Scissortail Quarterly #1

By: Brian Fuchs

On: 24 November 2020

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Douglas K Currier has published work in many magazines both in the United States and in South America. He lives with his wife in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Rachel Devereaux is a transformational nurse coach who helps busy people make life easier. With health, wellbeing and practical tips Rachel is able to help you life edit and feel good. Her books are helping parents with difficult conversations and life events. Contact Rachel via www.racheldevereux.com

Katrina K Guarascio is an educator, writer, publisher, artist, and community organizer. A lifelong creator, she has been published in various ezines, magazines, and anthologies. She also spent time on the performance stage, touring across the country in 2011 and participating in NPS in 2015, before hanging up her microphone. She is the author of two chapbook collections, two out of print collections, and three current books through Swimming with Elephants Publications, LLC. Katrina lives gratefully and happily in New Mexico with the love of her life. She continues to write, perform, and publish her own writing on the website Flower and Sun (https://ironandsulfur.com/).

Jude Brigley is Welsh. She has been a teacher, an editor and a performance poet. She is now writing more for the page. She has been published in various magazines, including Ariel Chart, Otherwise Engaged, and Blue ink, as well as having a chapbook, called Labours.

Luke is a poet, spoken-word artist and rapper. Having originally trained as an actor at London’s Italia Conti Academy, Luke is highly passionate about the power of the spoken word; he is fascinated with the use of rhythm, after becoming spellbound by Shakespeare’s use of iambic pentameter: it was a foregone conclusion that Luke would look to immerse himself in poetry and performance! His first venture into the world poetic was when penning marketing verses for his debut novel Beyond Daylight. The poetry soon took on a life of its own and Luke hasn’t looked back. He will be publishing his first collection of poetry in 2021 as well and releasing a debut rap EP. Much of his poetry can be found on Instagram (under the handle @l_3_m_s_l_3_y ).

Lisha Ruan lives and writes in New York. Her hobbies include learning languages and reading philosophy. Her work has appeared in The Bitter Oleander and other journals. Twitter: @lisha_ruan

George Higham started writing poetry at 59, in the Summer of 2020. He is from North Wales and currently lives South East England. Instagram: @ageing_dreamer

A Whittenberg is a Philadelphia native who has a global perspective. If she wasn’t an author she’d be a private detective or a jazz singer. She loves reading about history and true crime. Her other novels include Sweet Thang, Hollywood and Maine, Life is Fine, Tutored, and The Sane Asylum.

John Carter attended Old Dominion University, where he earned degrees in a number of esoteric subjects. He works when he must and lives where he can. He is currently at work on his first collection of poems, entitled Earth Is Not The Best Planet.

Brent Fuchs is an award winning photographer whose work has appeared in numerous magazines & newspapers in Central Oklahoma. He currently lives in Edmond, Oklahoma.

My name is Ayesha Asim. I am 13 years old. One of the things i love to do it poetry and digital art. They are my hobby as well as passion and thats it hope you will like my work.

Michael Brockley is a retired school psychologist who lives in Muncie, Indiana. His most recent poems have appeared in Last Stanza, Unbroken, and The Thieving Magpie. Poems are forthcoming in Flying Island, the Indianapolis Anthology, and the anthology What Was and What Will Be.

Maed Rill Monte’s time is spent writing poetry and thinking of Jesus. He is 19 and has been published or forthcoming in Anti-Heroin Chic, Strukturriss, Feral, and elsewhere. Facebook: facebook.com/maedrill.monte.31

Rp Verlaine lives and writes in New York City. He has an MFA in creative writing from City College. He taught in New York Public schools for many years. Retired from teaching, he continues to write and do photography in New York. He had a volume of poetry- Damaged by Dames & Drinking published in 2017 and another – Femme Fatales Movie Starlets & Rockers in 2018. A set of three e books began with the publication of Lies From The Autobiography vol1 in November of 2018. Vol 2 was published in 2019 and a third Volume in 2020. His poetry has appeared in Atlas Poetica, The Linnet’s Wings, Haikuniverse, Last Stanza Poetry Journal, The Local Train, Proletaria, Scryptic, Humankind Journal, The Wild Word, Under The Basho, Plum Tree Tavern, Fresh Out Magazine, Ugly Writers, Prune Juice, Incense Dreams, Best Poetry, Blazevox, Pikers Press, Poems’ bout Love & Hate anthology. Stardust Haiku, Fractured Haiku, Scry of Lust 2. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Rp-Verlaine-1552867308091481/

JB Mulligan has published more than 1100 poems and stories in various magazines over the past 45 years, and has had two chapbooks: The Stations of the Cross and THIS WAY TO THE EGRESS, as well as 2 e-books: The City of Now and Then, and A Book of Psalms (a loose translation). He has appeared in more than a dozen anthologies.

Zubair Javaid

Darien Lencl lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Concrete disquiets him, but he dwells with cities none-the-less. He is sad to leave the mountains and forests when the camping is done, but happy to be home when the rubber of tires touches the pavement of a driveway. He has featured at the several Bay Area poetry shows, as well as the prestigious “Passages on the Lake” show. He has been a teacher in Oakland for over 20 years, and has been performing poetry in Oakland since 2000. Darien has been writing poetry for 25 years. He tries to mitigate life’s abundance with moderation, but ends up being more apt with, “if a little is good, then a lot is better.” As he has gotten older, he has realized that this is unfolding folly. For, much in the world tries to communicate that less is more. That being said, he still prefers three friends to two, and where Ice cream is concerned, an extra scoop.

