. Carol Goodman, US - The Innocent Project

Jack M. Freedman, US - 2 Poems

Jackson Mattox, US - The Greatest Game
Jake Aller, South Korea - 'am writing to let you know

James Croal Jackson, U.S - 2 Poems

James Moran, U.S. The Power Game

Jason Ruiter, US - Private Wars

Jan Wiezorek, US - 2 Poems

Jasna Gugic, Croatia - 2 Poems

Jason Ruiter, U.S. - Instrumental Loop

Jason Ryberg, US- 2 poms
Jay Shepherd, Canada - Wandering

Jayashree Srinath, Malaysia. Antar Agni – The Fire Within Me.
James Croal Jackson, US - 2 poems; Gaia BH1; Pail

Jean-Yves Crozier, Guadeloupe - Love if you will

Jedidah Johnson, Sierra Leone - A day like us

Jenn Vetter, US - 2 poems

Jeffrey Ogochukwu, Nigeria - Against All Odds
Jeri Thompson, US - Patches

J. L. Yocum, US - Variations on a Theme by Lewis Carroll
Joan Dobbie, US - Like a Huge Python

Joan Leotta, US - Low Country Treasure Map

Joan McNerney, USA - Luck, Last Chance

Joe Ducato, US - Brushed

John Brantingham, US - 1 AM, Season of Monarchs

John Atkinson, Ireland - Planetary Cats

John Best, US - Continuations

John Grantner, US - The Clown
John Grey, US - Butterfly Man, Pine Barrens On Cape Cod; Cordiality
Joan McNerney, US - Gabby's Smile
John Grey, Australia - The Cellist and I at the Symphony, The Unplayed Violin; Two Poems; Eternal Victim; Marsh

John Leonard, Australia - 2 poems

Josue Salazar, US - The Lies Comfort

John Bennett, US - The End or the Beginning of Something

John Sweet, US - 3 poems
John L. Stanizzi, US - Nearly two feet of snow

John Zedolik, U.S. - 2 Poems;' 2 Poems

John Zurn, USA - Uriel Fox and the Dharma Lodge Ashram

Joseph Ikhenoba, Nigeria - Black wind from the North

Joseph Lawton, UK - Stoke the Promethean Flame

Joseph Lewis, USA - The Last Golden Hour

Josh Greenfield, US - A Walk in the Rain: a story

Josh Young, US - 2 poems

Joshua Magee, Italy - Kitty

Joey Olschner, U.S. - The Shape of Tools

Jovan Ivančević, Serbia - Holiday

JS Apsley, UK - The Last Letter of Papa Pat

Juanita Rey, Dominican Republic - Bizcocho

Julian Gallo, U.S. - Distances

Justine Johnston Hemmestad, US - My Beating Heart

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Kakar Jahangir, Baluchistan - Be you more honored

Kalyani Bindu, India - Distractions from the Sun-Lit Corners of Love, Something Metaphorical on the Bushes
Karine Leno Ancellin, Greece Three Poems
Karuna Das, US - Monkey Say, Monkey Do

Kathryn Sadakierski, US - Old Growth Forest

Kate Meyer-Currey, UK. - No Angel

Kathryn Faley, UK - Aftermath Again
Kathrine Yets, US - My Body

Katie Coleman, Thailand - How to be a Good Kid

Kanupriya Rathore, India - Within and Without; Summer

Kay Kestner, US. - 2 Poems

Kayleigh Kitt, UK - From the Cradle ..
Keith Mark Gaboury, Australia - Need To Know

Ken Cathers, Canada - Black Widow

Ken Goodman, U.S. - stoned, bliss, and bliss bliss; 2 poems;

Keerthi Prakasam, India - Noises from Another World

Kharys Laue, Sotuh Africa - On the Bright Side

Keltie Zubko, Canada - One Last Pizza
Khel Oberyn, Nigeria, And Soaring With Bards

Kimutai Allan, Kenya, Love to All
Kinjal Sethia, India - NH 04

Kishan Chauhan, India - Periwinkle

Kim Farleigh, Spain - Same Again

Kirsty Bates, UK - Unexpected Item

Kunal Mehra, US - The great conjunctions

Kunle Okesipe, Nigeria - Sometimes I Too am a River, 2 Poems

Kwaghkule Aondonengen Jacob, Nigeria - Ofo, Why my Joy ...

