WEEKLY VERSES
Weekly Verses is our digital publication that features the works of different artists and writers each week .
I Remember (after Joe Brainard)
Daisy Hernandez is a writer from the Bronx. This is her first published work, as she has never appeared in any publications. She is currently an upper-class college student majoring in English with a concentration in Creative Writing and a minor in Legal Studies. Daisy plans to attend law school after graduation to make a career of helping others. Her writing ranges from poetry to fiction to non-fiction, all of which center on her life as a Hispanic woman in America. She hopes to become an author and inspire others as she has been inspired. You can follow her on Instagram; her tag is @daisitah
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.
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.
Five Dollars Goes A Long Way
Matthew Pritt (he/him) is an Appalachian literary and speculative fiction writer. His stories and poems have appeared in Stanchion, Vast Chasm Magazine, and The Sunlight Press, among others. He has a degree in Music Composition from Marshall University, but somewhere along the way, he found that he enjoyed writing words more than music. He currently lives in West Virginia with his five cats.
The Happy Banter of Marital Discord
B. Craig Grafton is a retired attorney from Moline, Illinois, now living in Canyon Lake, Texas. His legal fiction westerns, old-fashioned western novels, and short story collections are published by Two Gun Publishing. The Scarlet Leaf Review published his twenty-first-century fairy tales short story collection. Unfortunately, they are no longer in existence, as are some of the magazines in which his 150 or so stories have appeared in.
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.
Cabbage Moths
Liz Leighton is a writer/performer based out of New York City. She can be followed on Instagram @ladyintheradiator123
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.