Meet Pauline Peters! Pauline’s poem, “All the Small Magics,” will be featured in our upcoming poetry special issue, vol. 12.

How Pauline describes this poem in 12 words or less:
“’The earth is my witness.’ Spoken by the Buddha upon enlightenment”

Pauline Peters is an African-Canadian writer living in Toronto, the territory of Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. She has been published in Canadian Literature, The Antigonish Review, Room, The Fiddlehead, The Windsor Review, The Nashwaak Review, The Literary Review of Canada and Blank Spaces. She was short-listed for the Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Competition sponsored by Exile Quarterly and her chapbook The Salted Woman was published last year by the British publisher Hedgespoken Press.

Meet Jill Michelle! Jill’s poem, “The Marriage Question,” will be featured in our upcoming poetry special issue, vol. 12.

How Jill describes this poem in 12 words or less:
“Can 1 + 1 = 1 without some kind of subtraction?”

Jill Michelle teaches at Valencia College in Orlando, Florida. Her latest poems appear, or are forthcoming, in DMQ Review, Please See Me, Delmarva Review, Coffee People and Drunk Monkeys. Recent anthology credits include The Book of Bad Betties (Bad Betty Press, United Kingdom) and Words from the Brink (Arachne Press Limited, United Kingdom). To check out more of her work, visit byjillmichelle.com.

Meet Andrea Margaret Martineau! Andrea’s poem, “(step) Mother’s Day,” will be featured in our upcoming poetry special issue, vol. 12.

How Andrea describes this poem in 12 words or less:
“A parental alliance is forged between woman and ant”

Andrea Margaret Martineau is a poet, bibliophile and phytomaniac with a penchant for heritage buildings and their paranormal tenants. She left her hometown of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan to complete her BA in English at the University of Regina. She now resides in the Queen City with her family, rescue cats, Horsfield tortoise and collection of houseplants. Her poetry has previously been published in Blank Spaces, [SPACE], Figroot Press and Freshwater Literary Journal.