Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 33 – Vortex Voyagers features the best fantasy and contemporary poetry and fiction from 73 internationally renowned poets and fiction authors. Join these Vortex Voyagers on this journey through life and its myriad relationships, real and imagined, where folklore, mythology, realism and dystopia mingle and merge casting light on secrets and shadows. The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy. Ezra Pound Like the Borg in Star Trek, empire says to you that resistance is futile. Those who don’t know that Christ resisted the Borg like Roman Empire, will be sucked into the vortex of today’s empire. Peter Hall Fog Portrait by Carl Sandburg RINGS of iron gray smoke; a woman’s steel face … looking … looking. Funnels of an ocean liner negotiating a fog night; pouring a taffy mass down the wind; layers of soot on the top deck; a taffrail … and a woman’s steel face … looking … looking. Cliffs challenge humped; sudden arcs form on a gull’s wing in the storm’s vortex; miles of white horses plow through a stony beach; stars, clear sky, and everywhere free climbers calling; and a woman’s steel face … looking … looking … Featured Poets and Fiction Authors Antonia Alexandra Klimenko Randy Barnes Kelly Moyer Gary Bills Jennifer Gurney Paul Tristram Susan Wilson Kushal Poddar Rekha Valliappan Steve Klepetar Debarati Sen John Drudge Lynda Tavakoli John Doyle Tina Negus John Grey Kim Ports Parsons Michael Lee Johnson Laura Stamps Ira Rosenstein Joan Leotta Dr Ralph Monday Kathleen Chamberlin Gopal Lahiri Amanda Niamh Dawson Peter Mladinic Wendy Webb Nolo Segundo Lilija Valis John Harold Olson Mary Bone Alan Catlin Carol Tahir Mohibul Aziz Jay Passer Julie A. Dickson John Sweet Nancy Tinnell Alec Solomita B.L. Bruce Bruce Hunter Danielle Page Duane Vorhees Anushna Biswas Michael H. Brownstein Kelley White Eric Robert Nolan Daniela Rodi Scott C. Kaestner Martina Reisz Newberry Jerome Berglund Sal Rochelle David Alec Knight Fay L. Loomis Daniel Cyran Karen O’Leary & Paul Callus P.C. Scheponik Maria Teresa Sisti Wayne F. Burke Roberta Beach Jacobson Stephen Jarrell Williams Rachel Dill Giulio Magrini Dr Randy Brooks Jackie Chou M.J. (Michael Joseph) Arcangelini Mona Dash Stephen A. Rozwenc Salvatore Difalco Rick Hartwell Pawel Markiewicz Christopher Barnes