Barton Smock lives in Columbus, OH with his wife and four children. He is the author of the chapbook infant* cinema (Dink Press, 2016) and editor of isacoustic* (isacoustic.com) Materialseating for the child lost by ghost, you are the second ofthree people who know god's middle name. oh how I'vewritten to avoid reading. to impress death. a babysitter's tattoo. the bird-sleep of ache. -Barton Smock

Ghost Arson

Literature & Fiction

Smock, Barton

Poetry

Kung Fu Treachery Press

Jason Baldinger is a poet hailing from Pittsburgh and 
recently finished a stint as writer in residence at the Osage 
Arts Community. He is co-director of The Bridge Series 
reading series. He’s the author of several books, the most 
recent are This Useless Beauty (Alien Buddha Press), The 
Ugly Side of the Lake (NightBallet Press) written with 
John Dorsey and the chaplet Fumbles Revelations (Grackle 
and Crow) which are available now. The collection 
Fragments of a Rainy Season (Six Gallery Press) and the 
split book with James Benger, Little Fires Hiding (Kung 
Fu Treachery Press) are forthcoming. Recent publications 
include the Low Ghost Anthology Unconditional Surrender, 
The Dope Fiend Daily, Outlaw Poetry, Uppagus, Lilliput 
Review, Rusty Truck, Dirtbag Review, In Between Hangovers, 
Your One Phone Call, Winedrunk Sidewalk, Anti-Heroin 
Chic, Nerve Cowboy Concrete Meat Press, Zombie Logic Press, 
Ramingo’s Porch, Rye Whiskey Review, Red Fez, Mad Swirl, 
Blue Hour Review and Heartland! Poetry of Love, Solidarity 
and Resistance. You can hear Jason read poems on recent 
and forthcoming releases by Theremonster and Sub Pop 
Recording artist The Gotobeds as well as at jasonbaldinger.
bandcamp.com

The Better Angels of Our Nature

Baldinger, Jason

J. Lester Allen is an upstate NY poet who has scattered his work across the small press landscape having released three previous collections of work: The Days Carnivore, Ask the Crows and A Cockroach in the Penthouse. He can be reached at jlesterallen@gmail.com.

This Is a Land of Wolves Now

Allen, J. Lester

Cheryl A. Rice's poems have appeared in magazines and journals around the world. Chapbooks include Until the Words Came (2019: Post Traumatic Press), coauthored with Guy Reed, Moses Parts the Tulips (2013: APD Press), and Lost and Found (2019: Flying Monkey Press). She is founder/host of the now defunct "Sylvia Plath Bake-Off." Her blog is at: http: //flyingmonkeyprods.blogspot.com/. Rice lives in New York's Hudson Valley.

Love's Compass

Rice, Cheryl a

Dr. R. Nikolas Macioci earned a PhD from The Ohio State University and taught English, Writers' Seminar (a course he created for select students), and Drama in Columbus City Schools. OCTELA, the Ohio Council of Teachers of English, awarded Nik Macioci best secondary English teacher in the state of Ohio. He won First Place in the l987 National Writer's Union Poetry Competition judged by Denise Levertov, First Place in The Baudelaire Award Competition sponsored by The World Order of Narrative and Formalist Poets (1989). Second Place in Zone 3's first annual Rainmaker Awards, judged by Howard Nemerov (1989), and Second Place in the Writer's Digest annual competition, Judged by Diane Wakoski (1991).Nik is the author of two chapbooks, Cafes of Childhood, and Greatest Hits, as well as five books: Cafes of Childhood (the original chapbook with additional poems), Why Dance?, Necessary Windows, Mother Goosed and Occasional Heaven. Forth-coming is Rough. His book, Cafes of Child- hood was submitted for the Pulitzer Prize. Critics and judges called Cafes of Childhood a "beautifully harrowing account of child abuse, but not "sentimental" or self-pitying" an "amazing book," and "a single unified whole." In addition, Nik's work has been published in more than two hundred magazines here and abroad. Most recently, Macioci has published in The Society of Classical Poets journal, Concho River Review, The Comstock Review, Blue Unicorn, and Chiron Review. He is a member of Bistro poets critique group.

Rustle Rustle Thump Thump

Macioci, R. Nikolas

Dan Provost is a keen observer, jotting down his thoughts in his "little notebook," documenting the failures of humanity, wanting nothing more than to be proven wrong. More importantly, he looks inward, exploring loneliness, depression, self-loathing, and all the truths that most people don't want to confront. He is not afraid of showing his darkest sides, which allows you to trust his narrative and empathize with his plight. I have always admired Dan's matter-a-fact style and the way that hidden in the rough landscape of his words, you find images to marvel over. -Rebecca Schumejda, author of Something Like ForgivenessDan calls his poetry confessions of loneliness, and many of the poems lay bare the depression of modern drudgery and hopelessness, but it's the poems themselves that rise up through the grime, the empty bottles, the murky waters, and they create a footpath. This path is slightly different for each of us, and Dan's poems lead him out of the darkness and into the dark, ever onward. He may call that a struggle, but I see strength. I see endurance. I see a man who cannot be broken any further--the ultimate excuse to keep going, to keep writing. And for us to keep reading his work. -- James Duncan, author of We Are All Terminal But This Exit Is Mine"Dan Provost and I go back a long way and I've been fortunate enough to see him get to where he is now. I think he would be the first to tell you that his earlier work was deeply influenced by Charles Bukowski, and while this latest collection has a similar dark edge, I'll say this work is Provost influenced by Provost, painful, personal, the poems here no longer walk a mile in another man's shoes, but move forward to create their own path for readers to connect with." --John Dorsey