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LA Felleman, US - 2 poems

Lillie Franks, US - Then The Ghosts

Lance Wu, Singapore, Singapore - One-way Street

Lanka Bhavishya, India - A Castle of cards

Laurie Hollman, US - A Slow Fire Burning
Laura Martens, UK - The Middle of Nowhere is Everywhere

Laura Shell, US - The Red Ball of Yarn

Laurence Stevens, UK - Concrete Water; Before You Know It

Lawrence Bridges, U.S. - 2 Poems

Lawrence Chin, Singapore - Love Stories
Leena Auckel, Mauritius - A blanket that never falls short, Anew

Lena Falkenbury, US - The Vanishing now

Leslie Dianne, US - 2 Poems

Leigh-Anne Burley, US - Talking Down From the Ledge

Lorna Wood, US - A Robot Brings Flowers
Louis Faber, USA, A Morning Prayer
Louella Sullivan, Grahamstown. What you pack before the fire.
Louis Tong, Singapore - The Remote Caregiver

Lynn White, UK - From The Beach; 3 poems; Two Poems
Lyons McBean, USA - Kingdom Come

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Maggie Bayne, US - Roadside Rest Area

Maggie Nerz Iribarne, US - Grace

Marcelo Medone, Argentina - What the River Holds

Margot DeSalvo, US - Two Poems

Martin Rayburn, US - The Town With No Doors

Mary Bone, U.S. - 2 Poems

Madhavi Johnson, Australia - Tik Tok Tales, Mumbai Monsoon

Mark Kessinger, US - My brush with bleeding hearts

Mark Connelly, US - The Big Lesson

Matthew Praxmarer, U.S. - Mothers and Sons

Maryanne Khan, Australia - The Archangel

Mehreen Ahmed, Australia - Cenote, Oneness

M. F. Nagel, Alaska - The merwoman and the lighthouse

Monisha Gowri Raman, India - The Appalling Woes of the Paddy Keepers
Mark Andrew Heathcote, Manchester, UK, I knocked on a red-earth door. Be like wind ever watchful, Two Poems, Anchors Aweigh, Had you not been there, Flim-flam man; I still love your words

Mark Connelly, US - Big Wheels

Mary Croy, US - 2 poems

Manasi Barmecha, India - Cure for Heartache

Mantz Yorke, UK - Amnesia
Mark Blickley, USA - The Biology of Courage

Mark Jabaut, US - The Day John Hardin Killed the Same Man Twice

Mark Tulin, US - The Mountain Spirit, The Spring Tabby, The Silence of Honey

Marc Isaac Potter, U.S. - G 722

Maryjo Romero, US - The Uncertain

Mark Strohschein, US - Another Beginning

Mark White, U.S. - 2 Poems

Marianne Tefft - St Maartens, Birches, Memorial Day

Malene Dee Gray Potoura, Papua New Guinea - When rifles reign

Mary Bone, U.S. - Growing Roots, Valley of the Dead; 2 poems

Maris Tiller, US - Laurence Martin's Women
Maryam Haniff, Guyana - All of her

Matias Travieso-Diaz, Cuba - Acceleration Waltz

Matthew Lee, Australia - The Graceful Ghost Rag

Musu Bangura, US - Night Watch
May Livere, Kenya, Four Rubies

Maitreyee Joshi, India - The Spa

Maureen Rampertab, Guyana - I Am Soomaria

Max Wightwick, UK - The Psychopath

Mehreen Ahmed, Australia - Flamenco

Melissa Jerry-Stoute, Trinidad & Tobago - The Jumbie Bud, When The Cock Crows; The Cup

Melissa Sorgi, US - 2 poems

Meredith Brown, US - Nowhere, Texas

M. F. Nagel, Alaska - The merwoman and the lighthouse
Michael Boyd, UK and South Africa, The Lemon Tree

Michael Colon, U.S. - Watercolors

Mike Dailey, US - A Well Balanced Beer

Michael Gigandet, U.S. - I Lived

Michael Lee Johnson, US - 2 poems; Chicago

Michael Mclaughlin, Mexico - A Mexican Love Story

Michael Roque, Israel - 3 poems

Mitchell Roshannon, U.S. - Anywhere, PA

Mohan Budumuru, India - Pond of Mercury

Mohit Saini, India - 2 poems

Mona Mehas, US - A Quartz Prayer

Michael Roque, Israel - A Thief Within

Michael Shoemaker, U.S. - Melancholy’s Song

Michael Tyler, New Zealand - Live Or Die A Little; The Moon Is Low Tonight

Mike Jurkovic, US - Tight Sweaters

Muralidharan Parrthasarathy, India - Disposal

Mozid Mahmud, Bangladesh - Apocalypse

Mugabi Byenkya, Uganda, Taata

Muhsina. K. Ismail, India - The Embers of Hope
Mwesigwa Bbala, Uganda - Melanie

Mydhili Varma, India - Mini

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Nathan Sweem, U.S. - Laughter Feminine

