Patricia Carragon on One On Poetry on Instagram

Patricia Carragon on One On Poetry on Instagram

Online Event Friday January 8 at 7 P.M. EST Price: Free Public · Anyone on or off Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/events/116042206972708/

She of A Beautiful Mind.. Patricia Carragon will Share Her Life's Experiences at "One On Poetry" Hosted By William Washington! 1/8/21 7pm EDT. https://www.instagram.com/p/CI3iedBl8OO/...

Patricia Carragon’s fiction piece "What Has to Happen Next" has been nominated for Sundress Publications Annual Best of the Net Anthology. Her poem "Paris the Beautiful" won Poem of the Week from great weather for MEDIA. She was nominated by Bear Creek Haiku for a Pushcart Prize. Her latest book from Poets Wear Prada is Meowku and her debut novel, Angel Fire, is from Alien Buddha Press. Patricia hosts Brownstone Poets and is the editor-in-chief of its annual anthology. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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Brownstone Poets on ZOOM: JP Howard Susan H Case Sandra Yanonne

Brownstone Poets on ZOOM

Saturday, January 30 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. EST New York City

JP Howard

Susana H. Case

Sandra Yannone

Please follow directions below to prevent last minute traffic on the day of the reading: We're back! On ZOOM. Our January features are JP Howard, Susana H. Case, and Sandra Yannone. Plus a limited open mic. Your $5 contributions keeps our annual anthology in print and pays our features. Hosted by Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl and Editor-in-Chief.

Step 1: Make your $5 donation: https://rb.gy/utlbol Step 2: Register in advance for this meeting: rb.gy/fowl4g Step 3: After making your donation and registering, you will receive a confidential confirmation email containing your unique link to join the event.

Looking forward to seeing you at our January reading!

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1057078228105973/

BIOS

JP Howard is an educator, literary activist, curator, and community builder. Her debut poetry collection, SAY/MIRROR (The Operating System), was a Lambda Literary finalist. She is also the author of bury your love poems here (Belladonna*) and co-editor of Sinister Wisdom Journal Black Lesbians--We Are the Revolution! JP was a featured author in Lambda Literary’s LGBTQ Writers in Schools Program and has received fellowships from Cave Canem, VONA, and Lambda Literary. She curates Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon. Her poetry is widely anthologized. JP is a general Poetry Editor for Women's Studies Quarterly and Editor-At-Large of Mom Egg Review VOX online. http://www.jp-howard.com.

Susana H. Case is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Dead Shark on the N Train, from Broadstone Books, 2020, which won a Pinnacle Book Award for Best Poetry Book and a NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite. She is also the author of five chapbooks. Her first collection, The Scottish Café, from Slapering Hol Press, was re-released in a dual-language English-Polish version, Kawiarnia Szkocka by Opole University Press and she has also been translated into Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. Case is a Professor and Program Coordinator at the New York Institute of Technology in New York City and can be reached at www.susanahcase.com.

Sandra Yannone’s poems and reviews manifest in journals including Ploughshares, Poetry Ireland Review, Prairie Schooner, Live Encounters, Impossible Archetypes, Women’s Review of Books, Calyx, and Naugatuck River Review. Her poem “Requiem for Orlando” appeared in a special online edition of Glass: A Poetry Journal responding to the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting. Salmon Poetry published her debut collection Boats for Women in 2019 and will publish The Glass Studio in 2022. Since March, 2020, she’s hosted the weekly reading series Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry on Facebook via Zoom. She resides mostly in Olympia, Washington. Please visit her at www.sandrayannone.com.

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Reminder: Brooklyn Poetry Slam

REMINDER:

BROOKLYN POETRY SLAM,

SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 2020 AT 6 P.M.

Saturday, January 2 at 6 p.m. on ZOOM!

Enjoy a night of inspirational, emotional and thought provoking poetry while supporting Rob Ramos our grassroots, progressive candidate for Brooklyn Borough President.

Featuring:

Patricia Carragon Linda Lerner Prince A. McNally Robert Anthony Gibbons Roxanne Hoffman Freida Jones

PLEASE COME, IT'S A FREE EVENT!

