GREY SPARROW’S INTERNATIONAL TREASURE
Do not go gentle into that good night, Dylan Thomas, 1914-1953
POETRY
Syncopated Rhythm, Paul RabinowitzMidnights Imploding, Ava Serra
The physical therapist at the V.A. is angry with me, Ron Riekki
Juniper Wisdom, Robert Baldwin
Planet Gadanayan, Stephen Philip Druce
Reading Basho in Kathmandu, Shiva Bhusal
Veer Left, Marie-Andrée Auclair
Arthur W. Butler Memorial Sanctuary, Jim Tilley
It’s Saturday, Jenny Hockey
Offering My House Keys To A Blue Penguin, Glenn Moss
Joshua Tree, Jo Ann Baldinger
Speech, Laura Ann Reed
Dadi’s Legacy, Elina Kumra
Four Untitled Poems, C. Medalie, Editor’s Choice
Princess, James Owens
Blizzard, Diane Sahms
Connected, David Atwood
Daughters of Salt, Leila Farjami
Opening Sutra, Richard Fenwick
Would you recognize a Flinck, Robert Fillman
Where Can He Go From Here?, James G. Piatt
Infinite, Roger G. Singer, D.C.
Making Music, Rachel M. Clark
Dismissal Fate, Richard Dinges, Jr.
Realist’s Suspicions, Paul Kindlon
FLASH
Job #10, Benjamin Schmitt
The Space, Joseph Mills
The Scarecrow, David Sydney
The Summer of ’77, Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas
A Matter of Honor, S. Frederic Liss
The aptly named lesser Green Finch…, Richard Weaver
The Future of Peace & Quiet, David Petruzelli
CONTRIBUTORS
GREY SPARROWS INTERNATIONAL TREASURE DYLAN THOMAS, 1914-1953
“Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems “Do not go gentle into that good night” and “And death shall have no dominion,” as well as the play “Under Milk Wood,” as noted from Wikipedia.
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David Atwood is a native New Orleanian, poet, and voice actor living in Alexandria, LA with his wife, writer Christee Gabour Atwood. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from LSU and has worked in radio in Baton Rouge, Atlanta, and currently in Alexandria. His first chapbook of poetry “Find Your Way Home” was released in 2010, his second, “Catfish Bones and Cajun Ghosts” in 2016 and “Instamatic” in 2022. Atwood is a Pushcart Nominee and has been published in The Louisiana Review, The Raven Review, Delta Poetry Review, Louisiana Literature, The Aquila Review, Belle Journal, Verbatim, MockingHeart Review, and The Stillwater Review.
Marie-Andrée Auclair is a Canadian whose poems have found homes in print and online publications in Canada, the USA, UK, Ireland, Australia, and Japan. She enjoys hiking, photography, traveling and adding to her cooking repertoire after each trip.
Jo Ann Baldinger writes poems and teaches yoga in Portland, Oregon. Her work has appeared in Grey Sparrow Journal, Stirring, 2River View, Stickman Review, Verdad, Twyckenham Notes, White Whale, Burningword, Monarch Review, and Cirque, among others.
Robert Baldwin’s writing focuses on music, memoir, and poetry. His poetry has appeared in Poetry Quarterly. Utah Life, Grey Sparrow Journal, Haiku Journal, Three Line Poetry, and in the books, Getting Through: Tales of Corona and Community, and Harmonic Verse. He is the winner of the 2021 National Poetry Month Competition sponsored by the Salt Lake Community Writing Center. Thirty, his first chapbook of poetry, was published in 2022. In 2021, composer Andrew Maxfield set his poetry in a song cycle for soprano and orchestra that was premiered by the Salt Lake Symphony. He is currently working on a project with composer, John Costa, celebrating the Moab Crossing of the Colorado River.
Shiva Bhusal, hailing from Chitwan, Nepal, is a Software Engineer based in Bellevue, Washington. He loves writing poetry and fiction. His works have been previously published in the Kathmandu Post, Of Nepalese Clay, South Florida Poetry Journal, Frogpond, and Haiku Canada Review.
