2026 Poets and Presenters

Gina Abelkop is the author of I Eat Cannibals (co.im.press 2014) and Darling Beastlettes (Apostrophe Books 2012). She lives in Athens, GA and runs Birds of Lace, a DIY feminist press. www.ginaabelkop.com

Andrea Abi-Karam is a trans, SWANA, punk poet-performer cyborg. They are the author of EXTRATRANSMISSION (Kelsey Street Press, 2019), Villainy (Nightboat Books, Sept 2021), and with Kay Gabriel, they co-edited We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2020). They are currently writing a poet's novel about crushes.

Kimberly Alidio wrote After projects the resound (Black Radish, 2016) and solitude being alien (dancing girl press, 2013). She is a U.S. East Coast-born second-generation Filipinx tenure-track dropout currently living in East Austin as a resolutely multisyllabic dactylic sometimes melodramatic brown queer femme language insurrectionist.

Steven Alvarez is the author of the experimental novels in verse Tonalamatl: El Segundo's Dream Notes, McTlán, Manhatitlán, and The Codex Mojaodicus, winner of the Fence Modern Poets Prize. His work has appeared in the Best Experimental Writing, Anomaly, Asymptote, Berkeley Poetry Review, Fence, MAKE, The Offing, and Waxwing. Follow Steven on Instagram @stevenpaulalvarez and on X @chastitellez.

Dara Barrois/Dixon's new book is Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina (Wave Books 2022), others include You Good Thing, in the still of the night, Reverse Rapture, Voyages in English and Hat on a Pond. Recent chapbooks, Nine (Incessant Pipe, 2023), Two Poems (Scram, 2022), forthcoming book Extremely Expensive Mystical Experiences for Astronauts (Conduit Books, 2023 or 2024). Lannan and Guggenheim Foundations have supported her work. Born in New Olreans, she was raised in Naomi, Plaquemines Parish. Right now she lives in western Massachusetts where she writes, and edits for factory hollow press.

Daniel Borzutzky is a poet and Spanish-language translator from Chicago. His most recent books are The Murmuring Grief of the Americas (2024), winner of the Chicago Review of Books Best Poetry Collection, and Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018 (2021). His 2016 collection, The Performance of Becoming Human, received the National Book Award. Lake Michigan (2018) was a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize. His most recent translations are Elvira Hernandez’s Bodies Found in Various Places (2025, with Alec Schumacher); Cecilia Vicuña’s The Deer Book (2024); and Paula Ilabaca Nuñez’s The Loose Pearl (2022), winner of the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. His translation of Galo Ghigliotto's Valdivia received the American Literary Translator’s Association’s 2017 National Translation Award, and he has also translated collections by Raúl Zurita, and Jaime Luis Huenún. He is a Distinguished Professor in English and Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. 

Paula Cisewski's sixth full-length collection, The Becoming Game, was released from Hanging Loose Press in 2025. She's also the author of ​Ceremonies for No Repair (Beauty School Editions), Quitter​ (Diode Editions' Book Prize),  The Threatened Everything (Burnside Review Books), Ghost Fargo (selected by Franz Wright for the Nightboat Poetry Prize), Upon Arrival (Black Ocean), and several chapbooks. Cisewski has been awarded residencies and fellowships from organizations including the Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. She lives in Minneapolis where she teaches, makes collaged and printed matter, and co-publishes/co-edits Beauty School Editions, LLC.

Adam Clay is the author of Circle Back (Milkweed Editions, 2024), To Make Room for the Sea (Milkweed Editions, 2020),  Stranger (Milkweed Editions, 2016), A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World (Milkweed Editions, 2012), and The Wash (Parlor Press, 2006). His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Denver Quarterly, Tin House, Bennington Review, Georgia Review, Boston Review, jubilat, Iowa Review, and elsewhere. He received a Literary Arts Fellowship from the Mississippi Arts Commission in 2018. For twenty years, he co-edited Typo Magazine. He is an Associate Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Louisiana State University.

NICOLE COOLEY grew up in New Orleans and is the author of seven books of poems, including most recently  Mother Water Ash (LSU Press 2024), as well as Of Marriage (Alice James Books 2018), Girl after Girl after Girl (LSU Press 2017) and Breach (LSU Press 2010). Her work has appeared most recently in POETRY, SCOUNDREL TIME and PLUME. She teaches in the the MFA program in creative writing and literary translation at Queens College, City University of New York.

Caroline Crew is the author of PINK MUSEUM (Big Lucks, 2015), as well as several chapbooks. Her poetry and essays appear in The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and Gulf Coast, among others. Currently, she is pursuing a PhD at Georgia State University, after earning an MA at the University of Oxford and an MFA at UMass-Amherst. She's online here: caroline-crew.com.

Mónica de la Torre’s most recent book of poems and translations is Repetition Nineteen (Nightboat). Other books include The Happy End/All Welcome—a riff on a riff on Kafka's Amerika—and Public Domain. Recent prose appears in Photostats by Felix Gonzalez-Torres (Siglio) and as an afterword to George Perec’s Ellis Island (New Directions). With Alex Balgiu, she co-edited the anthology Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–79 (Primary Information) and teaches at Brooklyn College and Bard’s MFA program.

Nancy Dixon was born in Karachi, Pakistan, while her father was stationed there in the military. Her sojourns eventually brought her to New Orleans. For many years she worked at the famed Matassa's Bar on St. Philip. She finished her BA and MA at the University of New Orleans, then left NOLA for a short time to work on her doctorate at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. She completed the program in record time, only four years, and her dissertation was later published by LSU Press as Fortune and Misery: Sallie Rhett Roman of New Orleans in 1999. This book won the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH) Humanities Book of the Year award in 2000. She is also the editor of the definitive anthology of early New Orleans literature, N.O. Lit: 200 Years of New Orleans Literature, published by Lavender Ink in 2013. More recently she has co-edited, with Leslie Petty, Voices and Visions: Essays on New Orleans's Literary History. She has taught in the Prime Time literacy program since its inception in New Orleans in 2013, and is Full Professor of English at Dillard University.

Emily Marie Passos Duffy is a poet and itinerant performing artist. Her poetry debut, Hemorrhaging Want & Water, is out now with Perennial Press. She was a finalist for the Noemi Press 2020 Book Award and a finalist of the 2020 Inverted Syntax Sublingua Prize for Poetry. Her written work has appeared in Inverted Syntax, Portland Review, Dirt Media, Boulder Weekly, Spit Poet Zine, Terra – uma poética de nós, collective.aporia, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. She lives in Lisbon with her cat, Magda, where she is a doctoral student in Translation Studies. You can receive monthly missives from her at duffylala.substack.com.

Aja Couchois Duncan is a social justice coach and capacity builder of Ojibwe, French and Scottish descent living on the ancestral and stolen land of the Coast Miwok people. Her debut collection, Restless Continent (Litmus Press, 2016) was selected by Entropy Magazine as one of the best poetry collections of 2016 and awarded the California Book Award for Poetry in 2017. In 2020, Sweet Land—a collaborative opera project which brought together composers Raven Chacon and Du Yun, librettists Aja Couchois Duncan and Douglas Kearney, and co-directors Cannupa Hanska Luger and Yuval Sharon—was produced in the Los Angeles State Historic Park to critical acclaim and named the Best Opera of 2020 by the Music Critics Association of North America. Her second book, Vestigial was published in 2021 by Litmus Press. Her forthcoming book, The Intimacy Trials will be published in 2026 by the University of Chicago Press as part of its Phoenix Poets series. When not writing or working, Aja can be found running the west Marin hills, training with horses, or weaving small pine needle baskets. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and a variety of other degrees and credentials to certify her as worthy. Great Spirit knew it all along. 

Norman Fischer is a poet, essayist, and Zen Buddhist priest. His latest of more than twenty-five prose and poetry titles include There was a clattering as... (Lavender Ink), Men in Suits (BlazeVox), the serial poems Untitled Series: Life As It Is (Talisman House). His latest prose works are When You Greet Me I Bow, The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path and Experience: Thinking, Writing, Language and Religion. He is the founder of the Everyday Zen Foundation (www.everydayzen.org), a network of Zen meditation groups and other projects.

Chad Foret is a writer and editor from southeast Louisiana, where he lives with his wife and daughter. He is the author of Scenes from a Rain Country (Lavender Ink, 2022) and Watching Machine (Osmanthus, 2026). Recent fiction and poetry appear or are forthcoming in If Memory Serves, a food writing anthology from Good, Printed Things; Fairy Tale Review; Action, Spectacle; Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine; and other journals and anthologies. More info can be found at chadforet.com.

Kay Gabriel is a poet and essayist. She's the author of Kissing Other People or the House of Fame (Rosa Press, 2021) and A Queen in Bucks County (Nightboat, 2022). With Andrea Abi-Karam she co-edited We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat, 2020). She lives in Queens.

Edgar Garcia is a poet and scholar of the hemispheric cultures of the Americas. He is the author of Skins of Columbus: A Dream Ethnography (Fence Books, 2019), Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu (University of Chicago Press, 2020), Infinite Regress (in collaboration with Eamon Ore Giron, Bom Dia Books, 2021), and Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 2022). He is currently finishing books on the Cantares Mexicanos and the baroque Americas. He teaches in the departments of English and Creative Writing at the University of Chicago.

Katherine Gibbel is a poet whose work has been published in the Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, jubilat, Second Factory, and elsewhere. She edits and prints Send Me Press. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and lives in Windsor, Vermont. Her chapbook Prairie was published by Ethel Press in 2020.

A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Sara Gilmore is the author of The Green Lives (Fonograf Editions, October 2025). Her poems and translations have appeared in The Paris Review, Ugly Duckling Presse’s Second Factory and 6x6, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Iowa City with her young son.

Phoebe Glick is a writer concerned with preserving queer intimacy under the carceral State. She is a graduate of the Pratt MFA in Writing and has received support from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. She is the co-founder and co-editor of The Felt, and teacher of writing at Hunter College. Her creative and critical work has appeared or is forthcoming in her chapbook Period Appropriate (dancing girl press, 2016), as well as in Entropy, No Dear Magazine, Apogee Journal and elsewhere. Phoebe's work explores queer monstrosity and eroticism, attempting to forge a new reality in which validation by capital is not a necessary condition for joy.

EMILY M. GOLDSMITH (they/them) is a Louisiana Creole poet, interdisciplinary scholar, and English Instructor at Louisiana State University. Goldsmith received their Ph.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi and MFA from the University of Kentucky. They were appointed the 2023 Derven Scholar at the Historic New Orleans Collection where they conducted oral history interviews with Louisiana Creole speakers. Their research interests include Southern Gothic, Louisiana literature, Caribbean Studies, and Poetry, especially twentieth-century multi-ethnic poetry. Their digital exhibit, “Louisiana Creole and Cajun Memorialization,” will be published with The Gravestone Project in early 2026. A Pushcart-nominated poet, their poems and reviews can be found in The Penn Review, CALYX, Midway Journal, Pithead Chapel, Tinderbox Poetry, and elsewhere.

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K. Lorraine Graham is a poet, diviner and mixed media artist inspired by everyday life and family history. She makes a mix of abstract and representational pieces that evoke introspection and self-analysis. Lorraine grew up all over the world in Papua New Guinea, Chile, Mexico, China and Maine, and studied east Asian studies and Chinese at George Washington University before getting an M.F.A. at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of The Rest Is Censored (Bloof Books) and Terminal Humming (Edge Books), and an artist book of drawings called Semiotic Squares (Primary Writing). Her work has been featured at the Kreeger Museum, Stable Arts, and But, Also. She lives in Washington, D.C. Follow her on instagram @klorrainegraham.

Erika Hodges is a poet, performance artist and public defender living in New Orleans. They are a recent graduate of Pratt Institute where they received their MFA as the Leslie Scalapino Scholar. Their work can be found at Flag + Void, CALYX, & The Poetry Project among others. They hosted and curated an interview series for Wendy’s Subway entitled, What Happens After The End. Their work has been nominated for both The Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. They are currently working both on a poet's novel entitled Pink Houses and on their caseload as a staff attorney at Orleans Public Defenders.

Nathan Hoks is the author of Reveilles, The Narrow Circle, Nests in Air, and Moony Days of Being. Along with his own poems and essays, he has published translations of work by Christian Dotremont, Vicente Huidobro, Henri Michaux, and most recently, Tristan Tzara's Cinema Calendar of the Abstract Heart. He teaches creative writing at the University of Chicago and at the School Art Institute of Chicago.

Giancarlo Huapaya (Lima, Peru) is an editor, poet, curator, and educational facilitator. In their latest books, [gamerover] and procesos de separación, they investigate places and archives through counter mapping in poetry. They are Editorial Director of Cardboard House Press, a language justice project dedicated to the publication of Latin American literature in translation to English and the creation of bilingual spaces in the United States. As a curator of poetics focusing on dialogues between poetry and the visual arts, they have presented exhibitions at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco, the University of Arizona Poetry Center in Tucson and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. As literary translator, they have translated into Spanish work by Muriel Rukeyser, C.D Wright, Susan Briante, Carmen Giménez Smith, Zêdan Xelef, among others.

Canese Jarboe is the author of SISSY (Garden-Door Press, 2024). Jarboe has received fellowships and grants from National Endowment for the Arts, Tallgrass Artist Residency, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Nō Studios. Their work has recently appeared in Poetry and The American Poetry Review. They currently live in Kansas City, Missouri.

Julia Johnson grew up in New Orleans. She is the author of three collections of poetry, including The Falling Horse (Factory Hollow Press). She teaches creative writing at the University of Kentucky.

Rodger Kamenetz is a poet and author. His latest book of poetry is The Missing Jew: Poems 1976-2022 from Ben Yehuda Press recently reviewed by Hank Lazer here.  Other books of poetry include Dream Logic (PURH, 2020), Yonder (Lavender Ink, 2018),  The Lowercase Jew (Northwestern), To Die Next To You (Six Gallery), Stuck (Time Being) and Nympholepsy (Dryad). His poems have appeared in two dozen anthologies and in Southern Review, Grand Street, The New Republic, Shenandoah,Mississippi Review and on poets.org. He also wrote the international best seller, The Jew in the Lotus, (Harper One) and received the National Jewish Book Award for Jewish Thought.  His book on dreams, The History of Last Night's Dream was featured on Oprah Winfrey's "Soul Series", and he is the leader of an international group of practitioners of Natural Dreamwork. His latest book is  an ecological poetics of images in memory, dreams and perception, Seeing Into the Life of Things (Monkfish,2025). He is Professor Emeritus at LSU where he held the Sternberg Honors Chair. He lives and works in New Orleans. Visit his website at http://www.kamenetz.com

Megan Kaminski is Poet and Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Kansas, where her teaching and research live at the intersection of poetic practice, environmental advocacy, and community care. She is interested in the ways that place calls us into relationships of care for the land and for the various human and more-than- human persons that reside there, and in the ways that call reaches across political and cultural differences. Her work illuminates and engages with that call into reciprocity—and invites others into these relationships in their own daily lives. She is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Gentlewomen (Noemi Press, 2020), and two artists books, Prairie Divination (Sunseen Books, 2022), a book of illustrated essays and oracle deck, and Quietly Between (A Viewing Project. 2022), a co-authored collection of poetry and photography. Her place-based sound, poetry, and art installations have appeared at museums, public gardens, and libraries across the country, and her poetry and essays regularly appear in literary magazines and journals. Her social practice includes three edited volumes of nature poetry and art, as well as hundreds of community workshops, place-based poetry walks, and community readings, talks, and performances. https://www.megankaminski.com/

Christine Kanownik is a poet and curator. She hosts FIELD TRIP, a monthly reading series in and around Detroit, and is a founding editor of the Electric Pumas. She is the author of two books of poetry: HEAD (Trembling Pillow Press, 2018) and King of Pain (Monk Books, 2016). Blood Bath, her latest chapbook, is out from Philadelphia horror press, Cul-de-Sac of Blood. You can find her poetry at FENCE, b l u s h, Bone Bouquet, DIAGRAM, and The Huffington Post, among others. She also writes the Substack Trees for the Trees, where she thinks about trees, our changing ecological environment, and time.

Becca Klaver is the author of the poetry collections Ready for the World (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), Empire Wasted (Bloof Books, 2016), and LA Liminal (Kore Press, 2010) as well as several chapbooks. Her latest publications are Midwinter Constellation (Black Lawrence, 2022), a collaborative homage to Bernadette Mayer’s Midwinter Day, and Greetings from Bowling Green (The Magnificent Field, 2022), a chapbook of postcard poems. As an editor, she co-founded Switchback Books, is co-editor of the anthology Electric Gurlesque (Saturnalia Books, 2024), and has created pop-up projects such as Women Poets Wearing Sweatpants. She lives in Iowa City.

Kelly Krumrie is the author of Concentric Macroscope, forthcoming from Crop Circle Press in early 2026, as well as the books No Measure and Math Class, which were published by Calamari Archive. She holds a PhD in English & Literary Arts from the University of Denver and is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at New Mexico State University.

Aditi Machado is the author of three books of poetry from Nightboat—Material Witness (2024), Emporium (2020), and Some Beheadings (2017)—translator of Baptiste Gaillard's In the Realm of Motes (Roof, 2025) and Farid Tali's Prosopopoeia (Action, 2016). Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Annulet, BOMB, Chicago Review, Fence, Jacket2, Lana Turner, and Volt, among other journals. She works as an advisory editor for The Paris Review and associate professor at the Univeristy of Cincinnati. This is her website.

Jennifer Maritza McCauley is the author of SCAR ON/SCAR OFF (Stalking Horse Press), When Trying to Return Home (Counterpoint),  Kinds of Grace (Flower Song)  and the forthcoming speculative fiction collection NEON STEEL (Cornerstone) and the poetry collections VERSUS (Texas Review Press) and Tumbao (Texas Review Press). She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Kimbilio and CantoMundo and her work has been a New York Times Editors’ Choice, Best Fiction Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews and a Must-Read by Elle, Latinx in Publishing, Ms. Magazine and Southern Review of Books. She is faculty at Yale Writers’ Workshop and an assistant professor of English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Jose-Luis Moctezuma is a Xicano poet based in Chicago. He is the author of Place-Discipline (Omnidawn, 2018) and Black Box Syndrome (Omnidawn, 2023), and he is an Assistant Professor of Writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). 

Rosalie Moffett is the author of the poetry collections Making a Living (Milkweed Editions, 2025), Nervous System (Ecco, 2019), which was chosen by Monica Youn for the National Poetry Series Prize and listed by the New York Times as a New and Notable book, and June in Eden (OSU Press, 2017). She has been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, POETRY, New England Review, and Kenyon Review, among others. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern Indiana, and the senior poetry editor for the Southern Indiana Review.  

Ben Pease is a poet and multi-disciplinary writer who is dedicated to fostering a more accessible literary community in Vermont and beyond. He is the author of the full-length poetry collection Chateau Wichman: A Blockbuster in Verse, a Dungeons & Dragons adventure module set on the Ruth Stone property called  The Light of Mount Horrid, the hybrid illustrated edition Furniture in Space, and several chapbooks. His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest, jubilat, Biscuit Hill, and 7×7, among others. 

He holds undergraduate degrees in Political Communication and Writing, Literature, and Publishing from Emerson College and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. He is the Executive Director of the Ruth Stone House, Communication Coordinator at Otter Creek Engineering, and book designer for factory hollow press. He lives in Brandon, VT with his wife, Bianca Stone, and their daughter, Odette. 

Ann Plicque is a graduate of the UNO Creative Writing Workshop. Her first book of poetry, New Barrier Islands, appeared from Lavender Ink in January, 2026. She lives, works and writes in New Orleans.  She may be contacted at amplicqu@uno.edu.

Kristina Kay Robinson is a writer and visual artist born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her written and visual work centers the intellectual geographies and spiritual technologies of Black, Afro-Indigenous, and diasporic peoples. It interrogates  the modern and ancient connections between world communities and examines the impact of globalization, militarism, and surveillance on society. In particular focus: the human and political consequences of Hurricane Katrina and their place in the analysis of current world affairs. She is the coeditor of Mixed Company, a collection of short fiction and visual narratives by women of color. Her writing in various genres has appeared in the Xavier Review, Guernica, The Baffler, The Nation,and Elle.com among other outlets.She is a 2019 recipient of the Rabkin Prize for Visual Arts Journalism and is the New Orleans Editor at Large for Burnaway magazine.

