THE BIRDS WE PILED LOOSELY • ISSUE 10 • JANUARY 2017

Sergio A. Ortiz is a gay Puerto Rican poet currently working on his first full length collection
of poems, Elephant Graveyard and asks readers to “Never stop resisting injustice.”
Tasha Fouts is a run-on sentence full of contradictions. She has been told she falls in love too
quickly, and these poems are evidence of that. You can find more of her work here.
ARTISTS
Graphic artist and painter Allen Forrest was born in Canada and bred in the U.S. His Bel Red
painting series is part of the Bellevue College Foundation’s permanent art collection.
Visit his website.
Ted Lardner, author of We Practice For It (Tupelo 2014), teaches writing at Cleveland State
University.
Recent work is available at: Gone Lawn & Cleaver Magazine
Toti O’Brien is the Italian accordionist with the Irish last name. She has been an acrobat and an
anorexic with equal success.
More about her can be found on her website.
Fabrice Poussin, one who just loves to immortalize things big and small to try and transcend
the story of an unseen life.
Susan Yount is editor and publisher at Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal & Misty Publications. She
works fulltime at the Associated Press.
You can find more about her Poetry Tarot project here.
Tristan Foster is a writer form Sydney, Australia. He is an editor at 3:AM Magazine.
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