Weekly Verses is our digital publication that features the works of different artists and writers each week .
WEEKLY VERSES
Outside the Lines
Connor DiMartino is an artist and writer living in Philadelphia, PA, where he attends the Community College of Philadelphia, majoring in Art and Design, and Creative Writing. DiMartino’s poetry has been previously published in Limited Editions, and King’s River Review. He is also the first prize recipient of the 2025 Judith Stark Writing Competition in the poetry category.
Cause & Effect
Johanna Ziegler is a writer-director who enjoys forcing absurdity and sincerity to coexist. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and Best American Short Stories—the best news to pop up in her inbox, hands down. You can find her writing in Broken Antler Magazine, The Gravity of the Thing, The Eyre, and other literary corners of the internet. Her short films and one-act plays have shown at festivals across the country. This fall, she’s cannonballing into an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of New Orleans.
Beached
Alex Schupak is a photographer, clothing designer, and multimedia artist based in Maryland. He is currently pursuing degrees in Visual Arts and Mathematical Physics at Brown University. His work spans commercial photography in fashion, sports, and events, though his focus remains on independent projects including art prints and photobooks. His first book, The New Americans, was completed in spring 2024. His work has appeared in publications such as The Optic and The Indy, and in exhibitions including Brown’s 44th Juried Student Exhibition. He is the founder of Amalin Clothing and has recently expanded into monotype printmaking. He will present his senior thesis work at the List Art Center in spring 2026.
Cabbage Moths
Liz Leighton is a writer/performer based out of New York City. She can be followed on Instagram @ladyintheradiator123
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Bethany Altschwager is an artist, licensed creative arts therapist, and educator born in Connecticut, working in New York, and living in New Jersey. While art has always been an important part of her life, it was her early experiences with darkroom photography that inspired her career in the arts. She now uses the creative process to support adults experiencing mental health challenges to express themselves and develop a greater understanding of thoughts, feelings, and layers of identity. She maintains an active studio practice focused on digital art, photography, collage, and fibers. Her artwork has been displayed in exhibitions across the United States. She has been featured in Artistonish Contemporary Art Magazine, Visual Art Journal, and Artist Closeup Contemporary Art Magazine.
The Other Side
Amy Smith is an Analogue Collage artist from the Colne Valley district of West Yorkshire (UK)—a beautiful & unique area located in the foothills of the Pennine Moors. Her University education in the field of Media & Popular Culture, began her passion for exploring various art forms, social concepts and historical/ cultural influences. Amy has created an array of collages that include many versions & interpretations of media—however this is her first published piece. Her love of surrealist imagery coupled with the joy of finding beauty within ‘strangeness,’ has played a major influence in the overall aesthetic and ideas behind her work.
North Sea Colossus
Joseph Ray York is a North Carolina native with a degree in art from Appalachian State University. He was recently the first place art prize winner for the 2024 Spring Issue No. 73 of The Penn Review. He also has works in many private collections throughout the US and abroad.
Familiar Strangers
Ernest Langston, a Latinx writer and visual artist, was a finalist in the 2018 and 2021 Seattle Film Summit/Bigfoot Script Challenge and 2019 PEN Writer’s Award recipient. His short stories have appeared in Litro Magazine, Oyster River Pages, Acentos Review, and other publications. Ernest's artwork has been accepted at Gallerium Art Exhibitions'‘ 3rd annual People 2025 exhibition and Visual Art Journal (forthcoming publications). He has a BA in English, a M.F.A. in Creative Writing, resides in Seattle, and works on his next novel and a series of Abstract Expressionism paintings.
Torqued Tougher than a Texas Train
Nicholas Viglietti is a writer from Sacramento, CA. After Katrina, he rebuilt houses on the Gulf Coast for two years. He's lived like a bear on a Rocky Mountains trail crew. He rode a bicycle from Sac-Town to S.D. He's partying on his seventh life, and he tries to sling beautiful sentences.
Lonecactus
Jo Rohrbacker is a career artist and works primarily in 2D media. Her subjects vary with whichever medium she is working in. Her watercolors are usually landscapes or animals, her current favorite subjects in acrylic are vintage neon signs, and her oils and murals are a wide range of subjects. Last year, there was a short documentary made about a mural she donated to a migrant center in Sasabe, Mexico—where she was so grateful for the opportunity to meet such beautiful people. Her work has been published with the print version of Artistonish magazine, the online version of the beautiful Wildscape Literary magazine as well as Le Culterae Magazine.
Georgetown: February 4, 1983
New Jersey native, Robert A. Cozzi is a six-time eLit medalist, William Shakespeare Book Award Finalist, and Story Monsters Dragonfly Award winner, Robert has published six books of poetry, including Tide Pool of Words, Sky of Dreams, Handful of Memories, Blanket of Hearts, and Kaleidoscope of Colors I & II. Educated at James Madison University, Robert has maintained a daily journal since he was in the ninth grade, where a favored teacher encouraged his writing. He regularly shares his unedited, handwritten journal entries with his readers online. Robert's work has been featured in Bending Genres, Scissortail Quarterly, NJ Bards Poetry Review, and Stray Words.
Fungus Gnats
Divya Benezette is a writer from Maryland, USA. She is a professional writing graduate student and primarily focuses on poetry, creative nonfiction, and academic research. She has been published or will appear in Bardics Anonymous, The Greyhound Journal, Clover + Bee, Skirting Around Magazine, and Prosetrics, the Literary Magazine. She is also a reader for ONLY POEMS Magazine.
Sail Away
Hugh T. Brooks is a writer, photographer, and multimedia storyteller from the San Francisco Bay Area. A true wanderer, he has spent much of his young life searching for narrative, following artistic calls, and looking for connections throughout the visual, written, and personal world. His photography has been featured in Esses Magazine, and this is his first publication as a writer, though he was a finalist for Georgetown University’s Ora Mary Pelham Poetry Prize.
Maxxinista
August Gladstone is a 24 year old Los Angeles based Writer, Poet, Clown and Troubadour. He’s used his theatrical upbringing (on Broadway at age six) to craft absurd comedies, placing in numerous screenwriting competitions and performing across the country under manifold mediums including an appearance in the 2024 Netflix is a Joke Comedy Festival. An award-winning poet, he’s been published by Winged Moon, Vine Leaves Press, Pluto’s, Hare’s Paw Literary Journal and more. As a lyricist, he’s written for members of Supertramp, Crowded House and Ringo’s All-Stars. August is currently seeking publication for his debut poetry collection which is represented by 3 Arts Entertainment.