Join our poetry Salon and Open Mic:https://parallax-media-network.mn.co/share/5hSLvQW7bNszFGEo?utm_source=manualRyan O'Connell Ryan is a composer, harmonium player, and trumpet player from the United States. Music has been apart of his life since the age of four, although his formal training on the trumpet began nearly 15 years ago. His current work explores the intersection of improvisation, meditation, spoken word poetry, and electronics. His work also seeks to challenge how others interact with art and the role sound plays in one’s spiritual journey.As a freelance trumpet player, Ryan’s playing spans various styles. In 2025, he played at the International Yoga Festival with such artists as MC Yogi, Sivamani, and Runa Rizvi. In 2022, he performed the world premiere of Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter’s opera Iphigenia at the Majestic Theater in Boston, MA that was in the ‘third stream’ style; he performed alongside Esperanza Spalding, John Patitucci, Danilo Perez, and Jeff “Tain” Watts. During that same time, he also completed the world-premiere performance of Linda Chase’s oratorio, ‘For Our Common Home’, which received praise from the Vatican. Aside from these performances, Ryan has played with numerous orchestras, big bands and pit orchestras at the Palace Theater, the Grand Ole Opry, Jordan Hall, Boston Symphony Hall, and others.In the United States, Ryan was also an active educator: he served on faculty at the New England Conservatory Prep School and taught private trumpet for ten years. Utilizing a strong sense of creativity and mindfulness are significant parts of his teaching philosophy; he believes that to fully engage learners, especially young learners, one must be present enough to fully understand their needs, and curious enough to develop creative solutions to make learning fun. Ryan’s spiritual quest for a deeper truth led him to India, where he has lived since September 2024. While here, Ryan has played Kirtan in Rishikesh, Ganga Aartis at Parmarth Niketan Ashram, and recently, improvised sound meditations at Sri AurobindoAshram, Delhi. He holds a MM from the New England Conservatory and a BM from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.Suchismita Ghoshal Suchismita Ghoshal is a devoted poetess, philosophy aspirant and literary artist, nurtured in the rich soil of Bengal’s literature, art, and music. Currently, she is deeply immersed in the intricate study of folklore heritage and cultural traditions. Her journey into creativity began with a profound reverence and love for the Bengali language and culture.At 27, Suchismita expresses herself through poetry and creative writing with the heartfelt intention of touching the realms of sincerity, connection, and human experience. She has been featured as a co-author in over a thousand national and international anthologies and has been published in numerous renowned journals and web magazines.Her solo books—Fields of Sonnet, Emotions & Tantrums, Poetries in Quarantine, Ombrophilous Feelings, and Semicolon, Sentiment & Saffron—have been well-received by readers. Internationally, she has performed spoken word poetry on various stages across the USA, UK, Canada, and different South American countries.She co-authored An Ecstatic Renaissance Between Greece and India Through Poetry with Greek children’s author Eva Petropoulou Lianos, which received recognition at the Sharjah International Book Fair. Her recent collaborative projects include Ageless Rainbow (Nigeria), Love for Humanity Penetrates Differences (Papua New Guinea), and Euphonious Echoes (India & Bangladesh), among others.Beyond literature, Suchismita is a humanist, spiritual seeker, and change-loving thinker. Guided by the light and shadows of contemplation and faith, she continues her journey with hope and anticipation toward the miraculous dimensions of life.
