a place where poets can gather. maybe you’ve been writing poetry all your life. maybe you want to turn a passion for words into something more. or maybe you’re new to the world of poetry and want to find a community of poets. you are welcome here!

maybe you’ve been writing poetry all your life. maybe you want to turn a passion for words into something more. or maybe you’re new to the world of poetry and want to find a community of poets. you are welcome here!

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boats against the current

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Beth Mulcahy is a poet and writer whose work has appeared in various journals. She writes to bridge the gaps between history and the self, between hurt and healing. Beth lives in Ohio with her husband and two children. She works for a company that provides technology to people without natural speech. Beth’s debut Chapbook, Firmer Ground, is available from Anxiety Press.  Learn more about Firmer Ground and check out her latest publications on her website: https://www.bethmulcahywriter.com.

Basic Bio

Beth Mulcahy is a poet and writer whose work has appeared in various journals. Her writing bridges the gaps between generations and self, hurt and healing. Beth lives in Ohio with her husband and two children and works for a company that provides technology to people without natural speech. 

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Beth Mulcahy (she/her) is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and writer whose work has appeared in various journals. Her writing bridges the gaps between generations and self, hurt and healing. Beth lives in Ohio with her husband and two children and works for a company that provides technology to people without natural speech. Her latest publications can be found here:  https://www.bethmulcahywriter.com/publications.html

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Beth Mulcahy (she/her) is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and writer whose work has appeared in over thirty literary journals. Beth lives in Wooster, Ohio with her husband and two children. She works for a Wooster-based company that provides technology to people without natural speech. Beth’s debut chapbook with Anxiety Press, Firmer Ground, was published in April. You can find out more about the book and check out her latest publications on her website: bethmulcahywriter.com and her free substack at https://bethmulcahy.substack.com.

bio for readings

Morris McLennan is a writer from Chicago, IL. Awards include a DeGroot Foundation Writer of Note award, a Robert Chelsey/ Victor Bumbalo Foundation Award, and a MAP Fund grant. His plays have been workshopped & produced with the support of King’s College, DCASE, Pocket Theatre VR, Cypress Productions, and The Tank. morrismclennan.net

Short

Morris McLennan is a Chicago-based writer with a love for punchy and absurdist queer narratives. He holds a BFA in Playwriting from DePaul University. Awards include a DeGroot Foundation Writer of Note award, a Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events Individual Artist Project grant, a Robert Chelsey/ Victor Bumbalo Foundation Award, and a MAP Fund grant. His plays have been workshopped and produced with the support of DePaul University, King’s College, DCASE, Pocket Theatre VR, and Cypress Productions. His writing has appeared in Adelaide, underscore_magazine, and more. You can purchase his new poetry chapbook, Poems for Employees, from Bottlecap Press. You can view his work at morrismclennan.net.

Long

Ali Rowland is a writer from Northumberland. She has been nominated for Best of the Net 2025, won the Hexham Poetry Competition in 2023, and has two published collections: Rooted (Maplestreet Press, 2024) and Dragged Up: A Northern Childhood (Sixty Odd Poets, 2024) You can follow her work at Musings of a Mad Woman on Substack.


Poetry

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but the lilt of his voice 
as he unraveled 
line after line 
of her offbeat language 
was both saudade and tarab, both a pull and a push

linguaphile

A Girl In The Woods Grows Reliably Wild

"I live across the river from where you were born"

Roots

The rods of the machines are guitar strings 
My drumstick fingers chase in vain. I wait
For the eye-doctor ...

Eye Doctor + Holiday Homework

We stood together, my son and i, in that 130 acre park looking 

for descendants, for those who slashed through 

entire mountain ranges and populated outcroppings, 

those who meander like stoney walls 

Self-Portrait as the Trembling Giant

Watch the World Melt Hear it Crash and The Fog of It

weeds

Meteorites,
Ever gladdened; cratering-
Our world to pieces.
Ash settles, scarring appears,
Dotting all extremities.

Boats Against the Current

lune

Crush

"You stare out the window that ruptures two foggy atmospheres: your soft exhalations / and the biting whisper that lurks just outside / as your head tilts toward the latter / and rests on expectation / that glass will never shatter."


A Bus Window in Mankato, MN

"Moonstruck curiosity follows its collusions / across canisters and fishing line, / waiting for it to disappear in a dark corner, / but the tent stretches on. "


Boy Scouts

An ekphrastic N + 7 poem. Art inspiration: Celestial Pablum, by Remedios Varo (1958)

boats against the current

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