Rachel M. Clark grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, received a BA in Drama from Bennington College, and an MDiv from San Francisco Theological Seminary. While raising her children, she was an educator, actor, and acting teacher. She lives in Falls Church, Virginia, where she helps immigrants learn English and leads a poetry circle at her local library. Clark’s poems have appeared in St. Luke Review, Arlington (VA) Public Library’s Quaranzine, Amethyst Review, Poetry for Mental Health (and in its anthology, Mental Health), and in the Autumn Sky Poetry Daily.
Richard Dinges, Jr. works on his homestead beside a pond, surrounded by trees and grassland, with his wife, two dogs, two cats, and five chickens. Toasted Cheese, Westview, Old Red Kimono, Poem, and Green Hills Literary Lantern most recently accepted his poems for their publications.
Stephen Philip Druce is a poet from Shrewsbury in the UK.
Leila Farjami is an Iranian-American poet, translator, and psychotherapist based in Los Angeles, CA. In addition to publishing seven poetry books in Persian, her work has appeared in A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Apricity Magazine, Cathexis Northwest Press, Diode Poetry Journal, El Portal, Euphony Journal, Midwest Quarterly, Nonconformist Magazine, Nimrod Journal, Pennsylvania English, Poetic Sun, Poetry Porch, Press Pause Press, RiverSedge, Silk Road Review, Spotlong Review, Subnivean, and Sun; was published by Tupelo Press for their 30/30 Project; and has been translated into Swedish, Spanish, Arabic, Turkish, and French. Her poem “Caspian Sea” has been nominated for a Pushcart prize and the Best of the Net Anthology.
Richard Fenwick’s poetry has been published in numerous journals and quarterlies, to include Rattle, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Tishman Review, Adirondack Review, Foundling Review, and others. He’s the author of two poetry collections, Around the Sun Without a Sail (2012) and Unusual Sorrows (2018), and his translations of Russian Holocaust survivors—To Tell Our Stories: Holocaust Survivors of Southern Arizona (Volumes I & II)—were published in 2013 and 2015 respectively. He lives in and writes from Tucson, Arizona.
Robert Fillman is the author of House Bird (Terrapin, 2022) and the chapbook November Weather Spell (Main Street Rag, 2019). His collection The Melting Point will be published in 2025 by Broadstone Books. Individual poems have appeared in Salamander, Tar River Poetry, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. He teaches at Kutztown University in eastern Pennsylvania.
Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas is a graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts, MFA in Writing program. She is a thirteen-time Pushcart Prize nominee and a seven-time Best of the Net nominee. In 2012, she won the Red Ochre Chapbook Contest with her manuscript, “Before I Go to Sleep.” In 2018, her book In the Making of Goodbyes was nominated for The CLMP Firecracker Award in Poetry, and her poem, “A Mall in California,” took 2nd place for the Jack Kerouac Poetry Prize. In 2019, her chapbook An Ode to Hope in the Midst of Pandemonium was a finalist in the Eric Hoffer Book Awards. In 2021, her collection, Alice in Ruby Slippers, was short-listed for the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize and awarded an honorable mention in the Poetry category. Her work can be found online and in print and has been featured in Mezzo Cammin, Verse Daily, and many other journals. She is a former editor-in-chief for the Tule Review and The Orchards Poetry Journal. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors for Women’s Wisdom Art, an organization in Sacramento that supports women’s wellness through creativity in all forms.
Jenny Hockey retired as Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Sheffield University, UK in 2009 to make more time for writing and reading poetry. Since 1985 her work has been appearing in magazines such as The North, Grey Sparrow Journal, Words and Whispers, Obsessed with Pipework, Toasted Cheese and Pennine Platform. In 2013 New Writing North awarded her a New Poets Bursary and in 2019 Oversteps Books published her collection, Going to bed with the moon (overstepsbooks.com, jennyhockeypoetry.co.uk). She reviews regularly for Orbis poetry magazine and co-authored Family Life, Trauma and Loss in the Twentieth Century, a war-time family memoir (https://www.familyhistoryandwar.com/). In 2016 she was arrested for standing under a healthy street tree about to be felled outside her house (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/26/case-against-sheffield-tree-protesters-is-dropped).