Join our poetry Salon and Open Mic:https://parallax-media-network.mn.co/share/5hSLvQW7bNszFGEo?utm_source=manualDavid Leo Sirois is a Canadian-American poet published 161 times, in 27 countries. His work has been translated into 13 languages (such as Hindi, Bengali, French, Spanish, Greek, & Romanian). He hosts Spoken World Online, the Zoom arm of SpokenWord Paris. His first collection is called Humbledoves (Poems to Pigeons & Plants). He won Third Prize in Winning Writers' Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest. Sirois has been honored for his “admirable contribution to world literature” by The Fertile Brains, a renowned literary group in India. He teaches workshops online for The Bombay Review, as well as The Poetry Academy of Poetry Global Network. His poetry has appeared in journals such as The Bombay Review, Artemis Journal, Angles: New Perspectives on the Anglophone World, The Poetry Village, One Hand Clapping, Poetry Super Highway, & Terre à Cièl (which also publishes his translations of French poetry, & his poems in French). Sirois has been featured on countless international programs, podcasts & interviews. His poetry has been featured in films & music. He is also a singer/songwriter, radio DJ (Channel X Radio, Maine/New Brunswick/Quebec) as well as a film/TV/theater actor. He is currently submitting 5 finished manuscripts for publication, & writing several more.
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Red Hawk
(aka Robert Moore) is not an Indian name, nor was it ever intended to be one or pretend to be one; it is an Earth name, given by Mother Earth many years ago after a 4-day water fast at the Buffalo River in an effort to save my life in one of the darkest periods of my life. Given to me during one of the worst ice storms in recent Arkansas history, it was given as an answer to prayer. It came about through conscious labor, prayer and wish, and was paid for by intentional suffering and remorse. It indicates a deep love & reverence for the Earth and how it has shaped my life. It is an honouring of Conscience and of the source which named me: our Mother Earth. To not acknowledge Her gift would be to disrespect Her and Her power to name and direct the course of my life; I am Her legitimate son. As the illegitimate son of unknown parents, Robert Moore is my adopted name given to me by 2 people who died of alcoholism; I honor it and them by the way I live my life.
Bibliography
Recent Books by Red Hawk (Robert Moore):
Red Hawk. (1996). Ways of Power. Hohm Press.3
Red Hawk. (1999). The Art of Dying: Poems. Hohm Press.1
Red Hawk. (2005). Wreckage with a Beating Heart. Hohm Press.1
Red Hawk. (2009/2013). Self Observation: The Awakening of Conscience: An Owner's Manual. Hohm Press.15
Red Hawk. (2015). Self Remembering: The Path to Non-Judgmental Love. Hohm Press.1
Red Hawk. (2020). The Law of the Land. Hohm Press.1
Red Hawk. (2024). Book of Lamentations. Bitter Oleander Press.4
Join our poetry Salon and Open Mic:https://parallax-media-network.mn.co/share/5hSLvQW7bNszFGEo?utm_source=manualScout Rainer Wiley is a ritual artist living on lands traditionally stewarded by the Cherokee. Weaving in threads of animist practice, systems theory, and religious studies, they offer poetic prose to water the roots of an emerging regenerative culture.
Join our poetry Salon and Open Mic:https://parallax-media-network.mn.co/share/5hSLvQW7bNszFGEo?utm_source=manualJJ AkinladeI'm a creator with many forms. Through poems, paintings or places for people to play, I nurture novel knowings, to Weave a world of wilder ways.
Join our poetry Salon and Open Mic:https://parallax-media-network.mn.co/share/5hSLvQW7bNszFGEo?utm_source=manualFiver LewisFiver is an artist based in Incline Village, NV. Her writing—her art as a whole—is a fractured reflection. It’s the expression of a search...a reaching out for Life. She draws on an internal landscape coloured by stretches of time living in different countries. Andalucía, flamenco, the work of Machado, Lorca, Rilke, theSufi poets influence her art. Over the years the medium has changed—fromtraining horses and high-level competition to journalism to dance to working withpeople as a somatic coach. Having published a handful of poems and short stories, she is currently working on a children’s novel.