Under the Influence of Nothingness

Provost, Dan

Brett Lars Underwood has been published by The Bicycle Review, 52ndcity, Bad Jacket, Bad Shoe, U City Review and included in Flood Stage: An Anthology of Saint Louis Poets, both Gasconade Reviews; 39 Feet and Rising, Missouri is a Ghost-Shaped Thing and After the Flood (Spartan Press, 2019). His verse can also be found in his chapbook Sunlit Insult and It's Bush Lent Subtle Hints. MUSH from Spartan Press hit the streets in February, 2018. His work has been heard at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts' "Sound Waves" series and is part of Laumeier Sculpture Park's "Site/Sound" exhibit.

Musharona

Underwood, Brett

"In The Circus of his Bones, Brightman leads off with the line "All good myths begin with a bird or a human." He's right and although there are birds in this book you are riding along with Adam and realizing this creation business is no simple matter. It's complicated, messy and dire and that is something we all understand well as we rename the animals for a new millennium. The thing is just when Adam is has been knocked around and is swirling into the deadlights of his own confusion, just then, we see Eve. Eve is the windswept voice of dreams to bring anchor to this confusion. There is nothing simple with voicing creation, but here in this circus we are wrapped like the children of winter, waiting for every word as if it were Bumba vomiting up the sun." Jason BaldingerAuthor of A Threadbare Universe "Steve Brightman's The Circus in His Bones is a brilliant work, both in conception and execution. Skillfully utilizing three distinct voices-Adam's, Eve's, and the Serpent's-Brightman imparts a sensitive and comprehensive story of the human condition. Each poem tempts the reader into the next one, the trinity of voices sown throughout the manuscript blooming into a glorious "...reforestation / ...cauterizing the edge / of blue until death looks away, ecstatic." -Dianne Borsenik, author of Raga for What Comes Next "In 1931, the Cleveland Indians were kicked out of League Park into the larger, wider Cleveland Stadium, much as Adam and Eve had been kicked out of Eden and left to roam the world. Steve Brightman takes the original power couple and transplants them into a city so modern it may as well be timeless (indeed, he explicitly tells us that "Past, present, and future are all visible at once." --'serpent announces the final birth of adam']). Adam pogoes us from Genesis to Revelation, with every conceivable stop in between, Eve breaking in like Nancy Sinatra in "Some Velvet Morning" once in a while to sing to seven and a half billion Cains and Abels of a future that wants to be a present. Adam embraced the confluence of architecture and munitions in 1951; League Park was, for the most part, razed. But Adam is stubborn enough to "...refuse ...] to admit/every heartbeat is a jailbreak" --'adam loops experimental art on his living room wall'], and thus here we are, with a pretty darn magnificent collection in front of us." - Robert Beveridge "In this dense metamodern reimagination of the Adam and Eve mythology, Steve Brightman wrestles artfully with what it means to be a white man in today's world with authenticity, inventiveness, wit, and deep intelligence." - Michelle Smith Quarles

The Circus of His Bones

Brightman, Steve

"Rob Azevedo, the gregarious radio host and Manchester's resident raconteur, now throws another one of his many hats into the poetry arena, and he does not disappoint in his debut collection, Turning on the Wasp. Azevedo's verse combines Bukowski's rawness with Kerouac's cosmic musings-maybe a dash of Rimbaud-thrown in a Petri dish with his own distinct poetic vision. So welcome to world of poetry, Mr. Azevedo. We've been waiting for you." -Nathan Graziano, author of Fly Like The Seagull "If your musical knowledge is in the Dark Ages, Azevedo will bring it new light. He is also an excellent writer. His words add dimension to flatness, and freshness to anything gone stale. Some poets are diamonds, some are stones: Rob's many facets reveal he is in the first group, not the second...." -Steve Shaw, poet, writer, musician. "With a fine tuned musical ear for rhythm and syntax, a razor sharp keenly honest poetic voice, in Turning on the Wasp, his virgin voyage into the holy unholy realms of poetry, from the first poem to the last, Rob Azevedo kept me on the edge of my seat wanting more." -Ron Whitehead, poet, writer, editor, scholar and activist.

Turning on the Wasp

Azevedo, Rob

Dark Guitar

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