Ryan Quinn Flanagan
Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author who lives in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada, with his wife and many bears that rifle through his garbage. He is the author of the book “101 Ways to Lose Your Pickup Truck.” (April, 2026) His work has been published both in print and online in such places as The New York Quarterly, Poetry Super Highway, Setu, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Evergreen Review, and The Oklahoma Review. He enjoys listening to the blues and cruising down the TransCanada in his big blacked-out truck. Visit Ryan online here.
The following work is Copyright © 2026, and owned by Ryan Quinn Flanagan and may not be distributed or reprinted in any form whatsoever without written permission from the author.
Psychic Hannah
We are driving through Aurora
when I see the sign:
Psychic Hannah
3 Readings for $40
tarot, palm, clairvoyant
(647) 917-1600
I’m expecting your call!
Nice touch, I laugh.
She’s expecting your call.
Way to really advertise your mad skills,
your chops, your paranormal
prowess.
Better give her a call,
my wife says sarcastically.
Oh, I definitely will!
I smile.
Can I borrow $40?
Cosmic Strong-arm
I was landing on the moon
when the capsule looked at me funny:
You sure you wanna do this?
The capsule door would not stop yapping.
Perilous this and treacherous that.
My head began to hurt even though
I’d been fitted for the helmet.
I began to think the fix was in.
That the craters knew more than
they were letting on. That getting home
was always harder, even when you knew
where you were going.
Heather Romero-Kornblum
A former academic researcher, Heather Romero-Kornblum returned to poetry after several near-death experiences due to Long Covid. She captures the crumbling of her marriage in the wake of her near-death experiences in I’M NOT OVER YOU – the 2025 Four Feathers Press Chapbook Contest winner. She is published in multiple journals and anthologies, including with Women Who Submit in ‘This Makes up the Sky’ and ‘Accolades,’ LA Art News Poet’s Place, Quiet Lightning’s ‘Sparkle and Blink,’ Four Feathers Press monthly anthologies with her poem ‘Alienation’ winning a 2025 Print Poetry Award, The Zest of the Lemon, Plague 2020: A world Anthology of Poetry and Art About Covid-19, on the ZZyZx WriterZ podcast, and has featured at multiple venues, including at the WordParty Poetry and Jazz monthly series, Sacred Grounds – the longest running open mic in San Francisco, Mutiny Radio, Poems under the Dome, Four Feathers Press, Cobalt Poets, and Lyrical Flames. Visit Heather online here.
The following work is Copyright © 2026, and owned by Heather Romero-Kornblum and may not be distributed or reprinted in any form whatsoever without written permission from the author.
What It Looks Like on the Other Side of This
Kissing the cats’ heads and
randomly eating bread at 2am
Knowing that you are held up
by a life force that doesn’t care
whether you have all the answers
You are fat again
So fat
The fat you never thought would grow
on your body
when you were shriveled
in a hospital bed
soaked in sweat
wires pumping into you
out of you
gauging your pulse
The bad doctors’ laughter
a faint memory
You are now haunted in your nightmares
by people who believe you are well enough
to tear down
You realize this itself is victory
Being able and
around
to tell your story
cliche that it is
So much rain
And wind
And sun
And blah foggy mists
Mornings you didn’t think you would have
running up the stairs to the car
from your little garden patio
How beautiful the wood of your cabin walls
smells when you approach
knowing it’s all yours
There was a space for you after all
in this world
you were meant to fit
