The submission period for our Spring 2016 issue opens on February 1 and I’m very pleased to announce that John C. Mannone will be our guest editor for this issue.

John is an accomplished writer who has over 450 works published in venues such as Inscape Literary Journal, Windhover, Drunk Monkeys, Artemis, 2016 Texas Poetry Calendar, Southern Poetry Anthology (NC), Still: The Journal, Town Creek Poetry, Tupelo Press, Baltimore Review, Pedestal, Raven Chronicles and others.

Author of two literary poetry collections—Apocalypse (Alban Lake Publishing, July 2015) and Disabled Monsters (The Linnet’s Wings Press, Dec 2015)—he’s the poetry editor for Silver Blade and Abyss & Apex, and has served as guest poetry editor for Inkspill Magazine (Issue 4, 2011) and Eye To The Telescope (Issue 14, 2014), as well as the 2013 Rhysling Chair. He won the 2015 Joy Margrave award for creative nonfiction and the 2015 Tennessee Mountain Writers poetry award. His work has been nominated three times for the Pushcart.

John is a professor of physics in east Tennessee. For more information, see his work here on Subprimal Poetry Art/Music and visit his web site, The Art of Poetry.