Natalie Gachoka, US - The Birth of the Womb

Nibras Mirza, India - Harissa

Nicole Cifani, U.S.- Q

Nicolas Van Der Haar, Australia - Super Trouper

Nikhil Raman, Netherlands - Echoes of ancient spirits

Nnadi Samuel, Nigeria - Therapy for dark seizures

Ndaba Sibanda, Zimbabwe - Poem

Nathan Munroe, Guyana - Three pennies for a slice of bread
Navneet Kaur, India - Lemonia

Ngozi Oluleye, Nigeria - Waiting

Nino Bonura, US - Seat of the Muses
Niles Reddick, US - Tree Stand, - Leave it to a Beaver

Niranjana Balram Menon, India - 2 poems
Nirgoom Misro, Bangla Desh - A Prayer to Spring

Nirushan Sivagnanasuntharam, Canada - American Movie Dates

Nolo Segundo, US - 2 poems; 2 Poems

Nonkululeko Nxumalo, South Africa - My husband woke --
Norman Klein, US - Lindy
Nwankwo Ugochukwu, Nigeria - Are We There Yet

Nwodo Divine, Nigeria - A Tale of Two Choices

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Obinna Chilekezi, Nigeria - Chance

Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad, Australia - Two Poems, Stories etched on wrists, Leaving

Olivia Brooks, US - Everything in Threes

Oluwafemi Atoyebi, Nigeria - Of a Moribund Portrait

Osedebamen Oamen, Nigeria - Benin City; Omora The face of Illaye

Oskar Leonard, UK - There Are No Bears In Ormskirk

Oisín Breen, U.S. - 2 poems

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Pamela Cottam, USA - Just Desserts

Palash Mahmud, Bangladesh - As breezes flowing low, A Sunken Soul; Between Two Rivers

Pat Connors, Canada - Moments in Time

Patty Somlo, U.S. - As Close to Paradise

Patricia Farrell, U.S. Mistress

Patricia Furstenberg, South Africa - Autumnal Pantoum
Patrick Williamson, France - Hand-made

Paul Beckman, U.S. - My Local Inconvenience Store

Paula Bonnell, US - The Sculptor Returns from India and Begins to; 3 Poems

Paul Grover, UK - A.C.I., Dying On Stage
Paul Hostovsky, U.S. - 2 poems
Pawel Markiewicz, Poland, Native land and wind; The marvel of the freedom: In patches; Germany in the nighttime

Peel Maina, Kenya - Guilt

Peri Worrell, US - Hurricane's Hymn

Peter Amanatidis, Canada - Chips of Destiny

Peter A. Witt, U.S. - Poetic Recipe

Peter Conrad, Canada - Beautiful Fences

Peter Clive, US - Snog me lots

Peter Dellolio, US. - Burial

Peter Magliocco, US - Non-mantra in the commerce capital

Peter Mladinic, U.S. Choices
Petrouchka Alexieva, U.S. - Ghost Ship
Peyton Kullander, U.S. Putting It All Up

Piku Chowdhury, India - The redemption
Pooja Roy, India, Flight
Prasun Roy, India - Popcorn, Raw Mango, Bitter Gourd

Preeti - India - Winter Line

Preeth Ganapathy, India - If I Knew Then What I Know Now; 2 Poems
Preeti Sharma, India - Probable Life
Priscilla Goka, Ghana - The Face of God

Priyamvada Singh, India - Flawed Perspective
Priyanka Mathur, India - A King whose Life was in a Parrot
Promise Ugochukwu Nwafor, Nigeria, A Patch of Reed, Locus
Pushpa Wati, Fiji. Fire.

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Rachel Baum, US - Minor key; Like beatniks

Radoslav, Radushev, Petkov, Bulgaria - Mirror image

Rahana Ismail, India - Two Sunsets

Rana Preet Gill, India - The Hangman
Rashmi Agrawal, India. The Right to Pyre

Ramesh Dohan, Canada - Postcards from the Heart

R. Gerry Fabian, US - Redolent Resurrection

Ramzi Albert Rihani, U.S. - Old Country; The Shadow of Her Voice

Randall Rogers, U.S. - Today; Drunk; 2 poems

Ranjit Kulkarni, India - Confession; The Begging Girl

R James Sennett Jr, US - 2 Poems

Rathin Bhattacharjee, India - Forgiveness (Kshama) Divine; Life, the Leveller

Raquel Gordon, U.S.- Courthouse Hearing
Raunaq Saraswat, India - Theft in the pandemic