Paul Kindlon’s journey through life has been marked by 7 years as a stage actor in Chicago and 25 years as both a journalist and college professor in Moscow, Russia. He is a Humanities professor in Buffalo, N.Y. and has more than 100 publications to his credit. These include poetry, plays, topical essays, flash fiction, aphorisms, and a memoir. He has been a regular contributor to Mystery Tribune for the past 4 years and is a board member of the Hudson Valley Writers Guild.
Elina Kumra is a 17-year-old Junior living in San Jose, California. Her poems and fiction have been published in Quarterly West, Wingless Dreamer, Reed Magazine, Up North Lit, Writer’s Digest, StreetLit, Coffin Bell, Polyphony Lit, Death Rattle, Typishly, Cathexis NorthWest Press, Tint, and Peauxdunque Review. She is Reed Magazine Emerging Voices Winner, a Finalist in Quarterly West, Fractured Lit, Ouroboros, and a Semi-finalist in the Nine-Syllables Chapbook Contest.
S. Frederic Liss is a multiple Pushcart Prize nominee, a nominee for the storySouth Million Writers Award. His short story collections have been finalists for the Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Prize sponsored by University of Georgia Press, the St. Lawrence Book Award sponsored by Black Lawrence Press, and the Bakeless Prize sponsored by Breadloaf Writers’ Conference and Middlebury College. He has published 61 short stories in literary and commercial magazines.. Please visit his website at www.sfredericliss.com for more information.
C. Medalie holds an interdisciplinary doctorate in aesthetics from Harvard and a BFA in visual arts. Medalie’s work draws on her meditation and QiQong practice.
Joseph Mills is a faculty member at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. He has published Bleachers: 54 linked fictions and several collections of poetry with Press 53, most recently Bodies in Motion: Poems About Dance.
James Owens’s newest book is Family Portrait with Scythe (Bottom Dog Press, 2020). His poems and translations appear widely in literary journals, including recent or upcoming publications in Channel, Arc, Dalhousie Review, Queen’s Quarterly, andAtlanta Review. He earned an MFA at the University of Alabama and lives in a small town in northern Ontario.
David Petruzelli ‘s work has been published in Crazyhorse, The Gettysburg Review, The New Yorker, The Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review and elsewhere. New poems and fiction are forthcoming this fall from Cloudbank, Southern Poetry Review, and Pleiades. A poetry collection, Everyone Coming Toward You won the Tupelo Press Judge’s Prize and was published in 2005. He lives in New York City.
James G. Piatt, a retired professor and octogenarian, lives in Santa Ynez, California, USA, with his wife Sandy and a super-intelligent Aussie dog named Scout. He is the author of five collections of poetry: The Silent Pond, Ancient Rhythms, LIGHT, Solace Between the Lines, and Serenity, and over 1,825 individual poems, 40 short stories, and five novels in scores of national and international literary publications. He earned his doctorate from BYU and his BS and MA from California State Polytechnic University, SLO. He was nominated twice for the Best of The Net award and four times for the Pushcart award.
Paul Rabinowitz is a novelist, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and founder of ARTS By The People. His works appear in The Sun Magazine, New World Writing, Grey Sparrow, Evening Street Press, The Montreal Review, and elsewhere. Rabinowitz was a featured artist in Nailed Magazine in 2020, Mud Season Review in 2022 and Apricity in 2023. He is the author of 5 books including The Clay Urn, Confluence, Limited Light, Grand Street, Revisited and truth, love & the lines in between. Rabinowitz’s poems and fiction are the inspiration for 8 award winning experimental films, including Best Experimental Short at Cannes, Venice Shorts Film Festival, RevolutionME, Oregon Short Film Festival, and The Paris Film Festival.
