THE EXHIBITION
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THE EXHIBITION •
‘US-400 E/US-54 E’
Ashlyn Velasquez is a nurse and poet from a small Kansas town. She currently lives in New York, writing poetry and self publishing chapbooks with her friends. She takes inspiration from the dream-like state that rural communities are enveloped in, and the discomfort they produce.
‘Higher’
Robert Eugene Rubino believes he might've been the model for the 98-pound weakling in the Charles Atlas bodybuilding ads from the 1950s.
‘Enri the Useful Idiot’
Mark Putzi received an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee in 1990. He has published fiction and poetry, both in print and online, in the US and in many other countries. His work can be found in Rougarou, The Abstract Elephant Magazine, Griffel and Meniscus among others. He lives in Milwaukee.
‘Jupiter Whiplash’
Gregory O’Neill lives in Washington state and writes, in hope, that readers may feel less alone in their ambiguity, more whole in their partial truths. His poetry appears or is forthcoming in, Cathexis NW Press, Closed Eye Open, Half And One, and Relief Quarterly & others.
‘Cherry Knot’ & ‘Pinned Wings’
Savannah Smyth is a 22-year-old poet from Northern Ireland. Her work was published in the Nocturne Ash Dark Poetry anthology and was given an honorable mention in a competition by The Dark Poets Club.
‘AMERICA GIVES ME THE BENDS’
Lucile Barker is an unhoused Toronto poet, writer and activist. Since 1994, she has been the co-ordinator of the Joy of Writing, a weekly workshop at the Ralph Thornton Centre which is sponsored by the Ralph Thornton Center and the Queen Saulter Branch of the Toronto Public Library. Her prose and poetry have been published in print, on-line and broadcast. She is viewing her current situation as an adventure and material for future work.
‘Love's Ways’
M.D. Smith of Huntsville, Alabama, writer of over 350 flash stories, has published digitally in Frontier Times, Flash Fiction Magazine, Bewilderingstories.com, and many more. Retired from running a television station, he lives with his wife of 64 years and three cats. https://mdsmithiv.com/
‘Three’ & ‘The Good Place’
Dr. Kelsey L. Smoot (they/he/Kelz) is a Tin House Workshop alum, a Pushcart Prize nominee, a Best of the Net nominee, and a Best New Poets nominee. Proudly, he is also the author of two chapbooks: we was bois together with CLASH! (An Imprint of Mouthfeel Press) and Muse, with Another New Calligraphy. Thrillingly, Kelz’s debut full-length collection of poems, SOULMATE AS A VERB arrives in early 2026 with DOPAMINE/Semiotext(e).
‘The People Versus The Memory’
Dimitry Partsi is a writer of absurdist fiction, surreal comedy, and speculative work. His humor appears in Defenestration Magazine and Little Old Lady Comedy; his darker fiction in Tales from the Moonlit Path and Horrific-Scribblings; his speculative pieces in 365tomorrows and Blood+Honey
‘The Ashes Refuse Silence’
Joshua Walker is a poet known for raw, mythic, and emotionally intense work. He has been published in Potomac Review, Southern Florida Poetry Journal, and Solarpunk Magazine. His poetry blends personal experience with universal resonance.
‘Rebuttal’
Jennifer Weigel lives in Kansas, USA. Weigel has been a regular contributor to Haunted MTL and is involved with Nat1 Publishing. Author of Witch Hayzelle’s Recipes for Disaster trilogy and a myriad of short stories, poems, art discourse, and more drifting around the Interwebs. https://jenniferweigelart.com/
‘Sea Horse’
G.R. Kramer, a Virginian nearing old age, has been writing poetry for publication for the past decade. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Oberon, Palette Poetry, Red Wheelbarrow and Winter Anthology, among other places. His chapbook, Locomotive of Mangled Parts, is available from Finish Line Press.
‘Golden Rain Tree’
Debra Tracy is a Puerto Rican–American writer based on Florida’s Space Coast, where rockets, rain trees, and family lore constantly sneak into her work. She shares bits of her writing life and lots of food pics on Instagram @debinthemoon
‘SOMNOLENCE REVERIE’
Dr. Jenny Butler’s first published book was the short story collection, Limerence for Lost Souls (House of Pomegranates Press, 2021). She has short stories published in numerous publications, including Corvus Review, The Raven’s Perch Literary Magazine, Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Other Terrain: Swinburne University Literary Journal, and Thorn Literary Magazine. You can find out more about her on her website www.drjennybutler.com
‘Montauk’, ‘Dukkha’ & ‘Rothko Room’
Eve Bainbridge is an after-hours poet whose work has appeared in multiple publications.
‘Fear of Leaving’
Edward Baranosky crosses the channels and pathways between the visual and the textual as a poet-artist. He has published several chapbooks of poetry, as well as recent Journal and Anthology inclusions, but no full collection. At 78, he is still an emerging poet.