THE EXHIBITION
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THE EXHIBITION •
‘I’m Not A Writer’ & ‘To Feel Something’
Kache' Attyana Mumford is a poet, actor and creative arts therapist.
‘Wool and Iron’
Sam Kemp is a poet and lecturer at Northeastern University London. He teaches creative writing to students from a range of disciplines and leads various modules on poetic craft and technique. He hosts the Radical Writing Podcast and is interested in psychogeography, nostalgia and motorcycle cafes. You can find his work in the Mechanics Institute Review, ANMLY, and Streetcake, and his chapbook, Maps to Arkham, is available with Nat1 Press. www.samkempoetry.com
‘Bugs’
Carla Del Conte has been published in The Easy Reader. She has a bachelor's in comparative literature and a master's in French. She has taught in California public schools from junior high to junior college.
‘mouse’ & ‘the ballad of mona lisa’
Mal Virich is a queer, non-binary, autistic, and disabled poet who tends to ruminate on self-identity, trauma, and the profound impacts of interpersonal relationships. Their debut chapbook a vivid dreaming was published in November 2024 by Bottlecap Press. They are currently in their fourth year of their undergraduate degree, studying creative writing, Spanish, and Chican@/Latin@ studies. Alongside their studies, they are a peer advisor and poetry reader for The Madison Review. www.malvirich.com
‘Chew the Wild Side on the Meat’, ‘Punctuality Prospers’ & ‘Hindsight Can Get Hazy’
Nicholas Viglietti
‘WILD DESIRES’ & Collected Works
Abdulmueed Balogun Adewale is a black poet from Ibadan, Nigeria. A Pushcart prize and BOTN Nominee. He was longlisted for the 2021 Ebarcce Prize, shortlisted for the 2024 Gerald Kraak Prize, finalist 2021 Wingless Dreamers Book of Black Poetry Contest, won the 2021 Annual Kreative Diadem Poetry Contest & the 2024 Dr. Samuel Folorunsho Ibiyemi Poetry Prize. His poems have been published in: Applause Literary Journal, Red Cedar Review and elsewhere. He tweets from: AbdmueedA
‘Art Appreciation’
Robert Eugene Rubino has published prose and poetry in various online and print journals, including Hippocampus, Moonstone, Cagibi, Cathexis Northwest, Raw Art Review and The Write Launch. He's old enough to remember the Cuban Missile Crisis and smart enough to solve Monday's New York Times crossword puzzle. Other days, not so much.
‘Never Say Goodbye’, ‘Up On Cemetery Hill Road’, ‘Verdant Cascades’, ‘The Woman In White’ & ‘Follow the Light’
MICHAEL MINASSIAN is a Contributing Editor for Verse-Virtual, an online poetry journal. His poetry collections Time is Not a River, Morning Calm, and A Matter of Timing as well as a chapbook, Jack Pays a Visit, are all available on Amazon. For more information: https://michaelminassian.com
‘Lux Et Veritas’
John Frame was brought up in Wick, Scotland. After earning an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Aberdeen University, he emigrated to the USA, and worked as a teacher in NYC and Columbus, Ohio. Since 2018, he and his wife Rama have lived and worked in China and Senegal. You can find his work here: https://jrframe.wixsite.com/website.
‘Poem That Begins with Unfinished Business’ & Collected Poems
James Croal Jackson is a Filipino-American poet working in film production. His latest chapbook is A God You Believed In (Pinhole Poetry, 2023). Recent poems are in ITERANT, Skipjack Review, and The Indianapolis Review. He edits The Mantle Poetry from Nashville, Tennessee. (jamescroaljackson.com)
‘The Retreat’
Rama Varma is an IT professional by day and a writer the rest of the time, he finished his Masters in Creative Writing from Oxford in 2015 and subsequently won the KillingIt prize for his crime novel, The Banana Leaf Murder from Harper. These days he is working on his second novel and also writes the occasional short story. His stories have been published in the Obelus Journal (Transformation Manager) and the HOW blog (Mr. Moncieuf goes to town). He lives in the UK and has two boisterous boys.
‘A Three-Dollar Cup of Coffee’
David Larsen is a writer who lives in El Paso, Texas. His stories and poems have been published in numerous literary journals and magazines including Cholla Needles, The Heartland Review, Floyd County Moonshine, The Mantelpiece, Oakwood, Nude Bruce Review, Canyon Voices, Change Seven, Literary Heist, Coneflower Café, The Raven Review, Voices, Sand Canyon Review, The Rush, El Portal, Bright Flash Literary Review and October Hill Magazine.
‘What can’t be explained’, ‘Notes on online therapy’ & ‘Unraveling’
Ellen White Rook is a poet, writer, and contemplative arts teacher living in southern Maine. She offers writing workshops and leads retreats that combine meditation, movement, and writing. Ellen holds an MFA from Lindenwood University and has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Suspended, her first collection of poetry, was released by Cathexis Northwest Press in May 2023. Visit her website at ellenwhiterook.com.
‘The New Romantics’
S. A. Viau holds an MFA in poetry from Louisiana State University. He is the winner of the 2019 William Jay Smith Award for Poetry, judged by Douglas Kearney. His work has appeared in The Hong Kong Review of Books, The Colorado Review, HASH, New Delta Review, among others. He lives in Maryland with his family.
‘Across Daughette’s Meadow’, ‘Bluetick Evening’ & ‘Crow Song*’
Paul Pruitt is a law librarian by trade, an historian by training, and a writer by compulsion. He writes poetry in order to experience, over and over, the wonder of words colliding. His publications include poems in Literary Heist, In Parenthesis, Triggerfish Critical Review, The Dillydoun Review, and the Birmingham Arts Journal.
‘SILVER DAGGER’
Andrew Sarewitz has published more than 70 short stories (website: www.andrewsarewitz.com. Substack access is @asarewitz) as well as having penned scripts for various media. Mr. Sarewitz is a recipient of the City Artists Corp Grant for Writing. His play, Alias Madame Andrèe (based on the life of WWII resistance fighter, Nancy Wake, the “White Mouse”) garnered First Prize from Stage to Screen New Playwrights in San Jose, CA; produced with a multicultural cast and crew. Member: Dramatists Guild of America. Insta: @andrewsarewitz. Twitter/X: @asarewitz/twiter