Join our poetry Salon and Open Mic:https://parallax-media-network.mn.co/share/5hSLvQW7bNszFGEo?utm_source=manualSven Ra (also known as Joel Dietz) began writing poetry at a young age with his first complete work "Road to Jerusalem" taking Eliot's Wasteland into the 21st cnetury. He later took up the theme of the Return of Eros with a series of "Erotic Incantations," including several fine art shows for his photography and a full length tarot deck. In a separate and subsequent collection he approached the theme of "Stone Codes," or the wisdom of stone gained from global pilgrimages to Avebury to Machu Picchu. More recently he has returned to the sonnet in his forthcoming collection "Broken Sonnets." He is also a musician, novelist, and academic researcher.
Join our poetry Salon and Open Mic: https://parallax-media-network.mn.co/share/5hSLvQW7bNszFGEo?utm_source=manual Alex Ebert is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and musician, best known as the charismatic frontman of the indie-folk band Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. Born on May 12, 1978, in Los Angeles, California, Ebert grew up immersed in music and creativity, with a particular fascination for storytelling and human connection. Early in his career, he gained recognition as the lead singer of the dance-punk band Ima Robot, whose energetic sound contrasted with the soulful, communal vibe he later cultivated with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. Ebert’s work with Edward Sharpe brought him international acclaim, particularly for the hit song Home, a jubilant anthem of love and togetherness. The band’s music is characterized by lush instrumentation and heartfelt lyrics that evoke a sense of spiritual exploration. Beyond his work as a bandleader, Ebert has also made his mark in film, winning a Golden Globe for his original score for the 2013 film All Is Lost starring Robert Redford. Ebert’s artistic ethos revolves around fostering collective joy and introspection, often blending personal vulnerability with universal themes. A multi-faceted creative, he continues to explore new avenues in music, film, and philosophy, inspiring audiences worldwide.
Join our poetry Salon and Open Mic: https://parallax-media-network.mn.co/share/5hSLvQW7bNszFGEo?utm_source=manual Bonnitta Roy Bonnitta is a visioneer, insight guide and horse whisperer. Her work is deeply embodied and grounded, and over the last several years, she's shown us how to trust the intelligence of life again. She is the founder of Alderlore Insight Center and curates wickedly provocative and seriously surprising conversations at The Pop-UP School.
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Regina Sara Ryan
Regina Sara Ryan is a professional writer and freelance editor. Regina is the co-author of the classic, best-selling Wellness Workbook (Random House, 2004) and the author of: The Woman Awake: Feminine Wisdom for Spiritual Life (1998), After Surgery, Illness, or Trauma (1999), Praying Dangerously (2010) and Igniting the Inner Life (2010), and an extensive biography of a South Indian saint entitled Only God: A Biography of Yogi Ramsuratkumar.
Selections of her work have been featured in contemporary anthologies of spiritual writing by women, including Sacred Voices: Essential Women’s Wisdom Through the Ages, by Mary-Ford Grabowsky (HarperCollins, 2003), and excerpted in Unity Magazine.
A former Catholic nun, Regina has studied contemplation and mysticism from several traditions for over forty years. After leaving the convent in the early 1970s, Regina explored many other religious traditions and was particularly inspired by the lives of the great women of Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism and Sufism. In her own life she had strongly felt the need to appreciate and celebrate herself as woman, and to balance the masculine pole of Divinity, which had characterized her previous religious education, by finding women and men who exemplified the feminine pole, or the Feminine Face of the Divine. Since first meeting her own spiritual mentor, the Western Baul master Lee Lozowick in 1984, Regina has continued to follow what she calls a path of “unashamed devotion” in which she works to bring her life of contemplation into action. Since 1980, besides writing she has worked in retreat settings and currently conducts study groups in Self Observation/Self Remembering, and several popular workshops in the U.S. and Europe. These include: “Training Attention for Prayer,” “Meetings with Remarkable Women,” about the feminine nature of the Divinity, and “Writing Your Way Home” (online and in person) with her colleague Mary Angelon Young, about writing as a means of spiritual enrichment and personal transformation.
Married for 47 years to her husband Jerome Pramuk, Regina was widowed in 2019. She currently resides as a hearth keeper at Triveni Ashram, Paulden, Arizona.