Sarah Rosenthal is the author of Estelle Meaning Star (Chax, 2024), Lizard (Chax, 2016), Manhatten (Spuyten Duyvil, 2009), and several chapbooks. In collaboration with Valerie Witte, she has published the essay collection One Thing Follows Another: Experiments in Dance, Art, and Life through the Lens of Simone Forti and Yvonne Rainer, and the hybrid work The Grass Is Greener When the Sun Is Yellow (Operating System, 2019). She edited A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Poets of the Bay Area (Dalkey Archive, 2010). Her collaborative film We Agree on the Sun won Best Experimental Short at the 2021 Berlin Independent Film Festival. Her new collaborative film, Lizard Song, is currently on the film festival circuit. She is the recipient of the Leo Litwak Fiction Award, a Creative Capacity Innovation Grant, a San Francisco Education Fund Grant, and writing residencies at Cel del Nord, This Will Take Time, Hambidge, Vermont Studio Center, Soul Mountain, New York Mills, and Ragdale, as well as a two-year Affiliate Artist term at Headlands Center for the Arts. From 2012 to 2023 she served on the California Book Awards jury. More at sarahrosenthal.net

Michael Ruby is a poet, literary editor and journalist. He is the author of nine poetry books, most recently Sounds of Summer in the Country (BlazeVOX, 2025), Close Your Eyes, Visions (Station Hill, 2024), The Star-Spangled Banner (Station Hill, 2020), The Mouth of the Bay (BlazeVOX, 2019), American Songbook (Ugly Duckling, 2013) and Compulsive Words (BlazeVOX, 2010). His trilogy in prose and poetry, Memories, Dreams and Inner Voices (Station Hill, 2012), includes ebooks Fleeting Memories (Ugly Duckling, 2008) and Inner Voices Heard Before Sleep (Argotist Online, 2011). Recent ebooks include Titles & First Lines (Mudlark, 2018) and Compulsive Words (Argotist Online, 2024). His chapbook From an Album of Verses won the James Tate Prize from SurVision Books in 2024. Full recordings of most of his books are available on PennSound. He also is co-editor of Bernadette Mayer’s early books, Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words (Station Hill, 2015), Mayer’s and Lewis Warsh’s collaboration Piece of Cake (Station Hill, 2020) and the selected poems of Steve Dalachinsky, forthcoming from City Lights in the fall of 2026. He lives in Brooklyn and worked for many years as an editor of U.S. news and political articles at The Wall Street Journal.

Linda Russo is a poet, scholar, essay-writer, willing co-creator/collaborator and a student of ecospheric care who is currently at work exploring writing as herbal praxis. Their most recent book, the verdant, was awarded the Halcyon Award for Poetry from Middle Creek Publishing. She teaches at Washington State University. Find out more at InhabitoryPoetics.com.

C.T. Salazar is a Latinx poet and librarian from Mississippi. His debut collection Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking (Acre Books 2022) was named a 2023 finalist for the Theodore Roethke Memorial Award. His poems have most recently appeared in Poetry Northwest, Gulf Coast, West Branch, Cincinnati Review, Denver Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. 

Selah Saterstrom is the author of five books—Rancher (Burrow Press, 2021) Ideal Suggestions: Essays in Divinatory Poetics (Essay Press, 2017, Swedish translation 2026), Slab (Coffee House Press, 2015) The Meat and Spirit Plan (Coffee House Press, 2007), and The Pink Institution (Coffee House Press, 2004). She is the co-founder of Four Queens Divination, an educational platform rooted in feminist approaches to oracular practice, writing, theory, and collective liberation. She teaches and lectures across the United States and abroad and lives with her wife and daughter on Vashon Island. 

Katie Jean Shinkle's books and chapbooks include Transference (winner of the 2024 Gasher Press Poetry Chapbook Prize, 2025). Other work has appeared in Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance (Sarabande Books), FLAUNT Magazine, The Nation, American Poetry Review,  and elsewhere. Her work has received support from Lambda Literary and Ragdale, and she serves as co-poetry editor of DIAGRAM and creative nonfiction editor of the Texas Review. 

Jessica Smith was the founding editor of Foursquare and name magazines and Coven Press. A native of Birmingham, Alabama, she teaches Gender Studies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and English at the University of Alabama, where she is also a Ph.D. student in Library and Information Sciences. Jessica is the author of eighteen chapbooks including Fever (Model Press 2021) and Lion's Den (above/ground press 2019) and three full-length books of poetry, Organic Furniture Cellar (Outside Voices 2006), Life-List (Chax Press 2015), and How to Know the Flowers (Veliz Books 2019). Her fourth "book," The Daybooks, which comprises a series of four books, is forthcoming from Insert Press. Two poems from The Daybooks were nominated for The Pushcart Prize in 2025. 

BIANCA STONE author of the poetry collections The Near and Distant World, (Tin House 2026), What is Otherwise Infinite (Tin House, 2022) winner of the 2023 Vermont Book Award; The Möbius Strip Club of Grief (Tin House, 2018), Someone Else’s Wedding Vows (Octopus Books and Tin House, 2014) and collaborated with Anne Carson on the illuminated version of Antigonick (New Directions, 2012). Her work has appeared in many magazines, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic and The Nation. She teaches classes on poetry and poetic study at the Ruth Stone House (501c3) where she is editor-at-large for ITERANT magazine and host of Ode & Psyche Podcast. 

Nick Sturm teaches at Georgia State University in Atlanta. His book Publishing the New York School: Small Press Communities and American Poetry is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. He is also the editor of Early Works by Alice Notley (Fonograf Editions) and co-editor, with Alice Notley, Anselm Berrigan, and Edmund Berrigan, of Get the Money!: Collected Prose, 1961-1983 by Ted Berrigan (City Lights). More information about his research, scholarship, and teaching can be found at nicksturm.com.

Jake Syersak is the author of the poetry books Mantic Compost and Yield Architecture. He is also the translator of several works by Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine and Tahar Ben Jelloun. His work has received grants from The National Endowment for the Arts and PEN/Heim. He currently lives in Olympia, WA.

Lindsay Turner's third poetry collection, Middle Slope, is forthcoming in fall 2026 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. She is a French-to-English translator of poetry and philosophy and lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where she is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Case Western Reserve University.

Adele Elise Williams is the author of WAGER selected by Patricia Smith for the 2024 Miller Williams Poetry Series and, with Dana Levin, is co-editor of Bert Meyers: On the Life and Work of an American Master. Recent work is published or forthcoming in Electric Lit, Fence, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, The Mississippi Review, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. Adele has received fellowships from Ucross, VCCA, the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, and Inprint. A finalist for the 2022 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, Adele is an Assistant Editor at Conjunctions and Texas Review Press as well as a Professor of English and Creative Writing at UNC-Chapel Hill. 
 

Ariel Yelen is the author of the collection of poems I Was Working, published by Princeton University Press in 2024. Her poems have been published in Social Text, Mahkzin, The New Republic, BOMB, and elsewhere. She received a 2023-2024 Creative & Performing Arts Fulbright to Greece, has taught poetry and interdisciplinary courses for the School for Poetic Computation, Poetry Society of America, and other schools. As a former editor for the NYC-based publishing collaborative Futurepoem Books, she founded their digital space futurefeed. 

NOPF co-founder Bill Lavender is a poet, novelist, musician, carpenter and publisher living in New Orleans. His twelfth book of poetry and magnum opus, city of god, appeared from MadHat Press in 2026. My ID was published by BlazeVOX in October, 2019. His novel trilogy, Three Letters, (comprised of Q, Little A, and The Private I) was released in 2021 by Spuyten Duyvil. His verse memoir, Memory Wing, was published by Black Widow in 2011. A chapbook, surrealism, was published in 2016 and translated into Spanish by Enrique Solinas and Peter Thompson; the bilingual edition was released by Yauguru in Uruguay as surrealismo in 2017. Essays, fiction, poem-like objects and other ephemera appear regularly in Xavier Review, Fell Swoop, Southern Review, Jacket2 and other such print and online journals. 

He founded Lavender Ink, a small press devoted mainly to poetry, in 1995, and he founded Diálogos, an imprint devoted to cross-cultural literatures (mostly in translation) in 2011. Lavender Ink/Diálogos now has more than 200 books in print.

Read an interview with Bill about his poetics and about the press at Jacket2, or visit his Amazon author page.

He is the co-founder, with Megan Burns of Trembling Pillow Press, of the New Orleans Poetry Festival (i.e. this).

Skye Jackson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a graduate of the UNO Creative Writing Workshop. Her work has appeared in RHINO, The Southern Review, Palette Poetry, RATTLE and elsewhere. Her poetry has been a finalist for the Iowa Review Poetry Award, the RATTLE Poetry Prize, the RHINO Founders' Prize, and in 2021 she received the AWP Intro Journals Award. Jackson’s work was also selected by Billy Collins for inclusion in the Library of Congress Poetry 180 Project.  She has received support for her work from The Frost Place, The Key West Literary Seminar & Cave Canem. This summer, she will serve as Writer-in-Residence of the Jack Kerouac House. In 2024, she was appointed as the Chairwoman of the New Orleans Poetry Festival Board. Her debut poetry collection, Libre, has recently been published with Regalo Press and distributed by Simon & Schuster. She currently teaches at Xavier University. 

Sean F. Munro is a poet, professor of English, associate editor for Lavender Ink / Diálogos, & executive director of the New Orleans Poetry Festival. Sean also co-curates The Splice Poetry Series and founded LitWire: the literary events calendar of New Orleans. Recent or forthcoming poetry, criticism, and translation can be found in Annulet, The Texas Review, Jacket2, Some, Peel Lit, and mercury firs. More at seanfmunro.com

Jonathan Penton (he/him) founded the online journal Unlikely Stories in 1998, and still runs it as Editor-in-Chief. He is the Technical Director for the New Orleans Poetry Festival, and has served in editorial, management, and technical roles for numerous arts organizations, including Rigorous: a journal by BIPOC, MadHat, Inc., and Big Bridge. His own books of poems are A Limited Number of Miracles (Lavender Ink, 2025), BACKSTORIES (Argotist Ebooks, 2017), Standards of Sadiddy (Lit Fest Press, 2016), Prosthetic Gods (New Sins Press/Winged City Chapbooks, 2008), Painting Rust and Blood and Salsa (Unlikely Books, 2005), and Last Chap (Vergin’ Press, 2004). He lives in New Orleans with his family. Photo by Leona Strassberg Steiner.

Henry Goldkamp teaches writing and performance studies at Louisiana State University, hosts the reading series Splice, serves as associate editor of Tilted House, and acts as communications director for the New Orleans Poetry Festival. Books include Not My Circus (Ursus Americanus, 2025), JOY BUZZER: A Clown Show (Ricochet Editions, 2025), and Balloon Animal (Cloak, forthcoming 2026). More at henrygoldkamp.com.

Lisa Pasold is originally from Tiohtià:ke/Montréal and has published 6 books. Her 2012 book, Any Bright Horse, was nominated for Canada’s Governor General’s Award for Poetry. She has been writing daily poems for two decades; the resulting work has appeared in magazines such as Fence, Room, and New American Writing. Lisa taught Creative Writing at the American University in Paris, and has worked as a journalist for publications such as The Chicago Tribune and Billboard Magazine. www.lisapasold.com

Rodrigo Toscano is a poet and essayist based in New Orleans. He is the author of eleven books of poetry. His latest two books are The Cut Point (Counterpath, 2023), The Charm & The Dread (Fence Books, 2022). His previous books include In Range, Explosion Rocks Springfield, Deck of Deeds, Collapsible Poetics Theater (a National Poetry Series selection), To Leveling Swerve, Platform, Partisans, andThe Disparities. His poetry has appeared in over 20 anthologies, including Best American Poetry and Best American Experimental Poetry (BAX).  Toscano has received a New York State Fellowship in Poetry. He won the Edwin Markham 2019 prize for poetry. He works for the Labor Institute in conjunction with the United Steelworkers, the National Institute for Environmental Health Science, National Day Laborers Organizing Network educational / training projects that involve environmental and labor justice culture transformation. rodrigotoscano.com

Born & raised in New Orleans, Bernardo Wade tries at poems, catches elbows on the court, & rides his bike around Bloomington, IN, because IU funds his present period of studying with others. He currently serves as Editor & CNF Editor of Indiana Review. Though he’s published in a bunch of literary journals no one in his family has ever heard of, they remain proud of him, especially when they are featured in the poems. He's infatuated with Ed Roberson's question, "Can you O.D. on life?" Check out his website: bernardowade.com

Rachel Zavecz is a book artist, writer, and co-editor of the small press Carrion Bloom Books. Her book, The Book is a Tower Always Never Watching, is available from Cloak, and her writing has appeared in DREGINALD, Always Crashing, Fatal Flaw, DIAGRAM, Fairy Tale Review, and elsewhere. She received her MFA in Poetry from the University of Notre Dame, and her PhD in Fiction from the University of Utah. She teaches at Loyola University New Orleans. 

Samira Abed is a poet from California currently living in Iowa City. She is Palestinian-American and committed to Palestinian liberation. She is the co-editor, along with her friends, Hannah Piette and Scout Turkel, of Common Place, a journal of poetics: https://commonplacepoetics.com.

David Abel is a writer, editor, and interdisciplinary artist, and the proprietor of Passages Bookshop in Portland, Oregon. A founding member of the Spare Room reading series, now in its twenty-fourth year, he was a cofounder of Thirteen Hats, a collective of Portland writers and artists; a member of the Four Wall Cinema collective; and an inaugural Research Fellow of the Center for Art + Environment of the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno. His recent publications include a chapbook of poems, Equifinality, from Crane’s Bill in Albuquerque, NM; two books based on verbal performance scores — XIV Eclipses, published by Couch Press in Portland, and Selected Durations, published by the Black Rock Press at the University of Nevada in Reno — and a new edition, published by Redfoxpress in Ireland, of the visual narrative Carrier. The first volume of an ongoing hybrid-genre serial work, Sweep, is forthcoming from Chax Press in Tucson.

Carrie Olivia Adams lives in Chicago where she is the poetry editor for Black Ocean and the Promotions and Marketing Communications Director for the University of Chicago Press. Her books include The Book of Marys and Glaciers (forthcoming from Tupelo Press),  Be the thing of memory, Operating Theater, Forty-One Jane Doe’s, and Intervening Absence in addition to the chapbooks “Proficiency Badges,” “Grapple,” “Overture in the Key of F,” and “A Useless Window.” She writes the “Poetry & Biscuits” newsletter on Substack and curates a house reading series by the same name. When she’s not making poems, she’s making biscuits.

Hajri Aga is a writer from New York and an MFA student in poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has received fellowships and support from Brooklyn Poets, and her work was recently featured in the latest issue of Common Place Poetics. 

hunter a. allund is an MFA candidate in fiction at Brown University. They currently write, paint, and live in Providence RI with their partner, two cats, and an imaginary greyhound named Gauss.

Emily Barton Altman is the author of two chapbooks, "Bathymetry" (Present Tense Pamphlets, 2016), and "Alice Hangs Her Map" (dancing girl press, 2019). Recent poems are appearing or forthcoming in Bone Bouquet, Gigantic Sequins, The Iowa Review Online, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of a Poets & Writers Amy Award and received her MFA from New York University. She is currently pursuing a PhD in English and Creative Writing at the University of Denver where she is a conversations editor for Denver Quarterly.

Toby Altman is the author of Jewel Box (Essay Press, 2025), Discipline Park (Wendy’s Subway, 2023), and Arcadia, Indiana (Plays Inverse, 2017). He has held fellowships from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in the Fine Arts, MacDowell, and the National Endowment for the Arts, where he was a 2021 Poetry Fellow. He teaches at Michigan State University, where he is Assistant Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (RCAH) and Director of the RCAH Center for Poetry. 

nawa angel a.h., widely known as Moonyeka, is a chimeric creator with a multi-embodied presence in performance, qt nightlife, writing, experimental media, dance, teaching artistry and divination praxis. They center kilig as a compass to conjure erotically charged revolutions with animistic unapology, risque', and Ilocano imagination.

nawa's past publications can be found in smoke and mold; Khôra; The Holy Hour anthology by Working Girls Press; Seventh Wave's On Queer Family Anthology; Instruction Manual for a New Era with PNW Conceptual Art Center; Lilac Peril. They have been the recipient of residencies, awards and fellowships including Tin House, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art CXL, In Surreal Life, George Newsome Humanitarian Award, Mary Gates Research Award, Arc Fellowship, and Andy Warhol Foundation's Precipice Fund Award. nawa exists in the in-between, frequently emerging on Tongva, Chumash, Chinook, Puyallup, Duwamish lands; the Coast Salish sea. Waling waling palpitations is their first book.

Stine An is a poet, literary translator, and performer based in New York City. Her work has appeared in Best Literary Translations, Best American Experimental Writing, Poem-a-Day, Words Without Borders, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She holds a BA in Literature from Harvard College and an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University and is the recipient of fellowships and grants from The Poetry Project, the PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, Yaddo, ALTA, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her publications include Today's Morning Vocabulary by Yoo Heekyung (Zephyr Press, 2025), S_MMER CR_SH (Sarabande Books, 2025), and Comet & Star written by Lee Juck and illustrated by Lee Jinhee (Enchanted Lion Books, 2024). Her debut poetry collection, B-Dragon Suite, is a winner of the 2023 Nightboat Poetry Prize. Her interdisciplinary work explores diasporic poetics, experimental translation, and virtual performance. You can find her online @gregorspamsa.

Rob Arnold is a CHamoru poet, essayist, and arts leader whose work has appeared in Ploughshares, Gettysburg Review, Poetry Northwest, RED INK, The Volta, and Solstice, among others, and has been anthologized in New CHamoru Literature and Na'huyong: An Anthology of CHamoru Literature. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, where he serves as Executive Director of Poets House.

Sloan Asakura (she/he/they) is a poet and memoirist from Los Angeles. They are a '22 Periplus Fellow, a '23 Tin House Resident, a '25 Tin House Summer Workshop Alumnus, and a '26 candidate for their MFA in Literary Arts at Brown University. They are the winner of the 2024 CRAFT Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest. Their work can be found in magazines such as Zone 3, Joyland, Tupelo Quarterly, and more. 

Darius Atefat-Peckham is the author of Book of Kin winner of the Autumn House Poetry Prize (Autumn House Press 2024). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Magazine, Poem-a-Day, The Georgia Review, Indiana Review, Shenandoah, The Journal, Rattle and elsewhere. He’s also been included in many anthologies, including My Shadow is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora (University of Texas Press). In 2018, he was selected by the Library of Congress as a National Student Poet. Atefat-Peckham is also the author of the chapbook How Many Love Poems, (Seven Kitchens Press) and editor of his mother’s, Susan Atefat-Peckham’s, posthumous collection Deep Are These Distances Between Us (CavanKerry Press, 2023). He grew up in Huntington, West Virginia, attended Interlochen Arts Academy, and received his Bachelor of Arts in English and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard. He’s currently a Poetry Fellow at the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas.

Gauri Awasthi, born and raised in Kanpur, India, has received fellowships from Yaddo, Hambidge Center, Hedgebrook, Djerassi, and other notable organizations. She got her MFA in Creative Writing from McNeese State University in 2021. She lives in New York City, where she is an editor at The Offing and Elle Magazine, teaches creative writing, and makes films. Her poetry collection, Mother Wound, is forthcoming from Trio House Press in October 2026. 

Mike Bagwell is a poet, software engineer, visual artist, and translator. He is currently working on a multimedia, experimental translation of Gilgamesh from Akkadian and Sumerian that will take hundreds of years to complete. He received an MFA from Sarah Lawrence, and his work appears in Poetry Northwest, Action Spectacle, The Texas Review, ITERANT, Sprung Formal, Heavy Feather, HAD, Tyger Quarterly, Annulet, and others. Recent chapbooks include Poem of Thanks: A Court of Wands (Metatron 2025), A Collision of Soul in Midair (Bottlecap), and micros from Ghost City and Rinky Dink. He runs the Ghost Harmonics reading series in Philly. Find him at mikebagwell.me, @low_gh0st, or playing dragons with his daughters.

Daniel Baker is a poet from San Francisco. He is the author of The Streamers (Spiral Editions) and the editor of Topos Press. His work appears or is forthcoming in The Baffler, Annulet, Denver Quarterly, Works & Days, and other publications. He lives in New York City.

Theo Ellin Ballew is half Fresno cowboy and half Baltimore Jew. She grew up on 4-to-11-hour drives between cities in the greater Southwest. All her poems are fictional; many are bedtime stories. An Inch Thick came out last year with Ornithopter Press, and Bedtime Stories for the Worshiped is forthcoming with Wonder Press. She also writes code to free and/or fuck with the internet via net.art and sites like Red Calendar. Her work has been featured widely and you can see most of it at theo.land/.

Roberto Balò is a poet and the author of several collections. One of his recent work, Saga, was first published in Italian in 2019 by Porto Seguro Editore and the English/Italian edition, translated by Robert Fitterman, is forthcoming with Lavender Ink Press (2026). His most recent collection of poems, Balogrammi, is published in Italy by Mignon (2025). He is a member of the artist-poet collective Collective Task. He teaches Italian as a second language and trains educators in digital teaching methodologies for Italian L2/LS. 

Martine Bellen’s most recent poetry collection is An Anatomy of Curiosity (MadHat Press, 2023). She is the author of nine other books, including This Amazing Cage of Light: New and Selected Poems (Spuyten Duyvil), The Vulnerability of Order (Copper Canyon Press), and Tales of Murasaki and Other Poems, which won the National Poetry Series. Ms. Bellen's poetry has been anthologized in The Best American Poetry, edited by Elaine Equi, 2023 (Scribner), Poetry Is Bread, edited by Tina Cane, 2025 (Nirala Publications), and other books. Bellen is the librettist for the following operas that have been performed throughout the United States: Ovidiana, based on Ovid’s Metamorphoses (composer, Matthew Greenbaum), AH! Opera No-Opera (in collaboration with David Rosenboom), and Moon in the Mirror (composer: Stephen Dembski and text cowriter: Zhang Er). Bellen’s poetry has been translated into Chinese, German, and Italian, among other languages, and she has translated the Chinese poets Ma Lan and Zhang Er's work into English. She has been a recipient of the City Artist Corps Grant, Queens Art Fund, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Fund for Poetry, and has received a residency from the Rockefeller Foundation at the Bellagio Center in Bellagio, Italy. She is a contributing editor of Conjunctions. Her website is www.martinebellen.com.

