Susan Isla Tepper is a twenty-year writer and the author of 12 published books of fiction and poetry and 5 stage plays. She was a winner in the Francis Ford Coppola Zoetrope Contest for the Novel (2003), and has been nominated 21 times for the Pushcart Prize in both fiction and poetry. Her play ‘The Crooked Heart’ concerning artist Jackson Pollock premiered on October 25, 2022 at the Irish Repertory Theatre in NYC. Adapted from an earlier novel, it was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Her latest Novel, set in the deep south, is titled “HAIR OF A FALLEN ANGEL” and released this month from Spuyten Duyvil Books, NYC. Susan is a Brand Ambassador for The Galway Review.
http://www.susantepper.com

Headlines

By Susan Isla Tepper

Take to the high seas
she’s going to kill you
get out when you can
the headlines read.
You will never hear that shout
Coming about!
The heavy sway
of the boat’s thick boom
(if you don’t duck)
knocking your head
square off:
Man Decapitated Buried At Sea
in my dreams
the headlines read.

Glenn Bowie is a published poet, lyricist, and photographer from the Boston area. He also owns and operates an elevator company that supplies custom-built elevators for clients from New England to Hollywood. Author of two poetry and photograph collections (Under the Weight of Whispers and Into the Thorns and Honey) on Big Table Publishing, he donates all profits from his books to various charities for the homeless and local animal shelters.