Felix Contreras was born in Pinar del Río, Cuba in 1940. He’s a poet, journalist and investigator of Spanish-speaking cultures in the Caribbean, with a degree from the National School of Art Instruction, Havana. He served as an editor of Juventud Rebelde, Cuba international magazine, Bohemia magazine and Casa de las Américas.
He has published several poetry collections, such as El fulano tiempo, Corazón semejante al tuyo and Álbum de la vida, and music titles such as Yo conocí a Benny Moré.
He has travelled to give instruction, speak at conferences and give readings across the former Soviet Union, Belgium, Spain, Argentina, Serbia, Uruguay, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil.
Anne James has edited and solicited work for Ploughshares, St. Petersburg Review and Zymbol, the latter of which she founded in 2012. She also served as Treasurer of the New England Poetry Club from 2012-2016. She now works as a freelance editor, literary agent, translator and publishing consultant. She can be reached at annejjames@gmail.com.
Laura Contreras was born in Cuban in 1995 and is currently pursuing undergraduate degrees in history and Chinese at Havana University. In 2017, she conducted tours for Chinese and Costa Rican visitors to Cuba. Contreras worked as an English-Spanish translator for UNEAC at the International Poetry Festival of Havana, also in 2017. She was employed as a Chinese-Spanish translator in a Cuban Factory for a company based in Shanghai in 2018. Contreras currently works as a private Spanish tutor and teacher.
Yma Johnson is a first generation Sierra Leonean immigrant who began her writing career in 1996 as a journalist in Puerto Rico. She has written articles on topics ranging from the criminalization of the mentally ill to Japanese swordsmanship. She is a master’s candidate in creative writing at Eastern Michigan University where she taught rhetoric and composition. She also taught a poetry at a women's prison. Yma won 1st place in the 2012 Current Magazine Fiction and Poetry Contest as well as an honorable mention from 2014 Glimmer Train's Very Short Fiction Contest. Her work has appeared in Cosmonauts Avenue, the St. Petersburg Review, The Encyclopedia Project Vol. 3, an anthology of experimental literature. Her fiction was also anthologized in, “Cthulhu Lies Dreaming,” short story collection of works inspired by H.P. Lovecraft.
He has published several poetry collections, such as El fulano tiempo, Corazón semejante al tuyo and Álbum de la vida, and music titles such as Yo conocí a Benny Moré.
He has travelled to give instruction, speak at conferences and give readings across the former Soviet Union, Belgium, Spain, Argentina, Serbia, Uruguay, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil.
Anne James has edited and solicited work for Ploughshares, St. Petersburg Review and Zymbol, the latter of which she founded in 2012. She also served as Treasurer of the New England Poetry Club from 2012-2016. She now works as a freelance editor, literary agent, translator and publishing consultant. She can be reached at annejjames@gmail.com.
Laura Contreras was born in Cuban in 1995 and is currently pursuing undergraduate degrees in history and Chinese at Havana University. In 2017, she conducted tours for Chinese and Costa Rican visitors to Cuba. Contreras worked as an English-Spanish translator for UNEAC at the International Poetry Festival of Havana, also in 2017. She was employed as a Chinese-Spanish translator in a Cuban Factory for a company based in Shanghai in 2018. Contreras currently works as a private Spanish tutor and teacher.
Yma Johnson is a first generation Sierra Leonean immigrant who began her writing career in 1996 as a journalist in Puerto Rico. She has written articles on topics ranging from the criminalization of the mentally ill to Japanese swordsmanship. She is a master’s candidate in creative writing at Eastern Michigan University where she taught rhetoric and composition. She also taught a poetry at a women's prison. Yma won 1st place in the 2012 Current Magazine Fiction and Poetry Contest as well as an honorable mention from 2014 Glimmer Train's Very Short Fiction Contest. Her work has appeared in Cosmonauts Avenue, the St. Petersburg Review, The Encyclopedia Project Vol. 3, an anthology of experimental literature. Her fiction was also anthologized in, “Cthulhu Lies Dreaming,” short story collection of works inspired by H.P. Lovecraft.
Ferreira Gular
The water has come
A sleeping man
Full moon
Ferreira Gular
The concrete thing is man what makes us suffer makes us cry especially the sick part of life that man, that woman that goes walking down the street asking for justice, that concrete thing the hand so far from what the dream begs for the stars, the moon cries let life decide but the concrete thing is man.
The water has come
My sister, the water, is coming… It arrived! At last the dishes will be washed, the bad luck will be over, and the quiet Sundays, that hang in a corner with the dirty laundry waiting for the water to come.
A sleeping man
In New York, Madrid, London, São Paulo, A man is sleeping on the street. People walk by and he sleeps, hard bed, but he sleeps, cold bed, but he sleeps. Tough job to be a person and sleep on the street.
Full moon
Moon with a minotaur searching for food, grass, full moon of dead old moons, cans of coke and beer, condoms, screws, old shoes and a Playboy magazine.
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