Raymond Ziemer, U.S. - 2 poems

Rekha Valliappan, USA - Murder at Malabar Hill

Reena Kapoor, U.S. - American Chopsuey

Reese Bentzinger, US - 2 poems

Rekha Balachandran, India - The Mystery; Love is Meant to Be; Innocence; Harvest Tale
Renée Henning, USA - The Double Murder, Rendezvous with Luc

Richa Bajaj, India - New Found Love

Richard Hartwell, U.S. - War of Attrition; Setting the Stage

Rijuta Pandey, India - Whitewash

Rick Reut, Belarus - 2 poems
Riquelmy Sosa, US - Preferences

Roan Church, US - Ninteen-Twenty Seven
Robert Beveridge, USA, Umbra

Robert Beckvall, U.S. - Ala Moana

Robert Bishop, US - Homecoming, Desert Night; Brothers of the Fire

Robyn Thomas, UK - Love, Lies and Death Rolls

Rosalie Hendon, U.S. - 2 Poems

Robert Pegel, U.S. - Perfect Recall
Robert Steward, UK - The Skiing Trip

Ronald Robin Roy, India - An Indian Summer
Rose Aiello Morales, US - Waits and Measures

R. P. Singletary, US - Lake Effect

Rp Verlaine, U.S. - 2 Poems; 2 Poems

Rrashima Swaarup Verma, India - White Sheets and Jasmine Blooms; A Table For Two; Autumn Days

Ruhina Taskin, Canada - Dead Turtles

Runa Chatterjee, India - Legacy of an Idea
Russ Bickerstaff, US - Desert; Something to Say; Communication

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Sabah Carrim, Mauritius - Sapiosexual

Sadeq Abbasi, Iran - Firepolis

Sammi Leigh Melville, U.S. - Directions

Shaggy Trapolino, US - Thank you for listening

Shevlin Sebastian, India - What goes around comes around

Sally Connors, USA - The Bee

Sandeep Kumar Mishra, India- First Monsoon; Sip a Soul; Body Orchard; Glowing Ashes of A Suicide; To Those Misfortunes

Sandeep Kumar Sharma, India - Message to an Unknown Prof from Ukraine; Birth

Santuella Kimani, Kenya - Confessions of a priestless being

Sangeetha G, India - Chair in the Balcony

Sameen Shakya, Nepal - Love Blooms

Sancia CS, India - Blue Skies

Sarah Rosenblatt, US - 2 poems

Sayanti Bhattacharya, India - Silence

Seadeta Osmani, Croatia - Back to myself
Salvatore Difalco, Canada In Yucatan, San Valentin

Sam Paget, UK - Toxicity
Samira Sadeque, Bangladesh/ NY, Fire
Samya Senaratne, Sri Lanka - Wake-up Call
Sanjhee Gianchandani, India - Goodbyes

Saurabh Dubey, India - The Masked Warriors
Satish Somasundaram, India. Honour and Pride, Sound of the Mountain
Satish Pendharkar, India - I Will Survive

Sayantan Ghosh, India - Dead Plants

Sean Ryan, US - Burn Barrel

Scott LaMascus, US - 2 poems

Scott Outlar, U.S. - Queen’s Gambit, Roundtrip

Serena Grant, U.S. - After School
Shagun Shukla, India - Path of Atonement, A Chance of Hope

Shaggy Trapolino, US - Thank you for listening
Shashi Kadapa, India - Resort Politics

Sharon Scholl, U.S. - 2 Poems
Sharmila Mitra, India - Breaking away from the carousel

Shelby Stephenson, US - 2 poems

Shevlin Sebastian, India - A Day In The Life

Shereen Pandit, UK - Brickbats and Bouquets

Shirin Kumar, India - God is Dead

Shoshana Groom, US - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Shweta Ravi, India - Master and Piece
Silas Rallings, UK - Devils in the Detail, The Shadow Garden

Silke Feltz, U.S. - 3am

S.F. Wright, US - At the Red Lantern; Recollection

Sia Moon, US - Yarrow Smoke

Simra Sadaf,India - Kite and Manjha
Sneha Das, India - A Rainbow of two colours

Sobia Ali, India Mischief by Night
Soma Datta, USA Wind Follows Rain

Søren Sørensen, U.S. - 2 Poems

Soumya Doralli, India - The Nuances of Spaces

Sophie Langridge, UK - The Cathedral and The Fall; Spiderwitch Weaver

Sophie Schulze, US - The Performance of a Lifetime
Sravani Saha, India - Fractured Love
Sreeja Harikrishnam, India. I am the fire, The Weird Whistler, Untangling, The Art of Healing

