THE EXHIBITION
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THE EXHIBITION •
‘They Quiet Now’ & Collected Works
James Richard Walls is a poet from Dorset, UK known for his explorations of alcoholism, nature, death, his father, love, and longing. He began writing and performing at university while studying English and Philosophy. During this time he organised and performed at stage poetry events with the late Benjamin Zephaniah. His recent writing is heavily inspired by Jack Gilbert, Ocean Vuong and Sharon Olds. If not out on the Dorset hills you can find him on Instagram at @wallstonej.
‘What We Have Learned About the Victim’
Michelle Ortega has been published widely online and in print. Her chapbook “When You Ask Me, Why Paris?” (Finishing Line Press) is forthcoming July 2025.
‘His To-Do List’, ‘Forever in Service’ & ‘Enough with Wives’
Michael Ball scrambled from daily and weekly papers through business and technical pubs. Born in OK and raised in rural WV and SC, he became more citified in Manhattan and Boston. Now one of the Hyde Park Poets, he has moderate success placing poems including in Progenitor Journal, Griffel, Gateway Review, Havik Anthology, SPLASH!, Reality Break Press, In Parentheses, Kind Writers, Fixed and Free Anthology and Dead Mule School. HeartLink published his Leaving the Party chapbook in 2024.
‘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.