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EKRAZ SINGH<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\/\/\u00a0 \u00a0 At Home and Abroad<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n LAUREN HOWLETT<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0\/\/ \u00a0\u00a0A Thousand Smiles<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n CYNTHIA GALLAHER<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\/\/\u00a0 \u00a0Two Poems JOHN GREY<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\/\/\u00a0 \u00a0Two Poems PETER JICKLING<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\/\/ \u00a0\u00a0Guitar<\/a><\/p>\n CONRAD LEIBEL<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\/\/ \u00a0\u00a0Ragnarok<\/a><\/p>\n CAITLIN MCKENZIE<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\/\/ \u00a0\u00a0Ode to a Sex Club<\/a><\/p>\n BRUCE MCRAE\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0\/\/ \u00a0\u00a0Three Poems JAKE SHEFF \u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\/\/ \u00a0\u00a0Two Poems SWATI SUR<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\/\/ \u00a0\u00a0Idealism<\/a><\/p>\n MARK YOUNG<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\/\/ \u00a0\u00a0a vicarious journey<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n PAULAMI KAR<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0\/\/ \u00a0\u00a0Views of Varanasi<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n CYNTHIA GALLAHER<\/strong>, a Chicago-based poet and playwright, is author of four poetry collections, including the forthcoming Epicurean Ecstasy: More Poems\u00a0About\u00a0Food, Drink, Herbs and Spices<\/em> (The Poetry Box<\/a>,\u00a0Portland, 2019) and three chapbooks, including the forthcoming Drenched<\/em> (Main Street Rag<\/a>, Charlotte, N.C., 2018). The Chicago Public Library lists her among its \u201cTop Ten Requested Chicago Poets.\u201d Follow her on Twitter @swimmerpoet<\/a>, her Facebook page @frugalpoets<\/a> and her website<\/a>.<\/p>\n JOHN GREY<\/strong> is an Australian poet and US resident. His work has recently been published in The Columbia Review<\/a><\/em>, Homestead Review<\/a><\/em> and Poetry East<\/a><\/em>, and is forthcoming in Harpur Palate<\/a><\/em>, Hawai\u2018i Review<\/a><\/em> and Visions International<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n LAUREN HOWLETT<\/strong> has had work published in Every Writer\u2019s Resource<\/a><\/em> (EWR), Impressment Gang<\/a><\/em>, litbreak<\/a><\/em>, Kallisto Gaia Press<\/a><\/em> and Meat for Tea<\/a><\/em>. Her short story \u201cGrey\u201d was named \u201cHighly Recommended\u201d as part of the London Independent Story Prize (LISP).<\/p>\n PETER JICKLING<\/strong> is a playwright, poet and journalist from Whitehorse, Yukon. His play, Syphilis: A Love Story<\/em>, premiered in 2011 and won Best Comedy at the 2013 Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival<\/a>. His first poetry collection is forthcoming from Guernica Editions<\/a> in 2019.<\/p>\n PAULAMI KAR<\/strong> is a master in English literature and photographic artist who dedicates herself to redolent story telling with the imageries of the living world. Born in India in 1989, she first used the camera to document stories on one of the most colourful and intriguing place on earth, the oldest city of Varanasi. She was astounded abound, around every corner she caught a chance to witness the Hindu way of life along the bank of the Ganges River.<\/p>\n CONRAD LEIBEL<\/strong> is a poet, performer, essayist and musician from Edmonton, Alberta who couldn’t stop learning if he wanted to. He\u00a0graduated from\u00a0the University of Victoria\u2019s MA in English literature program with a concentration in medieval and early modern studies. He also holds a BA in English and film studies from the University of Alberta. Conrad currently works as a cat servant and part time as a bookseller at Audreys Books<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0You can find out more about him on his website<\/a>.<\/p>\n CAITLIN MCKENZIE<\/strong> is an emerging poet based in Barrie, Ontario. She has had her poetry published in the second and third issues of The Northern Appeal<\/a><\/em>, Tower Poetry Society<\/a><\/em> and now Sewer Lid<\/a><\/em>!<\/p>\n BRUCE MCRAE<\/strong>, a Canadian musician currently residing on Salt Spring Island, BC, is a multiple Pushcart nominee with well over a thousand poems published internationally in magazines such as the North American Review<\/a><\/em>, Poetry<\/a><\/em> and Rattle<\/a><\/em>. His books are The So-Called Sonnets<\/em> (Silenced Press<\/a>), An Unbecoming Fit of Frenzy<\/em> (Cawing Crow Press<\/a>), Like As If<\/em> (Pski\u2019s Porch<\/a>) and Hearsay<\/em> (The Poet\u2019s Haven<\/a>).<\/p>\n JAKE SHEFF<\/strong> is a major and pediatrician in the US Air Force. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in The Cossack Review<\/a><\/em>, Crab Orchard Review<\/a><\/em>, Radius<\/a> <\/em>and elsewhere. Jake won first place in the 2017 Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association<\/a> (FSPA) speculative poetry contest. His chapbook, Looting Versailles<\/em>, was published by Alabaster Leaves<\/a> in 2013.\u00a0You can find out more on his blog<\/a> and follow him on Twitter @Jake_Sheff<\/a>.<\/p>\n EKRAZ SINGH<\/strong> is a writer, editor, educator and master\u2019s student. Her poetry, essays, interviews and reviews have appeared in Descant<\/em>, Existere<\/a><\/em>, and Untethered<\/a><\/em>. She serves as the executive editor and publisher of Sewer Lid<\/a><\/em>, an online magazine of urban art and literature. Connect with her on Twitter @EkrazSingh<\/a>.<\/p>\n SWATI SUR<\/strong> is a student of English literature at the University of Calcutta. She takes an interest in gender studies and postcolonial literature. You can follow more of her writing on her website<\/a>.<\/p>\n MARK YOUNG<\/strong> is the author of les \u00e9chiquiers effront\u00e9s<\/em>, a collection of surrealist visual poems laid out on chessboard grids, which was recently published by Luna Bisonte Prods<\/a>. Due out later this year is\u00a0The Word Factory: a miscellany<\/em>, from gradient books of Finland, and an e-book, A Vicarious Life \u2014 the backing tracks<\/em>, from otata<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ISSN 2371-1361\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0… Continue Reading Fiction<\/h2>\n
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