Suggested Contribution: $20

RSVP for link and/or join host committee at: Robramos4brooklyn@gmail.com

Contribute at: https://www.nycvotes.org/campaigns/robertramosjr

ZOOM LINK:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89713363407

Meeting ID: 897 1336 3407

Check out our FACEBOOK EVENT:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1194114214347597/

Host Committee: Patricia Carragon, Cindy Scavella, Bridget Cevellos, Natalia Vogel, Zoila Guiza, Theresa Brissett, Lakisha Keitt, and more.

www.robramos4bk.com

BIOS:

Prince McNally

A rising voice on the NYC poetry scene, Prince A. McNally’s work has appeared in Dissident Voice, TUCK Magazine, Leaves of Ink, The Blue Mountain Review, and Jerry Jazz Musician just to name a few as well as several anthologies here and abroad. Recently nominated for Best of the Net, he’s working on his first poetry collection for 2021.

Robert Anthony Gibbons

Robert Anthony Gibbons is a performance poet living in Brooklyn. He has several collections of his work anthologized and published. His most recent work, Flight, is published by (Poets wear Prada, 2019) You can connect to him at robertgibbons54@gmail.com

Roxanne Hoffman

Roxanne Hoffman runs the small literary press Poets Wear Prada with Jack Cooper. Her elegiac poem “In Loving Memory,” illustrated by Edward Odwitt, was released as a chapbook in 2011. Their second collaboration, The Little Entomologist, was published in 2018.

Patricia Carragon

Patricia Carragon’s latest books from Poets Wear Prada are Meowku and The Cupcake Chronicles. Her debut novel, Angel Fire, is from Alien Buddha Press. Patricia hosts the Brooklyn-based Brownstone Poets and is the editor-in-chief of its annual anthology.

Linda Lerner

Linda Lerner, author of 17 collections including Takes Guts and Years Sometimes and Yes, the Ducks Were Real from NYQ Books (2011& 2015). When Death is a Red Balloon, her most recent collection (Lummox Press, Nov. 20019.) Taking the F train, forthcoming from NYQ books.

Freida Jones

Playwright/poet, Freida Jones is the author of Music Masquerades as Honey in My Hands, dedicated to African-American jazz legacy. In 2020, The Midnight Ride was her tribute to the Bronx. Recent plays: Music Masquerades in Harlem and Lucky Strikes Legacy.

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November - December Publication News 2020

November - December Publication News 2020

Redheaded Stepchild, Fall 2020 Issue

Art by Kate Fetherston

Art by Kate Fetherston

Thank you Malaika King Albrecht for publishing "I Only Have Eyes for You" in the Fall 2020 Issue of Redheaded Stepchild.

Honored to share this space with Susana H. Case.

http://redheadedmag.com/poetry/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=707:i-only-have-eyes-for-you-by-patricia-carragon&catid=36:poetry&Itemid=59

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The Avocet, A Journal of Nature Poetry, Fall 2020

Much gratitude to Charles, Vivian, and Valerie Portolano and Editor Emeritus, Peter Leverich for accepting my two haiku.

