CONTRIBUTORS

GREY SPARROWS’ NATIONAL TREASURE

“Juliana Spahr is a writer and scholar of literature. Her 2015 poetry collection, That Winter the Wolf Came, takes as its concern the global spread of political struggles located at the intersection of ecological and economic catastrophe. She also publishes literary prose. Highly fictionalized but still probably memoir, Army of Lovers was co-written with David Buuck and tells the story of two mediocre poets who are attempting to write poetry in a time when poetry’s importance is on the decline. Her most recent book of scholarship, Du Bois’s Telegram: Literary Resistance and State Containment, explores the ambiguous and disconcerting role that literature plays in upholding the modern nation-state. She was also the editor, with Claudia Rankine, of American Women Poets in the 21st Century.” [Pulitzer Prize Committee for Ars Poetica, 2025, Wesleyan University Press]

CONTRIBUTORS

Dean Baltesson is a poet and musician living in Deep Cove BC Canada. He is the author of a volume of poetry titled There Must be Words To Describe This. His poetry and music can be found in a number of online and print literary journals and Apple Music.

Mark Danowsky is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of ONE ART: a journal of poetry as well as Poetry Craft Essays Editor for Cleaver Magazine. His latest poetry collection is Take Care (Moon Tide Press, 2025). He curates Stay Curious on Substack.

Peter J. Dellolio was born in 1956. He graduated from New York University in 1978. He has had a variety of work published in over 120 literary magazines,journals, and anthologies, in print and online. Since 2018, four of his poetry collections, a novel, a novella, and a short story collection have also been published. Poetry: A Box Of Crazy Toys (Xenos Books). Bloodstream Is An Illusion Of Rubies Counting Fireplaces and Roller Coasters Made Of Dream Space (cyberwit.net). Novel & Novella: The Confession (cyberwit.net); The Vigil (Type Eighteen Books). Short Story collection: That’s Where You Go & Other Short Stories (cyberwit.net). Another poetry collection, Cul de Sac Diaries (Lost Telegram Press), was released in December 2025. A fifth poetry collection, Catch Of The Day, is out now (July 2026) by New Meridian Arts.

Stephen Philip Druce is a poet and magazine satirist from Shrewsbury in the UK. He is published in the UK, the USA, Hungary, Ireland, India, Canada and South Africa. Druce has also written for BBC Radio 4 Extra and London theater plays. Originally a songwriter, he pursued a music publishing deal but it wasn’t to be. He began writing poetry late in life and has since been published in almost eighty magazines worldwide. At college his literary tutors would refer to him as “The Real Fantasist,” such was the rich imagery he would display in his fantasy-based poetry. Druce enjoys reading: William Carlos Williams, Dylan Thomas, WH Auden, William Blake, Philip Larkin, Charles Bukowski, Jim Morrison, Jack Kerouac, John Keats, and William Burroughs. His comedy heroes: Peter Cook, John Cleese, Alan Partridge, Stewart Lee, Hilda Baker, Tony Hancock, Groucho Marx, Inspector Grim, and George Costanza.

Justin Hollis has an MFA from Hofstra University and currently teaches language and literature at Palm Beach State College.  His work has appeared previously in Action, Spectacle, Pioneer Town, The Orchards Poetry Journal, Eunoia Review, GAS: Poetry, Art and Music, ANTAE, Midcult*, and The Chiron Review, amongst others.  His debut collection, Ferrying the Stars, is published by Half Inch Press. 

Clark Watson Holtzman is a poet, educator, songwriter and musician in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.  The Shepherd’s Calendar, his book of street poems and songs, was privately published in 2022.  Clark’s book of prose poems and lyric fictions, The Weather in Bluffton, Ind., was published in 2024 by Slender Book Press.  In 2021, he released If This Is Love, a CD of poems set to music, with his band Program for Jazz.  Clark curates 3 Poets Reading, a semi-annual reading series featuring poets of national, regional, and local prominence.  His poems and recordings have appeared or are forthcoming in various publications/music platforms, including 2RiverView, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Antae, BlazeVox, Eunoia Review, Waxing & Waning.  Poetry, music, and all titles are available at https://www.clarkwatson.com/

SR (Salvatore Richard) Inciardi was born in New York City and attended Brooklyn College and New York University. He writes extensively about loss and life’s realities, harsh as they are. His poetry has appeared in the USA, Australia, India and in Europe in various online and print magazines including Green Ink Poetry, Harrow House Journal, Front Porch Review, Grey Sparrow Journal, Borderless Journal, Written Tales among others. He was a contributor to Green Ink Poetry for their publication on Kennings: Equinox Collections: Autumn released on Amazon in October 2024.

