Author Archives: Antonia

Dragging spoken word straight out of its skin, The Vagabond Queen is the sonic embodiment of a one woman revolt – collapsing her performance art into a seductive assault to the senses. An unpredictable ritual rooted in the presence of … Continue reading →

Born in Dakar, raised in Pantin, Biba Ndiaye grew up in the hip-hop culture. Dancing /rapping, DJ-ing, he fell in love with English (a girl and the language… eventually) while he was living in NYC and the UK, and so, … Continue reading →

Chiara Maxia is an actress and writer originally from the island of Sardinia. She has lived in different countries including Italy, England, Russia and France, where she graduated in Film Acting. In 2024 she published The Fire Within, a collection … Continue reading →

John (X) is short on accolades but long on hope, a regular singer-songwriter and poet contributor for 12 years.  As an instrumentalist he has toured and recorded with the Orchestra of Crafty guitarists on both sides of the Atlantic.  and … Continue reading →

Skye Jackson’s work has appeared in RHINO, Palette Poetry, The Southern Review and elsewhere. She has been a finalist for the Iowa Review Poetry Award, the RATTLE Poetry Prize and was the recipient of the AWP Intro Journals Award. She currently serves as a Visiting Writer at Xavier … Continue reading →

Malik Ameer Crumpler is a poet, composer, curator, editor & professor involved in over 70 albums, several arias, GlitchArt films, Artbooks, literature anthologies, magazines, a series of collaborative spontaneous books with A.I. Poets, as well as 10 books of Poetry. … Continue reading →

Nols Nathankski, a London poet & artistic community organiser who is behind the Make Poetry Weird Again project. I’ve been following Nols’s work with a lot of excitement—most recently, he has been luring poets into a crypt at St Pancras to feed them … Continue reading →

E.K. Bartlett is an Iowa-born, Paris-based writer and translator. Dressing My dragon, their debut, bilingual, illustrated poetry collection published in June 2026 by Rana Editions, speaks of healing through transformation, movement, and pole dancing. Their work can also be found … Continue reading →

Eva Mary Lucy is a Belgian spoken word artist based in Dublin. After winning the 2024 Talkatives Grand Slam and most recently the 2025 All Ireland Poetry Slam Championship, she has carved her voice through the heart of Ireland’s art scene. Now ready … Continue reading →

John Jack Jackie (Edward) Cooper is the creator of These Are Aphorithms https://aphorithms.blogspot.com), author of Ten (Poets Wear Prada, 2012), and Ten … more (Poets Wear Prada, 2016), the last, perhaps appropriately, having been selected for the collections of ten university … Continue reading →