Laura Ann Reed is a San Francisco Bay Area native whose poetry has appeared in the UK, Ireland, Canada, and the USA. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley in French and Comparative Literature, and she holds master’s degrees in the Performing Arts and in Clinical Psychology. She taught ballet and modern dance at the University of California prior to her role as Leadership Development Trainer at the Environmental Protection Agency. Now retired, she lives with her husband in the Pacific Northwest. Her poems have been included in seven anthologies as well as in numerous journals, including Grey Sparrow, ONE ART, Swwim, The Ekphrastic Review, The Galway Review (Ireland), and Seventh Quarry (Wales). Shadows Thrown, her debut chapbook, was published in February 2023. https://lauraannreed.net/
Ron Riekki’s books include Blood/Not Blood Then the Gates (Middle West Press), My Ancestors are Reindeer Herders and I Am Melting in Extinction (Loyola University Maryland’s Apprentice House Press), Posttraumatic (Hoot ‘n’ Waddle), and U.P. (Ghost Road Press). Right now, Riekki’s listening to Jónsi, Alex Somers, Jeff Russo, & Zoë Keating’s “Arrival at Los Alamos” from the Manhattan original score.
Diane Sahms is the author of eight poetry collections, most recently, Blues, Prayers, & Pagan Chants.Published in North American Review, The New Verse News, Northern Virginia Review, Philadelphia Inquirer, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, Chiron Review, Sequestrum, Brushfire Literature & Arts Journal, Valley Voices, Viewless Wings, among others.Former high school English teacher, she works full time for the government and is poetry editor at North of Oxford.
Benjamin Schmitt is the Elgin Award-nominated author of four books, most recently The Saints of Capitalism and Soundtrack to a Fleeting Masculinity. His poems have appeared in Sojourners, Antioch Review, The Good Men Project, Hobart, Columbia Review, Spillway, and elsewhere. A co-founder of Pacifica Writers’ Workshop, he has also written articles for The Seattle Times and At The Inkwell. He lives in Seattle with his wife and children.
Ava Serra (they/she) is a disabled, non-binary writer exploring the personal topics of disordered menstruation, displaced Boricua culture, abusive survival confessionalism, domestic sapphic joy, and cautionary eco-horror. In addition to an award from the Academy of American Poets and a 2023 Pushcart Prize nomination, their works have been published or are forthcoming in Salt Hill Journal, Jelly Bucket, Black Spot Books, NAILED, Open Minds Quarterly, Lavender Review, among others. They are a poetry student in the University of Maryland’s MFA program.
Roger G. Singer, D.C., is a Poet Laureate Emeritus of Connecticut, and past president of the Connecticut Shoreline Poetry Chapter, in association with the Connecticut Poetry Society. He has had over 1,500 poems published on the internet, in magazines, and books. Singer is a 2017 Pushcart Prize Award Nominee.
David Sydney, M.D., has pieces in Little Old Lady Comedy, 101 Words, Microfiction Monday, 50 Give or Take, Friday Flash Fiction, Entropy Squared, Grey Sparrow Journal, Bright Flash Literary Review, Disturb the Universe, R U Joking, Pocket Fiction, and Rue Scribe.
Jim Tilley has published four full-length books of poetry with Red Hen Press, of which the latest is Ripples in the Fabric of the Universe: New & Selected Poems. He has won the Wabash Prize for Poetry.
Richard Weaver, Post-Covid, returned as the writer-in-residence at the James Joyce Pub in Baltimore. Other pubs: conjunctions, Louisville Review, Southern Quarterly, Birmingham Arts Journal, Coachella Review, FRIGG, Hollins Critic, Xavier Review, Atlanta Review, Dead Mule, Vanderbilt Poetry Review, & New Orleans Review. He’s the author of The Stars Undone (Duende Press, 1992), and wrote the libretto for a symphony, Of Sea and Stars (2005) which has been performed 3 times in Alabama, and once at Juilliard in NYC. He was one of the founders of the Black Warrior Review and its Poetry Editor for the first three years. His 200th prose poem was recently accepted.
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