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THE SMOKING POET - SPRING 2009 Issue - Online Now!

The Smoking Poet is a literary ezine, circa 2006.At The Smoking Poet , we publish flash fiction, fiction, poetry, reviews, non-fiction, and author/artist interviews that ignite our imagination, inflame our passion, leave us with a smoky aftertaste. We'll consider the occasional novel excerpt as a special feature. We also publish book and cigar reviews. Submit to us your finest flash pieces; we are open to all genres, within good taste. All we ask is that…See More

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More About Me and My World: Zinta Aistars is a bilingual writer, born in the United States of immigrant parents from Latvia. Latvia is one of three Baltic States, losing its independence to the Soviet Union in World War II, regaining it in 1991. Latvian was Zinta’s first language, one of the oldest languages still spoken today, and she holds dual citizenship. Her first three books are in the Latvian language; her fourth, still in progress, is in English. Her work (in both languages) appears in many publications, print and online. Zinta is also founder and editor-in-chief of The Smoking Poet.

She is a publications editor and writer for a health care organization in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and was an editor and writer for LuxEsto (for which she still freelances), the Kalamazoo College alumni magazine for seven years prior to that. Her work has appeared in the Kalamazoo Guide, Greater Guide of Southwest Michigan, Kindred Spirits Magazine, Kalamazoo Gazette, Southwest Michigan Living, County Wide News, Encore, Welcome Home, Parade of Homes, the Latvian newspaper Laiks, and the Latvian literary periodical, Jauna Gaita. She has published poetry, travel essays, stories, and articles in the United States, Latvia, England, Sweden, Germany, and Australia. Her work appears on many eZines - including Xelas Magazine, Cezanne's Carrot, Amsterdam Scriptum, Boston Literary Magazine, Outsider Ink, Ghoti Fish, Menda City Review, Megaera Magazine, T-Zero, Fiction Attic, Impact Times, Ash Canyon Review, Saucy Vox, ThothWeb, Flash Me Magazine, Spoiled Ink, 63 Channels, Her Circle Ezine, Ascent Aspirations Magazine, The Redbridge Review, River Walk Journal, Flashquake, milk magazine, The Surface, BookCrossing, Serene Light, Word Riot, Burning Word, The Moon, insolent rudder, Bobbing Around, The Sidewalk's End, coilMagazine, Poems Niederngasse, The Paper, Poetry Life & Times, QuietPoly Writer's Magazine, Midwest Book Review, Write Sight and others. Zinta does media relations work for The Stulberg Organization (Stulberg International String Competition) and is also poetry editor at Her Circle Ezine and on the editorial board of insolent rudder.

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THE SMOKING POET - SPRING 2009 Issue - Online Now!

The Smoking Poet is a literary ezine, circa 2006.

At The Smoking Poet , we publish flash fiction, fiction, poetry, reviews, non-fiction, and author/artist interviews that ignite our imagination, inflame our passion, leave us with a smoky aftertaste. We'll consider the occasional novel excerpt as a special feature. We also publish book and cigar reviews. Submit to us your finest flash pieces; we are open to all genres, within good taste.… Continue

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