Ellen Stone advises a poetry club at Community High School in Ann Arbor, MI, co-hosts a poetry series & co-edits Public School Poetry.

Michele Evans, a fifth-generation Washingtonian (D.C.), is a writer, high school English teacher, and adviser for literary magazine Unbound.

Steve Henn wrote American Male, Guilty Prayer, Indiana Noble Sad Man of the Year, and two previous collections from NYQ Books.

Elizabeth Joy Levinson is a biology teacher in Chicago. Her work has been published in Whale Road Review, SWWIM, Cobra Milk, and more.

Justine Thomas is an English teacher turned school social worker / adjunct professor in Massachusetts.

Tyler Robert Sheldon, MFA Author of Everything is Ghosts (Finishing Line Press, 2024) and When to Ask for Rain (Spartan Press, 2021).

Haley Bossé (they/them) calls for an immediate end to Israel’s genocide against the people of Palestine.

Allison Albino is a Filipina-American poet and French teacher who lives and writes in Harlem.

Jaz is an Award-winning Published Poet, Singer, Author, Performance Poet, Playwright, Actress, ASCAP Member-Songwriter and Educator.

Donna Vorreyer is the author of three full-length poetry collections.

Berent LaBrecque (he/him/his) is a history teacher who currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Cecil Morris retired after 37 years of teaching high school English in Roseville, CA, and now he tries writing himself.

Caroline Earleywine is a poet and educator who taught high school English in Central Arkansas for ten years.

Christopher Clauss (he/him) is an introvert, Ravenclaw, father, poet, photographer, and middle school science teacher in rural New Hampshire

D. R. James, a year+ into retirement from nearly 40 years of teaching college writing, literature, and peace studies.

Melissa Fite Johnson is the author of three full-length collections, most recently Midlife Abecedarian (Riot in Your Throat, 2024).

Valerie A. Smith’s first book of poems, Back to Alabama, is forthcoming from Sundress Publications.

Chloe Yelena Miller is a recipient of a 2020 and 2022 DC Arts and Humanities Fellowship (Individuals) grant.

By Matthew Kelsey Once the children have found a seat, have zipped or clicked or pulled open their lunch, and a hush falls over the...

Rachel White (she/her) is an American-born poet and artist who lives and works on Kaurna land in South Australia.