Updated: Oct 31
Holly Iglesias has published three poetry collections—Sleeping Things (Press 53), Angles of Approach (White Pine Press), and Souvenirs of a Shrunken World (Kore Press)—and a work of literary criticism, Boxing Inside the Box: Women’s Prose Poetry (Quale Press). Her awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the North Carolina Arts Council, the Edward Albee Foundation, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Updated: Oct 30
Oz Hardwick is a European poet, photographer, barely-competent bass guitarist, and accidental academic, who has been described as a “major proponent of the neo-surreal prose poem in Britain”. His most recent full collection, A Census of Preconceptions (SurVision Books, 2022), was shortlisted for a number of international awards but didn’t win any, though he feels pretty confident about the upcoming over-60s egg-and-spoon race. Oz is Professor of Creative Writing at Leeds Trinity University (UK).
Updated: Oct 30
Omens
~after Danusha Lameris
The morning of the evening
of my husband’s fatal crash
out of seventy-eight tarot cards
I picked the Tower.
The Tower.
Bold blue sky
screaming
golden bolts of lightning—
I’d almost call it beautiful.
Purple tears
falling from the moon.
Diane Gottlieb is the editor of Awakenings: Stories of Body & Consciousness (ELJ Editions) and the Prose/CNF editor of Emerge Literary Journal. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Brevity, Witness, Colorado Review, River Teeth, Florida Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Best Microfiction, Identity Theory, pacificREVIEW, Main Street Rag, The Rumpus, and many other lovely places. Find her at https://dianegottlieb.com and @DianeGotAuthor.
