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