Contributor announcement: 2023 POETRY PLANNER
Our 2023 Poetry Day Planner includes 12 poems exhibiting different types of form poetry, giving inspiration and ideas for your year of writing. Below are the 12 poets whose work will be included in this year’s planner.
Sam Allen is a poet and writer from Stockton, California in the US. They use they/them pronouns and pray for a world where everyone belongs. Sam has been published in Poets Espresso Review and won the 2022 Outstanding Student Award at San Joaquin Delta College for their work in a Poetry class. They look forward to a career as an author and a content writer. They’d like to thank Jesus, Leonard Cohen (obviously), and their fabulously diverse city for inspiring them to live and write with humor and integrity. They live with in a colorful condo with their rambunctious cat, Scout Theodora Allen. Thanks for reading!
Eileen Dolan is a poet writing from Austin, Tx. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Minerva, Vol 8; oddball magazine’s St Patrick’s Day Parade of Poets edition, and Rumors Secrets & Lies by Anhinga Press. She also contributed a two dimensional Word Sculpture for the 2020 online Global Art Project, Telephone. Eileen organized and produced two, two woman shows, Surface Tension and It Takes Two, and is currently organizing another upcoming two woman show. She received an MFA from Texas State University and has also been a practicing Medical Massage Therapist specializing in Chronic Pain for 22 years.
Daniel Hales is the author of ¿Cómo Hacer Preguntas? or, How To Make Questions: 69 Instructional Poems (Frayed Edge), the hybrid novel, Run Story (Shape&Nature), and three poetry chapbooks. His poetry, flash fiction, and hybrid writing has appeared in many journals, including Verse Daily, Conduit, The Massachusetts Review, Booth, Quarter After Eight, as well as in the anthology Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals In English (Wesleyan), edited by Agha Shahid Ali. His band, The Frost Heaves & HaleS, has released four albums, including Contrariwise: Songs from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass. He also records with the side-projects Umbral, Selah haleS, and The Ambiguities. danielhales.com
Rose Menyon Heflin is a writer and artist living in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, although she is originally from rural, southern Kentucky. Her poetry, which has appeared in numerous journals spanning five continents, won a Merit Award from Arts for All Wisconsin in both 2021 and 2022, and one of her poems was choreographed and performed by a local dance troupe. Additionally, she had a creative nonfiction piece featured in the Chazen Museum of Art’s Companion Species exhibit. Her poetry has recently been published or is forthcoming in Abyss & Apex, Backchannels Journal, The BeZine, CREATOPIA, Deep South Magazine, Fiery Scribe Review Magazine, Hare’s Paw Literary Journal, Isotrope, Moss Piglet Zine, Of Rust and Glass, OpenDoor Magazine, Pamplemousse, Poemeleon, Red Weather, San Antonio Review, SPLASH!, and Xinachtli Journal (Journal X).
Emily Hockaday‘s first full-length collection, Naming the Ghost, is out with Cornerstone Press September 2022. Her second collection, In a Body, is forthcoming with Harbor Editions October 2023. She is the author of five chapbooks, and her poetry has appeared in various online and print venues. She can be found on the web at emilyhockaday.com and @E_Hockaday.
Adrija Jana is a passionately creative writer based in India. She mostly creates poetry pieces based on her personal experiences as well as social issues she is passionate about. Her work mostly revolves around protest against period poverty, marital rape and advocating for freedom of choice, apart from emotional self-lived experiences. She is inspired by writers such as Margaret Mitchell and Nayyirah Waheed, as well as the minutiae of everyday life. Apart from being a writer, Adrija is also a Spoken Word Artist, Theatrecian, Filmmaker and creative researcher, and all her work is woven together by common themes. She believes that creative pieces that let the innate imperfection shine through truly touch hearts. Being an empathetic soul, Adrija loves to take care of stray animals and devotes much of her time to social services. She has worked with several magazines and youth organisations across the globe and is an ardent and committed activist in the field of advocacy against Period Poverty and Education Inequity. Adrija is not just a creative artist, but also a creative activist, as she channelises her creative interest and energy to raise her voice about issues she’s passionate about, and empowers to speak out for themselves. You can reach out to Adrija or read more about her work on her instagram account – @adrija_jana2004
Livia Meneghin (she/her) is the author of Honey in My Hair and GASHER reviews. She is the winner of Breakwater Review’s 2022 Peseroff Prize, a Writers’ Room of Boston Fellowship, and The Academy of American Poets’ 2020 University Prize. Her writing has found homes in Solstice Lit, Thrush, and elsewhere. She is a cancer survivor.
Meryl Natchez’ fourth book, Catwalk, received an Indie Best Book 2020 Award from Kirkus Reviews. Natchez’ work has appeared or is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, LA Review of Books, Hudson Review, Poetry Northwest, Literary Matters, The American Journal of Poetry, Tupelo Quarterly, ZYZZYVA, and others. She is Chair of Marin Poetry Center and blogs at merylnatchez.com
Anna Remennik is a chemical engineer working in Silicon Valley, and enjoys writing poems about automatic titrators, technical supply chain processes, and occasionally even more fantastical things. Her poems have appeared in NewMyths.com and Heroic Fantasy Quarterly. She can be found online at annaremennik.wordpress.com.
Kathryn Sadakierski’s writing has appeared in numerous publications around the world, including Critical Read, Freshwater Literary Journal, Literature Today, New Feathers Anthology, New Jersey English Journal, Silkworm, The Parliament Literary Journal, Voices de la Luna, Yellow Arrow Journal, and elsewhere. She holds a B.A. and M.S. from Bay Path University.
Mahaila Smith (they/she/he) is the co-editor for the speculative magazine, The Sprawl Mag. They are a writer from the traditional unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe territory of Ottawa, Ontario. Their debut chapbook was published by Anstruther Press in 2020.
Susan Wismer (she/her) is grateful to live on Treaty 18 territory at the southern shore of Georgian Bay in Ontario, Canada with two human partners and a very large dog. Recent work has been published in Prairie Fire, The New Quarterly, Understorey Magazine, Orbis International Literary Journal, and in Poets in Response to Peril (eds. Penn Kemp, Richard Sitoski). susanwismer.com.