pumpkin patch

more haunted

at Halloween

~~~~~

like fallen leaves

yesterday's trash

travels with the wind

The Weekly Avocet, #421, December 27, 2020

Thank you Charles Portolano, Vivian, and Valerie Portolano for accepting my three haiku.

gingerbread people

cooling off on a tray

impatience can't wait

bright lights shiny balls

beckon curious cats

to attack the tree

southpaw kitty

ornaments go down

for the count

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Bear Creek Haiku Pushcart Nomination

Ayaz Daryl Nielsen, publisher of Bear Creek Haiku

What a nice surprise being nominated for a pushcart prize for my Catku 🐈 from issue #166 of Bear Creek Haiku. Thank you Ayaz Daryl Nielsen. Such an honor.

PUSHCART Prize nominees!... from print issue #162, Cathy Porter!, and, Judith Partin-Nielsen! from #163, r. soos! from #164, Peggy Dugan French! from #165, t. kilgore splake!, and, from #166, Patricia Carragon!

https://bearcreekhaiku.blogspot.com/2020/11/poets-our-pushcart-prize-nominees-from.html

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Happy Fukkadays 2 U Anthology from Alien Buddha Press, 2020

Hey Red, thanks again for taking my holiday Catku and special shout outs to Carrie Magness Radna, Chris Boder, and Red Focks.

Hanukkah-Christmas Catku

Hanukkah kitty

looks for catnip

8 days of MEOW

Hanukkah lights

shadow of the cat

nibbling on latkes

kosher kitty

spins the dreidel

wins more treats

cattiude

escalates on Hanukkah

oy vey iz mir

more fun

than a scratching post

Christmas tree

bright lights shiny balls

beckon the curious cat

Christmas tree attack

southpaw kitty

ornaments go down

for the count

the cat leaves a present

in the litterbox

the scent of shit happening

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Jerry Jazz Musician, A Collection of Jazz Poetry--Autumn 2020 Edition

Thank you Joe Maita for publishing my poems, EARLY AUTUMN (first published in Poets Wear Prada's The Rainbow Project) and I PUT A SPELL ON YOU in the Autumn 2020 edition of Jerry Jazz Musician.

Kudos to

Carrie Magness Radna, Prince A McNally, David Dephy, Ronald P. Bremner, Russell DuPont, Jack Cooper, Mark F Fogarty

https://jerryjazzmusician.com/2020/12/a-collection-of-jazz-poetry-autumn-2020-edition/

Jerry Jazz Musician, A Collection of Jazz Poetry--

“What one song best represents your experience with 2020?” December 29th, 2020

Thank you Joe Maita for taking "the trapper & the furrier."

Kudos to Carrie Magness Radna, R. Bremmer, Moe Seager, Russell DuPont, Phil Linz, Jack Cooper, and more.

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BROOKLYN POETRY SLAM, for ROB RAMOS JR

BROOKLYN POETRY SLAM, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 2020 AT 6 P.M.

BROOKLYN POETRY SLAM,

SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 2020 AT 6 P.M.

Saturday, January 2 at 6 p.m.

Enjoy a night of inspirational, emotional and thought provoking poetry while supporting Rob Ramos our grassroots, progressive candidate for Brooklyn Borough President.

Featuring:

Patricia Carragon Linda Lerner Prince A. McNally Robert Anthony Gibbons Roxanne Hoffman Freida Jones

Suggested Contribution: $20

RSVP for link and/or join host committee at: Robramos4brooklyn@gmail.com

ZOOM LINK:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89713363407

Meeting ID: 897 1336 3407 Contribute at: https://www.nycvotes.org/campaigns/robertramosjr

Check out our FACEBOOK EVENT:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1194114214347597/

Host Committee: Patricia Carragon, Cindy Scavella, Bridget Cevellos, Natalia Vogel, Zoila Guiza, Theresa Brissett, Lakisha Keitt, and more.

www.robramos4bk.com

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REMINDER:Brownstone Poets on ZOOM

REMINDER:Brownstone Poets on ZOOM, Sat, Dec 12 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. EST Yuyutsu Sharma, Bertha Rogers, Carrie Magness Radna

REMINDER:

Brownstone Poets on ZOOM

Saturday, December 12 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. EST New York City

Yuyutsu Sharma, Bertha Rogers,

Carrie Magness Radna

Please follow directions below to prevent last minute traffic on the day of the reading: We're back! On ZOOM. Our December features are Yuyutsu Sharma, Bertha Rogers, and Carrie Magness Radna. Plus a limited open mic. Your $5 contributions keeps our annual anthology in print and pays our features. Hosted by Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl and Editor-in-Chief. Step 1: Make your $5 donation: https://rb.gy/utlbol Step 2: Register in advance for this meeting: https://rb.gy/9hxvyh Step 3: After making your donation and registering, you will receive a confidential confirmation email containing your unique link to join the event. Looking forward to seeing you at our December reading!