Marc Janssen-what is there left to say, other than he should eat more vegetables? Maybe his verse can be found scattered around the world in places like Pinyon, Orbis, Pure Slush, Cirque Journal, Two Thirds North and Poetry Salzburg also in his book November Reconsidered. Janssen coordinates the Salem Poetry Project-a weekly reading, the occasionally occurring Salem Poetry Festival and keeps getting nominated for Oregon Poet Laureate. For more information visit, marcjanssenpoet.com.

Porsche Jones is a writer and artist living in Manchester NH. Her poetry has been featured in many publications (Stirring Lit, Last Stanza Poetry Journal, and ONE ART, to name a few.) Recently she won the 2025 Slam Free or Die Wheel Poetry Slam Championship. Her work generally deals with queer love and nightlife, womanhood, being an artist, class issues, disability, and her relationship to the Earth.

Mark Katrinak has a chapbook, “Blue Meridian,” forthcoming from Kelsay Books. He has had poems published in Bayou, Southwestern American Literature, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Lullwater Review, Pinyon, The Opiate, Pensive, and other literary publications. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Mark is now a resident of Golden Valley, AZ. When not working for a mental health agency, he enjoys birds, cats, fine wine, and spending time with his family.  

Paul Kindlon was born in Albany, N.Y. He is a humanities professor, former actor, journalist, and musician. After graduating from SUNY Albany, he left for Chicago where he lived for 16 years. Upon completing his Ph.D. in Philosophy and Russian Literature, he moved to Moscow, Russia, working there as a journalist and professor for 25 years. He recently returned from teaching in China for four months. The author has over 100 publications including essays, plays, poetry, flash fiction, aphorisms, and a memoir that documents his experience with freemasonry. He is a board member of the Hudson Valley Writers’ Guild.

Peter Krok has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Schuylkill Valley Journal since 2001. The journal was founded in 1990. He also serves as the humanities/poet and director of the Manayunk Roxborough Art Center. Because of his identification with row house and red brick Philadelphia, he is often referred to as “the red brick poet.” In 2005 his poem “10 PM At a Philadelphia Recreation Center” and in 2025, his poem “Plinkies.” were included in Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania. His book, Looking for An Eye, was published by Foothills Press in 2008 and Wounded World by Moonstone Press  in 2020.

David Anson Lee is a retired ophthalmologist, glaucoma specialist, researcher, and emeritus professor whose poetry explores memory, migration, medicine, cultural inheritance, environmental change, and the fragile connections between people and place. Born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota and raised in rural Indiana by Chinese immigrant parents, he often draws upon Indigenous, immigrant, and scientific perspectives in his work. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Eclectica Magazine, Penumbra, Kinsman Quarterly, Lit Shark, The Jagged Edge, SoFloPoJo, Tendrils Literary Journal, and other publications. He is the recipient of the 2026 October Project Poetry Contest Second Prize and lives and writes in Texas.

Blake Leland has published poetry in Epoch, The New Yorker, Commonwealth, Atlanta Review, Indiana Review, Thomas Hardy Review, Canopic Jar, The Art Section, Poetry International (online), Ekphrastic Review, Ginosko Literary Journal, Grey Sparrow et al. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee. In 2013 he co-authored a selection of occasional poems: On Occasion: Four Poets, One Year.

Jeremy Lloyd is a writer and educator who lives in East Tennessee. He has contributed poems and essays to Gray’s Sporting Journal, Sierra, North Appalachia Review, and Still: The Journal. His first book, Forest Time: Footnotes to an Outdoor Education, came out from the University of Tennessee Press in 2026. For over twenty-five years, he has taught at Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont, located in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where he accompanies learners aged nine to ninety into the woods.

John Martino is a writer, photographer, educator, and avid traveler. Born in the USA, he is also a permanent resident of Hong Kong, where he has lived for the past 10 years with his partner, Xiuli. His debut book of poetry, American Sonnet, a suite of 51 “little songs,” was published by Half Inch Press in 2025, and is available through a host of online bookstores. Additional poems and stories can be found at Main Street Rag (forthcoming), Another Chicago Magazine, North Dakota Quarterly, JONAHmagazine (fiction), The Southern Quill, and Revolution John, among others. The Executive Editor at Home Planet News (homeplanetnews.com), Martino is completing his second book of poems, Enemy Lines.

Tara Menon is an Indian-American writer based in Lexington, Massachusetts. She is a two-time finalist for the Willow Run Poetry Book Award. Her latest poems are forthcoming or have appeared in AMPLIFY (Sheila-Na-Gig), The Sucharnochee Review, Tipton Poetry Journal, Chaotic Merge Magazine, ONE ART: a journal of poetry, Blue Heron Review, and Grey Sparrow Journal. Menon is also a fiction writer. Her recent short stories have been published or are forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review, Fairy Tale Review, and Pennsylvania Literary Journal.

