Cry.Sweat. Bleed. Write.

Kay Bell can be quoted: "If it makes me cry, sweat or bleed, then it is worth writing about." Her work appears in the book "Brown Molasses Sunday: An Anthology of Black Women Writers", The Lily Poetry Review, Moko: Caribbean Arts and Letters, The Write Launch, PRONG & PROSY and other venues. She earned a MFA at The City College of New York and lives in the Bronx. She considers herself a bibliophile.

Eileen Cleary is a nurse and poet who earned an MFA at Lesley University and second at Solstice of Pine Manor. She is twice a Pushcart nominee and has work published or upcoming in Naugatuck River Review, J Journal, The American Journal of Poetry, West Texas Literary Review, Right-Hand Pointing, Solstice, and Sugar House Review among others. Her work has appeared as a Rainworks Installation in Newton, Ma. She manages the Lily Poetry Salon and is Editor-in-Chief Lily Poetry Review and Lily Poetry Review Books. I'm taking a chance on my strange and authentic poems. Her debut poetry collection, 'Child Ward if the Commonwealth' was published by Main Street Rag Press in June 2019