The Best of Mad Swirl: v2025 Paperback – February 7, 2026

Mad Swirl's 111-page anthology features 52 poets, 12 short fiction writers, and four artists whose works were presented on MadSwirl.com throughout 2025. Our editors reviewed the entire year's published poems, stories and art to ensure this collection is truly "the best of" Mad Swirl. This annual collection represents a worldwide representation of the diverse voices and vantages which speak to all aspects of this crazy swirl we call "life on earth." This anthology is an excellent introduction to the world of Mad Swirl!2025, a year we will look back at and realize it really was a transformative one. Perhaps the transformation we experienced wasn’t what a majority of us were wanting it to be but to say it wasn’t would be untrue… and we all know how important truth is in this world full of misinformation and misdirection!To get the true pulse of the year that was, just look to the poets, the artists, the writers, all of whom have been seeing what’s happening, feeling the gravity of what’s going on, and expressing it all thru their chosen mediums. After all, that is what we poets, artists and writers do, we observe and report back on the madness that swirls in our inner and outer worlds.Huge gratitudes & shout-outs to our 2025 featured Contributors (in alphabetical order):Featured Poets:Archie AbairePreacher AllgoodJames BengerJerome BerglundVolodymyr BilykColleen BoueilChrissie Morris BradyGoirick BrahmachariMichael BrownsteinChristopher CalleJames D. Casey IVEric ChilesDale CottinghamTamitha CurielJohn P. DrudgeBrian Duran-FuentesHannah Elliot-LindhJoseph FarleyTracey FosterNeile GrahamJohn GreyJeff GrimshawMarie HigginsPaul HostovskyRoberta Beach JacobsonD. R. JamesCarl KavadloVyarka KozarevaRosie LindseySteve MaitlenRobert L. MartinRita MoeJim MurdochIrena PasvinterM. R. PelletierPatty Dickson PieczkaKen PoynerDan RaphaelJames RodehaverDiana RosenJason RybergLinda SaccoPaul SmithJohn L. StanizziDesmene M. StatumMavis SterlingDavid SussweinNdue UkajLorri VenturaAgnes VojtaStephen Jarrell WilliamsMilenko ZupanovicFeatured Short Story Authors:Jim BatesRuss BickerstaffJames Joaquin BrewerSusie GharibEthan GoffmanMichael KozartAngela KubinecFay L. LoomisEdward N McConnellCheryl SnellPhyllis SouzaMarianne SzlykFeatured Artists:Kasey JonesLarena Nellies-OrtizMitchell PlutoEric SuhemThis year's contributors hail from 4 continents and 12 countries (Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, England, India, Ireland, Israel, Kosovo, Montenegro, Syria, Ukraine, USA [22 States: CA, CT, FL, IA, IL, KS, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MT, NJ, NY, OK, OR, PA, SC, SD, TX, WA, WI]).If we’ve enticed you enough to wanna get you your very own copy of “The Best of Mad Swirl : v2025” then click on "add to cart" and soon it will be yours! Read more