Dee Allen. African-Italian performance poet based in Oakland, California. Active on the creative writing & Spoken Word tips since the early 1990s. Author of 5 books [ Boneyard, Unwritten Law, Stormwater, and Skeletal Black, all from POOR Press, and his newest from Conviction 2 Change Publishing, Elohi Unitsi ] and 28 anthology appearances [ including Your Golden Sun Still Shines, Rise, Extreme, The Land Lives Forever, Civil Liberties United, Trees In A Garden Of Ashes and the newest, Colossus: Home ] under his figurative belt so far.

Palmer Smith is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and an incoming MFA and MA student. She has worked as a paralegal since 2018. She has written for Refresh Magazine, The Online Journal for Person-Centered Dermatology, Sea Maven Magazine, Calm Down Magazine,The French Press Zine and level:deepsouth, with work forthcoming in The Remington Review and For Women Who Roar. Instagram: @spdevsmith

Martina Gallegos was born and raised in Mexico and came to the United States at 14. She attended California State University, Northridge and became a bilingual elementary school teacher and taught for almost eighteen years. She suffered a work injury in 2012, followed by a near fatal hemorrhagic stroke. She got a Master’s degree from Grand Canyon University and started publishing after surviving her stroke. Her works have appeared in the Altadena Poetry Review: Anthology 2015, Spirit Fire Review, Silver Birch Press, Central Coast Poetry Shows, Poetry Superhighway, Poets Responding to SB1070, Hometown Pasadena, and Basta! Instagram: @Selbor2015 Website: www.martinagallegos.com Facebook: facebook.com/martina.gallegos.188

Lorraine Caputo is a documentary poet, translator and travel writer. Her works appear in over 180 journals on six continents; and 12 chapbooks of poetry – including Caribbean Nights (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014), Notes from the Patagonia (dancing girl press, 2017) and On Galápagos Shores (dancing girl press, 2019). She also authors travel narratives, articles and guidebooks. In March 2011, the Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada honored her verse. Caputo has done over 200 literary readings, from Alaska to the Patagonia. She travels through Latin America, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth. Follow her travels at: facebook.com/lorrainecaputo.wanderer. Website: latinamericawanderer.wordpress.com/

Maeve McKenna lives in Sligo, Ireland. Her poetry has been placed in several international poetry competitions and published in Mslexia, Bloody Amazing Anthology, Culture Matters Working Class prose Anthology; From The Plough To The Stars, The Cormorant, The Galway Review, Boyne Berries, MadSwirl, Sonder Magazine, Skylight47, Fly On The Wall and widely online. She has work forthcoming in Atrium, 100 Words Of Solitude and Black Bough. Maeve is working towards her first collection of poetry.

Christian Garduno’s work can be read in over 50 literary magazines, including Riza Press, where his poem, “The Return”, was a Finalist in their 2019 Multimedia Contest. He lives and writes along the South Texas coast with his wonderful wife Nahemie and young son Dylan. He sometimes usually writes at https://medium.com/@letsfly2000

Tiffany Lindfield is a social worker by day, trade, and heart working as an advocate for climate justice, gender equality, and animal welfare. By night, she is a prolific reader of anything decent, and a writer. Website: https://www.tiffanylindfield.com Facebook: facebook.com/authortiffanylindfield

Sibanda is the author of Notes, Themes, Things And Other Things, The Gushungo Way, Sleeping Rivers, Love O’clock, The Dead Must Be Sobbing, Football of Fools, Cutting-edge Cache, Of the Saliva and the Tongue, When Inspiration Sings In Silence, The Way Forward, Sometimes Seasons Come With Unseasonal Harvests, As If They Minded:The Loudness Of Whispers, This Cannot Be Happening :Speaking Truth To Power, The Dangers Of Child Marriages:Billions Of Dollars Lost In Earnings And Human Capital, The Ndaba Jamela and Collections and Poetry Pharmacy. Sibanda’s work has received Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations. Some of his work has been translated into Serbian. Website: https://ndabasibanda.wordpress.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ndabajs1 Twitter: @loveoclockn

John Lambremont, Sr. is a poet and writer from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he lives with his wife and their little dog. John holds a B.A. in Creative Writing and a J.D. from Louisiana State University. He is the former editor of Big River Poetry Review, and has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize. John’s poems have been published internationally in many reviews and anthologies, including Pacific Review, Flint Hills Review, The Minetta Review, Sugar House Review, and The Louisiana Review. John’s full-length poetry collections include “Dispelling The Indigo Dream” (Local Gems Poetry Press 2013), “The Moment Of Capture” (Lit Fest Press 2017), “Old Blues, New Blues” (Pski’s Porch Publishing 2018), and “The Book Of Acrostics” (Truth Serum Press 2018). His chapbook is “What It Means To Be A Man (And Other Poems Of Life And Death)”, published in 2014 by Finishing Line Press. John enjoys music, playing his guitars, fishing, and old movies. He has battled pancreatic cancer since 2018.

Miriam Sagan is the author of over thirty books of poetry, fiction, and memoir. Her most recent include Bluebeard’s Castle (Red Mountain, 2019) and A Hundred Cups of Coffee (Tres Chicas, 2019). She is a two-time winner of the New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards as well as a recipient of the City of Santa Fe Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts and a New Mexico Literary Arts Gratitude Award. She founded and directed the creative writing program at Santa Fe Community College until her retirement. Her poetry was set to music for the Santa Fe Women’s Chorus, incised on stoneware for a haiku pathway, and projected as video inside an abandoned grain silo in rural Itoshima. Her blog is Miriam’s Well: http://miriamswell.wordpress.com

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