Second Coming Poem-a-Day Series

White, working-class, gay, Jewish, boomer, poet, writer, classicist, cultural materialist, queer theorist.

Author, activist, parent, grandparent, gardener, nature lover, and aspiring musician contemplating what it means to be a creative soul in a challenging universe.

She goes in through the out door. Words in BULL, Claudine, DIRTBAG, Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, HAD, Monkeybicycle, Pithead Chapel, Smokelong Quarterly, trampset, Wigleaf. Best Small Fictions/Best Microfiction. Editor @Cleaver magazine.

I am writing political and social activist blogs. I am a published poet and young adult author! I live in Manhattan.

Retired lawyer. Nature lover. Environmentalist. Woodworker. Co-author of “Never Trump Poetry” Substack.

The 24-25 NCPS G-C Distinguished Poet for Central NC, Maria's works include Apertures, Second Skin, All the Way to China, and This small house, this big sky, shortlisted for the Roanoke-Chowan poetry prize by the NC Literary and Historical Society.

I write and review poetry; am awestruck by dancers; wildly inspired by art and performance.

I write to inspire and encourage reader's commitment to feminist-humanist values. I'm an ever-curious, unconventional, happy octogenarian and my writing promotes the unequivocal permission to pursue one’s passions at any age!

Thomas Redoubt is from Freedom, PA. He was a materials science researcher, a lawyer, a law school professor. Redoubt has a passion for writing poetry. His poems have appeared in redrosethorns, Dissident Voice, and Second Coming.

Marybeth Rua-Larsen's poems and flash fiction have appeared in Magma, Orbis, Crannóg, Eclectica Magazine, Hot Flash Literary, and Best Microfiction 2026, among others. Her chapbook Nothing In-Between is available from Barefoot Muse Press.

Gail Carson Levine is best known for children’s book Ella Enchanted, and she’s a poet. Her poem, “Lest,” was recently published by the journal Justice Reads. Her poetry collection, Transient, came out in July 2016 from Nightshade Press.

Edward Johnson’s poems have appeared in Eclectica Magazine, Evergreen Review and other journals. A legal aid attorney from Portland, Oregon, Johnson has spent the past 30 years representing people living on and over the edge of homelessness.