WEEKLY VERSES
Weekly Verses is our digital publication that features the works of different artists and writers each week .
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.
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.
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.