Eric Tyler Benick wrote the fox hunts (Beautiful Days, 2023), Memory Field; A Travelogue of Forgetting (Long Day, 2024) and Terracotta Fragments (antiphony, 2026). With Nick Rossi, he runs Ursus Americanus Press, a publisher of shorter poetics. His recent work has appeared in Apartment, Bennington Review, Brooklyn Review, Chicago Review, Copper Nickel, Harvard Advocate, NOIR SAUNA, and Puerto Del Sol.  He lives in Brooklyn and teaches postcolonial and anti-carceral literatures at Wagner College where he is criminally adjunct. 

Jenkin Benson is a graduate student, musician, and poet. New Mundo Press published his debut full-length book of poems are we rocking with this? August 2025. Publications and music here: https://linktr.ee/jenkinbenson

Ashwini Bhasi is a bioinformatician and interdisciplinary artist from Kerala, India. Her hybrid work merges scientific data, poetry and visual art to explore the lived experience of chronic illness and disability. Ashwini has over 18 years of professional experience analyzing large-scale human genome datasets to identify genetic markers and mutations in hereditary disorders and cancers. She is the first-author of multiple peer-reviewed research articles that address the growing need for user-centered software design for scientific discovery. A Tin House Summer Workshop Scholar, Ashwini is the recipient of the Shaw Memorial Poetry Prize from Dunes Review, a Good Hart Artist Residency, a Voices of Color Fellowship from Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and a Room Project Fellowship. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Black Warrior Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, DIAGRAM, Redivider, Frontier Poetry, Honey Literary, RHINO, The Offing and elsewhere. Musth, the winner of the 2020 CutBank chapbook contest, is her first poetry collection.

 You can explore her work here: linktr.ee/ashwinibhasi

Camille Bloomfield explores poetry through writing, performance, digital media, translation, research... After a thesis on the group Oulipo, she co-founded Outranspo, an international collective dedicated to creative translation, and joined Oplepo, an Italian group of writers close to Oulipo. Her poetry circulates as much on social networks as on stage, often in dialogue with musicians or photographers. She directed the "les gens connectés" collection at Venterniers, where she published Les gens qui datent (2022) with illustrations by Béatrice Bloomfield, and later Poèmes typodermiques (2023), with photographies by Nicolas Southon. Her translation-recreation, with Valentin Decoppet, of La Machine by G. Perec and E. Helmlé is published by Nouvel Attila in October 2025.
https://camillebloomfield.com/
https://linktr.ee/camillebloomfield 

isabel boutiette is a poet and editor and occasional multimedia artist. recently practicing a poetics like unearthing, glitching, composing, refusing. her work has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail and poetry.org, and her chapbook PARADISE HD is out with Spiral Editions and her short poetry film CRASH COURSE ON NUMBERS was an official selection at the Aotearoa Poetry Film Festival.  

Moon Boyoung is a poet and essayist from South Korea. Her debut collection, Pillar of Books, won the Kim Soo-young Prize and was translated into English in 2021. She has published three poetry collections, two fiction works, and five essay collections. She also runs Moon Letter, a handwritten postal project she has sent worldwide since 2018. In 2023, she joined the IWP in Iowa and is currently in the MFA program at the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program.

@opendooropenit (Instagram)

Madeleine Braun (b. 1989 in Winnipeg, MB) is a poet and painter living in Brooklyn, NY. Her poetry has appeared in Second Factory, The Stockholm Review of Literature, Matrix, Elderly Magazine, and BOMB, among other places. She co-authored "TrueBlock" (2017) with Parker Menzimer. Her first book of poetry "Lethe" was published by 1080Press in 2022. She runs the reading series New New York Poets, a quarterly reading series, out of A.D. Gallery in Chinatown. 

Susan Briante is the author of Defacing the Monument (2020), essays on immigration, archives, aesthetics, and the state, winner of the Poetry Foundation’s Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism in 2021. Her work can be found in The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Best American Poetry (2020), and The Brooklyn Rail. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of Arizona. She directs the Southwest Field Studies in Writing Program, bringing students to the US-Mexico border to collaborate with community groups. Her book 13 Questions for the Next Economy: New and Selected Works was published by Noemi Press in October 2025. 

Jace Brittain is the author of the novel Sorcererer (Schism) and a founding editor of Carrion Bloom Books. Their writing, poetry, and translations have appeared in or are forthcoming from Mercury Firs, ANMLY, Annulet, Propagule, Grotto Journal, and elsewhere.

Sarah Brockhaus is an MFA student at Louisiana State University and has a bachelor’s in English from Salisbury University. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and the Pushcart Prize. Her poems are published or forthcoming in The Greensboro Review, American Literary Review, Jabberwock Review, Cider Press Review and elsewhere. She is a co-editor of The Shore Poetry. 

Hannah Brooks-Motl was born and raised in Wisconsin. She is author of the poetry collections The New Years (2014), M (2015), Earth (2019), and Ultraviolet of the Genuine (2025), named a finalist for the New England Book Award, as well as chapbooks from the Song Cave, arrow as aarow, and The Year. She earned an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and PhD from the University of Chicago. She lives in western Massachusetts. 

Vincent Broqua is a writer and translator. He works with text, video and narrative for a politics of gaiety. He writes in French and English. Vincent Broqua teaches in the MA in Literary Creation at University Paris 8, where he is a professor of North American arts and literature. With Abigail Lang and Olivier Brossard, he co-curates the Double Change and the Poets and Critics series. 

His book Photocall, projet d'attendrissement was awarded the 2021 Prize for gay novel/poetry in France. Recovery, translated by Cole Swensen, was published this year by Pamenar Press. Other books include: Récupérer (2025), La langue du garçon (2023), Et là je me mets en danseuse (with Anne Portugal, 2025), Au telephone avec Jacques (2025), Gaiamen (2025). 

He is a translator of many poets & writers, such as Caroline Bergvall, Jim Dine, Thalia Field, Kevin Killian, Monica de la Torre, Karen Sandhu, Layli Long Soldier, Tracie Morris, Redell Olsen, and Anne Waldman. 

Emily Bark Brown is a poet from Mobile, Alabama and Brooklyn, New York. They co-edit Hot Pink, an online poetry magazine. They received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Recent work can be found in The Poetry Project Newsletter, mercury firs, Noir Sauna, Bennington Review, Oversound, and blush, among others. Their chapbook, Welcome to August, is forthcoming in 2025 from The Year. They work at Nightboat Books as Managing Editor and host a reading series in public spaces around New York City. You can find them online at https://www.emilybarkbrown.com/poems and on Instagram @bedgloom

Poet Lee Ann Brown is the author of five books beginning with Polyverse (Sun & Moon, 1999), and most recently Other Archer (PURH, 2015). She was the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow at the University of Cambridge and is Professor of English at St. John's University in New York City. She was born in Japan, raised in North Carolina and now lives in New York City at Torn Page where she curates an event space for poetry, theater and developing cross-genre performance. She's also the founding editrix of Tender Buttons Press: https://www.tenderbuttonspress.com/ and her author website is: https://leeannbrownpoet.com/

William D. Buckingham is a New Orleans-based researcher, educator, writer, and musician. He is a founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Ethnomusicology. His doctoral dissertation was the first book-length study on the Isleño décima, a unique tradition of Spanish folk song from southeastern Louisiana, in over twenty years, and he founded the Institute for Public Ethnomusicology in order to build on his research and experience to reach wider audiences and work to sustain this beautiful and threatened tradition.

Since 2023, Will has directed the Louisiana Décima Project, digitizing and publishing an archive of field recordings that documented the diverse Spanish language traditions of twentieth-century Louisiana, and has collaborated with repositories, copyright holders, community members, researchers, and other stakeholders to develop public-facing resources with these materials to support language revitalization and music sustainability efforts for Louisiana's Spanish-language traditions.

His research has been published in the Jazz Archivist and Louisiana History, and he holds degrees in jazz studies and musicology from Tulane University, the MLIS and certificate in archival studies from Louisiana State University, and the PhD in ethnomusicology from the University of Chicago.

Mary Burger is a poet, prose writer, and visual artist whose work addresses fragmented consciousness and identity formation. Her books include the novella Sonny and the poetry and short prose collections Then Go On and A Partial Handbook for Navigators. She co-edited the anthology Biting the Error, featuring critical writings on innovative narrative forms. Her writing has appeared in literary journals such as The Brooklyn Rail and Denver Quarterly, and she has exhibited her visual works in juried exhibitions and solo shows.

Joshua Burton is a poet and educator from Houston, TX and received his MFA in poetry at Syracuse University. He is a 2019 Tin House Winter Workshop Scholar, 2019 Juniper Summer Writing Institute scholarship winner, 2019 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics fellowship finalist, received the Honorable Mention for the 2018 Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize, 2020 Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing finalist, and a 2023 Elizabeth George Foundation grant recipient. His work can be found in Mississippi Review, Gulf Coast, The Rumpus, Conduit, TriQuarterly, Black Warrior Review, Grist, and Indiana Review. His chapbook Fracture Anthology is currently out with Ethel and his debut poetry collection Grace Engine is out with the University of Wisconsin Press. 

David Buuck lives in Oakland, from where he edits Tripwire, a journal of poetics & pamphlet press (tripwirejournal.com). Books include Noise in the Face of (Roof Books 2016), SITE CITE CITY (Futurepoem, 2015) and An Army of Lovers, co-written with Juliana Spahr (City Lights, 2013), along with the chapbook The Riotous Outside (Commune Editions, 2018). He is the Academic Director of the Clemente Course in the Humanities at Oakland Adult Career Education and teaches at San Quentin's Prison University Program.

Sol Cabrini de la Ciudad is a performance artist, musician, poet-philosopher, filmmaker, and scholar from Chicago. She is the author of Tgirl.jpg, published by Roof Books, PhD candidate at Performance Studies, and author of the forthcoming book, Poetics of Unbeing with Duke University Press. Under the alias Sol Patches, she composes music that interweaves sonic experimentation with cultural memory. Cabrini’s creative and academic work is deeply shaped by the movement and interconnections between her Louisiana-Mississippi-Tennessee heritage and Illinois— sites she considers vital to expression, creolization, study, and celebration.

Marty Cain is the author of three books of poetry and hybrid writing: The Prelude (Action Books, 2023); The Wound Is (Not) Real: A Memoir (Trembling Pillow Press, 2021); and Kids of the Black Hole (Trembling Pillow Press 2017). Individual works appear in Best American Experimental Writing, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. A critical book, Making Place: Rural Infrastructure, Media, and D.I.Y. Poetic Community is under contract with Clemson University Press. In Ithaca, New York, he co-edits Garden-Door Press, is the vocalist for punk band Joyous Shrub, and works for Cornell University Library.

Wendy Call (she/ella) is author, co-editor, or (co)translator of nine books and two chapbooks, including the annual anthology she co-founded, Best Literary Translations. She has translated three books of trilingual (Isthmus Zapotec – Spanish – English) poetry by Irma Pineda. Her co-translation (with Shook) of poetry by Zoque poet Mikeas Sánchez won the International Latino Book Award and featured in the New York Times. She is a recent Fulbright Scholar to Colombia and Translator in Residence at the University of Iowa. 

Miriam Calleja is a poet, artist, translator, writer, and workshop leader. Her full poetry collections are Pomegranate Heart (EDE Books, 2015) and Inside (EDE Books, 2016). Her poetry chapbooks are Remember (Stamparija Reljic, 2020), Stranger Intimacy (Stamparija Reljic, 2020), and Come Closer, I Don’t Mind the Silence  (BottleCap Press, 2023). Her first translation from the Maltese is Variations on Silence (PoetryWala, 2025).  Her work has appeared in Taos, Plume, Humana Obscura, and elsewhere. Miriam is the winner of the table // FEAST 2025 translation competition. She was the 2025 Artist-in-Residence for the Mobile Medical Museum. Miriam is a co-editor at Brick Road Poetry Press and the 2025 prose in translation co- editor at table // FEAST. Miriam is from Malta and lives in Birmingham, AL.

Jomar Canales Conde is a writer, poet and photographer from Carolina, Puerto Rico. He holds an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master's Degree in European Literary Cultures from the Universities of Bologna and Lisbon, and a Bachelor's Degree in Hispanic Studies from the University of Puerto Rico. He currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where he is a Literary Arts MFA candidate at Brown University.

Shari Caplan (she/her) is a word witch with a passion for enlivening our collective imaginative potential. Her work lives at the intersection of poetry, theater, and visual art. She’s the author of Exhibitionist (Lily Poetry Review Books, Paul Nemser Prize Winner), The Red Shoes; a Phantasmagoric Ballet on Paper, (Lambhouse Books), Advice from a Siren (Dancing Girl Press), and VOX FOX (forthcoming, Lambhouse Books). She has performed internationally as a poet and actor in The Poetry Circus, The Fairy Tale Poetry Walking Tour, and The Poetry Brothel, an international immersive cabaret series founded by The Poetry Society of New York. Shari’s work has appeared in Gulf Coast, Painted Bride Quarterly, Sinister Wisdom, Grimoire, LUNA LUNA, Drunk Monkeys, and others. Shari’s work has earned her a scholarship to The Home School in Hudson, a fellowship to The Vermont Studio Center, as well as nominations for a Bettering American Poetry Award, Pushcart Prize, and Rhylsing Award. Find her work, workshops, monthly love letter to creativity, and upcoming events at ShariCaplan.com.

Tom Jeep Carlson delivers flowers, teaches composition at Metropolitan State University of Denver, holds a couple graduate degrees of debatable use-value, a BA from The Evergreen State College, and a pile of debt he will pay off when he’s rich. He has been published in Edge City (Noco Books), Common Place Poetics, peellit, Metapsychosis, digital vestiges (Black Sun Lit), and The Ballet Review. His poems attempt whale syntax, afterlife physics, hosting gods, the body’s mode of thought, and the poetics of poetry’s obsolescence.
 

Julie Carr is the author of fifteen books of poetry and prose, including The Garden (Essay Press and Pamenar Press 2025), Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West (University of Nebraska Press 2023) and Underscore (Omnidawn Books 2024). Earlier books include Climate, co-written with Lisa Olstein (Essay Press 2022), Real Life: An Installation (Omnidawn Books 2018), Objects from a Borrowed Confession (Ahsahta 2017), and Someone Shot my Book (University of Michigan Press 2018). In 2023 Omnidawn Books reissued her 2010 book,100 Notes on Violence. With Jeffrey Robinson she is the co-editor of Active Romanticism (University of Alabama Press 2015). Her co-translations (with Jennifer Pap) of Leslie Kaplan’s Excess-The Factory and The Book of Skies, were published by Commune Editions and Pamenar Press, respectively. Overflow, a trilogy, will be published sequentially over the next few years.

Carr has recently collaborated with dance artists K.J. Holmes, video artist and poet Carolina Ebeid, and musician Ben Roberts. With Tim Roberts she is the co-founder of Counterpath Press, Counterpath Gallery, and Counterpath Community Garden in Denver. She hosts the podcast Return the Key: Jewish Questions for Everyone. www.juliecarrpoet.com; www.counterpathpress.org; https://www.juliecarrpoet.com/return-the-key

Emilio Carrero is the contributing editor for Southeast Review and a 2025 Community Anthology Editor for Seventh Wave magazine. Their work appears in Ocean State Review, SleepingFish, and Black Warrior Review. They are the author of Autobiography of the [Undead] from Calamari Press (2025). 

Rosemary Carroll is a multimedia artist, choreographer, video-maker, and all-around artist crafting from the edge of discipline and rebellion. Her essays, poems, videos, images, and performance text have been published in periodicals with the Poetry Project, Ugly Duckling Presse, Tilted House, and Noco Books and anthologized by Hexentexte and Ignota Books. She served as an editor and contributor to the dance magazine Contact Quarterly. She frequently puts out independent publications. Look out for her chapbook THE POSSIBILITY OF AN ISLAND with Ugly Duckling Presse in 2026.

Recent multi media projects include Interpretive Dances for Sasquatch which received support from Axle Contemporary and the Tasajillo Foundation and a re-imagination of the 1972 installation Wo-Man House with Judy Chicago and a group of contemporary artists. Rosemary’s installation Criss Cross Manifesto in Motion explored feminist art history, aesthetic manifestos, and tropes of the American West.  

As an active oral historian and archivist, she documented performing arts collections for the American Dance Festival, Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound, the Dance Heritage Coalition, and the Library of Congress. 

DeeSoul Carson is a poet and educator from San Diego, CA. A Stanford alum, his work is featured in Muzzle Magazine, AGNI, The Offing, & elsewhere. For his work, DeeSoul has received a National Endowment for the Arts and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, as well as fellowships from the NYU MFA program, the Watering Hole, and the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference. His debut full-length, The Laughing Barrel, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in Spring 2027. Find more of his work at deesoulpoetry.com

Quinn Carver Johnson (they/them) is a poet, printmaker, and teaching artist from Tulsa, Oklahoma. They are the author of The Perfect Bastard (Curbstone Books, 2023), winner of the 2024 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ+ Poetry. Their work has also appeared in World Literature Today, Rappahannock Review, Right Hand Pointing, Cimarron Review, Red Earth Review, and elsewhere. Carver Johnson is a curator for the Woody Guthrie Center. They are the host of People's Poetry, a reading series dedicated to protest poetics. 

Michael Cavuto is a poet living in Queens, NYC. His most recent book is Pyre (Spiral Editions, 2025). He is a founding editor of the Slow Poetry in America Newsletter and auric press. 

Stephanie Cawley is a poet in Philadelphia. They are the author of No More Flowers (Birds, LLC) and My Heart But Not My Heart (Slope Editions). Recent poems have been published in Protean, blush, and the tiny. More at stephaniecawley.com.

Laura Cesarco Eglin is a poet and translator from Uruguay. She is the author of six collections of poetry, including the chapbooks Between Gone and Leaving—Home (dancing girl press, 2023) and Time/Tempo: The Idea of Breath (PRESS 254, 2022). Her poems and translations (from the Spanish, Portuguese, Portuñol, and Galician), have appeared in many journals such as Asymptote, Figure 1, Eleven Eleven, Puerto del Sol, Copper Nickel, SRPR, Arsenic Lobster, International Poetry Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Columbia Poetry Review, Timber, and more. Cesarco Eglin is the translator of claus and the scorpion by the Galician author Lara Dopazo Ruibal (co•im•press, 2022), longlisted for both the 2023 PEN Award in Poetry in Translation and the 2023 National Translation Award in Poetry. She is also the translator of Of Death. Minimal Odes by the Brazilian author Hilda Hilst (co•im•press), which was the winner of the 2019 Best Translated Book Award. Cesarco Eglin is the publisher of Veliz Books and teaches creative writing at the University of Houston-Downtown. More at lauracesarcoeglin.com

Joel Chace has published work in print and electronic magazines such as Lana Turner, Survision,  Eratio, Otoliths, Word For/Word, Golden Handcuffs Review, New American Writing, and The Brooklyn Rail.  His full-length collections include matter no matter, from Paper Kite Press, Humors, from Paloma Press, Threnodies, from Moria Books, fata morgana, from Unlikely Books, and Maths, from Chax Press.  Underrated Provinces is just out from Mad Hat Press.  Bone Chapel is forthcoming from Chax.  For more than forty years, Chace was a working jazz pianist. He is an NEH Fellow.  

Emily Chan is a Berkeley-based poet and art writer. She received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her poetry has appeared in Second Factory, The Denver Quarterly, The Brooklyn Review and DIAGRAM. 

Jack Chelgren is a writer from Seattle, currently at work on a translation of Mexican avant-garde poet Gilberto Owen's book Línea (1930). Excerpts from Jack's translations of Owen have recently been published in Asymptote and New Mundo Press’s online magazine, La Lancha.

A PhD candidate in English at the University of Chicago, Jack is writing a dissertation about the influence of cinema on literary modernism in the Americas. Jack's own poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the zine Marpargo (edited by Léon Pradeau), Hot Pink Mag, Bedfellows, Tyger Quarterly, Pider, and SPAM; his critical writing has appeared in La Mariposa Mundial, Chicago Review, Tripwire, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Poetry Northwest. Jack is the nonfiction editor of Chicago Review.

Cecily Chen is a writer and translator from Beijing, China. She is currently completing her PhD in English literature at the University of Chicago, where she works on experimental Asian American literature, Marxist aesthetics, and negative affect. You can find her translations in The Poetry Project Newsletter, the tiny, SARKA, DISCOUNT GUILLOTINE, Hot Pink, mercury firs, and elsewhere. She is the poetry editor at Chicago Review. 

Yuyi Chen is from Sichuan, China. First coming to the US in 2017, they are now in a PhD program in anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Their first chapbook Erotic Continent is out now from Discount Guillotine; The Academics is forthcoming from Blue Bag Press. They go by Echo.

Serena Chopra (Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, Seattle University) is a teacher, writer, dancer, filmmaker and a visual and performance artist. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Denver and is a MacDowell Fellow, a Kundiman Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar.  Her third book, "A Catalog of Future Mercies" is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2026.

Kelly Clare is an artist, writer, and curator based in Western Massachusetts. Author of the chapbooks demonstration forest (Community Mausoleum, 2025) and NEARLY EARLY ARTLY NEVER (Greying Ghost, 2024), their multidisciplinary work can be found in Fence, The Digital Review, Prelude, and Ugly Duckling’s Second Factory. They are an editor at Ghost Proposal. 