Join our poetry Salon and Open Mic: https://parallax-media-network.mn.co/share/5hSLvQW7bNszFGEo?utm_source=manual Tim Pickerill Tim is a Brooklyn-based Artist, Musician, Writer, and Vajrayana practitioner within the Karma Kagyu lineage under the Karmapa Thaye Dorje and Diamondway Buddhism, led by teacher Lama Ole Nydal. An Anthropologist and Artist by training, he spent 10 years studying extensively in Western Esoteric traditions, as well as Hatha Yoga, Kriya Yoga, and Sanskrit, before taking initiation into the Diamondway in 1998.
Join our poetry Salon and Open Mic: https://parallax-media-network.mn.co/share/5hSLvQW7bNszFGEo?utm_source=manual A finalist for the UNO Press Lab Prize and Pushcart Nominee, O.G. Rose’s creative works appear at The Write Launch, Allegory Ridge, Ponder Review, Iowa Review online, The William and Mary Review, Assure Press, Toho Journal online, O:JA&L, West Trade Review, Broken Pencil, Burningword, and Poydras Review. While at the University of Virginia, O.G. Rose worked collaboratively with other artists at Eunoia, a creative community Rose helped develop. Rose now lives on a farm with three children, manages a venue named Mead Lake Lodge, and teaches piano using visuals from the DLG Pattern Method. Their published books include The Conflict of Mind (2021), Thoughts (2022), and Belonging Again: Part 1 (2023) O.G. Rose have also created two great courses for Parallax Academy which you can check out here:https://www.parallax-media.com/courses-and-events
Join our poetry Salon and Open Mic: https://parallax-media-network.mn.co/share/5hSLvQW7bNszFGEo?utm_source=manual Layman Pascal is an author, public speaker & retreat leader specializing in metamodern spirituality, nondualist theology, integral religion, and metashamanics. He hosts the popular podcast THE INTEGRAL STAGE (and the more elite SOULMAKERS series). He helped initiate the Parallax Academy and also works with Endemic, ICON, the Metamodern Spirituality Lab, the Foundation for Integral Religion & Spirituality, Emerge/Perspectiva, RESPOND, Limicon, the Transdisciplinary Leadership Review, Beyond Interfaith, and other leading-edge projects. His book “Gurdjieff for Time Between Worlds” was recently published as the first book from Sky Meadow Press
Join our poetry Salon and Open Mic: https://parallax-media-network.mn.co/share/5hSLvQW7bNszFGEo?utm_source=manual Owen Cox is a British artist and one of the creative leaders of the Dark Renaissance. He works primarily with text, music and more recently theatre, weaving themes of body horror, esotericism, classical culture and electronic media.
