Second Coming Poem-a-Day Series

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

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.

Both THE ELK IN THE GLADE, Crown Rock Media, and my second collection GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, Poets Wear Prada, wereBookLife Editors Picks and award winners at The BookFest. Poems have appeared in over 40 journals and anthologies. www.brucewhitacre.com

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 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!

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Retired psych nurse & librarian. Poetry memoir “Falling into Flowers” (Blue Light Press, 2017) was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award in 2018.

I am a poet residing on an island in Washington State. Three collections of my poetry have been published: War Poet, Adagio for Su Tung-p’o, and Dust and Dragons. For more information, please visit my website at https://robjacquespoetry.com.

Diane Alters is a former journalist who writes in Colorado. Her poems have appeared in Cable Street, Calyx, Conduit, and The New York Quarterly, among others. She wrote the chapbook Breath, Suspended.

Brad Vogel authored poetry collections Find Me In the Feral Pockets (2024) & Broad Meadow Bird (2015). Find his poetry at Evergreen Review, Smartish Pace, No Dear, etc. Brad runs NYC Poets Afloat, a residency & reading series on ships.

Rhonda Melanson is a retired teacher and the author of two chapbooks “grace notes” and “My Name Is Mary”. She is also an editor for a literary blog called Uproar.

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.

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.

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Carol describes her poems as "accessible." Over 100 have appeared in literary journals and anthologies, and three chapbooks. Carol and her husband pair her poems and his photos in four books–(www.DualArtsPress.com)