Elizabeth Clark Wessel is a poet, translator, and small press editor based in Stockholm, Sweden. She’s the author of None of It Belongs to Me (Game Over Books 2024), and her fifth chapbook Everything Small Is Moving, a winner of the Spoon River Poetry Review Spoonfuls Chapbook Contest, is forthcoming in April of 2026. She was shortlisted for the Bernard Shaw Prize in 2025 for her translation of The Eighth House by Linda Segtnan, and her translation of The Home of the Drowned by the award-winning Sámi writer Elin Anna Labba is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota press in 2026. She co-founded Argos Books with poets Iris Cushing and E.C. Belli in 2010.

Nandi Comer served as the 2nd Poet Laureate of the state of Michigan from 2023 to 2025. She is the author of the chapbook, American Family: A Syndrome (Finishing Line Press).Her debut poetry collection, Tapping Out (Triquarterly), won the Society of Midland Authors Award and Julie Suk Award. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo, Modern Ancient Brown, Mass Moca, the Academy of American Poets, among others. She currently serves as the 2025-2026 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and as a co-Director of Detroit Lit.

Ry Cook (they/she) is a Brooklyn-based poet/performer who was recently awarded the Belladonna* Nonbinary Poetics residency. Their work has been published in the New Republic, Baffler, Brooklyn Rail, Peel Lit, BOMB, Iterant, Archway Editions, the Poetry Project Footnotes Series, and others. Their first chapbook, Freak of Nature, was released through Choo Choo Press this past year. Their second, ASUSHUNAMIR, comes out in Fall 2026 through Blue Bag Press. They teach writing at Pratt Institute, and help manage programs at the Academy of American Poets. They also co-run the "Unnamed Reading Series" with poet Aiden Farrell.
 

MC-S Born and raised in Worcestershire, England. Author of over a dozen books, lives and teaches in Boise, Idaho.

Stella Corso is the author of the poetry collections Green Knife (Rescue Press, 2023) and TANTRUM (Rescue Press, 2017) along with the chapbooks the people were lovely, but I was not (Bateau Press, 2025), Taboo Vivant (Blush Lit, 2022) and Wind & the Augur (Sixth Finch, 2021). She is a founding member of the Connecticut River Valley Poets’ Theater (CRVPT) and cohost of The Ritter Podcast. 

 In the mid-90s, Brenda Coultas moved to New York City to work as staff at the Poetry Project.  Her books include The Marvelous Bones of Time (2008) and A Handmade Museum (2003) from Coffee House Press. Coultas’ more recent works, both from Wesleyan University Press, include The Tatters (2014), an elegy to print, and The Writing of an Hour, an ars poetica (2022).  

Kathryn Cowles’s The Strange Wondrous Works of Eleanor Eleanor won Fence’s Modern Poets Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s di Castagnola Work-in-Progress Prize. Her other books are Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World (Milkweed) and Eleanor, Eleanor, not your real name (Bearstar). Recent poems/collages in Best American Experimental Writing, Boston Review, Diagram, Free Verse, Georgia Review, New American Writing, Verse, and elsewhere. She earned her doctorate in poetry from the U of Utah and teaches English and Creative Writing at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, where she directs the Trias Writer’s Residency (rotating) and co-edits the multi-modal Beyond Category section of Seneca Review. kathryncowles.com

Dorsey Craft is the author of A Brief History of Accidental Inventions (Texas Review Press, forthcoming 2026) and Plunder (Bauhan Publishing, 2020), which was the winner of the 2019 May Sarton NH Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared recently in Adroit Journal, Copper Nickel, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She teaches at the University of North Florida and serves as Assistant Poetry Editor at Agni. She is also the co-organizer of the Dreamboat Poetry Series in Jacksonville, FL. 

Alana Craib (they/she) is a writer and artist from upstate New York. Her work is often concerned with matters of love, green burial, queer bodies, mothers and grandmothers, ghosts and memory, the kitchen, and the bog. Their writing has most recently been featured in Cleaver Magazine, The Plentitudes, Motif, Antiphony, december, Creation Magazine, and The Tiny Journal. Alana is a recipient of the 2024 Andrea K. Willison Poetry Prize and the 2025 Feldman Prize in Fiction. They hold a BA in Creative Writing and Literary History from Sarah Lawrence College. Alana currently lives in Providence, RI, where she is an MFA candidate in Fiction at Brown University. In their free time, Alana enjoys playing on the guitar, collecting sentimental objects, collage, and dozing. You can find more work at alana-craib.com as well as @dozy.girl on Instagram.

Originally from Louisiana, Brody Parrish Craig (they/them) is the author of The Patient is an Unreliable Historian & the chapbook Boyish, which won the 2019 Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Prize. They edited Twang Anthology, a collection of TGNC+ artists & writers tied to the south/midwest.

Joel Craig is the author of the poetry collections Humanoid and The White House (Green Lantern Press) and has created and performed commissioned work as part of the Lit & Luz Festival, and Ekphest. He co-founded and hosted the Danny’s Reading Series in Chicago from 2001-2015. Recent work can be found in mercury firs, The Bathhouse Magazine, FE magazine, TYPO, and Windfall Room. He lives and works in Chicago, IL.

​jason b. crawford (He/They) born in Washington DC and raised in Lansing, MI, is the author of Year of the Unicorn Kidz. Their second collection, YEET! is the winner of the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Prize and will be published Fall 2025. They have been published in POETRY Magazine, Academy of American Poets, Cincinnati Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, RHINO Poetry, among others. They are a 2023 Emerging Writers Fellow for Lambda Literary and hold their MFA in Poetry from The New School.

Teri Ellen Cross Davis is the author of a more perfect Union, 2019 winner of The Journal/Charles B. 

Wheeler Poetry Prize  and Haint, winner of the 2017 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry.  She is the 2022 recipient of the Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award and the Poetry Society of America’s 2020 Robert H. Winner Memorial Prize. She has received fellowships and scholarships to Cave Canem, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Hedgebrook, Community of Writers Poetry Workshop, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and more. Her work has appeared in print, online, and in many journals and anthologies including: Harvard Review, PANK,  Poetry Ireland Review, and Kenyon Review.  She  shares her home in Maryland with her husband, poet Hayes Davis and their children.

Paul Cunningham is the Creative Writing Program Manager at the University of Notre Dame, where he also teaches and co-manages Action Books. He is the author of Brillo (Lavender Ink, 2025), Sociocide at the 24/7 (DIAGRAM, 2025), and two titles from Schism Press: Fall Garment (2022) and The House of the Tree of Sores (2020). He is also one of the collaborators in Katrine Øgaard Jensen's Ancient Algorithms (Sarabande Books, 2025). 

Chris Daniels (Manhattan Island, 1956) is a self-taught, feral translator of global Lusophone poetry whose work has appeared in print and online literary journals all over the world. He has published seven books of translations: On the Shining Screen of the Eyelids (Josely Vianna Baptista, with artwork by Francisco Faria. Manifest Press, 2003); Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro and Collected Later Poems of Álvaro de Campos (Fernando Pessoa. Shearsman, 2007/2009); The Hammer (Adelaide Ivánova. Commune Editions, 2019); un cuerpo negro / a black body (Lubi Prates. Nueva York Poetry Press, 2020 [translated in collaboration with Grace Holleran]); One Impossible Step: Selected Poems of Orides Fontela (Nightboat, 2023); and Sometimes I Wonder If Fred Was Happy Here (Adelaide Ivánova. Tripwire, 2024). First Epistle to the Amphibians, his translation of selected poems by Ricardo Domeneck, will be published by World Poetry Books in 2026.

Zack Darsee was born around noon on a Tuesday. He is the co-author of From the Pocket of Agent Dickinson (Inside the Castle), a collaborative, lysergic detective novel, co-written with Elise Houcek. He is also the author of various chapbooks and pamphlets, namely BELL LOGIC (Spiral Editions) and Anzündkind (Creative Writing Department). Together with Nadia Marcus, they run TABLOID Press in Berlin. This work continues.

Geffrey Davis is the author of One Wild Word Away (BOA Editions, 2024); Night Angler (BOA Editions, 2019), winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets; and Revising the Storm (BOA Editions, 2014), winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and a finalist for The Legacy/Zora Award in Poetry. A recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Bread Loaf, Cave Canem, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Whiting Foundation, Davis has poems published or forthcoming in The Atlantic, The Nation, New England Review, The ​New York Times, The New Yorker, Orion Magazine, Oxford American, Ploughshares, and Poetry Magazine. Raised by the Pacific Northwest, he teaches creative writing at University of Arkansas, is core faculty of The Rainier Writing Workshop, and serves as Poetry Editor for Iron Horse Literary Review.

Zan de Parry wrote and illustrated the book Cold Dogs (The Song Cave) and has written and illustrated smaller books with Topos Press, Tabloid Publications, The Creative Writing Department, Spiral Editions, and more. Lots of work can be found online. He runs Keith LLC Press with his brother Matthew Hodges. 

MARIE DE QUATREBARBES (b. 1984) is the author of several books of poetry, as well as a novel inspired by the life of Aby Warburg, and the recipient of the 2020 Paul-Verlaine Prize from the Academie Française. She published La tête et les cornes, a poetry and translation review, republished the complete poems of Michel Couturier (L’ablatif absolu, La tête et les cornes), and edited an anthology dedicated to contemporary poetry by young French women (Madame tout le monde, Le Corridor bleu). Since 2023, she is the co-manager of the French publishing house Éditions Corti. She lives and works in Paris.

Beatrix Liv Delcarmen is a poet and artist from Minneapolis, who has spent their adult life living on the East Coast, where they received their BA from Temple University for Creative Writing. Their work often searches their own lineages of migration through themes of departure, haunting, heritage, water and erasure, weaving together multiple time paths in order to question contemporary structures of colonization. Their work can be found in The Academy of American Poets. They currently reside in Providence, pursuing their MFA in Poetry at Brown University.

Moriana Delgado is a Mexico City writer. She is the author of the poetry collection, Peces de pelea (Libros UNAM, 2022), and the chapbook all blue awnings (If a Leaf Falls Press, 2024). A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Illinois Chicago. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Foundation, The Poetry Review, Nightboat and elsewhere. 

Nicole Cecilia Delgado (www.nicolececiliadelgado.net) is a poet, translator, and book artist born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her writing, often reviewed within the framework of ecofeminism and land art, explores the subtleties and contrasts of everyday Puerto Rican and Caribbean life. Her collection of poems Periodo especial (Ediciones Aguadulce & La Impresora, 2019), deals with the fiscal crisis in Puerto Rico through the socioeconomic mirrors of the Greater Antilles. She recently published A mano/By Hand, an autobiographical essay about independent publishing (Ugly Duckling Presse Pamphlet Series 2020, La Impresora/EEE, 2023), and the bilingual poetry anthology Adjacent Islands/islas adyacentes (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022, translated to English by Urayoán Noel).  She is the founder and co-director of La Impresora, a poetry press and Risograph print shop dedicated to small-scale publishing work in Puerto Rico. She was awarded a Letras Boricuas Fellowship in 2025.

Jesse DeLong  works as Assistant Director of Creative Writing at Louisiana State University. His books include The Amateur Scientist's Notebook (Baobab Press) and The Vinegar in Our Hearts (Cornerstone Press). Other work has appeared in the anthologies Best New Poets 2011 and Feast: Poetry and Recipes for a Full Seating at Dinner.  Find him on x @jessemdelong or Bluesky @jessemdelong.bsky.social.

Danielle Cadena Deulen is the author of four books and a chapbook. Her most recent poetry collection, Desire Museum (BOA Editions) won a 2024 Lambda Literary Award. Her previous publications include Our Emotions Get Carried Away Beyond Us, which won the Barrow Street Book Contest, American Libretto, which won the Sow’s Ear Chapbook Contest; The Riots, which won the AWP Prize in Creative Nonfiction and the GLCA New Writers Award; and Lovely Asunder, which won the Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize and the Utah Book Award. She served as a Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. She has been the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, an Oregon Literary Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize. Her work has appeared in many journals including The Washington Post, Ploughshares, Poem-a-Day (poets.org), and the New England Review. Originally from the Northwest, she now makes her home in Atlanta where she is an associate professor for the graduate creative writing program at Georgia State University. Her website is danielledeulen.net
 

Serena Devi is a writer from Lexington, Kentucky. Her writing has appeared in The Recluse, Social Text, dirt child, Angel Food and more. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Ted Dodson is the author of An Orange (Pioneer Works / Wonder, 2021) and co-translator of Death at the Very Touch / The Cold by Jaime Sáenz (Action Books, 2026). He is a contributing editor for BOMB, an editor-at-large for Futurepoem, and a former editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter. www.ted-dodson.com

Ricardo Domeneck is a poet, essayist, and short fiction author, born in Brazil in 1977. He has published 10 collections of poetry and 4 volumes of short fiction in Brazil and Germany. As a performance and sound poet, his work has been featured in museums and institutions in Europe and Latin America. He has collaborated with musicians such as Tetine, Anika, Kreidler, Lea Porcelain, Ghosts and Errors, Nelson Bell, and artists Wolfgang Tillmans, Heinz Peter Knes, Adriano Costa, and Alcino Fernandes, among others. His Selected Poems have been published in Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, and most recently in the United States with World Poetry Books, translated by Chris Daniels. He has been awarded the Jabuti Prize and the National Library Prize for Poetry in Brazil. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Asa Drake is a Filipina/white poet in Central Florida. A 2024 National Poetry Series finalist, she is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, the Florida Book Awards, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Storyknife, Sundress Publications, Tin House, and Idyllwild Arts. Her poems have been published with The Slowdown Podcast, The American Poetry Review, The Paris Review Daily, and The Georgia Review. A former librarian, she currently works as a teaching artist.

Katherine Duckworth is a poet, educator, and farmer from Memphis, Tennessee. She received her MFA from Brooklyn College and is the author of Mexia (Roseffern),  The Soda Can Forever (Roseffern), and Slow Violence (Beautiful Days). 

Jordan Dunn is the author of Notation (Thirdhand Books), Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (Partly Press), as well as various chapbooks and ephemeral prints including Common Names, Reactor Woods, and A Walk at Doolittle State Preserve. He lives with his family in Madison, WI, where he edits and publishes Oxeye Press.

Teresa Dzieglewicz is a poet, educator, and lover of rivers and prairies. She is a fellow with Black Earth Institute, a Poet-in-Residence at the Chicago Poetry Center, and part of the founding team of Mni Wichoni Nakicizin Wounspe (Defenders of the Water School). With Natasha Mijares, she organizes "Watershed: Ways of Seeing the Chicago River." Her first book of poetry, Something Small of How to See a River was selected by Tyehimba Jess for the Dorset Prize (Tupelo Press). Her first children's book, Belonging, co-written with Kimimila Locke, is forthcoming from Chronicle Books. She has won a Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, the Gingko Prize, the Auburn Witness Prize, and the Palette Poetry Prize and has received fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation, Community of Writers at Tahoe, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, and Brooklyn Poets. Teresa lives with her family in Chicago, on Potawatomi land. 

Raven straddles the worlds of absurdity and spirituality in any given moment. Through poetry, bass, dance and the occasional drawing, Raven explores the world with awe and wonder. 15 years into her creative practice, Raven uses art as a tool to settle her soul and the souls of others, into themselves and the deep vast limitless power that awaits us all. Raven’s mission to connect us to our power continues in her work as a psychotherapist carefully creating space for people to truly be in the presence of themselves.

Katie Ebbitt  is the author of the full-length collection, Fecund (Keith LLC, 2024) and chapbooks, ANOTHER LIFE (Counterpath, 2016), Para Ana (Inpatient, 2019), Air Sign (Creative Writing Department, 2024) and HYSTERICAL PREGNANCY (above/ground press, 2024). She resides between London, New York, and New Orleans. 

Carolina Ebeid is a multimedia poet. She is the author of Hide (Graywolf Press, 2026), You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior (Noemi Press, 2016) and the chapbook Dauerwunder: a brief record of facts (Albion Books, 2023). Her work has been supported by the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University, CantoMundo, the NEA, and a residency fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. From 2023-2025 she was the Bonderman Assistant Professor of poetry at Brown University.  A longtime editor, she currently edits the multimedia site Visible Binary. Carolina grew up in West New York, New Jersey in a Cuban and Palestinian family.

Paul Ebenkamp is author of The Louder the Room the Darker the Screen (Timeless, Infinite Light), Parallel Realism (Despite Editions), Late Hiss (Desert Pavilion) and Regular Acid Consciousness (Spiral Editions). He makes music under the name Position (paulebenkamp.bandcamp.com), and is compiling, in slow time, a body of visual art under the title The Bottom-Right Corner of All Things. He lives in Berkeley CA, works as a senior service aide and, with Andrew Kenower, co-curates and hosts the Woolsey Heights reading series. 

Ryan Eckes is a poet from Philadelphia. He is the author of Wrong Heaven Again (Birds LLC, 2024) General Motors (Split Lip Press, 2018), Valu-Plus (Furniture Press, 2014), Old News (Furniture Press, 2011), and several chapbooks. With some friends, he runs Radiator Press.

Thom Eichelberger-Young is an artist, theorist, publisher, and former mental health caregiver living in Buffalo, New York, where they somehow manage to survive as a research fellow and student in the PhD Program in Poetics at SUNY Buffalo. They are the author of the long poems BESPOKE (St. Andrews University, 2019) and ANTIKYTHERA (Antiphony, 2024), and the essay collection OINTMENT WEATHER: Insurgent Poietics for Desperate Times (CLOAK, 2025). They operate Blue Bag Press. 

CD Eskilson is the author of Scream / Queen (Acre Books, 2025). Their work appears in Kenyon Review, The Offing, Pleiades, Hayden's Ferry Review, Ninth Letter, Passages North, and others. They are a recipient of the C.D. Wright / Academy of American Poets Prize and have been nominated for Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and the Pushcart Prize. Modern Woman, CD’s translation of Finland-Swedish poet Edith Södergran’s groundbreaking 1916 poetry collection, will be published by World Poetry Books in 2026.

Nuha Fariha (she/her) is the author of the poetry collection God Mornings Tiger Nights (GameOver Books, 2023). Her work has appeared on or is forthcoming Third Coast: Asian Americans in Louisiana (LSU Press), We The Fire (Haymarket Books, 2024), Lunch Ticket, and nat brut. She is a Charles M. Scrutchin Fellow, an Anaphora Arts Fellow, and a Key West Writing Workshop Fellow. She holds an MFA from Louisiana State University where she was awarded the Robert Penn Warren thesis award. Nuha lives with her family in Baton Rouge, LA, where she teaches composition and poetry.

Aiden Farrell is a poet-translator, editor, and educator. His translation of The Vitals by Marie de Quatrebarbes was published by World Poetry Books in 2025, her first full-length appearance in English translation. He is the author of control (Sputnik & Fizzle, 2026) and lilac lilac (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, 2023) and writing has been recently featured in Asymptote, SPAM, Black Sun Lit, and Mercury Firs. Aiden's translations have received an Albertine Translation Grant and support from the Centre National du Livre, and he teaches the occasional writing and translation workshop. Born in France and raised between three continents, Aiden lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Francisco Fenton (Mexico City, 1974): Poet, translator, since 1996 editor of letterpress and offset poetry books at the imprint “Juan Malasuerte” and since 2019 at “Librería Escandalar” as well as a forthcoming printed magazine, reader of archaeological research and colonial chroniclers, nature photographer.

Jennifer Firestone is the author of five books of poetry: Story (Ugly Duckling Presse); TEN (BlazeVOX [books]); Gates & Fields (Belladonna* Collaborative); Flashes, Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Blog’s “Poetry Pick” for 2013 (Shearsman Books); and Holiday (Shearsman Books). She is the author of five chapbooks: Swimming Pool (DoubleCross Press), Waves (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), from Flashes and snapshot (Sona Books) and Fanimaly (Dusie Kollektiv). Firestone co-edited with Marcella Durand Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminst Avant-garde Poetry and  with Dana Teen Lomax Letters To Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Politics and Community (Saturnalia Books) and co-authored LITtle by LITtle with photographer and urban geographer, Laura Y. Liu. Firestone has work anthologized in Kindergarde: Avant-Garde Poems, Plays, Songs, & Stories for Children and Building is a Process / Light is an Element: essays and excursions for Myung Mi Kim. Firestone won the 2014 Marsh Hawk Press’ Robert Creeley Memorial Prize. She is an Associate Professor of Literary Studies and Chair of Writing at the New School’s Eugene Lang College. 

B.K. Fischer is the author of Ceive (BOA Editions, 2021), a finalist for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award. A novella-in-verse, Ceive retells the Noah's Ark story as happening on a container ship in a dystopian near-future. She is also the author of four previous collections of poetry—Radioapocrypha (Mad Creek, Ohio State UP, 2018), My Lover’s Discourse (Tinderbox Editions, 2018), St. Rage’s Vault (The Word Works, 2013), and Mutiny Gallery (Truman State UP, 2011)—as well as a critical study, Museum Mediations: Reframing Ekphrasis in Contemporary American Poetry (Routledge, 2006). Her poems and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Poetry Northwest, Boston Review, Jacket2, FIELD, WSQ, Ninth Letter, Blackbird, Oversound, Los Angeles Review of Books, Modern Language Studies, and elsewhere.  She holds degrees from Johns Hopkins, Columbia, and NYU, and was a poetry editor of Boston Review from 2012 to 2018. For the past 10 years, she has taught The Comma Sutra, a cross-genre seminar on grammar and syntax for creative practice in the Writing Program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. She was the inaugural Poet Laureate of Westchester County, New York, from 2021-2023, and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow in 2022. Her newest book of poems, Disaster Porn, is forthcoming from BOA Editions in early 2027. She lives in Sleepy Hollow, New York, and you can also find her @bk_on_hudson or www.bkfischer.com.

