

Buff Whitman-Bradley’s newest book is A Friendly Little Tavern Somewhere Near the Pleiades (Finishing Line Press). He podcasts poems at thirdactpoems.podbean.com and lives in northern California with his wife, Cynthia.


Buff Whitman-Bradley’s newest book is A Friendly Little Tavern Somewhere Near the Pleiades (Finishing Line Press). He podcasts poems at thirdactpoems.podbean.com and lives in northern California with his wife, Cynthia.

The fall issue is live on our free downloads page (click on the cover) and print copies will be going out to contributors and subscribers in just a few days. This issue includes the winning and honorable mention stories from our annual George Dila Memorial Flash Fiction Contest. There is lots of great poetry and visual art as well. Happy reading!



Gloria Heffernan’s Exploring Poetry of Presence (Back Porch Productions) won the 2021 Central New York Book Award for Nonfiction. She also won the 2022 Naugatuck River Review’s Narrative Poetry Prize. Gloria is the author of the poetry collection What the Gratitude List Said to the Bucket List (New York Quarterly Books) and the chapbooks Some of Our Parts (Finishing Line Press) and Hail to the Symptom (Moonstone Press). Her work has appeared in over 100 publications including the anthology Poetry of Presence (vol. 2). Her upcoming collection, Animal Grace, won the 2023 Keystone Chapbook Prize from Seven Kitchens Press.
Gloria teaches at the YMCA’s Downtown Writers Center in Syracuse NY. She conducts workshops on a variety of topics including Poetry as a Spiritual Practice. She lives in Syracuse with her husband and fellow traveler, Jim, and their dog Rosie.
Avilable from Kelsay Books, Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Bookshop.com.
Visit the author’s webpage, gloiaheffernan.wordpress.com
See the book tailer on YouTube