Angelita DeChristopher

Angelita DeChristopher was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and relocated in 1988 to Long Island, New York. Her poetry has been previously published in her natal language, Portuguese.  The diversity found in Brazil’s African-Latin background provides her poems and...

Maria Bennett

  Maria Bennett is a poet, scholar, and translator of poetry. She published her first book of poetry Because You Lovewith Cross-Cultural Communications. Her translations of the poets Nancy Morejon, Ernesto Cardenal, and Cintio Vitier have appeared in Nexus, Crab...

Heather McCloskey Beck

Heather McCloskey Beck is author, public speaker, musician and business woman, focused on generating a greater awareness of creating Dynamic Peace within our hard-wired world.. Her autobiographical essay,Defragmentation, is part of a longer memoir. She lives in...

Karen Aponick

  Karen Aponick is a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts.  A former teacher and editor, , she has an MFA from The Warren Wilson Writing Program in Swannanoa, North Carolina.  Her book of poems, Near the River’s Edge, was published by Pudding House Publications,...

Bergès Alvarez

Bergès  Alvarez is a poet and artist deeply influenced by science. He works in the artistic imaging and technologically visual world of Radiology. His poetry has appeared in Long Island Pulse and Great South Bay Magazine. Within the Rain (March 2011), 8 ½”’ x...