Robert Fitterman is the author of 16 books of poetry. His most recent book, Creve Coeur, is a long poem recently published with Winter Editions (2024). Other titles include: This Window Makes Me Feel (Ugly Duckling Presse), No Wait, Yep. Definitely Still Hate Myself (Ugly Duckling Presse), Nevermind (Wonder Books) and Rob the Plagiarist (Roof Books). He has collaborated with several visual artists, including Serkan Ozkaya, Nayland Blake, Sabine Herrmann, Natalie Czech, Tim Davis, and Klaus Killisch. He is the founding member of the artists-poets collective Collective Task www.collectivetask.org. He lives in New York City and teaches writing at New York University.

Leah Flax Barber is the author of The Mirror of Simple Souls (Winter Editions, 2025). Recent writing has appeared in Harper's, The Cleveland Review of Books, Poetry Daily, The Common, Little Mirror, and Common Place Poetics. She is an assistant editor at Conjunctions and a Rubenstein Scholar at the University of Chicago Law School and lives in Chicago.

Piotr Florczyk is an award-winning poet, essayist, and translator of contemporary Polish poetry. He teaches global literary studies at UW-Seattle, and lives with his family in Los Angeles. For more info about him and his work, please visit www.piotrflorczyk.com

Jasmine Flowers is a well-watered poet from Birmingham, AL. Her chapbook, Horizon (Flower Press, 2021), was a finalist for the 2022 Perennial Press Chapbook Awards. She is a Best of the Net nominee, an MFA student at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the host of UTK's Chiasmus Reading Series. Her poems appear in Red Branch Review, Cola Literary Review, Ethel Zine, and other publications. You can find her work at jn-flowers.com.

Josh Fomon is the author of Our Human Shores (Black Ocean, 2025) and Though We Bled Meticulously (Black Ocean, 2016). His poems have appeared in a variety of journals, including Afternoon Visitor, Caketrain, DIAGRAM, DREGINALD, The Georgia Review, jubilat, mercury firs, Poetry Northwest, Tyger Quarterly, TYPO, and Yalobusha Review. He lives on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish peoples in Seattle and is the former Board President of Seattle City of Literature. [Website]

Dr. Diamond Forde (she/her) is the author of the forthcoming collection, The Book of Alice (Scribner Books, 2026), and her debut, Mother Body (Saturnalia Books), chosen by Patricia Smith for the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize in 2019. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Callaloo, and elsewhere. You can find more at her website: www.diamondforde.com 

Ethan Fortuna is a trans writer and visual artist. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University and received his PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston as a Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts Interdisciplinary Fellow. He was selected as a finalist by Wendy's Subway for the 2023 Carolyn Bush Award book prize, and his work can be found at Black Sun Lit, beestung, TAGVVERK, bæst: a journal of queer forms and affects, and elsewhere.

Lewis Freedman is writing this bio on a couch at the home of his in-laws in St. Louis, Missouri in late November in the year 2025. He's long understood that the graphemic difference between Lewis and Louis means that no one there will recognize the phonemic similarity unprompted, and he's going to try not to bring it up today. He's the author of Residual Synonyms for the Name of God and I Want Something Other Than Time (both from Ugly Duckling Presse) as well as many chapbooks and ephemera, most recently Eternal Balsamic Contract (Spiral Editions) and Eating It All (Ben Tinterstices). 

Kristen Gallagher has published four books: 85% True / minor ecologies (2017), Grand Central (2016), Florida (2014), and We Are Here (2011). You can read some of her work online at Air/Light Magazine, The Baffler, Social Text, or The Brooklyn Rail. Her ten film collaboration with Tara Merenda Nelson received a NYSCA Artists Grant in 2022. She teaches at LaGuardia Community College in Queens. 

Kenning JP García is a diarist, humorist, and antipoet. García is also the author of With (Really Serious Literature) as well as an editor at Rigorous and Dream Pop Press. 

Toni Garcia-Butler is a poet and community artist rooted in Little Rock. Named by the Arkansas Times as Arkansas's Best Poet of 2025, he strives to connect with others through the intricacies of lived experience. Following the tradition of bell hooks, he writes proudly "in the margin", centering his people: Black, Fil-am, queer, and everyone existing within the intersections. 

Find Toni published in Closet Cases: Queers on What We Wear (under former name), {new words press}, beestung, and several independent and collaborative zines. His debut chapbook, DIY BODY, is forthcoming from Sibling Rivalry Press (June 2026). You can also find him at tgbpoetry.com.

Pablo Robles Gastélum (Culiacán, 1992) is a poet and translator. He has published the books "Amarillo", "Pero eso tú ya lo sabías" and "Casi todo es increíble". His work as a translator includes "La diminuta casa", an anthology of poems by E.E. Cummings, published by Eloísa Cartonera. He lives in Mexico City.

Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo is a recent graduate of the Rutgers University-Camden MFA program, where she wrote about deer, hand models, and trees. She is the author of the chapbook "DUH" (Bullshit Lit) and recent work appears in The Offing, The Cleveland Review of Books, TAGVVERK, the tiny, and Annulet: A Journal of Poetics, among others. Juliet lives in Philadelphia, where she runs the reading and open mic series Spit Poetry. She can be followed @tall.spy (Instagram) and @tall__spy (Twitter) but she can never be caught.

Diego Gerard Morrison (Mexico City, 1984) is a writer, editor and translator whose recent work explores themes of magical realism and appropriation in the context of the Mexican drug war. His first book, The Wait (John of the Thing, 2021), is an appropriation of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot in a setting of Mexican cartel violence and its resulting crisis of forced disappearances. His debut novel, Myth of Pterygium (Autumn House Press, 2022) was the winner of the Rising Prize in Fiction. He is the author of the novel Pages of Mourning (Two Dollar Radio, 2024). His collection of stories, Upflow (Split Lip Press, 2026), is forthcoming. He is the cofounder and editor of diSONARE, an editorial project based in Mexico City.

Jacqui Germain is a poet and journalist living and working in St. Louis, Missouri. Presently, her work is most engaged in questions about confrontational politics, political rupture, repair and resiliency, and collective loss and memory. She’s the author of a poetry chapbook, When the Ghosts Come Ashore (Button Poetry, 2016), and a full-length poetry collection, Bittering the Wound (Autumn House Press, 2022), which chronicles the 2014 Ferguson Uprising and was selected for the 2021 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics Book Prize and awarded the 2024 Kate Tufts Discovery Award by Claremont Graduate University. Her journalism has been published in Teen Vogue, Hammer & Hope, In These Times, The Nation, VICE, and more. She’s a member of St. Louis Anti-Imperialist Collective.

Kate Gibbel is a poet. She lives in Vermont where she edits, typesets, and prints Send Me Press, a monthly letterpress poetry series. 

Michelle Gil-Montero is a poet and translator of contemporary Latin American poetry, hybrid-genre work, and theory. She has translated several books by Andrés Ajens, María Negroni, and Valerie Mejer Caso. She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Howard Foundation, as well as a Fulbright US Scholar's Grant to Argentina and a PEN/Heim Translation Prize. She is the author of the poetry books Attached Houses (Brooklyn Arts Press) and Object Permanence (Ornithopter Press), and her work has appeared in jubilat, Spoon River Poetry Review, Jacket2, and others. At Saint Vincent College, she directs the Minor in Literary Translation and is the founding editor of Eulalia Books.

Daryna Gladun is a Ukrainian poet, translator, artist and researcher from Bucha (born in Khmelnytskyi)

She is the author of four poetry collections (in Ukrainian): «Рубати дерево» [To chop the tree] (2017), the winner of Smoloskyp Literary Prize and Oles Honchar International Ukrainian-German Literary Prize; «Із тіні красивих червоних хлопчиків» [From the shadow of handsome red boys] (2020), named one of the best poetry books of 2020 by PEN Ukraine; «Радіо «Війна» [Radio "War"] (2022), translated into Polish by Janusz Radwański, and into Montenegrin by Anđela Radovanović; «Війна не почнеться завтра» [The war doesn't start tomorrow] (2023), translated into Swedish by Mikael Nydahl. Co-author with Lesyk Panasiuk of poetry collection «Портрет сонця в бомбосховищі» [Portrait of the sun in the bomb shelter] (2023), translated into Polish by Aneta Kamińska. Co-author of children book about prominent Ukrainian women «Це теж зробила вона» [She also made it] (2018). Her poems and short stories have been translated into dozens of languages and published in numerous Ukrainian and International magazines and anthologies.

Carlos Gerardo Gonzalez Orellana: Born in El Jícaro, El Progreso, 1987. Guatemalan poet. He is currently a doctoral student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Tulane University. He worked as a professor of literature and literary theory at Rafael Landívar University, where he also coordinated the Master’s programs in Latin American Literature and Philosophy. Additionally, he served as coordinator of Cultura de Guatemala magazine and managed the publications of the Antonio Gallo Center for Critical Thought within the university’s Faculty of Humanities.

His publications in poetry are: Música rara (2015, Alambique Editores, Guatemala), Genealogías (2017, EquiZZero Ediciones, El Salvador; 2019, Mandrágora Ediciones, Guatemala), Intemperie (2020, Editorial Praxis, México), La hoguera invisible  (Editorial Universitaria, Guatemala, 2020), Sedición (Tujaal Ediciones, Guatemala, 2021) and Habitar las islas (Editorial BGR, Spain, 2022). 

Academically, he holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from Rafael Landívar University (URL), a Bachelor’s in Literature from the University of San Carlos (USAC), and a Master’s in Philosophy from URL. He has also been a guest lecturer in the postgraduate network of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). González Orellana has published several poetry books and academic articles. His research focuses on cultural representations of grief, memory, and Central American poetry.

India Lena González is a poet, editor, and multidisciplinary artist. She received her BA from Columbia University and her MFA from New York University. Her work is published in American Chordata, the Brooklyn Review, Harvard Review, Lampblack Magazine, Literary Hub, PANK, Pigeon Pages, Poetry Northwest, and the Washington Post, among others, and it has been featured on the Slowdown podcast. fox woman get out! (BOA Editions, 2023), chosen by Aracelis Girmay as part of the Blessing the Boats Selections, is her debut poetry collection and was a finalist for Poetry Society of America’s 2024 Norma Farber First Book Award. A three-time National Poetry Series finalist, India is also a professional dancer, award-winning choreographer, and actor and has had the pleasure of performing at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, St. Mark’s Church, La Mama, New York Live Arts, and other such venues. She has taught at Columbia University and NYU, as well as at the New York Public Library, and has worked as an instructor for Teachers & Writers Collaborative. She currently serves as the Features Editor of Poets & Writers Magazine. For more information, visit: indialenagonzalez.com

Philip Good is the director of The Poetry State Forest. His poems can be found in various literary magazines including Poetry and Hurricane Review published by Pensacola State College. He Is the author of Untitled Writings From A Member Of The Blank Generation (Trembling Pillow Press)

Johannes Göransson is the author of several books of poetry, most recently Summer and The New Quarantine (with Sara Tuss Efrik, and the translator of several more, including works by Ann Jäderlund and Aase Berg. He also teaches at the University of Notre Dame and edits Action Books and Notre Dame Review. 

Talia Gordon is a Detroit-based writer, teacher, and organizer. Talia’s work has been published by Pretty Owl Poetry, Vagabond Lit, Whale Road Review, Bodega Magazine and others, and as the chapbook, I regularly practice holding my breath (Bathmatics, 2024). 

Ryan Greene writes, translates, makes, and caretakes books in “Phoenix, Arizona,” the city where he grew up. His most recent translations include projects with Elena Salamanca, Claudina Domingo, Carolina Dávila, Yaxkin Melchy, and Giancarlo Huapaya. He’s learning.

C.R. Grimmer (they/them) is an award-winning poet, scholar, and digital humanities educator whose work bridges poetry, public scholarship, and literary criticism. They are the author of The Lyme Letters: Poems (Winner of the Walt McDonald First Book Award), the chapbook O–(ezekiel's wife), and the peer-reviewed, OEA, multimedia book Poets as Public Scholars: Activist Poets in an Age of Social Media (forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press). Their poetry has been a finalist for Best New American Poets and their poems, installations, and essay writing appear in leading venues and journals, such as the Seattle Convention Center, Poetry Magazine, Prairie Schooner, FENCE Magazine, and The Comparatist.

Grimmer is the creator and host of The Poetry Vlog (TPV), a digital humanities series featuring poets, artists, and scholars discussing poetry, culture, and media. The project has been supported through several fellowships and grant initiatives, including the Simpson Center Andrew W. Mellon Foundation "Reaching New Publics," The Jack Straw Cultural Center, and the Center for Intersectional Gender Studies.

Their academic research explores intersections and coalitions among poetry, literary studies, critical race theory, queer studies, ecocriticism, disability studies, and digital humanities, with work supported by fellowships such as the Harlan Hahn Disability Studies Fellowship and the Project for Interdisciplinary Pedagogy Fellowship. 

Grimmer holds a PhD from the University of Washington, where they were a Betty T. Johnson Research Fellow, both an MFA and an MA from Portland State University, and BA from Oakland University. Grimmer has been an invited speaker for Princeton University's "GRADFutures Now" and Utah State University's Lavender Graduation. They have taught in higher education for over 13 years at universities such as Portland State University, the University of Washington, Utah State University, and Seattle University. Currently, they are an Assistant Professor at Utah State University, where they are working on a poetry and art process book tentatively titled, Sapphic Ekphrastics: Transcriptions for Access. 

Learn more at crgrimmer.com.

Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez is a Chilean poet and novelist working at the intersections of text, performance, archive, and translation. They are the author of La Pava (Ediciones Inubicalistas) and A/An (End of the Line Press). Their work has been supported by fellowships and residencies from The Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets, Lambda Literary, The Center for Book Arts, TAKT Residency in Berlin, The Frost Place, Studios at MASS MoCA, MacDowell, and CantoMundo.

Steve Halle lives, writes, teaches, and publishes books in Normal, IL where he is the director of the Publications Unit at Illinois State University. He is the author of Cow Stomach and Mother Fat, Map of the Hydrogen World, cessation covers, and The Collectors, and his writing has been published in various literary magazines. He is the founder and publisher of the award-winning nonprofit literary publisher co•im•press, the editor-in-chief of the poetry magazine SRPR, and the founder and publisher for Downstate Legacies, Undiscovered Americas, and the teaching chapbook press and workshop PRESS 254.

William Hazard makes poems with computers. Recent work can be found in Action, Spectacle, the Moonstone Arts 2024 Featured Poets Anthology, At What Cost Catalog, Voicemail Poems, Ghost Proposal, and elsewhere. He teaches at Temple University. He hangs out at llllllll.co.

Katherine M. Hedeen is a prize-winning translator of Latin American poetry. She has translated over thirty books of some of the most respected voices from the region into English. Her work has been a finalist for both the Best Translated Book Award and the National Translation Award. She is a recipient of the University of Wisconsin’s inaugural Poetry in Translation Prize, two NEA Translation Grants, and a PEN Translates award in the UK. She is an editor of the transnational and translational press, Action Books. She resides in Ohio, where she is Professor of Spanish at Kenyon College, and Havana, Cuba. www.katherinemhedeen.com

Esther K. Heller is a poet, artist, literary critic, and PhD student in Comparative Literature. Heller is the author of AR:RANGE:MENTS (Fonograf Editions, 2025). Their writing has appeared, among other places, in The Georgia Review, BOMB, Modern Poetry in Translation, and The Guardian. 

Carolyn Hembree's third collection, For Today, was published by LSU Press in 2024 as part of their Barataria Series. She is also the author of Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague (Trio House Press, 2016), winner of the 2015 Trio Award and the 2015 Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award, and Skinny (Kore Press, 2012). She received a 2016-2017 ATLAS grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents and has also received grants and fellowships from PEN, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, and the Southern Arts Federation. A professor in the MFA program at the University of New Orleans, she was awarded the 2017 International Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award. Carolyn serves as poetry editor of Bayou Magazine. 

Destiny Hemphill is a ritual worker and poet, living on the unceded territory of the Eno-Occaneechi band of the Saponi Nation (Durham, NC). She writes in the name of mama-n-em, in the key of the Black spiritual “This World Is Not My Home,” on a planet calling in response “I am not the world’s home.” From reimagining matrilineal inheritances in her chapbook Oracle: a Cosmology to more speculative meditations on apocalypse, empire, and Black liberation in motherworld: a devotional for the alter-life, her work shapeshifts conceptually, thematically, and formally. Yet, the crimson thread running through her work is a practice that she calls Black occult poetics, which uses ancestral memory, divination, prayer, ritual, and mysticism as compositional strategies. And the silver thread humming is a devotion to mothering as a liberatory care practice that transgresses gender and biological function, as taught by Alexis Pauline Gumbs. With these threads, she aims to weave work that honors the communities enable her survival as a Southern Black queer, chronically ill person.

Hemphill is a 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow and has received other fellowships for her poetry from Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program, Callaloo, Tin House, Kenyon Review's Writers Workshop, and Torch Literary. She is a co-editor for Poetry as Spellcasting (North Atlantic Books 2023). Her  poetry collection motherworld: a devotional for the alter-life (Action Books, 2023) was a finalist for the National Poetry Series Award, Lambda Literary Award, and Publishing Triangle's Audre Lorde Prize. Her work has also been featured in Poetry Magazine, Southern Cultures, and the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series. She served as an inaugural Poetry Coalition Fellow, a Kenan Visiting Writer in Poetry at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and an inaugural Tin House Reading Fellow.

Eliana Hernández-Pachón is the author of »The Brush«, which won the National Award of Poetry in Colombia in 2021, and was selected among the top ten books of 2024 by The Atlantic. She holds an M.F. A. in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University, and a Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature from Cornell University. She is the co-author of »Plantas del camino«, a book on weeds and healing, and the editor of the chapbook »Un florero que se rompe/A Vase that Shatters«, which features short stories and poems by members of the Truth Commission of Colombia. Her poetry has also appeared in the anthology »Como La Flor: Antología de poesía cuir colombiana«. She has held fellowships and residencies including the Hawthornden Foundation in 2025. Born in Bogotá, Colombia, she now lives in the United States, where she teaches and coordinates community-based literary projects such as the NYC Latin American Poetry Festival »Como un lugar«.

Berlin based painter Sabine Herrmann is a founding member of the international group of artists and poets – collective task. Born in Meißen, East Germany, she studied at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin and at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts à la Villa Arson in Nice, France. She frequently collaborated with the poet Robert Fitterman and the artist Klaus Killisch, among others. Most recently Herrmann teaches painting at the University of Fine Arts Berlin. Her works are currently on display in the permanent collection of the National Galerie der Gegenwart Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin. 
www.sabine-herrmann.eu

Elise Houcek is the author of a few books, including From the Pocket of Agent Dickinson (with Zack Darsee), TRACTATUS, So Neon Was the Rope, and The Leafs. Her writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in FENCE, Diva Corp, R&R, Vestiges, Cleveland Review of Books and new_sinews. She teaches writing to kids and occasionally codirects and stars as a hand actor in the short films of Flanagan's Feast, some of which have been screened at places such as Art Farm, Nebraska and Weatherproof, Chicago. 
 

Valerie Hsiung writes between worlds, where language meets ritual and abolition meets afterlife. Her books dissolve the borders of poetry, prose, and philosophy into a single listening body, drawing on diasporic, ecological, and metaphysical inquiry. She is the author of eight full-length books, including The pedestrian (Nightboat Books, 2026) and The Naif (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2024). Her work has been presented internationally at Double Change (Paris), Hyle (Athens), and the Jaipur Literature Festival. Recipient of support from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, PEN America, and Lighthouse Works, she teaches revolutionary mysticism and writing at the limits of language at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. Born to Chinese-Taiwanese immigrants in Cincinnati, Ohio, she now lives in the foothills of Colorado.

SG Huerta is a queer Xicanx writer and organizer. They are a Roots Wounds Words Fellow, Tin House alum, and Poetry Editor for Abode Press. SG is the author of the nonfiction chapbook GOOD GRIEF (fifth wheel press 2025). Their debut poetry collection Burns is out with Sundress Publications in early 2026. Their work has appeared in Honey Literary, The Offing, Infrarrealista Review, and elsewhere. Find them at sghuertawriting.com, or in Tejas with their partner and cats, working towards liberation for oppressed peoples everywhere. They encourage you to find tangible ways to support Palestinian liberation.

Emily Wallis Hughes grew up in Agua Caliente, California, a small town in the Sonoma Valley. my friend Now, Hughes's second full-length book of poems, is forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil in spring 2027. Her first book, Sugar Factory, was published by Spuyten Duyvil in 2019. Ilya Kaminsky noted that Sugar Factory was "absolutely gorgeous lyric fire; one of the subtlest expressions of music I have read this year." Spanish translations of Hughes's poems have been published in Buenos Aires Poetry and Perfil, a widely circulated newspaper in Argentina. Poems from my friend Now, have been published in Always Crashing, The American Poetry Review, Conduit, Cordella Magazine, Edible Jersey, Luna Luna Magazine, and Trampoline: A Journal of Poetry. Since 2010, Emily has been in remission from Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy/Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. She is a Lecturer in the undergraduate Creative Writing Program at Rutgers–New Brunswick. A 2026 New York State Council on the Arts Grantee, Emily lives in Astoria, Queens, New York, just a twenty-minute walk from where her mother lived as a child in Jackson Heights. Hughes is the Editorial Director and Books Editor of Fence Magazine, Inc., collaboratively leading the small not-for-profit independent publisher of the Fence Books and Fence magazine.

