Second Coming Poem-a-Day Series

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

Photographer/Poet

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.

Linguist. Writer. Editor of Forgotten Ground Regained, journal of alliterative verse.

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

Author of four books of poetry, a novel, and numerous book reviews, essays and articles Walter Holland lives in New York City. He has taught English Literature at the New School and now retired has been working on a memoir.

Poet, Educator, Dog-Lover, Gardener, Clotheshorse, Plant-Based Cook, and Husband

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.

Leonard St-Aubin’s poems have appeared in The Hoolet’s Nook, in RED: The Island Story Book, in bywords.ca, and in the Pownal Street Press anthology FIONA. A Canadian poet and writer, he divides his time between Ottawa, ON, and Prince Edward Island.