Better Than Starbucks
  Poetry & Fiction Journal

Better Than Starbucks

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Founder: Anthony “Uplandpoet” Watkins  (Aug 4, 1959 - Dec 10, 2025)   ​

Publisher to Sep 2024; Senior Editor/Contributing Editor (May 2016 – Sep 2020)

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Originally Founded in 1995 as Scene, Arts of the Treasure Coast

Renamed in 1998 to Abundance, a Harvest of Literature, Life & the Arts

Revived in 2016 as Better Than Starbucks

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Legacy Staff, Editors, & Contributors

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Peter Mladinic  ​                    Publisher, Contributor (Sep 2024 – Mar 2026)

Tom Merrill                           Advisory Editor (May 2020 – Nov 2022)

​Kevin McLaughlin               Haiku Editor and Spiritual Advisor (Nov 2016 – Nov 2022)

​​Susan McLean                      Poetry Translations Editor (Mar 2020 – Nov 2022)

​Robert Schechter                 Editor of Poetry for Children (Mar 2020 – Nov 2022)

​Elaine Wilburt                      Copy Editor (Nov 2018 – Nov 2022)

Christy Burbidge                 Associate Copy Editor (Jan 2019 – Nov 2022)​

​Andreea Finichiu                Assistant Editor International Poetry and African Poetry (Nov 2021 – Nov 2022)

​Sally Thomas                       Sonnet Contest Judge (2020, 2021)

​Lindsay Wang                      Assistant Fiction Editor (Oct 2020 – Aug 2021)

​Gabriel Awuah Mainoo      Associate Editor of African Poetry (Feb 2021 – Nov 2022)

​Suzanne Robinson             Poetry  (Free Verse) Editor (Nov 2016 – Sep 2020)

​Joseph E. Petta                    Experimental & Form Poetry Editor (May 2020 – Sep 2020)

S. Ye Laird                             Poetry Translations Page Editor (Nov 2016 – Jun 2018)

​Tendai Rinos Mwanaka     African Poetry Editor (Jul 2017 – Jul 2018)

​Rameeza Nasim                  Asian Poetry Editor  (Sep 2017 – Mar 2018)

​Michael R. Burch                Guest Editor of International Poetry, Poetry Translations, and African Poetry (May 2018 – Mar 2019)

A. M. Juster                          Guest Interviewer (May 2019, Jan 2020)

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The Departed

...tributes in memoriam to our landmark pillars                                   

​                                                                                                                                       winter's stealthy winds
                                                                                                                              invade through cabin windows...
                                                                                                                              night sparrows blow in

                                                                                                                                        

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