Facebook Event:

https://www.facebook.com/events/296341978268709

BIOS:

Yuyutsu Sharma World-renowned Himalayan poet and translator, Yuyutsu Sharma has published ten poetry collections including, The Second Buddha Walk, A Blizzard in my Bones: New York Poems, Quaking Cantos: Nepal Earthquake Poems, Nepal Trilogy, Space Cake, Amsterdam and Annapurna Poems. Half the year, he travels and reads all over the world and conducts Creative Writing workshops at various universities in North America and Europe but goes trekking in the Himalayas when back home. Currently, Yuyutsu Sharma is a visiting poet at Columbia University and edits, Pratik: A Quarterly Magazine of Contemporary Writing.

Bertha Rogers

Bertha Rogers’s poems have been published in journals and anthologies; and in several collections, among them Wild, Again (Salmon, 2019); Heart Turned Back (Salmon, 2011); and Sleeper, You Wake (Mellen, 1991). Her translation of Beowulf was published in 2000, and her translation and illuminations of the riddle-poems in the thousand-year-old Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book were published as Uncommon Creatures in 2019. She co-founded Bright Hill Press & Literary Center of the Catskills in 1992; although retired, she still teaches literary workshops and edits poetry collections for the Center. She lives on a mountain in New York’s western Catskills.

Carrie Magness Radna

Carrie Magness Radna is an audiovisual cataloger at the New York Public Library, a choral singer and a poet who loves traveling. Her poems have previously appeared in The Oracular Tree, Muddy River Poetry Review, Poetry Super Highway, Home Planet News, Cajun Mutt Press, Walt’s Corner, Alien Buddha Press, Jerry Jazz Musician and First Literary Review-East. Her first poetry collection, Hurricanes never apologize (Luchador Press) was published in December 2019. Her upcoming poetry collection In the blue hour (Nirala Publications), will be published in 2021. Born in Norman, Oklahoma, she now lives with her husband in Manhattan, New York.

https://carriemagnessradna.com

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Brownstone Poets is back on ZOOM!

Brownstone Poets is back on ZOOM

Saturday, December 12 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. EST New York City

Yuyutsu Sharma, Bertha Rogers,

Carrie Magness Radna

Please follow directions below to prevent last minute traffic on the day of the reading: We're back! On ZOOM. Our December features are Yuyutsu Sharma, Bertha Rogers, and Carrie Magness Radna. Plus a limited open mic. Your $5 contributions keeps our annual anthology in print and pays our features. Hosted by Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl and Editor-in-Chief. Step 1: Make your $5 donation: https://rb.gy/utlbol Step 2: Register in advance for this meeting: https://rb.gy/9hxvyh Step 3: After making your donation and registering, you will receive a confidential confirmation email containing your unique link to join the event. Looking forward to seeing you at our December reading!

Facebook Event:

https://www.facebook.com/events/296341978268709

BIOS:

Yuyutsu Sharma World-renowned Himalayan poet and translator, Yuyutsu Sharma has published ten poetry collections including, The Second Buddha Walk, A Blizzard in my Bones: New York Poems, Quaking Cantos: Nepal Earthquake Poems, Nepal Trilogy, Space Cake, Amsterdam and Annapurna Poems. Half the year, he travels and reads all over the world and conducts Creative Writing workshops at various universities in North America and Europe but goes trekking in the Himalayas when back home. Currently, Yuyutsu Sharma is a visiting poet at Columbia University and edits, Pratik: A Quarterly Magazine of Contemporary Writing.

Bertha Rogers

Bertha Rogers’s poems have been published in journals and anthologies; and in several collections, among them Wild, Again (Salmon, 2019); Heart Turned Back (Salmon, 2011); and Sleeper, You Wake (Mellen, 1991). Her translation of Beowulf was published in 2000, and her translation and illuminations of the riddle-poems in the thousand-year-old Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book were published as Uncommon Creatures in 2019. She co-founded Bright Hill Press & Literary Center of the Catskills in 1992; although retired, she still teaches literary workshops and edits poetry collections for the Center. She lives on a mountain in New York’s western Catskills.

