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Poem: Crane
Poet: Kevin Hodgson (website, Mastodon)
Bio: Kevin Hodgson is an elementary level teacher in Western Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the National Writing Project and various online communities. He blogs regularly about teaching, writing and technology at Kevin’s Meandering Mind and is active on Mastodon.

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Poem: Guitar
Poet: Kevin Hodgson (website, Mastodon)
Bio: Kevin Hodgson is an elementary level teacher in Western Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the National Writing Project and various online communities. He blogs regularly about teaching, writing and technology at Kevin’s Meandering Mind and is active on Mastodon.

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Poem: Dharma
Poet: Gregory Schwartz (Instagram)
Bio: Rolling Stone: picture Bamboozle Poet 2010; Lyricist Gorky Park band Moscow Music Peace Festival 1989; 2007 Poet Laureate Asbury Park; Featured in the Steve Forbert Video “Sandy”; Featured front page story Asbury Park Press March 19 2002; Featured Article Asbury Park Press May 22 2009; Featured front page Asbury Park Press “Asbury Rock and Roll Poet” Aug.20.2012; Featured in Aquarian Bamboozle Issue “The Poet Schwartz”; Performance review (Summer Of Love) Aquarian 3-30-2011; Street Team promotion Innovation, Headcount Volunteer; Live Nation Information Station PNC Bank Art Center; Resident MC Break Contest.

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Poem: Storm
Poet: Kevin Hodgson (website, Mastodon)
Bio: Kevin Hodgson is an elementary level teacher in Western Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the National Writing Project and various online communities. He blogs regularly about teaching, writing and technology at Kevin’s Meandering Mind and is active on Mastodon.

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Poem: A Tender Moment in the Louvre*
Poet: Laura Cooney (blog, Twitter, IG)
Bio: Laura Cooney is a writer from Edinburgh, Scotland with publications for grown-ups and children both online and in print. Connect with her and find out where to read  and listen to her work on her blog and on Twitter and Instagram @lozzawriting. Recent side projects include spoken word events and zine creation with friends. When she’s not doing lots of writing, you’ll find her with her daughters, as close to the sea as possible- there will be ice-cream!

*previously appeared in print in Blue Daisies Journal

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Poem: Are You a Lunatic
Poet: Laura Cooney (blog, Twitter, IG)
Bio: Laura Cooney is a writer from Edinburgh, Scotland with publications for grown-ups and children both online and in print. Connect with her and find out where to read  and listen to her work on her blog and on Twitter and Instagram @lozzawriting. Recent side projects include spoken word events and zine creation with friends. When she’s not doing lots of writing, you’ll find her with her daughters, as close to the sea as possible- there will be ice-cream!

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Poem: ASD
Poet: Jack Ferguson
Bio: Jack Ferguson is an aspiring third generation purveyor of stories who likes dabbling in flash fiction such as poetry and short stories while embracing Autism. He lives in the middle of nowhere with his muse: a black cat called Jet (an unusual name for such a being, he thinks) whom he has written a poem about with perhaps many more to come. 

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Poem: Journey After Septuagenarian Fell Foul Of Grandson’s Merry-Go-Round
Poet: Gerard Sarnat (website)
Bio: Gerard Sarnat has been nominated for the pending Science Fiction Poetry Association Dwarf Star Award, won San Francisco Poetry’s 2020 Contest, the Poetry in the Arts First Place Award plus the Dorfman Prize, and has been nominated for handfuls of Pushcarts plus Best of the Net Awards. Widely published, Gerry is a Harvard College and Medical School-trained physician who’s built and staffed clinics for the marginalized as well as a Stanford professor and healthcare CEO. Currently he is devoting energy/ resources to deal with climate justice, and serves on Climate Action Now’s board. Gerry’s been married since 1969 with progeny consisting of four collections (Homeless Chronicles: From Abraham To Burning Man, Disputes, 17s, Melting the Ice King)  plus three kids/ six grandsons  — and is looking forward to potential future granddaughters.