Hajar Hussaini is a poet and translator. Her poetry collection is Disbound (University of Iowa Press, 2022), and she has received a 2024 Mo Habib Translation Prize in Persian Literature for her translation of the poetry collection Wounded Vita Nuda by Maral Taheri (Deep Vellum, 2026) and a 2025 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for her translation of Khosraw Mani’s novel, Death and His Brother (Syracuse University Press, 2026). Hussaini has won fellowships from the MacDowell and Baldwin for the Arts, as well as a 2023 Carol Anne Donahue Prize from Russell Sage College and a faculty development grant from Skidmore College, where she is an assistant teaching professor of English. Alongside Matthew Klane and Amie Zimmerman, she co-curates the Salon Salvage reading series in Troy, NY. Her writings and translations have appeared in Poetry, Poem-a-Day, Annulet, and Asymptote, anthologized in Rumi: Roaming and Daedalus, and translated into Slovak by Terézia Klasová for Revue Prostor.

Bo Hwang is an artist and writer working with poetry and movement. Recent works include abalone, a poetry performance, object, and chapbook (Counterpath) and yearly in old pool, an artist book (Sister C Press). Other collections, Nightlaps and Squat Practice were finalists, respectively, for Wendy's Subway and Essay Press. Bo’s movements and performances, solo and collaborative, have been shared at SITE Santa Fe, Counterpath, Bushel Collective, Pratt University, Leon Gallery and the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive. They have taught movement workshops at The Poetry Project and The Jack Kerouac School. The longest place she has ever lived is Bandung. 

MC Hyland (she/they) is the founding editor of DoubleCross Press, a poetry micropress. MC is the author of three full-length books of poems: Walks & Weathers (Beauty School Editions 2025), THE END (Sidebrow 2019) and Neveragainland (Lowbrow Press 2010) and a  book of short essays, The Dead and the Living and the Bridge (Meekling Press 2025). They have also published over a dozen poetry chapbooks/artist books. Holding MFAs in Creative Writing and Book Arts from the University of Alabama and a PhD in English Literature from NYU, and lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Kai Ihns is a poet and filmmaker based in Chicago. She's the author of two full length collections of poetry, most recently Of (The Elephants, 2024). She edits The Year, a chapbook press. 

Stephen Ira is the author of Chasers (New Michigan 2023). He lives in New York City, where he is Youth Services Co-Ordinator at Poets House. 

K. Iver was born in Mississippi. Their debut collection Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco won the 2022 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry from Milkweed Editions, selected by Tyehimba Jess. Short Film won the Wisconsin Literary Award and was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Award, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and the Lambda Literary Awards. It was named a Best Book of 2023 by the New York Public Library. Iver’s poems have appeared in Boston Review, Kenyon Review, LA Review of Books, and elsewhere. Iver has received fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Sewanee Writers Conference, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. They have a Ph.D. in Poetry from Florida State University. 

Elijah Jackson is a writer based in New York. Recent poetry has been published in Fence, Second Factory, Annulet, Keith LLC, mercury firs, and others. 

Born and raised in Topeka, Kansas, Gary Jackson is the author of the poetry collections, small lives, (University of New Mexico Press, 2025) origin story (University of New Mexico Press, 2021), both part of the Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series, and Missing You, Metropolis (Graywolf, 2010), which received the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. He’s also co-editor of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry (Blair, 2021). His poems have appeared in numerous journals including Callaloo, The Sun, Los Angeles Review of Books, Gulf Coast, and Copper Nickel. He’s published work in several anthologies, including Shattered: The Asian American Comics Anthology, African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song, and A Measure of Belonging: Twenty-One Writers of Color on the New American South. 

He was featured in the 2013 New American Poetry Series by the Poetry Society of America, and received fellowships and residencies from Cave Canem, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and Art Omi. He’s been a guest on the BBC News World Service: The Cultural Frontline, and given readings and craft talks for Carnegie Hall, Folger Theater, and various venues across the country. In 2023, he was selected to serve as part of the Cave Canem Cultural Preservation Project Team to record the oral histories of the first-year fellows and founders of Cave Canem. 

He’s taught classes and led workshops everywhere from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Charleston, South Carolina, to Anyang, South Korea, and currently lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the Toi Derricotte Endowed Chair of English in the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, and the Director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. Photo credit by Ben Chrisman

Christopher Kazar Janigian lives in Queens. Some of his recent poems appear in Colorado Review, FENCE, Lana Turner, Second Factory, and Wasafiri. He is a 2025-2026 Poetry Project ESB Fellow.

Laura Jaramillo is a poet and critic. Born to Colombian parents in Queens, New York, she now lives in Durham, North Carolina. Her books include Material Girl (subpress, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem, 2022). She holds a PhD in critical theory from Duke University. She co-runs the North Carolina-based reading and performance series Paradiso. An archive of her critical and creative writing can be found at her website.

Olena Jennings is the author of the poetry collection The Age of Secrets (Lost Horse Press), the chapbook Memory Project, and the novel Temporary Shelter (Cervena Barva Press). She is the translator of collections by Ukrainian poets Kateryna Kalytko (co-translated with Oksana Lutsyshyna), Iryna Shuvalova, and Vasyl Makhno. Her translation of Yuliya Musakovska's The God of Freedom was released in 2024 from Arrowsmith Press. She lives in Queens, New York where she founded and curates the Poets of Queens reading series and press.

Dabin Jeong (they/them) is a poet and literary translator from Seoul, South Korea. They are the author of the chapbook Swallow (Small Harbor Publishing, 2025). They received an MFA in Creative Writing (poetry) from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa. They are currently a PhD in Comparative Student at Washington University in St. Louis. Their works appeared or are forthcoming in A Public Space, The Journal, Pinch, Diode Poetry Journal, Quarterly West, Modern Poetry in Translation, and the Southern Review. You can find them on Instagram @verymanybins.

Roman Johnson, PhD  is a writer and scientist from Memphis, TN. He is a Master of Fine Arts scholar in poetry at Brown University. He has a Ph.D. in Medical Sociology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, a M.A. in African American Studies from Georgia State University and obtained a B.A. in Political Science from Morehouse College. He is the co-founder of the New England Hoodoo Society.  He is the current Radical Reversal Poet in Residence at the Suffolk County House of Corrections in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the winner of the Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize from Backbone Press,  a past winner of the Clark Atlanta University Poetry Prize and has received fellowships from Harvard University, Northwestern University,  the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Brown University, the National Institutes of Health, Breadloaf, Tin House, the Writers’ Studio, Martha Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, Obsidian Foundation United Kingdom,  the City of Boston, Massachusetts Cultural Council, the New England Poetry Club, the Palm Beach Literary Festival, the Hudson Valley Writers Center, the Poets and Scholars Summer Writing Retreat at Rutgers University, and the Watering Hole. His work has received both Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations and concerns itself with grief, longing, masculinity, violence, and connection. His work can be found in Obsidian. African Voices Magazine, and elsewhere. He can be found online at @SonoftheDelta on Twitter and thefreedomdoctor on Instagram. He believes the real work of writing is living well.

Sylvia Jones is an adjunct professor at George Washington University. She also serves as an editor for Black Lawrence Press and a senior reader for Ploughshares. Her first book-Television Fathers (Meekling Press, 2024) was released last Fall. Dope Callisthenics, her next collection is forthcoming from Relegation Books in the fall of 2026. Sylvia's writing can be found in DIAGRAM, Smartish Pace, the Cortland Review, Shenandoah, R&R Journal, Blackbird, the American Poetry Review, the Hopkins Review, the Poetry Society of New York, and elsewhere. She earned her M.F.A. from American University in Washington D.C. and lives in Baltimore, MD.

Carson Jordan is a poet, curator, and teacher living in Goshen, VT. She is the Ruth Stone House Poet in Residence and the teacher facilitator of MIND PALACE POETRY. Her chapbook, GOOD FOR HER, was published with dirt child press in 2022. She has been published in Peach Mag, The Quarterless Review, shortie country, and Bruiser Magazine. 

Pergentino José Ruiz (Oaxaca, México, 1981). Es autor de Nyak mbkaabna/Supe qué responder  (Libros del rincón-SEP, 2006) en versión bilingüe zapoteco-español. En 2011 obtuvo el Premio de Poesía de Creación Literaria en Lengua Zapoteca del Centro de las Artes de San Agustín. En 2012 publicó el libro de relatos Hormigas rojas (Editorial, Almadía), en 2014 el libro de poemas Lenguaje de pájaros (Editorial Avispero) y en 2016 el poemario Ye’ ntii/Flor de zarzamora (Calamus, 2016). Ha sido miembro del Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte emisión 2017 en la categoría de Letras en Lenguas Indígenas. En 2020 salió la traducción al inglés de Hormigas rojas/Red ants en la editorial Deep Vellum, Dallas, Texas. Parte de su obra ha sido publicada en Mexico20:New voices/Old traditions, Pushkin Press. Y en las revistas especializadas: Alba Magazine y Neue Rundschau. En el año 2021participó en el Festival Lit/Luz en Chicago, Illinois. En 2023 publicó la novela Solo somos sombras en la editorial Almadia. Ha impartido talleres de escritura creativa en lenguas originarias en el Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca.

Pergentino José Ruiz (Oaxaca, Mexico, 1981) is the author of Nyak mbkaabna/Supe qué responder (Libros del rincón-SEP, 2006) in a bilingual Zapotec-Spanish version. In 2011, he won the Poetry Prize for Literary Creation in the Zapotec Language from the San Agustín Arts Center. In 2012, he published the short story collection Hormigas rojas, (Almadía), in 2014 the poetry collection Lenguaje de pájaros (Avispero), and in 2016 the poetry collection Ye’ ntii/Flor de zarzamora (Calamus, 2016). He was a member of the 2017 National System of Art Creators in the category of Literature in Indigenous Languages. In 2020, the English translation of Hormigas rojas/Red ants was published by Deep Vellum. His work appeared in Mexico20: New Voices/Old Traditions (Pushkin Press). He has also appeared in the specialized magazines Alba and Neue Rundschau. In 2021, he participated in the Lit/Luz Festival in Chicago, IL. In 2023, his novel Solo somos sombras with Almadia. Pergentino has taught creative writing workshops in indigenous languages ​​at the Institute of Graphic Arts of Oaxaca.

Yalie Saweda Kamara is a Sierra Leonean-American writer, researcher, and educator from Oakland, Ca. She is the Cincinnati and Mercantile Library Poet Laureate Emerita and the 2025 Ohio Poet of the Year. Kamara's  debut poetry collection, Besaydoo (Milkweed Editions, 2024), was the winner of the 2022-2023 Jake Adam York Prize and is the winner of the 2025 Ohio Book Award in Poetry. She is also the editor of the anthology What You Need to Know About Me: Young Writers on Their Experience of Immigration (The Hawkins Project, 2022). Among her honors, Kamara has received fellowships from the Academy of American Poets and the National Book Critics Circle as well as residencies from the  Sewanee Writers Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, Djerassi, and Smith College. Kamara earned a PhD in Creative Writing and English Literature from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University. An assistant professor of English at Xavier University, she teaches courses in global and diasporic literature, creative writing, and hip-hop studies. For more, please visit her website: www.yaylala.com

Mia Kang (she/her) is the author of All Empires Must (Airlie Press, 2025), which won the 2023 Airlie Prize, as well as the chapbooks Apparent Signs (Ghost City Press, 2024), and City Poems (ignitionpress, 2020). Recent work appears in Gulf Coast, Poetry Northwest, Pleiades, wildness, and more. Named the 2017 winner of Boston Review’s Annual Poetry Contest, selected by Mónica de la Torre, Mia has also been a Brooklyn Poets Fellow, runner-up for the 2019 and 2017 Discovery Poetry Contests, and a finalist for the 2019 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. She has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Mia holds a PhD in the history of art from Yale University. She lives in Philadelphia, where she is the Executive Director of the Philadelphia Folklore Project. www.miaadrikang.com

Josef Kaplan is the author of Loser, out from Make Now Books. His other books include Poem Without Suffering; All Nightmare: Introductions, 2011-2012; Kill List; and Democracy Is Not for the People. He lives in Philadelphia.

Nilufar Karimi is a poet, scholar, translator and educator. Her work thinks through the intersections of displacement, translation, ecocriticism, and illness and disability. She is the author of Nuclear Deal (Noemi Press, 2021) and Notes on Digging (Belladonna*Collaborative, 2022). Her publications have appeared in World Literature Today, Poetry magazine, The Asian American Writers’ Workshop: The Margins, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is currently a Doctoral Candidate in Literature and Cultural Studies on Kumeyaay territory at the University of California, San Diego, where she is thinking through extraction, human and nonhuman bodies under empire, and histories of time travel.

Christine is a poet and artist based in North Adams, MA. Her work takes the form of slapstick powerpoint presentations, textiles, bibliomancy, drawings and more. She is the author of Allow Me to Slip on Something a Little More Hypocycloid (PRROBLEM, 2025) and the chapbooks Food Gas Lodging Liquid Solid (Creative Writing Department, 2023), Dopamine Agonist Destiny Forest (Theme Can Print Editions, 2018), and Pudding Time (DoubleCross Press, 2015). She holds an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate College of Arts at Bard College and a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art.

Noor Khashe Brody is from the California East Bay. They are a graduate of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People and a co-organizer of monthly readings at the Tritone Poetry Series in Oakland.

KLAUS KILLISCH studied painting at the Art Academy in East-Berlin from 1981-1986. His work has been represented in many exhibitions of German Art including the Biennale in Venice, Sezon Museum of Art in Tokyo, Folkwang Museum in Essen, Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst, Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart Berlin. Since 2006, he has been a co-founder and member of the poet-artist collective Collective Task. Killisch lives and works in Berlin. 

www.klaus-killisch.de

Michael Kleber-Diggs (KLEE-burr digs) is a poet, essayist, literary critic, and arts educator. He is the author of Worldly Things, which won the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize and was published by Milkweed Editions in 2021. His recent essay, “There Was a Tremendous Softness,” appears in A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars, edited by Erin Sharkey (Milkweed Editions, 2023). His poems and essays often explore themes of intimacy, community, empathy, and grace, practices he believes are simultaneously distinct and interdependent. Michael is a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow in Literature, and he teaches creative writing through the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop and at universities in the Twin Cities.

Caitlyn Klum is a PhD student in English and Literary Arts (Poetry) at the University of Denver. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal, American Chordata, Four Way Review, Brink, Oxford Poetry, Second Factory, and elsewhere. She holds a BA from the University of Chicago and an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas. 

Ellen Kombiyil (she/her) is a visual artist, poet, and educator from the Bronx. She is the author of three books, most recently My Prayer a Slit Throat (Wet Cement Press, winner of the New Constructions Hybrid Book Prize, forthcoming 2026), and Love as Invasive Species (Cornerstone 2024). She is a 2022 and 2025 recipient of a BRIO Award (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) from the Bronx Council on the Arts, a 2025 winner of the Geri Digiorno Multi-Genre Prize, and 2025 winner of the Tupelo Quarterly Prize for Cross-Disciplinary Writing. She is an adjunct assistant professor at Hunter College. Find her at www.ellenkombiyil.com.

Dylan Krieger is a writer, editor, and teacher living in Baton Rouge. She is the Managing Editor of Fine Print and the author of seven full-length collections of poetry, most recently No One Is Daddy (Saturnalia, 2026). Find her at DylanKrieger.com.

Keetje Kuipers’ fourth collection of poetry, Lonely Women Make Good Lovers, won the Isabella Gardner Award, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, and was recommended by Ron Charles for the Washington Post Book Club. Her poetry and prose have appeared in BOMB, the New York Times Magazine, and Poetry, and have been honored by publication in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies. Keetje has been a Stegner Fellow, NEA Literature Fellow in Creative Writing, and the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Resident. Previously a VP on the board of the National Book Critics Circle, Keetje has taught at many colleges and universities, including Auburn University, where she was a tenured Associate Professor, as well as festivals and conferences around the world from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown to the dual-language writers conference Under the Volcano in Tepoztlán, Mexico. Keetje is currently Editor of Poetry Northwest, and lives with her wife and children in Montana, where she co-directs the Headwaters Reading Series for Health & Well-Being.

Isabel Lanzetta’s poetry has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Oakland Arts Review, Leviathan, and Convergence: Young Authors of Arizona, among others. Her work has been supported by the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, the Lighthouse Writers Workshop, and the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards.

Dorothea Lasky is the author of several collections of poetry, including, most recently, The Shining  and MOTHER. She is also the author of the prose book Animal and a forthcoming book about Sappho, as well as the editor of Essays and a coeditor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry. Her writing has appeared in POETRY, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, and Boston Review, among other places. Currently, she lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University School of the Arts.

Trinh Lê is a Pushcart-nominated visual poet. Their work has been supported by the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Kearny Street Workshop, and the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley. A Bay Area dyke of Vietnamese origin, you can find them communing with their foremothers at the Bay Area Lesbian Archives. Trinh is a graduate fellow at the Poetry Center at SFSU, where they are completing their MFA.

Sophia Le Fraga uses objects, images, and poems to explore how language accumulates, circulates, and leaves traces over time. 

She has exhibited and performed at JOAN, Los Angeles, CA; MOCA, Los Angeles, CA; MoMA PS1's "Greater New York," Queens, NY; Camden Arts Center, UK; and PERFORMA15. 

Le Fraga is the author of SOFt VISUAL WALLS (LACA, 2025), SNACKS (b l u s h, 2021), The Anti-Plays (Gauss PDF 2015), literallydead (Spork 2015), I RL, YOU RL (minuteBOOKS 2013, Troll Thread 2014), I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE INTERNET (KTBAFC 2012), and the artist book Other Titles by Sophia Le Fraga (If a Leaf Falls 2016). 

Her work has been featured in Best American Experimental Writing, BOMB Magazine, Texte zur Kunst, and Dazed. 

Le Fraga is the founding editor of No Issue, one-third of Grupo Ñ, and a member of the international artist group Collective Task. Together with Joseph Mosconi and Corina Copp, she co-curates Language Garden in Los Angeles, where she lives.

Casper Lee is a poet from Wyoming and the author of No Ranch, forthcoming from Spiral Editions. Their work has been featured in publications by Luigi Ten Co., 1080 Press, Print Journal, Hot Pink Mag, and others. 

They take care of too many animals in Ledger, Montana. 

Lee Jenny. b. 1972 in Busan, South Korea. Poet and Writer, debuted winning the Kyunghyang Daily News New Writer's Award(2008) and has since published four poetry collections: 

<PIROWA PADOWA> (Maybe Africa) (2010)
< Because We Don't Know Us> (2014)
<The Things That Were Thus Scribbled> (2019)
<The Sentences That Aren't Even There Are Beautiful> (2019)
<Eternity Watches Over the Future> (2025)
Essay collection <Dawn and Music> (2024)

Awards include the 2nd Kim Hyun Literary Prize (2016) and the 67th Hyundae Munhak Award (2022)

Her translations of Korean poetry have appeared in Asymptote Journal, Modern Poetry In Translation, The Kenyon Review, Washington Square Review, Azalea, The Adroit Journal, chogwa, and more.  

Cat Ingrid Leeches is a writer, editor, and teacher from Galveston, Texas. Their work has been published in Mid-American Review, Adroit, Passages North, The Offing, and elsewhere. Their debut collection, I Wander the Earth, Hungry for Semen, is forthcoming from Carrion Bloom Books. 

Em Lessley (they/them) is a New Orleans-Based graduate student at Louisiana State University studying Library and Information Sciences. They are an archives assistant with Institute for Public Ethnomusicology and Loyola University. They work primarily with audio/visual media relating to the Isleños community from St. Bernard Parish. They are passionate about accessibility of materials, understanding the user experience with digital archives, and the care that goes into preserving archival material. 

Born and raised in New Orleans, Shane Lief is a musician and linguist who focuses on the cultural traditions of Louisiana. He is currently completing a PhD in the Interdisciplinary Program in Linguistics at Tulane University, and holds an MA in Musicology from Tulane as well as an MA in Linguistics from the University of Georgia at Athens. He has taught a range of language courses at universities in the US and overseas, including Roosevelt University in Chicago, Montana State University in Bozeman, Erciyes University in Kayseri, Türkiye, and most recently at Tulane University as well as Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge. In addition, Shane has worked as a professional translator for 25 years, handling materials ranging from 19th century German-language newspapers to Spanish colonial manuscripts. He co-authored the book Jockomo and wrote a chapter for Language in Louisiana: Community and Culture, both published by University Press of Mississippi.

David R. Lincoln is a poet, novelist and multi-modal artist based in New York City. He holds an MA from San Francisco State University,  has won awards from the Christopher Isherwood Fellowship, grants from NYFA and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and received fellowships from the Virginia Center for The Arts, The Vermont Studio Center, Breadloaf, and others. His work has appeared in Rolling Stock, The Brooklyn Rail, Northwest Literary Forum, and others, and appeared in anthologies and publications online. He is actively investigating new forms of publishing, especially locative arts and media, and is the motive force behind Geodes, a space for psychogeographies and experimental formats for animated text, image and audio. Find more about David here.

Ian U Lockaby is a poet, translator, and editor of the online journal mercury firs. He's the author of Defensible Space/if a crow— (Omnidawn Publishing) and A Seam of Electricity (Ghost Proposal). Recent work appears in journals such as Ecotone, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, FENCE, and West Branch. He lives in New Orleans.

