WhimsicalPoet: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry, 1 - WhimsicalPoet: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry

Susan Miller is an editor/reporter for USA TODAY newspaper who enjoys creative writing as a hobby. Her poetry has appeared in several publications, including Gemini Magazine, Common Ground Review, Months to Years, Under the Bridges of America, Sandy Paws and the Arlington Anthology. She had a short story published in Beach Life. A Whittenberg is a Philadelphia native who has a global perspective.
If she wasn't an author she'd be a private detective or a jazz singer. She loves reading about history and true crime. Her novels include Sweet Thang, Hollywood and Maine, Life is Fine, Tutored and The Sane Asylum. S. E. Clark is a 2015 graduate of Lesley University's MFA program. Her work has previously appeared in publications such as Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, the audio magazine The Drum, Panoply and Nixes Mate Review.
When not writing, she likes to visit graveyards to scavenge for names. Ben Nardolilli currently lives in New York City. His work has appeared in Perigee Magazine, Red Fez, Danse Macabre, The 22 Magazine, Quail Bell Magazine, Elimae, The Northampton Review, Local Train Magazine, The Minetta Review, and Yes Poetry. He blogs at mirrorsponge.blogspot.com and is trying to publish his novels. Nels Hanson grew up on a small farm in the San Joaquin Valley of California and has worked as a farmer, teacher and contract writer/editor.
His fiction received the San Francisco Foundation's James D. Phelan Award and Pushcart nominations in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016; and poems received a 2014 Pushcart nomination, Sharkpack Review's 2014 Prospero Prize, and 2015 and 2016: Best of the Net nominations DS Maolalai has been nominated eight times for Best of the Net and five times for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry has been released in two collections, "Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden" (Encircle Press, 2016) and "Sad Havoc Among the Birds" (Turas Press, 2019). Ewa Gerald Onyebuchi is a Christian writer based in Nigeria.
He writes both short story and poetry. Some of his works have been published on brittle paper, nantygreens.com, bengaluru review, latunespublishers.com, zenspen.com, and elsewhere. His poem, "Mother Nature is ill, " won the 2020 Evolving Landscapes Competition. When not writing, he plays video games and finds other ways to pass time. You can catch him on Instagram-@Gerald Ewa and facebook - Gerald Ewa. Ella Faye Schlesinger's practice incorporates both a flirtation and a conflict with the written word.
Recently, her work has been focused on creating emotionally inclusive visions of trauma. She explores multi-generational patterns through memory and story. Michelle Askin's poetry and short fiction has appeared in 2River View, MayDay Magazine, Oranges & Sardines, Raleigh Review, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She lives in Northern Virginia. Kelly Hegi is a writer living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA with her husband, kids and dogs.  She is a licensed minister, an active Spiritual Director and writes to explore everyday life from a more creative lens.
She has just begun to get published and is still stunned when it happens. Katrenia Busch is an editor and content writer for Aware Earth. She works as a content writer and journalist for breaking news stories with The Total Plug. Some of her published works can be found in the Screech Owl, Literature Today, Riverrun, Literary Yard, Poetry Super-Highway, Eskimo Pie and Poetry & Art Press.  She has also published on psychoanalysis and reviews journals such as  Psychology of consciousness. Gerard Sarnat MD's authored HOMELESS CHRONICLES, Disputes, 17s, Melting Ice King.
Gerry's published by Gargoyle, Columbia, Penn, Harvard, Brown, Stanford, Dartmouth, Main Street Rag, New Delta Review, Northampton Review, New Haven Poetry Institute, Buddhist Poetry Review, American Journal Poetry, Brooklyn Review, LA Review, San Francisco Magazine, New York Times.  Andy Oram is a writer and editor in the computer field. Print publications where his writings have appeared include The Economist, the Journal of Information Technology & Politics, and Vanguardia Dossier.
He has lived in the Boston, Massachusetts area for more than 30 years. His poems have been published in Ají, Arlington Literary Journal, Conclave, Genre: Urban Arts, Heron Clan, Offcourse, Panoply, Soul-Lit, and Speckled Trout Review. Kate LaDew is a graduate from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a BA in Studio Art. Isa Bascuñana is a multidisciplinary artist and curator, currently based in London after graduating from Central Saint Martins in MA Culture, Criticism and Curation.
Her work has a characteristic illustrative atmosphere, which combined with her most recent digital collages, crowd the pages of her latest discovery: fanzines. Nadia Heart is a graphic artist who works in ink-art, line-art and grisaille techniques. She finds artistic expression in achromatic colors that remind her of rain, sadness and warm thick fog. Her father is Ukrainian and her mother is Buryatia.
She was born and raised in Kyiv where she lives and works. Her works can be described as intimate, aesthetic, and graceful. Ilaria Cortesi is a digital design artist based in Shanghai, China. Using mixed media digital collage, she turns thoughts and feelings into surreal images by fusing vintage imagery with the natural world. She slices, layers and arranges pictures until a new visual narrative emerges, characterized by vibrant color and paper-like textures in the spirit of the punk aesthetic of DIY.
The results are dreamy sci-fi landscapes and punchy collages that are sometimes thought-provoking, sometimes cheesy.