Sometimes routine gets in the way of nothing. Beginnings are born from nothing and older than endings, since nothing is outside of time. When nothing takes over, the past is anyone’s past. Then remembrances lurch behind old habits and nothing is forgotten again. The brain must be trained to let nothing in, and its windows left open to air out these many rooms. Sometimes nothing gets in the way of nothing too.

Ted Jean

Jitterbug

Hugh Anderson is a Vancouver Islander. He has lived long enough to have been, among other things, a bus driver, an actor and a teacher. His poems have appeared most recently in 3 Elements Review, Praxis Magazine Online, Grain and Vallum. He has one recent Pushcart Prize nomination.

Fighting the good fight with paper and string, Marsha Burke is an artist and amateur musician living and working in Ayrshire, Scotland.

Wendy Taylor Carlisle lives and writes in the Arkansas Ozarks. She is the author of two books and five chapbooks and has a new book, The Mercy of Traffic, coming in 2019. For more about her work, check her website at www.wendytaylorcarlisle.com.

William Cullen Jr., a veteran working in social services in New York City, has work that's recently appeared or is forthcoming in Lake Effect, North Dakota Quarterly, Stonecoast Review, The American Journal of Poetry and Whiskey Island.

b.s. dixon is working on his first poetry collection, Outreach, about his work with the homeless population in Boston, MA. His work has most recently been printed in Poem Wars and Boston Literary Magazine.

Toni G. is not a rap artist as the name would suggest. Toni is a simple individual who enjoys reading and writing poetry and micro-fiction.

Brigid Hannon is a writer from Buffalo, NY. She has previously been published in the Ghost City Press Review, Soft Cartel, and Street Light Press. She can be found online at hamneggs716.wordpress.com and on Twitter @hamneggs716.

A carpenter, Ted Jean writes, paints, plays tennis with Amy Lee. Nominated twice for Best of the Net, and twice for the Pushcart Prize, his work appears in Beloit Poetry Journal, PANK, DIAGRAM, Juked, Spillway, dozens of other publications. His first chapbook, Desultory Sonnets, won the 2016 Turtle Island Poetry Award.

DS Maolalai's first collection, Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden, was published in 2016 by the Encircle Press, and he has a second collection forthcoming from Turas Press in 2019. He has been nominated for Best of the Web and twice for the Pushcart Prize.

Margo Mensing’s poems have appeared in Right Hand Pointing, Kettle Blue, La Presa, Tupelo Quarterly, Chronogram, and First Literary Review—East. Almost a Member of the Family, her manuscript on the work and lives of Dorothea Lange and Maynard Dixon, was a semi-finalist in 42 Miles’s 2017 competition.

Corey Mesler has been published in numerous anthologies and journals including Poetry, Gargoyle, Five Points, Good Poems American Places, and New Stories from the South. He has published many books of fiction and poetry. With his wife he runs Burke’s Book Store (1875) in Memphis.

Alan Perry is a Minnesota native whose poetry has appeared in Right Hand Pointing, Heron Tree, Sleet Magazine (Best of the Net nomination, 2018), Gyroscope Review, and elsewhere. He is a poetry editor for Typehouse Literary Magazine, and splits his time between a suburb of Minneapolis, MN and Tucson, AZ.

Brad Rose was born and raised in Los Angeles and lives in Boston. He is the author of a collection of poetry and flash fiction, Pink X-Ray (Big Table Publishing, 2015, http://pinkx-ray.com and Amazon.com.) His two new books of poems, Momentary Turbulence and WordinEdgeWise, are forthcoming from Cervena Barva Press. Brad’s website is: www.bradrosepoetry.com .

Don Thompson was born and raised in Bakersfield, California, and has lived in the southern San Joaquin Valley for most of his life. He has been publishing poetry since the early sixties, including a dozen books and chapbooks. For more information and links to his publications, visit his website San Joaquin Ink (don-e-thompson.com).

Cyril Wong is a poet and fictionist in Singapore. His last book of poems was The Lover’s Inventory, published by Math Paper Press.