William Miller had his ninth collection of poetry published in 2025 titled Under Cheaha by Shanti Arts Press. His poems have recently appeared in The Cumberland River Review, the Lullwater Review, Whistling Shade, and Chrysalis. Miller lives and writes in the French Quarter of New Orleans.

Massimiliano Nastri spent his childhood in a German-speaking village, though he was born in the south of Italy. Teaching assistant and, occasionally, as temporary lecturer at Queen’s University, Belfast. Nastri noted he is endlessly revising a book about the interwar collapse of center-right parties and the rise of authoritarianism. Joining ominous and boring has been quite an achievement. He is also guilty of an unpublished political novel, and of writing a Greek tragedy. Brevity and epigraphs are meant to resist, test, and clarify temptations of immediacy.  Similarly, he keeps returning to poets who resisted history: Akhmatova and Herbert (in translation), Bachmann and Vittorio Sereni; as of late, Anne Carson and Heiner Müller. Among others, The Honest Ulsterman. Cyphers, Ink Sweat and Tears, Southword, The Ekphrastic Review, Dreich, Magma, The Stand and Grey Sparrow Journal.

James G. Piatt, a retired professor and nonagenarian, has published five collections of poetry, over 1,890 poems, five novels, and forty short stories in scores of national and international publications. He is a twice-nominated Best of the Net nominee and a four-time nominated Pushcart nominee. He earned his doctorate from BYU and his BS and MA from California State Polytechnic University, SLO.

Lynne Potts has four published books of poetry, and more than 150 of her poems have appeared in journals including Paris Review, Yale Review, Denver Quarterly, Southern Review, New American Writing, Guernica, and others. Her first book of poetry, Porthole View won the National Poetry Review Press prize and was published in 2021. Three books have followed: Mame, Sol, and Dog Bark (National Poetry Review) The Relentless Pronoun (Glass Lyre Press.) and Dawns on Me: A Country (Open: Journal of Arts and Letters). Lynne has received several awards including scholarships to art colonies in Chicago, Virginia, and Auvillar, France. She has been Poetry Editor for both Columbia Journal at Columbia University) and AGNI, a journal out of Boston University. She lives in Boston and New York.

Ken Poyner has eleven available collections of poetry, flash fiction and micro-fiction, the latest “The Lechery of Fish Tuners,” drabbles.  He has suffered ten Pushcart nominations without a win, and has taught on an NEA Poets in the Schools grant.  He spent 33 years herding computers.  He is married to a world class female power-lifter, who is still setting raw world records. www.kpoyner.com 

Laura Ann Reed is the author of the chapbook Homage to Kafka (Poetry Box, 2025). Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and has appeared or is forthcoming in  numerous journals including Cathexis Northwest, Persimmon Tree, wildness (England), The Laurel Review, The Pasticheur: Literature, Arts & Ideas, The Jewish Literary Journal, and Trace Fossils Review, as well as in twelve anthologies including Poetry of Presence II (Grayson Books, 2023), 2026 World Poetry Day Anthology, (Moonstone Publishing, 2026) and The Wonder of Small Things (Storey Publishing, 2023) Reed holds master’s degrees in clinical psychology and performing arts. She was born in Berkeley, California and she earned her B.A. from The University of California, Berkeley, which included a year at l’Université Aix-Marseille in France. She lives with her husband, Grant Reed, in the Pacific Northwest.

Claire Scott is an award-winning poet who has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has appeared in the Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, New Ohio Review and Healing Muse among other journals. Claire is the author of Waiting to be Called and Until I Couldn’t. She is the co-author of Unfolding in Light: A Sisters’ Journey in Photography and Poetry.

Dr. Singer 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 1,700 poems published on the internet, magazines and in books and is a Pushcart Prize Award Nominee.    

Editor Diane Smith, Master of Liberal Arts, Harvard University, publishes poetry and flash fiction for emerging and seasoned writers. Review Grey Sparrow Journal and guidelines before submitting work. Grey Sparrow Journal has a large online following with over 1,000,000 cumulative visitors since inception. Smith is the recipient of the emerging leadership award by her Harvard Alumni Board [May 2020.] She has garnered approximately 40 awards for writing and short video documentaries [non-fiction].

J.R. Solonche is the author of more than 50 books of poetry and co-author of another. Solonche has been nominated for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, twice for the National Book Award and three times for the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in the Hudson Valley.

David Sydney is a physician who writes fiction in and out of the EHR (Electronic Health Record).

Jim Tilley has published four full-length collections of poetry and a novel with Red Hen Press. His short memoir, The Elegant Solution, was published as a Ploughshares Solo. Five of his poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has won the Wabash Prize for Poetry and the New England Poetry Club’s Firman Houghton Award. His most recent poetry collection, Ripples in the Fabric of the Universe: New & Selected Poems, was published in June 2024. His forthcoming collection, When Godot Arrived, will be published in August 2026.