Join our poetry Salon and Open Mic: https://parallax-media-network.mn.co/share/5hSLvQW7bNszFGEo?utm_source=manual About Joe Ross Author of over fifteen books of poetry, Joe Ross was born in Pennsylvania and graduated magna cum laude from the Honors Program at Temple University in Philadelphia. He soon moved thereafter to Washington, D.C. where he wrote his first book, Guards of the Heart, consisting of four plays written in poetic form. In Washington D.C., he worked at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and was extraordinarily active in the cultural scene of that city. He served as the President of the Board of the Poetry Committee at The Folger Shakespeare Library from 1994-1997 and as the Literary Editor of the arts bi-monthly The Washington Review from 1991-1997. He also Co-founded and directed the In Your Ear poetry reading series at the District of Columbia Arts Center. During these years Ross continued to publish poetry, including How to Write; or, I used to be in love with my jailer (Texture Press, 1992); An American Voyage (Sun & Moon Press, 1993); Push (Leave Books, 1994); De-flections (Potes and Poets, 1994); Full Silence (Upper Limit Music, 1995); and The Fuzzy Logic Series (Texture Press, 1996). His poetry reveals close links with the "Language" poets but seeks in its often disjunctive structure, puns, and linguistic riddles, to be accessible to a large audience. Many of Ross's poems are subliminally political while concerned with love and interrelations between individuals. The American Voyage, in particular, concerns the idealism of American culture and its failures as a culture to live up to those ideals. Douglas Messerli, Publisher of Sun & Moon Press In 1997 he received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award for his poetry and moved to San Diego, where he worked for The City of San Diego Commission's for Arts and Culture. In 1999, he left that position to put his poetics into practice, and to work directly in politics. He served as the Senior Chief of Policy for several elected officials. He also continued to be very active in the San Diego cultural scene, serving as a board member of the San Diego Art Institute and Co-founding and curating the Beyond the Page reading series in that city. Two more books appeared: The Wood Series (Seeing Eye Books, 1997); and EQUATIONS=equals (Green Integer, 2004). In 2003 he received his first of three Gertrude Stein Poetry Awards. In 2004, he moved to Paris, where he continues to publish while working in communication and social change. His most recent titles are: Strati (Bi-lingual Italian/English, La Camera Verde, 2007); Strata (Dusie Press, 2008); Wordlick (Green Integer, 2011); 1000 Folds (Chax Press, 2014); Last Days on Earth (Dusie Press, 2017); and History and its Making – The Making of History (Bi-lingual French/English, Presses Universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2017). Forthcoming, Where Was The Flag Before, (Chax Press, 2025). BOOKS : Guards of the Heart: Four Plays (Sun & Moon Press, 1990) How to Write; or, I used to be in love with my jailer (Texture Press, 1992) An American Voyage (Sun & Moon Press, 1993) Push (Leave Books, 1994) De-flections (Potes & Poets Press, 1994) Full Silence (Upper Limit Music Press, 1995) The Fuzzy Logic Series (Texture Press, 1996) The Wood Series (Seeing Eye Books, 1997) EQUATIONS =equals (Green Integer Press, 2004) Strati (Bi-lingual Italian/English, La Camera Verde, 2007) FRACTURED // Conections … (Bi-lingual Italian/English, La Camera Verde, 2008) Strata (Dusie Press, 2008) Wordlick (Green Integer, 2011) 1000 Folds (Chax Press, 2014) Threads in Time (Atelier de Villemorge, 2016 Livre d'artiste, gravures by Jacky Essirard) History and its Making – The Making of History, (Bi-lingual French/English, Presses Universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2017) Last Days on Earth, (Dusie Press, 2017) Where Was The Flag Before, (forthcoming, Chax Press, 2025 Anthologies: Debut Edition of - The Best American Poetry 1988, Scribner/MacMillan Publishing Company, John Ashbery Editor Writing From the New Coast, Oblek Press, Peter Gizzi Editor Hungry As We Are, An Anthology of Washington DC Poet, Washington Writers Publishing House, Ann Darr, editor PIP Anthology of World Poetry of the 20th Century Vol 5. “Intersection – Innovative Poetry in Southern California, Green Integer Press; Douglas Messerli, Editor Honors: Gertrude Stein Poetry Awards, 2003, 2005, and 2006 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, 1997 District of Columbia Commission for Arts and Humanities Grant Recipient, 1992 & 1997 International Who’s Who in Poetry, Cambridge, ENGLAND