Matt Longabucco is the author of the poetry collection Heroic Dose and M/W: An essay on Jean Eustache’s La maman et la putain, a book-length study of a landmark of French cinema and its creator. A second poetry collection, The Hummingbird, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books in 2026. He teaches writing, innovative pedagogy, and critical theory as a Clinical Professor at New York University’s Liberal Studies Program, and as an Associate at Bard College’s Institute for Writing & Thinking.

Silvina López Medin was born in Buenos Aires and lives in New York. She has published five books of poetry including La noche de los bueyes (Loewe Foundation International Young Poetry Prize), 62 brazadas (City of Buenos Aires Poetry Prize), That Salt on the Tongue to Say Mangrove (tr. Jasmine V. Bailey, Carnegie Mellon University Press), and the chapbook Excursion (selected by Mary Jo Bang as the winner of the Oversound Prize). Her hybrid poetry book Poem That Never Ends was awarded the Essay Press-University of Washington Bothell Book Contest. She was a finalist for the Loraine Williams Poetry Prize judged by Arthur Sze. Her play Exactamente bajo el sol (staged at Teatro del Pueblo in Buenos Aires) was granted the National Playwriting Third Prize by the Argentine Institute of Theater. She co-translated Anne Carson’s Eros the Bittersweet into Spanish, and Sergio Chejfec’s The Month of the Flies into English. Her writing has been featured or reviewed in Ploughshares, Hyperallergic, Poetry Foundation, MoMA/post, The Georgia Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Harvard Review, among others. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU (English) and is an editor at Ugly Duckling Presse, where she's also a member of the editorial board of Señal, UDP’s series of chapbooks for contemporary Latin American poetry in translation. She has taught creative writing—in English, in Spanish, and across the two languages—in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, and in the MFA in Creative Writing at Pratt Institute and Columbia University. In Spring 2026, she will be a Distinguished Writer in Residence in the MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish at NYU. 

www.silvinalopezmedin.com

Brendan Lorber is a writer, visual artist, and teacher. He is the author of If this is paradise why are we still driving? and several chapbooks, most recently Unfixed Elegy and Other Poems. He’s had work in The American Poetry Review, Brooklyn Rail, Fence, McSweeney’s, The Recluse, and elsewhere. With Joe Elliot, he hosts Overhear a cross-generational reading series in Brooklyn in which at least one reader must live within walking distance of the venue. His visual art is in The Museum of Modern Art, The Free Black Women’s Library, The Woodland Pattern Center, The Scottish Poetry Library, and in private collections. It has been featured on CNN, NBC’s The Today Show, and Oprah. He’s edited Lungfull! Magazine, The Poetry Project Newsletter, taught writing workshops, and curated both the Zinc Bar Reading Series and the Segue Foundation Reading Series. He teaches fantasy cartography and lives in a little observatory in Brooklyn. brendanlorber.com

Cameron Lovejoy is a poet and printer who operates Tilted House, a slow press publishing books of poetry slash visuals under letterpress machines. His manuscript dark room was a finalist for the 2024 Omnidawn Chapbook Prize. In 2025, Eulalia published his translation of Argentina’s Olivia Milberg’s dos dedos de agua. Various things appear in Annulet, DIAGRAM, Denver Quarterly, Fugue, Ghost Proposal, and others. He lives slash prints in New Orleans.

Alexa Luborsky is a writer and multimedia artist of Western Armenian and Jewish descent. She has received support from organizations such as the International Armenian Literary Alliance (IALA), the Carolyn Moore Writing Residency, and Artist Trust. Her poems and hybrid works have appeared or are forthcoming in Adroit, AGNI, Black Warrior Review, The Margins, Ninth Letter, The Rumpus, and West Branch, among others. Currently, she is the interviews editor at Poetry Northwest. You can find out more at alexaluborsky.com.

Kristin Lucas is an artist exploring connectivity as both an interpersonal process and a condition of the digital age. Lucas’s work has been featured in Art in America, Engadget, and Hyperallergic, with commissions from institutions including Dia Center for the Arts, FACT Liverpool, Rhizome.org, and the Whitney Museum. She is represented by And/Or Gallery in Pasadena, Postmasters and Electronic Arts Intermix in New York. Lucas studied at The Cooper Union and Stanford University, and currently teaches in the art department at the University of Texas at Austin.

Thomas Macfie’s writing has appeared in publications including Coast / NoCoast, Diagram, FENCE, and second factory, among others. A co-founder of the Free Nashville Poetry Library, he’s worked in education, kitchens, bars, on farms, and currently as a forager and importer/exporter. He splits his time between a self-built cabin on the South Cumberland Plateau in Grundy County, TN and a Chevy Astro Van.

Archana Madhavan translates Korean poetry and prose into English. Her past book-length works include Kim Hyun’s Glory Hole (co-translation, 2022) and Amil’s Roadkill (2025). Her translation of Lee Jenny’s first book of poetry Pirowa Padowa was shortlisted for the Granum Translation Prize in 2023 and won the Malinda A. Markham Translation Prize in 2024. She lives in San Jose, California.

Addy Malinowski is a poet, musician, and educator from the Detroit area currently living in Brooklyn, NY. They are a PhD student in English at the CUNY Graduate Center and hold an MA in Creative Writing from Eastern Michigan University. Addy teaches writing at Brooklyn College. Their first full-length poetry collection From a Halogen Sea was published in 2023. The poem "After Love" from the collection was selected as a Best of the Net finalist for 2020. Their current interests include the music and life of Arthur Russell, mid-century American poetics and poetries of resistance, and what their dog is doing at any given moment. They can be found online at addymalinowski.net. They have not read at the NOLA Poetry Festival before and would be thrilled to do so. 

Anna Malihon (born on June 4, 1984, in Konotop, Sumy region, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian poet, novelist, and translator. She graduated from Mykola Gogol Nizhyn State University (Faculty of Philology, 2006) and from the Institute of Philology of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (2008).

Her first publication appeared in 2000 in the almanac Slobozhanshchyna. She is a member of Ukrainian PEN and belongs to the literary generation known as the “two-thousanders.”

Malihon is a laureate of several international literary awards and a participant in numerous international literary festivals in Ukraine and abroad. She is the author of the poetry collections Dzvinok u dveri (The Doorbell), Perelyvannia krovi (Blood Transfusion), Pokynutym korabliam (To the Abandoned Ships), Pervisnyi doshch (The Primeval Rain), Burntskin (chapbook), Girl with a Bullet (translated into English by Olena Jennings), Rosarium, as well as the novel Teach Her to Do It and the fairy tale Karolina’s Magic Album.

Her poems and prose have been published in numerous Ukrainian and international literary anthologies and journals, and translated into Belarusian, Bulgarian, Polish, Czech, Georgian, Armenian, English, and French.

Since March 2022, she has been living and writing in Paris, France.

Araceli Mancilla Zayas nació en el Estado de México en 1964 y vive en la ciudad de Oaxaca desde 1986. Estudió la carrera de abogado en la Escuela Libre de Derecho de la Ciudad de México y un máster en Cultura contemporánea en el Instituto Ortega y Gasset y la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Ha publicado varios libros de poesía, entre ellos Al centro de la ínsula (Fondo Cultural Cantera Verde/Instituto Oaxaqueño de las culturas, 2001), A luz más cierta (IOC, 2004), Instantes de la llama (Editorial Almadía, Oaxaca, 2005), La mujer del umbral (Mano Santa Editores, Guadalajara, 2016), Brazos del tiempo (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Ciudad de México, 2017), ¿El último río? (Ediciones La Maquinucha, IAGO, Oaxaca, 2019) y el libro de ensayo Los astros subterráneos. Mito y poesía en Clara Janés (Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, 2016). Su libro más reciente es el poemario La casa del Ciervo (UAM, colección Molinos de Viento, 2022). Algunos de sus cuentos se han publicado en los libros El crimen -una antología- dibujos de Jonathan Barbieri (Editorial Zopilote Rey y Ahuehuete Distilling, 2023) y Oaxaca y más allá/and beyond (The Press at Cal Poly Humboldt y Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, 2023).

Fue, durante diez años (2005- 2015), coordinadora editorial del periódico de arte y cultura Ciclo Literario, y participó, de 2015 a 2019, en la coordinación de las publicaciones bilingües (en lenguas originarias de Oaxaca y castellano)realizadas por el Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca (IAGO) y otras instancias públicas y privadas, bajo la dirección del artista Francisco Toledo. De 2018 a 2020 participó como consejera y docente en el proyecto académico del Centro de Estudios del Pueblo Xhidza, (CEUXHIDZA)  que promueve una educación universitaria de diálogo intercultural en la población de Santa María Yaviche, en la Sierra Norte de Oaxaca.

Ha impartido talleres de lectura, redacción y escritura en el Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca (IAGO), en el Museo de la Filatelia (MUFI) y en el Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo (CFMAB) de la ciudad de Oaxaca.

Como editora publicó en 2024, bajo el sello Tres Ciervos Editorial y en coedición con FR Editor, el libro bilingüe de poesía Natmas/Confesiones, de la poeta Bertha Cenobio, escrito en español y traducido al mixteco de Santiago Tilantongo. Realiza gestión cultural y colabora regularmente con publicaciones, suplementos y revistas locales, nacionalesy foráneas.

Araceli Mancilla Zayas was born in the State of Mexico in 1964 and has lived in Oaxaca City since 1986. She studied law at the Escuela Libre de Derecho in Mexico City and holds a master's degree in Contemporary Culture from the Ortega y Gasset Institute and the Complutense University of Madrid. She has published several books of poetry, including Al Centro de la ínsula (Cantera Verde Cultural Fund/Oaxacan Institute of Cultures, 2001), A Luz Más Certante (IOC, 2004), Instantes de la llama (Almadía, Oaxaca, 2005), La mujer del umbral (Mano Santa Editores, Guadalajara, 2016), Brazos del tiempo (Autonomous Metropolitan University, Mexico City, 2017), ¿El último río? (La Maquinucha Editions, IAGO, Oaxaca, 2019), and the essay collection *Los Astros Subterranos*. Myth and Poetry in Clara Janés (Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, 2016). Her most recent book is the poetry collection La casa del Ciervo (UAM, Molinos de Viento collection, 2022). Some of her stories have been published in the books El crimen -una antología- dibujo de Jonathan Barbieri (Editorial Zopilote Rey and Ahuehuete Distilling, 2023) and Oaxaca y más allá/and beyond (The Press at Cal Poly Humboldt and Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca, 2023).

For ten years (2005-2015), she was the editorial coordinator of the arts and culture journal Ciclo Literario, and from 2015 to 2019, she participated in the coordination of bilingual publications (in Oaxacan native languages ​​and Spanish) produced by the Oaxaca Institute of Graphic Arts (IAGO) and other public and private organizations, under the direction of artist Francisco Toledo. From 2018 to 2020, she served as an advisor and teacher in the academic project of the Center for the Study of the Xhidza People, CEUXHIDZA, which promotes university education based on intercultural dialogue in the town of Santa María Yaviche, in the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca.

She has taught reading, writing, and composition workshops at the Oaxaca Institute of Graphic Arts (IAGO), the Museum of Philately (MUFI), and the Manuel Álvarez Bravo Photographic Center (CFMAB) in Oaxaca City.

As an editor, she published in 2024, under the Tres Ciervos Editorial imprint and in co-edition with FR Editor, the bilingual poetry collection Natmas-Confesiones, by poet Bertha Cenobio, written in Spanish and translated into Mixtec by Santiago Tilantongo. She is involved in cultural management and regularly collaborates with local, national, and international publications, supplements, and magazines.

Tony Mancus is the author of two books of poems, Same After Life (Gasher, 2024) and All the Ordinariness (The Magnificent Field, 2022) along with a handful of chapbooks. He serves as chapbook editor for Barrelhouse, works as an instructional designer, and lives in Colorado with his wife, son, and two black cats. 

Cynthia Manick is the author of No Sweet Without Brine (Amistad-HarperCollins, 2023), which received 5 stars from Roxane Gay and was selected as a New York Public Library Best Book of 2023; editor of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry; winner of the Lascaux Prize in Collected Poetry; and author of Blue Hallelujahs. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, MacDowell, and Château de la Napoule among other foundations. For 10 years she curated Soul Sister Revue, a quarterly reading series that promoted poetry as storytelling and featured emerging poets, poet laureates, and Pultizer Prize winners. Her poem “Things I Carry into the World” was made into a film by Motionpoems and has debuted on Tidal for National Poetry Month. A storyteller and performer at literary festivals, libraries, universities, and museums, Manick’s work has also featured in VOICES, an audio play by Aja Monet and Eve Ensler’s V-Day, the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day Series, Brooklyn Rail, The Rumpus and other outlets. She lives in New York but travels widely for poetry. 

Cheyenne Mann (they/them) is an experimental surrealist fiction writer from Iowa whose work often crosses into poetic and hybrid forms. They’re a two-time winner of the Iowa Chapbook Prize (2021, 2022), the recipient of the 2025 Robert Coover Prize in Fiction, and a semi-finalist in the 2025 Writers of the Future Contest. Their work appears or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Chestnut Review, and Cosmic Horror Monthly, among others. You can find them on Instagram @cheyennewrites or on Twitter @NotCheyenneMann. Cheyenne lives in Providence, RI, with their cat, Fig, where they are a Literary Arts MFA candidate at Brown University.

Sadie Marcus is a poet living in Brooklyn, New York. 

 Christopher Marmolejo, MA, is a brown, queer, And trans writer, diviner, and educator. They use divination to promote a literacy of liberation. They are the author of Red Tarot: A Decolonial Guide To Divinatory Literacy, published By North Atlantic Books. As a trained educator focused on cultivating classrooms of emancipatory possibility, they work with students around the world to plant and nurture the seed of a divinatory practice, finely weaving tarot, astrology, and curanderismo with  decolonial, queer epistemologies and critical, feminist pedagogies. 

Chloe Martinez’s translations of the poems of Mirabai are forthcoming from New Directions in 2026. She is the author of the poetry books Ten Thousand Selves and Corner Shrine, and the coeditor, with Lisa Van Orman Hadley, of Chaos, Creativity, Completion: New Approaches to Writing and ADHD (UChicago, forthcoming 2026). She lives in Claremont, CA, on Tongva/Gabrielino land.

Paul Martinez Pompa is a papa, poet and profe who earned degrees from The University of Chicago and Indiana University. His first book, My Kill Adore Him (University of Notre Dame Press), was selected for the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize by Martin Espada. Match Factory Editions published his most recent book, Domestic Corpse. Martinez Pompa's work has been widely anthologized, including in What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Trump Era, and The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop. His poetry was commissioned for a Chicago Public Radio project called "In Verse," which aimed to explore the emotional weight of gun violence. He is CantoMundo fellow and currently on the editorial board at Packingtown Review.

Katie Marya is a writer and translator originally from Atlanta, Georgia. Her poetry collection, Sugar Work, was the Editor’s Choice for 2020 Alice James Book Award. Animal Spiral, her translation of Luis Othoniel Rosa’s sci-fi novel El gato en el remolino is forthcoming from Charco Press in 2026. Marya lives in Nebraska and teaches writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Kristi Maxwell is the author of nine books of poems, including Wide Ass of Night (Saturnalia Books, 2025); Goners (Green Linden Press, 2023), winner of the Wishing Jewel Prize; Realm Sixty-four, editor’s choice for the Sawtooth Poetry Prize and finalist for the National Poetry Series; and Hush Sessions, editor’s choice for the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. She’s the Director of Creative Writing and a professor of English at the University of Louisville.

"Caitlin Grace McDonnell brings an exciting, dark explicitness to poetry," wrote Jon Ashbery. She has published her poems and essays widely, including two books of poems: Looking For Small Animals (2012) and Pandemic City (2021), and a chapbook, Dreaming The Tree (2003) and is at work on a memoir. A queer/bi single-mother, cold-water plunger, and longtime adjunct writing professor, she mostly resides in Brooklyn, NY with her teenage daughter and little dog Olive, but also escapes to a quiet lake upstate.

Kathy McGregor founded the Prison Story Project in Fayetteville, AR in 2012. The Project has served incarcerated women and men in a storytelling/creative writing program. The work of participants is collated into a staged reading and presented first on the inside for those who wrote and then outside for the community.

In 2016, McGregor gained access to Arkansas's death row and the writing of the participants, performed by actors. The state of Arkansas resumed executions in 2017 and 4 of our writers where on the list of 8 men to be executed. "On the Row"  toured across the US from 2017 - 2019. McGregor, and the Prison Story Project, continue to support the remaining writers on death row. 

Tanner Menard is an internationally known hybrid-poet-composer, scholar, yogi, and PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. A Louisiana Creole of Atakapa-Ishak descent, his work integrates visionary poetics, Indigenous epistemologies, and consciousness studies—engaging Anzaldúa's borderlands consciousness and nepantla as frameworks resonant with his own Gulf South lineage. His research develops the concept of numalia—numinous qualia encoded in epic and contemporary visionary literature—and bridges literary analysis with contemplative practice and anomalous experience. Engaging the Superhumanities, relational citation, Indigenous futurity, and contemplative philosophy, Menard examines the poet as a ceremonial and perceptual practitioner. He is the author of a book and a chapbook and has released fourteen albums of experimental music.

Dandi Meng is a writer and editor living in Seattle. She received her PhD in English from UCLA. Her writing can be found at Annulet: A Journal of Poetics, Hot Pink Magazine, Jacket2, and Los Angeles Review of Books, among others.

Leah Mensch is an Arab-Jewish writer based in Tucson. They hold an MFA from the University of Arizona, and they're currently working on an archival elegy about their family and the late poet Kate Braverman. 

olga mikolaivna was born in Kyiv and works in the (intersectional/textual) liminal space of photography, word, translation, and installation. Her debut chapbook cities as fathers is out with Tilted House, and "our monuments to Southern California," she calls them is forthcoming with Ursus Americanus. Other works can be found in mercury firs, Metatron Press, Cleveland Review of Books, and elsewhere. She lives in Philadelphia and co-curates ( peel lit ).

Lindsay K. Miles is the author of the chapbooks, Edeltraut (Anstruther Press, 2022) and A Period of Non-Enforcement (The Operating System, 2019). She was a 2023-2024 Writing Fellow with the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ugly Duckling Presse’s Second Factory Journal, The Capilano Review, Grain, Prism, Poetry is Dead, Bad Nudes, Plenitude and elsewhere. Lindsay holds a Creative Writing MFA from the University of Guelph. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

Nora Claire Miller is the author of the chapbook LULL (2020). Their poems have recently appeared in The Paris Review, FENCE, Chicago Review, Bennington Review, and Washington Square Review. Nora is the editor-in-chief of Ghost Proposal. They hold an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Stephen Paul Miller is a professor of English at St. John’s University. His new book is Beautiful Snacks (Marsh Hawk Press).  He will read from this book in his New Orleans reading. This reading will include poems that are included in Best American Poetry 2023, Contemporary Surrealist and Magical Realist Poetry: An International Anthology, Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry, Cimarron Review, Shofar, Posit, New York Daily News, St. Mark's Poetry Project Newsletter, Publisher's Weekly, and elsewhere. Bob Holman has said of my book, "Beautiful Snacks is a full-course meal." Joyelle has called my poetry "exhilarating." According to Charles Bernstein, "Miller's sparkle opens onto philosophic muscle." Marjorie Perloff called Miller's poetry "irresistible" and "delightful." Anne Tardos has called his poems "totally hip." "Political without being didactic," Erik Mortenson calls Beautiful Snacks, "inspirational without sounding cliched." David Shapiro said that "Miller has a new tone and a new voice, non-parallel in his generation." Denise Duhamel called his poems "literary triumphs."

Maura Modeya is a poet from northern Minnesota. Their work focuses on insomnia, the ghost of Sappho, U.S. empire violence, queer ecologies, and the reclamation of public space through wheatpasting. She holds an MFA from Naropa University and currently lives in Atlanta. Maura’s debut poetry collection SAPPHO TERROR is forthcoming from Prroblem Press 2026. 

Ari Moline is a poet, writer, perfumer, and linguist working with minorized languages, based in so-called Pittsburgh, PA. Words appear in Second Factory, b l u s h, Cleveland Review of Books, and anonymous gossip forums. His first chapbook is god with blinking red light ON (Almost Perfect Press, 2025).

Chris Monier lives with his family in the Bayou Region of south Louisiana where he teaches French and English at Nicholls State University. He has published poetry, literary criticism, and translations of French-language writers.

Saretta Morgan is a environmental writer from the U.S. Southeast and Southwest. Her work, which considers the environmental impacts of U.S. settler violence, is informed by personal and intergenerational experiences with the U.S. carceral and military industries, and through embodied practices at the intersections of grassroots work in demilitarization, migrant justice, water protection, community healing, and wildlife rehabilitation. Her debut poetry collection, Alt-Nature (Coffee House Press, 2024), received the Southwest Book Award and was a finalist for the Publishing Triangle and Lambda Literary awards for lesbian poetry. 

Matthew Morris is the author of The Tilling (Seneca Review Books 2024), selected by Wendy S. Walters for the 2023 Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize. He is graduate of the Arizona MFA program, has received a Bread Loaf scholarship, and is pursuing a PhD in creative writing and literature at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He is from Virginia.  

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Ghazal Mosadeq is a poet, editor and translator. She is the founder of Pamenar Press, an independent publisher of poetry, translation, hybrid and critical writing. Her own work has been published by Ugly Duckling Presse, Sherasman books as well as Fiddlehead, Arc Magazine, Words Without Borders and Asymptote among others. She is a member of the editorial advisory board for the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry.