Carrie Magness Radna

Carrie Magness Radna is an audiovisual cataloger at the New York Public Library, a choral singer and a poet who loves traveling. Her poems have previously appeared in The Oracular Tree, Muddy River Poetry Review, Poetry Super Highway, Home Planet News, Cajun Mutt Press, Walt’s Corner, Alien Buddha Press, Jerry Jazz Musician and First Literary Review-East. Her first poetry collection, Hurricanes never apologize (Luchador Press) was published in December 2019. Her upcoming poetry collection In the blue hour (Nirala Publications), will be published in 2021. Born in Norman, Oklahoma, she now lives with her husband in Manhattan, New York.

https://carriemagnessradna.com

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Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry

Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Welcomes the Fall Poets of PRATIK: A MAGAZINE of CONTEMPORARY WRITING Sun, Nov 22 at 2:30 P.M.

Honored to be part of this line-up:

Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Welcomes the Fall Poets of PRATIK: A MAGAZINE of CONTEMPORARY WRITING

Sunday, November 22 at 2:30 p.m. EST

Online Event

Hosted by Sandy Yannone

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/663288314371227

Join Cultivating Voices host Sandy Yannone as we welcome Himalayan Poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma, editor of Pratik: A Magazine of Contemporary Writing, for a reading to celebrate the Fall 2020 issue with current and past contributors. Pratik is a purely non-profit quarterly literary publication and is published by White Lotus Book Shop, Kathmandu.

SELECT PRATIK POETS WILL READ AT THE EVENT. DETAILS to FOLLOW. Highlights of the Current Issue: Art, Poetry and Music collaboration; Dreams of a Sleeping World; Art of Oscar Oiwa; Plus an interview with Hollywood Musician Chad Cannon EIGHT POETS FROM VERMONT: Chard deNiord David Huddle Tony Whedon Major Jackson Cleopatra Mathis Joan Aleshire Kerrin McCadden Karin Gottshall Sydney Lea DAVID B. AUSTELL Marshaling the Milliards A tribute to Harlem Renaissance Hero, James Weldon Johnson Four Poets from Nicaragua Ernesto Cardenal, Rubén Darío, Salomón de la Selva, Joaquín Pasos A SHEAF OF OTTAWA POEMS Shai Ben-Shalom, Seymour Mayne Nicola Vulpe, Betty Warrington-Kearsley, Erwin Wiens ELEVEN ITALIAN POETS Claudia Russo, Flaminia Cruciani, Rita Stanzione, Zairo Ferrante, Paolo Staglianò, Antonello Airò, Cinzia Marulli, Gabriella Becherelli, Vittorio Fioravanti Grasso, Antonio Blund, Adriana Scanferla Featuring DAVID AXELROD CHARLES BERNSTEIN JILL HOFFMAN BILL WOLAK MIKE GRAVES PATRICIA CARRAGON Plus New Work by GLORIA MINDOCK & HOWARD PFLANZER Afterlife: Two Poems by H.K. KAUL (1941-2020) Now available on Amazon USA, UK, Canada and India, Links below: Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GZ23NSG?ref=myi_title_dp Amazon UK:https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08GZ23NSG?ref=myi_title_dp Amazon Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B08GZ23NSG?ref=myi_title_dp Amazon INDIA; https://www.amazon.in/dp/B08GZ23NSG?ref=myi_title_dpUS

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Reminder: Joshua Corwin, Chad Parenteau, Megha Sood

Reminder: Joshua Corwin, Chad Parenteau, Megha Sood to read for Brownstone Poets, Sat, November 21 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. REMINDER:

Brownstone Poets is back on ZOOM

Saturday, November 21 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Joshua Corwin, Chad Parenteau, Megha SoodHi there, We’re back! On ZOOM. Our November features are Joshua Corwin, Chad Parenteau, and Megha Sood. Plus a limited open mic. 3 minutes max. Your $5 contributions keeps our annual anthology in print and pays our features. Hosted by Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl and Editor-in-Chief.

Step 1: Make your $5 donation: https://rb.gy/utlbol Step 2: Register in advance for this meeting: https://rb.gy/x8wjjo

Step 3: After making your donation and registering, you will receive a confidential confirmation email containing your unique link to join the event. Looking forward to seeing you at our November reading! Your Hosts, Patricia Carragon and ZOOM Master, Roxanne Hoffman Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2975475686099838/

BIOS:

Joshua Corwin, a Los Angeles native, is a neurodiverse, Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and Spillwords Press Publication of the Month winner. His debut poetry collection Becoming Vulnerable (2020) details his experience with autism, addiction, sobriety and spirituality. He has lectured at UCLA, read with 2013 US Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco, and performed at the 2020 National Beat Poetry Festival. His Beat poetry is to be anthologized alongside Ferlinghetti, Hirschman, Ford, Coleman and weiss (December 2020). He hosts the poetry podcast “Assiduous Dust” and teaches poetry to neurodiverse individuals and autistic addicts in recovery at The Miracle Project, an autism nonprofit. www.joshuacorwin.com .

Chad Parenteau hosts Boston’s long-running Stone Soup Poetry series. His work has appeared in journals such as Résonancee, Boston Literary Magazine Queen Mob’s Tea-House, Cape Cod Poetry Review, Tell-Tale Inklings, Off The Coast, Ibbetson Street and Wilderness House Literary Review. He currently serves as Associate Editor of the online journal Oddball Magazine. His second collection, The Collapsed Bookshelf, has just been released.

Megha Sood is an Assistant Poetry Editor for the UK based Literary Journal MookyChick.Over 500+ works in journals including Better than Starbucks, Gothamist, Poetry Society of New York, WNYC Studios, Kissing Dynamite, American Writers Review, FIVE:2: ONE, Dime show review, etc.Works featured in 50 other print anthologies by the US, UK, Australian, and Canadian Press. Three-time State-level Winner NAMI NJ Poetry Contest 2018/2019/2020.National Winner Spring Robinson Lit Prize 2020, Finalist in Pangolin Poetry Prize 2019, Adelaide Literary Award 2019 etc.Currently co-editing anthologies ( “The Medusa Project”, MookyChick), and (“The Kali Project”, CrossTree Press). She blogs at https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/ and tweets at @meghasood16.

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Brownstone Poets is back on ZOOM!

Saturday, November 21 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Joshua Corwin, Chad Parenteau, Megha Sood

Please follow directions below to prevent last minute traffic on the day of the reading: We're back! On ZOOM. Our November features are Joshua Corwin, Chad Parenteau, and Megha Sood. Plus a limited open mic. Your $5 contributions keeps our annual anthology in print and pays our features. Hosted by Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl and Editor-in-Chief. Step 1: Make your $5 donation: https://rb.gy/utlbol Step 2: Register in advance for this meeting: https://rb.gy/x8wjjo Step 3: After making your donation and registering, you will receive a confidential confirmation email containing your unique link to join the event. Looking forward to seeing you at our November reading!

Facebook Event:

https://www.facebook.com/events/2975475686099838/

BIOS:

Joshua Corwin, a Los Angeles native, is a neurodiverse, Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and Spillwords Press Publication of the Month winner. His debut poetry collection Becoming Vulnerable (2020) details his experience with autism, addiction, sobriety and spirituality. He has lectured at UCLA, read with 2013 US Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco, and performed at the 2020 National Beat Poetry Festival. His Beat poetry is to be anthologized alongside Ferlinghetti, Hirschman, Ford, Coleman and weiss (December 2020). He hosts the poetry podcast “Assiduous Dust” and teaches poetry to neurodiverse individuals and autistic addicts in recovery at The Miracle Project, an autism nonprofit. www.joshuacorwin.com .

Chad Parenteau hosts Boston's long-running Stone Soup Poetry series. His work has appeared in journals such as Résonancee, Boston Literary Magazine Queen Mob's Tea-House, Cape Cod Poetry Review, Tell-Tale Inklings, Off The Coast, Ibbetson Street and Wilderness House Literary Review. He currently serves as Associate Editor of the online journal Oddball Magazine. His second collection, The Collapsed Bookshelf, has just been released.

Megha Sood is an Assistant Poetry Editor for the UK based Literary Journal MookyChick.Over 500+ works in journals including Better than Starbucks, Gothamist, Poetry Society of New York, WNYC Studios, Kissing Dynamite, American Writers Review, FIVE:2: ONE, Dime show review, etc.Works featured in 50 other print anthologies by the US, UK, Australian, and Canadian Press. Three-time State-level Winner NAMI NJ Poetry Contest 2018/2019/2020.National Winner Spring Robinson Lit Prize 2020, Finalist in Pangolin Poetry Prize 2019, Adelaide Literary Award 2019 etc.Currently co-editing anthologies ( "The Medusa Project", MookyChick), and ("The Kali Project", CrossTree Press). She blogs at https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/ and tweets at @meghasood16.

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