WEEKLY VERSES
Weekly Verses is our digital publication that features the works of different artists and writers each week .
14th floor on a NYC rooftop
Fred Marmorstein was a Language Arts teacher for over 25 years. He has published and written in many genres, from blogging in ParentingSquad.com to writing stories on autism. His work has appeared in Agape Review, Clinch Mountain Review, and Pensive: A Global Journey of Spirituality & the Arts, as well as Skipping Stones, Turtle Trails and Tales, Toasted Cheese, Dog Living, and I Love Cats magazines. He currently lives in Asheville, North Carolina.
How Having a Boyfriend Was a Prerequisite to Playing Settlers of Catan
Sadie Scotch (she/her) is a writer and world traveler from New Hope, Pennsylvania. She has lived abroad for more than a decade, exploring over 80 countries along the way. Her essays appear in The Smart Set, Change Seven, Salty, Flash Frontier, Kitaab International, The Charleston Anvil, Pink Disco, and New Contrast. She writes about intimacy, identity and the strange mechanics of modern life. More of her work can be found at sadiescotch.com.
For Soyoung
Madeline Whitmore is a 22-year-old literature student from New Jersey. Her writing takes many forms but is often influenced by nature, dreams, and visual art. Many of her pieces aim to capture surreal moments where time seems to stop. Her work has appeared in Spiritus Mundi, Down in the Dirt, Aetherium Literary, and more. In her spare time, Madeline enjoys reading, painting, and tending to her vegetable garden! Her Instagram is @madeline_whitmore
The Rent Was Cheap
Gareth Vieira is a Canadian writer, poet, journalist, and collage artist. A graduate of Humber’s Print Journalism program, he has written for Niagara This Week, Turtle Island News, and Port Hope Now, and founded Dispatches from a Small Town, a project devoted to telling the extraordinary stories of everyday people in Port Hope, Cobourg, and surrounding communities.
Much of his fiction emerges from the edges of things: city streets, small towns, hospital rooms, late-night bars. He is drawn to characters who feel restless or out of place, carrying both beauty and ruin. His stories circle around connection and absence, those fleeting moments that don’t last but leave a mark. He writes to catch life in its rawest, grittiest form, without smoothing it over—just the pulse of it, the way it really feels when you’re in it.
Alongside his fiction, Gareth creates typewriter-based poetry under @street_verses.
Brain Sweater
Andie Z Chen lives in Shenzhen and lives alone. She creates illustrations, writes poetry and fictions. She chose painting and writing as her way of creating because she is lazy, doesn't like physical labor, and isn’t good at teamwork. She holds an MFA in Experimental Arts and Documentary Studies from Duke University. It wasn’t until she was in graduate school, that she realized she is good at writing and painting—What she had previously pursued turned out to be an illusion. It sounds like she was a failure. Her flash fiction "My First Drawing" was published by Vine Leaves Press in "50 Give or Take". She filmed a video essay in the format of her personal diary for an episode of the commercial documentary series Thirty Three Stories. Looking back now, she thinks what a terrible script she wrote then.
‘A Plea’ & ‘I Bought A Nectarine To Watch It Rot’
Alaina Veronique is a writer, editor, and educator living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her nonfiction has appeared in the Dalhousie Gazette and the Dalhousie Student Life Blog, where she has written on student culture, storytelling, and personal narrative. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Creative Fiction at the University of King’s College. Her creative work centers on themes of love and grief, and the ways these forces intersect to shape intimacy, memory, and human connection. In addition to her graduate studies, Alaina teaches creative writing to ESL students, helping language learners discover new ways of engaging with English through craft and creativity. She is also the founder of From the Fig Tree Press, a small independent literary press committed to publishing diverse and experimental works across genres and media.
Fern In Shade
Priscilla Duran-Luciano is a Dominican-born physician-scientist and emerging poet based in New York City. Passionate about the heart in both clinical and poetic senses, she writes at the intersection of medicine, identity, heartache, nature, transformation, and resilience. Her first published poem, “Helix Moon Piercing,” appeared in MedMic and explores the entanglement of physical and emotional pain, weaving medicine with poetic imagery. Her lyrical work is forthcoming in The Academy of the Heart and Mind, Sad Girl Diaries, and Wingless Dreamer anthologies. Alongside her poetry, she has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications on preventive cardiology and the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease in diverse U.S. communities.
Don’t Feed The Ducks
Jessica is an undergraduate at the University of Washington (UW), serving as an editor for Her Campus UW and a content writer for Asian Americans for Mental Health. Passionate about writing, particularly poetry and fiction, their work has been featured in publications such as Vellichor Literary’s Ariadne Thread I.
Honeysuckles in Summer
Shannon West is an NYC-based writer. She has just begun her poetry journey with Flare Magazine, publishing her poem entitled “Life in color.” Shannon seeks to explore life through poetry and hopes to build community around shared experiences and emotions.
The Menace on Main Street
Native New Yorker and award-winner, LindaAnn LoSchiavo, is a member of the British Fantasy Society, HWA, SFPA, and The Dramatists Guild. Her titles published in 2024 include Always Haunted: Hallowe’en Poems [Wild Ink], Apprenticed to the Night [UniVerse Press], and Felones de Se: Poems about Suicide [Ukiyoto]. Some of her forthcoming publications include Cancer Courts My Mother [Prolific Pulse Press, 2025] and Vampire Verses [Twisted Dreams Press, 2025]. She has earned several book accolades, such as the Elgin Award for A Route Obscure and Lonely; Chrysalis BREW Project’s Award for Excellence; The World’s Best Magazine’s Book of Excellence Award, and the Spotlyts Story Award from Spotlyts Magazine.
Your Angry Backhand Hit the Light Bulb, Releasing Glass Shards All Over the Carpet, You, and the Time Continuum
Piper Pugh is a writer and educator from Los Angeles, CA — though she’s spending the summer living by the lake. Her poems and flash have been featured or are forthcoming in The Citron Review, 50-Word Stories, and 10 By 10 Flash.
Crown borrowed, crown denied & Nothing to declare
David Akinola is a Nigerian artist based in the United Kingdom. His practice explores identity, restriction, migration, and the psychological impact of personal and political memory. Working across drawing, collage, and painting, he examines the tension between individual agency and imposed systems of control. His work has been shown in exhibitions in both Nigeria and the UK, and includes a mural commissioned for Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. Rooted in lived experience, his art invites reflection on freedom, displacement, and belonging, while confronting the systems that influence how people move through the world.
Cafeteria
John Grey is an Australian poet and US resident who has been published in New World Writing, River and South, and The Alembic. His latest books, Bittersweet, Subject Matters, and Between Two Fires, are available through Amazon. He has upcoming work in Paterson Literary Review, White Wall Review, and Cantos.
Star Sailor
Tomi Amosu is a writer from Lagos, Nigeria. Although she has been writing for as long as she can remember, Star Sailor is her first formal publication. Her work is mostly shaped by social issues and an overactive imagination. When she's not writing, she explores a rotating door of craft projects: if it's art, she's trying it.
Day Ten
Ethan James is a poet and economist from Colorado. As a graduate student in economics, Ethan brings a keen analytical perspective to human vulnerability, creating poems that balance emotional depth with intellectual sharpness. When not writing or studying market structures, he can be found driving mountain roads, reflecting on heartbreak, and building new models for understanding both economies and hearts. He is to be published in the Undergraduate Economic Review for his undergraduate thesis in cultural economics.