Poets

Brian Beatty

Brian Beatty's jokes, poems, reviews and short stories have appeared in numerous print and digital publications, including The American Journal of Poetry, The Bark, Conduit, Dark Mountain (England), The Evergreen Review, Glasgow Review of Books (Scotland), Gulf Coast, Hobart, McSweeneys, Midwestern Gothic, The Moth (Ireland), Museum of Americana, NOON, Poetry City USA, Publishers Weekly, Quail Bell, The Quarterly, Rain Taxi and Seventeen, among others.

His writing has also been featured in public art projects and on public radio.

Brian Beatty is the author of the poetry collections Brazil, Indiana and Coyotes I Couldn’t See.

He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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Vivian Wagner

Vivian Wagner’s work has appeared in Slice Magazine, Muse/A Journal, Forage Poetry Journal, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Gone Lawn, Gastro Obscura, The Atlantic, Narratively, The Ilanot Review, Silk Road Review, Zone 3, Bending Genres, and other publications. She's the author of a memoir, Fiddle: One Woman, Four Strings, and 8,000 Miles of Music (Citadel-Kensington); a full-length poetry collection, Raising (Clare Songbirds Publishing House); and four poetry chapbooks: The Village (Aldrich Press-Kelsay Books), Making (Origami Poems Project), Curiosities (Unsolicited Press), and Spells of the Apocalypse (Thirty West Publishing House).

Her website: http://vivianwagner.net/.

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Lynne Viti

Lynne Viti is the Poet Laureate of Westwood, Massachusetts. Her most recent poetry collection is The Walk to Cefalù (Cornerstone Press, 2022). Her previous books are Dancing at Lake Montebello (2020) and two chapbooks, Baltimore Girls (2017) and The Glamorganshire Bible (2018) A lecturer emerita in the Writing Program at Wellesley College, she lives in Massachusetts with her spouse and a mackerel tabby cat, Maddie.

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Jeanie Tomasko

Jeanie Tomasko is the author of a few books of poetry, first of which was Tricks of Light (Parallel Press), and forthcoming early 2018 from Red Bird Chapbooks, dear little fist.

All of her books published in-between can be found on her website, jeanietomasko.com including three poetry/art collaborative works she put together with her friend Sharon Auberle. She is active in the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and works as a home health nurse in Madison, WI.

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Catori Sarmiento

After growing up in the Pacific Northwest, Catori Sarmiento’s world travels have often inspired her unique writing style. When not exploring the many cracks and crags in Japan, Catori Sarmiento spends her time writing poetry and prose. As an author, her works have appeared in numerous literary publications. Professionally, she is an English and Writing Professor in Tokyo, Japan.

Her author website is found at http://catorisarmiento.com
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To sleep as a river is a collection that encapsulates memories and a sense of place in Japan and are written in both English and Japanese.

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Matthew James Friday

Matthew James Friday is a British born writer and teacher. He has had many poems published in US and international journals. His first chapbook ‘The Residents’ is due to be published by Finishing Line Press in summer 2024. He has published numerous micro-chapbooks with the Origami Poems Project. Poems are forthcoming in The Potomac Review, Weber - The Contemporary West Review and The Amsterdam Quarterly (NL). Matthew is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet. Visit his website at http://matthewfriday.weebly.com

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Holly Day

Holly Day has taught writing classes at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, since 2000. Her poetry has recently appeared in Tampa Review, SLAB, and Gargoyle.

Her published books include Walking Twin Cities, Music Theory for Dummies, and Ugly Girl.

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Susan Moorhead

Susan Moorhead writes poetry and stories and works as a children's librarian in New York. She's happy to have managed to always be surrounded by books. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, and been nominated four times for a Pushcart prize. Her collections include The Night Ghost, published with Finishing Line Press, and Carry Darkness, Carry Light published by Kelsay Books. Recent work includes poetry in Autumn Sky Daily, Panoply, Swing, Gyroscope Review, and Crowstep Journal.

November 2019: The Origami Poems Project nominated Things that are lost from Susan Moorhead's microchap 'Lost and Found' for a Pushcart Prize. Each year the OPP selects 6 poems to nominate for this distinction.

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► Susan's microchaps & selected poems are available below.

Origami Microchaps
Fairy Tale
Click title to download microchap Cover: 'Sturgeon Moon' by author	Night Noise In the attic room, there are moons rolling around the creaking wood floors. Half moons, crescent moons, full moons, Strawberry, Wolf, Hunter, set adrift by forgotten wishes, wish I may, wish I might, no one any longer makes a wish at night. So the moon took all its selves, its waxed light and face of secrets, up to our attic room leaving the shores bewildered without the coming and going of tides, and magic without a place to pin all those hopes and dreams.	Kindred Would I know you as kindred when I met you? We pass so many on the street, at the job, in the market. Would I know you as kindred as you reached past me for that carton of almond milk? Would we say “excuse me” and turn away? • Susan Moorhead © 2024
Lost and Found
Click title to download microchap Cover photo by author	Things that are lost My heart. Two souls. My favorite huarache sandals. A sketchbook in France. Innocence, and the desire to sin. One earring only. The belief in consequences. Two parents, innumerable relatives. My passport. The ability to sleep. The sweetness of my children when young. Letters and photographs shredded. Thinking there's enough time.	Things that are found Pennies on the pavement. A tortoiseshell cat. God in the trees and diamonds in the ashes. Gratitude, hard won. The wonder of adults who were once my children. Hope, again and again like a flying bird. A long road of love. Quietude, and the gifts of solitude. Learning how to finish. Learning how to not finish. My heart. • Susan Moorhead © 2019
Color Theories
Click title to save, download & print microchap Cover art by Lauri Burke •	Yellow In this third life, trying to find my dandelion purpose. Some chlorophyll miracle, something perennial, not annual in the scheme of things. Common wonders these miniature suns, let these brave little scrubs be the gifts I offer my strange angels, to show I am willing to learn how to change from shine to seed, to close my eyes and lean into the wind, go where it carries me. • Susan Moorhead © 2018	White Cirrus, cumulus, fractus, cirrostratus. Take a moment. Ease into the prongs of new grass until it bends to accept you. Release your agenda and every thought in your head. Gaze up, unfettered. We are passengers here, carried like the clouds and birds on the turning wheel. Small wonder it's called a revolution.
Notes for the Journey
Click title to save, download & print microchap Cover art by Lauri Burke •	Gaze On these darkling nights five hundred years or longer, ceilings give way to the dark brushwork of firs, a glimpse of star-flecked sky. Earlier I thought, I have not participated enough in this world. • Susan Moorhead © 2017	Hourglass We are clock watchers. Measurers. Doling out the days by hours and small breaths. Time wrapping around us like a winching cord. I've grown three inches in an afternoon.