Join our poetry Salon and Open Mic: https://parallax-media-network.mn.co/share/5hSLvQW7bNszFGEo?utm_source=manual About David Herz: Hello. My names are David Salzmann Herz. I was born in Boston 70 years ago when McCarthy was getting his comeuppance. I lived with my family somewhere in Massachusetts before moving to Belo Horizonte, Brazil , as part of the Department of the Interior’s Punto Quatro program where my father was instrumental in mapping the geology and training a generation of Brazilian geologists. I began writing aged ten at the American school of Sao Paolo which had scorpions in the sandbox. I won a turtle for my prose. Then we lived in Chevy Chase, Maryland before moving to Athens, Ga. Where I met the poet Colman Barks and other luminaries. I moved to Chicago and studied briefly under Del Close at Second City and David Mamet who was then directing the Goodman Theater. As well as Richard McKeon at the University of Chicago who taught Susan Sontag among others. Then I returned home and drove a car from Selma, Alabama to Warminster Pennsylvania, possibly damaging the transmission while accelerating against the snow and ice. The next three years in a bankrupt New York City were richness incarnate. I worked at the Oh Ho So restaurant in SoHo and as a busboy served Harry Belafonte, one of the reasons God created humans, a glass of water. I had Alice Notley, poetess supreme, for a teacher and read my prose work at the Saint Marks in the Bowery Poetry Project. Those were wild times, buildings burning, trash uncollected, rapes a’plenty, and great generosity from compassionate lawyers, doctors and dentists for the impoverished lot we were. You could easily meet people such as John Cage, Merce Cunningham, John Giorno, Ted Berrigan, David Byrne, Patti Smith, Fred Sherry, Nam June Paik, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Charles Bernstein, Tony Towle, Bill Berkson, Eileen Myles, Ted Greenwald, John Cale, Lydia Lunch, Alan Vega, and avoid others such as Valerie Solanas. And then just as I was about to join a rock and roll band I moved to Paris. It’s been 45 years. Odd jobs subtitling movies and Sipa Photopress Agency photographs. Doing journalism for English language papers, interviewing the B- 52’s, Peter Brook, Zouc, Herbert Achternbusch, Paul Lederman, Boris Bergman and then working for Bull and Alcatel two fine French corporations employing hundreds of thousands who equally vanished into the capitalist sunset. Thanks to a flutist friend in Ircam I got to meet Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez but I don’t think they remember me. I did a translation for Sophie Calle before she became Sophie Calle. Also some work for the Royal family of Afghanistan. Back when there was one. At Paris VIII University still in the Bois de Vincennes with the whores whom we did not try to lead to culture I got to attend classes by Lyotard & Deleuze and the Miller Brothers, Lacan’s son in laws? Noam Chosmky spoke. I thought to become a consultant in a moment of delusion and ended up teaching for the last 24 years: Polytechnique, SciencesPo, ENST, INT, Supelec, Ecole Centrale, ENPC, ENSTA, Paris V, ICP, ESIEE, ECE, Ecole du Louvre. Before that I was a technical translator, a field I am happy to report that has been almost entirely taken over by machines, bless their soulless bodies. I also got married and my wife and I had two children. But we hadn’t really grown up much to the needless suffering of the children and so that marriage went painfully bust...Then I married again and we had a daughter. She’s on the phone right now, de rigueur for all 16 year olds. I am a loving observer of the human experiment of which I am inextricably a part, how so ever much I would like to be apart. As we advance, not necessarily progress, into the numbing, memory erasing age of AI, already sinking its canines deep into our pranic jugulars, lose ourselves in our beloved electronic devices, we must look to our hands, our analog writing devices such as pencils and pens and give them a try. Along with all the rest.
Join our poetry Salon and Open Mic: https://parallax-media-network.mn.co/share/5hSLvQW7bNszFGEo?utm_source=manual About Chim Nwabueze: Chim Nwabueze is a New York poet currently living in France. He is the author of Experiments and Drafts (usu), Convergences (usu), Fenêtre Dissimulée (L'Harmattan), and Fanfares à couteaux tirées (L'Harmattan) as well as recordings of experimental music around the saw and guitar: Improvisations for saw and piano harp (with Sylvie Menta), Green Report 6 (with Tatsuya Nakatani), Near and Far: live at 7 lézards (with Joëlle Léandre), Duets to Rahsaan Roland Kirk (with Ramon Lopez, Leo Records) and Axis Drift: White Spider Silence.