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At the End of the DayStella Mazur Predashadows eclipsed by the ensuing darkmountains swallowed upas night encroaches on daylightfish cavorting can be heard from the lakespirits materialize under the starsfrolic in the obscure darknessanimals who thrive in ebony nightsemerge to explore and feedthe moon appears and ignites the skyfrom ebony blackness to a misty grayat the end of the daya new world unfurlsStella Mazur Preda is a resident of Waterdown, Ontario, Canada. Having retired from elementary teaching inToronto, she is owner and publisher of Serengeti Press, a small press publishing company, located in theHamilton area. Since its opening in 2003, Serengeti Press has published 43 Canadian books. Serengeti Press isnow temporarily on hiatus. Stella Mazur Preda has been published in numerous Canadian anthologies and someUS, most notably the purchase of her poem My Mother’s Kitchen by Penguin Books, New York. She is a currentmember of Tower Poetry Society in Hamilton, Ontario and The Ontario Poetry Society. Stella is currentlyworking on her fifth book, Tapestry, based on the life of her aunt and written completely in poetic form.Gunther Schneider | Pixabay.comFounder’s Favourites | June 2022—Issue 19 | 26
Contributor BiosBruce Levine has spent his life as a writer of fiction and poetry and as a music and theatre professional. A2019 Pushcart Prize Poetry nominee, a 2021 Spillwords Press Awards winner, the Featured Writer in WestWardQuarterly Summer 2021 and his bio is featured in “Who’s Who of Emerging Writers 2020.” Bruce has over threehundred works published on over twenty-five on-line journals including Ariel Chart, Spillwords, The Drabble; inover seventy print books including Poetry Quarterly, Haiku Journal, Tipton Poetry Journal; Halcyon Days andFounder’s Favourites (on-line and print) and his shows have been produced in New York and around the country.His work is dedicated to the loving memory of his late wife, Lydia Franklin. A native Manhattanite, Bruce now livesand writes in Maine. Visit him at www.brucelevine.comCarolyn Chilton Casas lives on the central coast of California, the perfect landscape for a love of hiking andplaying beach volleyball. She is a Reiki master and teacher, whose favorite theme for writing is about ways to heal.Her stories and poems have appeared in Braided Way, Energy, A Network for Grateful Living, Reiki NewsMagazine, Touch, and in other publications. You can read more of Carolyn’s work on Facebook, on Instagram atmindfulpoet_, or in her first collection of poems titled Our Shared Breath.Dr. William Waters is an associate professor, in the Department of English at the University of Houston Downtown.Along with Sonja Foss, he is coauthor of Destination Dissertation: A Traveler’s Guide to a Done Dissertation. His researchand teaching interests are in writing theory and modern grammar.Gaiyle J. Connolly, a poet and artist from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, has numerous publications to her credit, someof them prize-winning. They appear in local and international periodicals and journals. Her collection of poetry,Lifelines, which she also illustrated, was published in 2015. Her background of several ethnicities, love of art andtravel and devotion to social justice are reflected in her work. Her readership includes Canada, the United States,Mexico and India. She is Past President of the Tower Poetry Society in Hamilton and has been active in poetrygroups in Mexico.Jane Briganti lives and works in Maine. Her poetry has been frequently published by Creations Magazine and hasappeared in journals including WestWard Quarterly, Better Than Starbucks, Spillwords and Leaves of Ink. Shebelieves poetry is the soul’s way of communicating with itself.Joan Mazza worked as a medical microbiologist, psychotherapist, and taught workshops on understanding dreamsand nightmares. She is the author of six self-help psychology books, including Dreaming Your Real Self. Her poetryhas appeared in Rattle, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Italian Americana, Poet Lore, Slant, The Nation,and elsewhere. She lives in rural central Virginia.Nolo Segundo pen name of L.J. Carber, 74, in his 8th decade became a published poet in over 70 online/in printliterary journals and anthologies in the US, UK, Canada, Romania, India and Italy. In 2020 a trade publisher releaseda book length collection, THE ENORMITY OF EXISTENCE, and in 2021 a 2nd book, OF ETHER AND EARTH.Both titles (as do many of his poems) reflect the awareness he's had for 50 years since having an NDE whilst almostdrowning that he has a consciousness that predates birth and survives the death of the body—what poets once calledthe soul. He was also nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2022 by an online journal. A retired teacher (America, Japan,Taiwan, Cambodia), he has been married 41 years to a smart and beautiful Taiwanese woman.Peter Mladinic’s fourth book of poems, Knives on a Table is available from Better Than Starbucks Publications. Ananimal rights advocate, he lives in Hobbs, New Mexico, USA. Readers can buy copies through Better Than StarbucksPublications https://www.betterthanstarbucks.org/ and on Amazon.Nolen Price is a first-year student at Susquehanna University pursuing a degree in creative writing. He has beenpreviously published in Rivercraft Magazine and Ambidextrous Bloodhound Press. He was born in Texas and nowresides in Pennsylvania. He mainly writes poetry and hopes to make writing into his career.Founder’s Favourites | June 2022—Issue 19 | 27
Page 1 and 2: Founder’s FavouritesIssue 19 - Ju
Page 3 and 4: Author SpotlightNolo SegundoNolo Se
Page 5 and 6: A Woman's ReflectionJane BrigantiRe
Page 7 and 8: The ComposerBruce LevineA blank she
Page 9 and 10: A Mural of a Forest Floating in Spa
Page 11 and 12: The StormBruce LevineRain spattered
Page 13 and 14: SunbeamsPeter MladinicWhen the Sunb
Page 15 and 16: Granny’s HousedressGaiyle J. Conn
Page 17 and 18: For John HodgenLinda McCullough Moo
Page 19 and 20: The Walking WoundedNolo SegundoI se
Page 21 and 22: Theoretical SleepBruce LevineMy eye
Page 23 and 24: What Did You Save?Joan MazzaTwo tin
Page 25: DestinyJane BrigantiA warm breezegl

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