Sreekanth Kopuri, India - A Compromise

Srinjoy Dey, India - 2 poems
Stephanie Chizoba Odili, Nigeria/ London. Fire.
Steve Carr, US - The Last Matador, The secret life of a minnow; Meisma Writes Her Memoir; The Gin Rummy Traffic Entanglement

Steven Cristinzio, US - The Blank Page

Sudha Subramanian, Dubai - A King, a Queen and a wooden cot

Sushma R. Doshi, India - A Modern Day Crisis

Steve Lang, El Salvador - Orchid

Sudhir Srinivasan, India - A Battle at Lunch
Sugandhaa Pandey, India - Newtonne - The Goat
Sunil Sharma, India - Humanity. Two Poems
Supriya Rakesh, India - What were we?
Surajit Panigrahi, India - Deviations in You

Suzanne C Martinez, US - A Perfect Smile

Swati Agrawal, India - Oats and Obituaries; Girl Child; Bittersweet Reckoning

Swetha Amit, India - Mango milkshake in summer

Sweety Gangabissoon, Mauritius - In your eyes

Sylvia Dominic, India - 2 Poems

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Tabonga Chabinga Mmanga, Malawi - Pain

Tali Cohen Shabtai, Israel - Kohenet

Tamizh Ponni, India - A Stunning Visual, Bobbleheads
Tanmaya Tapaswini Murmu, India - Tunia-Bonga: A Folk Story from the Santal World of Odisha
Tara Sattar, Bangladesh, Trapped, When I see you

Tara Rajendran, India - Blood and the Vermillion

Tara Jenkins, US - Short Kings Looking For Love
Tarun Kanti Bose, India - Life as it is

Taylor Baker, US - Add More Worms
Taylor Morrison, US - Thursday Morning

Taylor Thomas, U.S. Bah Humbug

Terry Trowbridge, Canada - Cat and Hawks

Tejaswinee Roychowdhury, India - A Burned Out Cigarette

Temitope Olorunfunmi, Nigeria - The Deliverance Session

Terry Trowbridge, Canada - Can I Ask an Android to Tell Me Her Secrets?

Thomas Healy, US - Stumptown; Dark Crossing

Tejas Yadav, France - Incineration

Theo Langdale, UK - Pneumatic Winter in Portland, OR

Theresa Gaynord, US - Cherubs and Food for the Soul, My Abuelita, The Healer

Thomas Davison, US - Sandglass

Thomas Fucaloro, US - 2 Poems

Thomas Healy, U.S - Namesake

Thomas Piekarski, U.S. - Two Poems

Thomas Zimmerman, US - 2 Poems
Timothy Quigley - Field Trip

Tony Dawson, Spain - 2 poems

Todd Jackson, US - Urban's Noir, We Who Steer the Weather of the Worl

Toni Kochensparger, US - Poster Child

Tony Hozeny, U.S. - Sparks

Tracie Lark, New Zealand, Flame
Trishita Das, India, Delhi in the Wind
Twinkle George, India - The Mosquito

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Ubaidullahi Umar Muhammad, Nigeria - What my Father Taught me

Ugochukwu Nwankwo, Nigeria. The Empty Tomb
Ugochi Okoli, Nigeria - To the Broken Ones
Ujjal Mandal, India - The Proverb, A Midnight Dream

Uriah Howard Allis, US - We are the blur in a photograph

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Vanessa Croft Thompson, Anguilla, Heat Conductor
Vanessa Rowan Whitfield, US - Ouroboros

Venkat Raman V, India - The Lost Memory

Vic Naimanowska, Austria - The Van Life

Victoria Male, U.S. - Sculpted
Victoria Crawford, US, Four poems
Victoria Crawford and George Ross, US, Indonesia. Two poems
Victoria Crawford and Rombouts, US,Two Poems

Victor Vincent Lazarus, Nigeria, Seduced

Victoria Vonne Wolff, US - Sitting on a Dock in Maryland

Vidya Ransam, India - Twirling Boy

Vinita Tripathi, India - Let there be Dark!

Vipul Lunia, India - As Fate would Mask it
Vivian Wagner, USA, Tired of the Ringing in Your Ears?

Whitney Sederberg, US - Viola, Honey

Wayne Russell, US - 2 poems

William Baker, U.S. - The Course of Kind

William Conelly, UK - 2 poems

William Kitcher, U.S. - Jazz, Baseball, And The State Of Things

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Xao Mannie, Johannesburg, Leaves and Garden.

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Yakobo Mutiti, Kenya - Up Against All Odds