Members

Isabelle Correa is a poet from Washington state now living in Mexico City. She studied creative writing at Western Washington University, is the winner of the 2024 Jack McCarthy Book Prize with Write Bloody Publishing, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and the author of the chapbook Sex is From Mars But I Love You From Venus. Her work has appeared in Pank, Third Point Press, The Rebis, and more. Find her on Instagram:@isabellecorreawrites and on Substack:A Poem Is A Place

Mary is a poet, mother, sister, daughter, friend, and novice (but enthusiastic) birder. She is continuously inspired by the natural world and loathes being indoors. She self-published her first collection of nature-focused poetry, "This Wild Heart Inside Me," in the summer of 2024. You can find her on Instagram along with a link to purchase her book—@wordsinwaiting.

Raquel Dionísio Abrantes is a Portuguese poet. She has a Bachelor's Degree and a Master’s Degree in Cinema from Universidade da Beira Interior. Raquel gave a Master Class in Writing of Scripts about Narrative Structure. Her writing has been published by literary journals and magazines.

Indira (she/they) is a Canadian poet and potter, practicing in the field of human rights from 9 to 5. While her ceramic art is known for playful and vibrant motifs, her poetry paints in darker themes, with grief, yearning, and nostalgia. A millennial emo through and through, their casual and melancholy prose is ripe with references, dripping with brain rot. You can follow their bargain bin hero's journey on insta @littledeathpoetry

Emboldened by open skies and raw emotions, Lydia Hack is a poet who has always been in awe of the beauties, intricacies, and patterns of relationships and how they impact our mental health. Over the years Lydia has turned to poetry to express these emotions. She has used the formation of words as a means to heal, as a way to stabilize, and as an outlet for speaking her truth. Lydia is a therapist, a mother of twins, a baker of bread, and has raised her family all over the U.S. In the spring, Lydia and her family are moving back to Sitka, Alaska to live on a yacht and start their own private charter cruise business Elysium Expeditions. You can find her poetry, her travels, and a link to purchase her book Ravished on Instagram @lydia_hack_.

The Messy Little Swamp Poet  (Angelina Aldrich) is a Corporate Executive Chef, an aspiring poet,  a watercolorist  and creativity enthusiast. Her work explores themes of love, loss, her sensory experience and a lifetime spent in Florida. She now lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her two cats and when she isn’t writing or painting - you can find her on a hike or  in a Honky Tonk,  two -stepping and  listening to some of the worlds finest music. 

Love, Will (Will Alberts) is a queer poet whose work explores themes of love, identity, and self-discovery through evocative imagery and raw emotion. With a distinctive voice that balances vulnerability and strength, their poetry invites readers into deeply personal yet universally resonant experiences. Author of Sacred Misfit, a daring collection of queer love poems, Love, Will uses layered storytelling and a keen sense of white space to craft pieces that linger in the heart, offering connection and introspection in the complexities of human relationships.

James Morehead is Poet Laureate Emeritus of Dublin, California, host of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast, and has several collections of poetry including "The Plague Doctor". “tethered” was transformed into an award-winning animated short film, “Twilight in the Sculpture Forest” won Best Documentary at the Los Angeles Poetry Film Festival,  and “gallery” was set to music for baritone and piano. He has been published in the Ignatian, Beyond Words, Citron Review, Ekphrastic Review, Loud Coffee Press, Havik, and others. James has performed in Patagonia's Poet Laureate Celebration, NPR’s Poetically Yours, and as Guest Poet at the 20th Annual Haiku Festival.

Alexa Brockamp Hoggatt is a poet and programmer from Tacoma, Washington. Her poems have been published in Sky Island Journal, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, and Strait Up Magazine, as well as a collection called “Voices of Tacoma”, published in collaboration with the City of Tacoma Arts Commission. She was selected as a Garden Poet for Lakewold Gardens’ 2024 ‘Poetry in the Garden’ event.

Although there is endless machine to rage against, Alexa writes poetry as a sort of running list of reasons humans deserve to go on existing: The tenderness, the shared experience, the soft parts. Her dad woke up every morning after coughing through the night from breathing sand and dust at work and said “It’s another perfect day” and that is what she wants her poems to say: Even if you have sand in your lungs, it’s another perfect day.

Nina Gibson is a mom, marketer and wannabe poet living on the southern coast of Maine. Her poetry explores the depths of grief, love, trauma and the human condition of being alive. Her work is forthcoming in the scars-anthology from Beyond Words Magazine.

Alix Klingenberg is a poet, artist, and earth-centered spiritual director living with her family (and a house full of pets) in Melrose, Massachusetts. Alix weaves nature, mysticism, personal narrative, and just a dash of feminine rage into her work. She is the author of three poetry collections: Secrets and Stars, Bread Sex Trees, and Hermit Season, with a fourth book arriving in fall 2025. You can find her on Substack, at Earth & Verse, or on Instagram @AlixKlingenberg.

Erin is an aspiring poet and mother of two from the UK. She is a bath bomb connoisseur and bookworm who can always be found under a blanket, whatever the weather. 

After the birth of her first child, Erin was diagnosed with complex trauma. She uses poetry as a means to explore the complicated emotions around childhood trauma. Her writing focuses include, trauma, grief, identity, loss and motherhood.