Joseph Mosconi is a writer and taxonomist based in Los Angeles. A former Google computational linguist, he is currently the executive director of the Poetic Research Bureau, a co-founder and programmer at 2220 Arts+Archives, and an editor at Make Now Books. He is the author of several books, including Ashenfolk (Make Now Books, 2019), Fright Catalog (Insert Blanc Press, 2013), Demon Miso/Fashion In Child (Make Now Books, 2014), Renaissance Realism (Gauss PDF, 2016), and, with Pauline Beaudemont, an artist book called This Arrogant Envelope (FCAC Geneva, 2017). 

Tawanda Mulalu was born in Gaborone, Botswana. His first book, 'Please make me pretty, I don’t want to die' was selected by Susan Stewart for the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, was listed as a best poetry collection of 2022 by The Boston Globe, The New York Times and The Washington Post, and was a finalist for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry. Tawanda’s poems appear in Brittle Paper, Lana Turner, Lolwe, The New England Review, The Paris Review and elsewhere. He lives (for now, I guess) in Austin, TX, where he is a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers.

Ayaz Orme Muratoglu is a poet, critic, and translator working between Istanbul and New York. From 2022-24, he worked as an audio and technical manager at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, and he curated and edited the 2023-24 chapbook series for the feminist poetry press Belladonna*. His translations, poems and reviews have appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, the Poetry Project Newsletter, Second Factory, Words Without Borders, Trilobite, Landfill, Tagvverk, the Cola Review, Hot Pink Mag, Yalobusha Review,  pan-pan press, Critical Flame, and On the Seawall. He has led poetry workshops at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn, New York and has been a guest lecturer at Brown University and Jewish Currents. 

Sheila E. Murphy 

Most recent publications: I Want To Be Your Radio (Unlikely Books, 2025), Escritoire (Lavender Ink, 2025), and Permission to Relax (BlazeVOX Books, 2023). Work has appeared or is forthcoming in Verse Daily, Lana Turner, Black Sun Lit, Fortnightly Review, Poetry, Hanging Loose, and others. Gertrude Stein Poetry Award for Letters to Unfinished J. (Green Integer Press, 2003). Hay(ha)ku Book Prize for Reporting Live From You Know Where (Meritage Press, 2018). Has lived in Phoenix, Arizona, throughout her adult life. Born in Mishawaka, Indiana and reared in South Bend.

Wikipedia page can be found at: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Murphy_(poet)

Kristen E. Nelson is a queer writer, scholar, and performer. She is the author of two books In the  Away Time (Autofocus Books, April 2024) and the length of this gap (Damaged Goods, August 2018); and two chapbooks sometimes I gets lost and is grateful for noises in the dark (Dancing Girl, 2017) and Write, Dad (Unthinkable Creatures, 2012). She has published creative and critical writing in Feminist Studies, Bombay Gin, Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, Tarpaulin Sky Journal, Trickhouse, and Everyday Genius, among others. Kristen founded Casa Libre en la Solana, a non-profit writing center in Tucson, Arizona, where she worked as the Executive Director for 14 years and co-founded Four Queens, a platform for divinatory poetics with Selah Saterstrom. Kristen is currently a Ph.D. student and instructor of creative writing at the University of California – Santa Cruz in the Literature Department’s creative/critical writing concentration. Her research centers on Creative Writing, Divinatory Poetics, Feminist Autotheory, and Witchcraft Studies. More info: kristenenelson.org

Margot Tâm An Ngô is a poet and writer of Little Saigon, California. She most recently resided in the northwest mountains of Vietnam under a Fulbright grant. She holds a B.A. from Bowdoin College, where she received the Richard Jr. Poetry Prize and the Philip Henry Brown Prize, and a M.A.T. from Brown University. Her work can be found in diaCRITICS, 45th Parallel, The Ear where her poems received the Linda Purdy Memorial Prize, and elsewhere. Margot now lives by the river in Providence, Rhode Island, where she is pursuing her MFA in Literary Arts at Brown University.

Joshua Nguyen is the author of Come Clean (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021), winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, the Writers' League of Texas Discovery Award, and the Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters Poetry Award. He is also the author of the chapbooks, American Lục Bát for My Mother (Bull City Press, 2021) and Hidden Labor & The Naked Body (Sundress Publications, 2023). He is a Vietnamese American writer, a collegiate national poetry slam champion (CUPSI), and enjoys the practice of dish drying. He has received fellowships from Kundiman, Kenyon Review, Tin House, Sundress Academy For The Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. He is a humor editor for The Offing Mag. He received his MFA/PhD from The University of Mississippi and currently teaches at Tufts University.

Susan Nguyen’s debut poetry collection Dear Diaspora won the 2020 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Association of Asian American Studies, a New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, and was a finalist for the Julie Suk Award. Her poems have been nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize and have appeared in The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series, POETRY, The American Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest, Tin House, and others. Her poem "Impossible Deer" won the 2022 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from the American Poetry Review and she is the recipient of fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Arizona Commission on the Arts, the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, and elsewhere. She is the editor in chief of Hayden’s Ferry Review and a member of the She Who Has No Master(s) collective.

MICHELLE (M.A.) NICHOLSON is a New Orleans poet, editor, educator, journalist, and arts-organizer with work featured in Best New Poets 2022 and Winter in America (Again anthologies, as well as Trampoline Poetry, Peauxdunque Review, Diode Poetry Journal, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. Her debut poetry collection Around the Gate  (Word Works Books, 2024) was selected by judge Carolyne Wright as a winner for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection prize. 

An M.F.A. graduate from the University of New Orleans—where she served as Associate Poetry Editor for Bayou Magazine—M.A. was the recipient of the 2021 Andrea-Saunders Gereighty Academy of American Poets Award and was Kenyon Review’s 2024 Peter Taylor Fellow.  

Connect with M.A. at www.michellenicholsonpoetry.com

Erin Noehre holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University, where she was a June Jordan Teaching Fellow in 2020-2021. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Indiana Review, Academy of American Poets, Apogee, Foglifter, the anthology, Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance, and elsewhere. She is currently a student in the Creative Writing Ph.D. program at the University of Cincinnati. 

Urayoán Noel is the author of 10 books of poetry, most recently Transversal (University of Arizona Press, 2021), a New York Public Library Book of the Year, and the hybrid Isabela Notebook/Cuaderno de Isabela (La Impresora, 2025). Other works include the award-winning critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (University of Iowa Press, 2014) and the ongoing site-based improvisational project Wokitokiteki. A National Translation Award finalist, Noel received a 2025 NYSCA Support for Artists Grant to translate traslaciones (2015) by Wingston González for Ugly Duckling Presse and has also translated adjacent islands/islas adyacentes by Nicole Cecilia Delgado (UDP/DoubleCross/La Impresora, 2022). Originally from Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, Urayoán Noel lives in the Bronx and teaches at NYU.

Maggie Nye is a PhD candidate at Florida State University, where she is hard at work on a strange, contemporary retelling of the Medusa myth. Her debut novel, The Curators, was published in 2024 by Northwestern University Press. A MacDowell fellow and Tin House scholar, her prose and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in journals and anthologies including Seventh Wave, Passages North, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Pleiades. In addition to writing, editing, and teaching, she is an avid horror movie lover, candy eater, and roller derby player.

Cait O'Kane lives, writes, & takes photographs in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she was born. Her latest project, The Wasted Land, is forthcoming from Tripwire Magazine in Spring of 2025. Her first two collections, A Brief History Of Burning & Homecoming, were published by Belladonna Press Collective in 2020 & 2023, respectively.

Danielle Pafunda [she/they] is author of ten books of poetry and prose including Along the Road Everyone Must Travel (Saturnalia 2025) chosen by Hoa Nguyen as winner of the Saturnalia Poetry Prize, Spite (The Operating System), The Book of Scab (Ricochet Editions winner of Troubling the I), and The Dead Girls Speak in Unison (Bloof Books) recently translated into Spanish by the writer Cristina Rivera Garza (Dharma Books). Pafunda teaches creative writing, worldbuilding, literature, and queer and gender studies at Rochester Institute of Technology. 

Andrés Paniagua is a poet and translator from Mexico City. He is the author of Usted está aquí (2016), Sin nada detrás (2019), (Una banda de punk llamada) Rattus (2020, 2021), Querida Ele (2024),  and co-author of Señales de ruta (2019). His work has been published in various magazines and websites such as Tierra Adentro, San Diego Poetry Annual, Oculta Lit, Dolce Stil Criollo, Vozed, Al-Araby, and Letras Libres. He has been a beneficiary of FONCA funding for young artists on two occasions. He is editor of Sindicato Sentimental.

Erasmo Pantoja  is a writer, translator and editor from Colombia. Since 2016 he runs the artisanal publishing house biblioteca popular bruce lee (bpbl), in collaboration with Mónica Mejía. He wrote El visitador (bpbl, 2018), Esta casa no es de nadie (bpbl, 2022), Florenciana (Sic Semper ediciones, 2022, part of the anthology Feliz coincidencia) and co-directed “La palabra del mudo” (2016), a literary documentary film on the poet Lunero Páez. Biblioteca popular bruce lee has published a textile version of Un kafkafarabeuf  and a codex version of La escuela del dolor humano de Sechuán, based on the writings of Mario Bellatin.

Laura Paul is the author of Film Elegy (PRROBLEM Press, 2024) and Total Art (Lavender Ink, 2025). She lives in Chicago and works at the Poetry Foundation. To find out more, visit LauraPaulWriter.com.

Cate Peebles is the author of the poetry collections The Haunting (Tupelo Press, 2025) and Thicket (Lost Roads Press, 2018), and several chapbooks, including Sun King (2025), the Editor's Choice selection for the Tomaz Salamun Prize from Factory Hollow Press. Recent work has appeared in diode, Ploughshares, Bennington Review, Fence, Ghost Proposal Volt and elsewhere. She lives in Pittsburgh.

Alison Pelegrin is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Louisiana Board of Regents, the Foundation for Louisiana, and the Academy of American Poets. Alison’s two most recent poetry collections are Our Lady of Bewilderment (2022) and Waterlines (2016), both with LSU Press. Her work has appeared in The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, and The Best American Poetry 2025. While serving as Louisiana Poet Laureate from 2023-2025, she founded the Lifelines Poetry Project, and her poetry outreach in prisons continues to this day. She is Writer-in-Residence at Southeastern Louisiana University.

Christopher Rey Pérez is a poet from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. His first book, gauguin’s notebook, received the 2015 Madeleine P. Plonsker Prize from Lake Forest College. He is also the author of Fayuca, a book on markets and movement, with diSONARE Editorial in Mexico City, and Future Tourism, a chapbook with Sputnik & Fizzle on love, travel, and class. He edited Aliens Beyond Paradise/Alienígenas más allá del paraíso (Wendy’s Subway, ‘19) and has published several chapbooks, pamphlets, and artist books in Mexico, Brazil, Cyprus, Lebanon, Canada, and other places. His forthcoming book, Authenticity Drill, will be published with Futurepoem in 2027.

Christopher has led poetry workshops with Ashkal Alwan’s Home Workspace Program, The Garden Library for Refugees & Migrant Workers in South Tel Aviv, Beta-Local’s La Iván Illich, Queens Museum, Wendy’s Subway, & Loudreaders Trade School. With Gabriel Finotti, he publishes the multilingual and nomadic bookwork, Dolce Stil Criollo. He also forms part of Post-Novis, an alternative project of architectural education and practice.

Elisabeth Perez is a Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cajun French creative writer from Southwest Louisiana. She graduated from Northwestern State University of Louisiana in English Education (2019) and studied Spanish at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (2022) and the Universidad de Quintana Roo (2017). She taught English as a Foreign Language while living in Chile and then later in Argentina from 2020-2024. Currently, she enjoys working at Faulkner House Books in the French Quarter and writing educational curriculum for the Louisiana Décima Project with the Institute for Public Ethnomusicology. A few of her poems that mix Cajun French, Spanish and English are available to read on her website: www.foliosa-flores.com.

Cristina Pérez Díaz is a Puerto Rican poet and translator working in English, Spanish, and Ancient Greek. She has a PhD in Classics from Columbia University and teaches at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. She published the poetry volume From the Founding of the Country (Winter Editions) and the hybrid of translation and academic essay Antígona by José Watanabe: A Bilingual Edition with Critical Essays (Routledge). Her poems and translations have been featured in Words Without Borders, Asymptote, Hayden's Ferry Review, and The Slowdown.  

Chuck Perkins is an American spoken word poet, orator, narrator, and activist who infuses the rhythms and vernacular from the Crescent City into his musical spoken word pieces. The New Orleans Times-Picayune says that he "recites poetry like a prize fighter...always going for a knock out." He has performed internationally at London's prestigious South Bank Centre with Amiri Baraka, as well as in Paris, Toulouse, Manchester, Liverpool, Cambridge, and Amsterdam.

Michael C. Peterson's poems appear in a number of journals and anthologies, and have been supported by fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Vermont Studio Center, and elsewhere. He is the co-editor of the first retrospective of Cincinnati/NYC Black Arts poet Tom Postell titled Tom Postell: On the Life and Work of an American Master (Unsung Masters Series, 2024). He's the curator and  archivist of the Elliston Poetry Collection at the University of Cincinnati.

Jeffrey Pethybridge is a poet, editor, and curator; he is the author of Striven, The Bright Treatise(Noemi Press 2013), which was selected as one of ten best debuts of 2013 by Poets & Writers. His second collection Force Drift, an essay in the epic  has just been published by Tupelo Press. 

His writing and visual poetry appear internationally in journals such as diSonare (MX); White Wall Review (CA); Writing Utopia (UK); the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day; Chicago Review, Volt, Best American Experimental Writing, Manifold Criticism; The Iowa Review, New American Writing and others. He teaches in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University where he is Co-Artistic Director of the Summer Writing Program.

Damon Phạm is an MFA candidate at Brown University's Literary Arts program. His writing has been shared by Ranger magazine, the digital review, miniMAG, MudRoom, Overheard, Taper, Digital America, Soupbone Collective, Cadence Video Poetry Festival, and Third Coast International Audio Festival. He can be found on music platforms as "Especially."

Isaac Pickell is a Black and Jewish poet, PhD candidate, and adjunct instructor in Detroit, Michigan. A Cave Canem Fellow, he is the author of "It's not over once you figure it out" (Black Ocean, 2023), "The Smallest Mistake We Call Human" (Black Lawrence Press, 2026), and chapbooks from Black Lawrence Press and Dead Mall Press.

Hannah Piette is a poet living in New Haven. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Hannah’s poems can be found in Cleveland Review of Books, Chicago Review, R&R, Works & Days, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Screen Memory, is forthcoming in Spring 2026 with The Year. She’s a PhD student in English at Yale University and an assistant editor of The Yale Review. 

Jeannine Marie Pitas is a teacher, poet, writer and Spanish-English literary translator living in western Pennsylvania. She is the author of two full-length poetry collections and three chapbooks. She is also the translator or co-translator of twelve Latin American books of poetry and prose, most recently Uruguayan poet Silvia Guerra's A Sea at Dawn, co-translated with Jesse Lee Kercheval and published in 2023 by Eulalia Books, whose editorial staff she recently joined. She teaches at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, PA. https://www.jeanninemariepitas.com/ 

Jadine (JD) Pluecker works with language, that is, a material thing, a thing of life and history. Her undisciplinary work inhabits the intersections of writing, history, translation, art, interpreting, bookmaking, queer/trans aesthetics, non-normative poetics, language justice, and cross-border cultural production. They have translated numerous books from the Spanish, including Antígona González (Les Figues Press, 2016), Trash  (Deep Vellum Press, 2023) and In Defense of Common Life: The Political Thought of Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar (Common Notions, 2024). JD has published three books of poetry: The Every Wild (Mouthfeel Press, 2024), Grin Go Home / Las provincias internas (Editorial Ultramarina, 2024), and Ford Over (Noemi Press, 2016). In 2019 Lawndale Art Center supported the publication of the artist book, The Unsettlements: Dad. From 2010-2020, she worked as part of the transdisciplinary collaborative Antena Aire and from 2015-2020 with the local social justice interpreting collective Antena Houston. JD edits chapbooks with Ugly Duckling Presse’s Señal series, is a recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writing Grant, and has exhibited work at Blaffer Art Museum, the Hammer Museum, Project Row Houses, and more. More info at www.jdpluecker.com and www.antenaantena.org.

Jessica Poli is the author of the poetry collection Red Ocher (University of Arkansas Press), which was a finalist for the 2023 Miller Williams Poetry Prize. She lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Léon Pradeau is a French-American poet and translator, based in Chicago. He is the editor of Transat', a journal of poetry in French and English. His publications include two books of poetry, vaisseau instantané/instant shipping (Les murmurations, 2024); "This is it" (Antiphony, 2025).

Joy Priest is the author of Horsepower (Pitt Poetry Series, 2020), winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and the editor of Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology (Sarabande, 2023). She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Fine Arts Work Center fellowship, and the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from the American Poetry Review. Her poems, essays, and cultural criticism have appeared in The Atlantic, Boston Review, The New Republic, and Sewanee Review, among others. Priest is on faculty in the University of Pittsburgh MFA in Creative Writing program and serves as the Curator of Community Programs & Practice at Pitt’s Center for African American Poetry & Poetics (CAAPP). Her second poetry collection, The Black Outside, is forthcoming from Duke University Press in 2027.

Nadia Prupis is a writer and musician whose work has appeared in Hobart, Metatron Press, Gone Lawn, and other outlets. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine.

Helen Quah is a British poet and doctor of Guyanese and Malaysian-Chinese heritage. She is the author of chapbook Dog Woman (Out-Spoken) which won the Eric Gregory Award in 2023. Her work has appeared in journals such as Lana Turner, The Poetry Review, The Rialto, Action Books Blog, and the book of essays State of Play: Poets of East and South East Asian Heritage in Conversation (Out-Spoken). She is currently based in Indiana and is an editorial assistant at Action Books.

Rachelle Rahmé is a writer and translator interested in collaborative liberation methodologies. Her translations of the occupation poetry of Georges Bataille were published as 27 Poems on Death by o-blēk in 2021 and in the journals Fieldnotes, Hot Pink, and Anus. Rahmé is a recipient of The Poetry Project's Emerge-Surface-Be Fellowship and has published chapbooks with 72 Press, Blush, Wonder Press, Belladonna* Collaborative, and Spiral Editions, among others. Rahmé holds an MA in Philosophy from The New School for Social Research and an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University. Born in Lebanon, she currently resides in the Hudson Valley, NY. Mercurial, or Is that Liberty?, released in October 2025 by Fonograf, is her first full-length collection of poems. She teaches writing and media philosophy in New York City and on the web.

Jhani Randhawa is a multidisciplinary artist with roots in the U.S., East Africa, the Punjab, and England. Their work considers collectivity, grief practices, and friendship across species and consciousness. Jhani's debut collection Time Regime (Gaudy Boy, 2022) won the 2023 California Book Award Gold Medal Prize for Poetry, and their writing is forthcoming or has appeared most recently in Jagdeep Raina: Beautiful Zameen (PS Guelph), A Mouth Holds Many Things: A Hybrid-Literary Anthology (Fonograf Edition & de-canon), Osmosis Press, diode, Little Mirror, Gulf Coast, ASAP/J, 128Lit, and O BOD, among others. Their visual work, performances, and dramaturgy have been exhibited in venues such as the CICA Museum (South Korea), Helen Kanitkar Anthropology Library (London, U.K.), The Mortuary (Los Angeles, U.S.), Couerage Theatre (Los Angeles, U.S.), and the Woolen Mill Gallery (Reedsburg, U.S.).

Caroline Rayner grew up in Virginia and currently lives and works in western Massachusetts. She is the author of THE MOAN WILDS (Shabby Doll House, 2023) and, with Miri Karraker, DAWN NOON DUSK MIDNIGHT (Spiral Editions, 2025)

Joani Reese is from North Texas, USA and author of poetry chapbooks Final Notes and Dead Letters. Night Chorus is Reese’s full-length collection. Reese was poetry editor for THIS Magazine and Connotation Press-An Online Artifact, and fiction guest editor for Scissors and Spackle. Reese won the 1st Patricia McFarland Memorial Prize for flash fiction, The Graduate School Creative Writing Award from The University of Memphis, and the Glass Woman Prize for flash fiction. Reese recently won the 2025 New Zealand National Flash Fiction Day Micro Madness contest at Flash Frontier. She also curates the yearly AWP offsite underground reading series Hot Pillow. 

Evelyn Reilly is a New York-based poet, scholar, and environmentalist. Her books include Styrofoam, Apocalypso and Echolocation, published by Roof Books; Hiatus, published by Barrow Street Press; and Having Broken, Are recently published by BlazeVOX. Styrofoam is widely read and written about as an example of ecopoetics and avant-garde experimentation. Reilly's poetry and essays have appeared in many journals and anthologies. She is co-curator of the OtherWords Reading Series in Great Barrington, MA and also a member of the Steering Committee of the climate activist group 350NYC.

Mary Reilly is a poet and translator living in New York City. Her work has appeared in Second Factory, The New York Quarterly, Bowery Women, and Soulages: A Century; and she is the recipient of fellowships from the Beesen and LeClerc Foundations for her research on and translations of contemporary French poetry.

Anastacia-Renee (She/They) is an award-winning writer, educator, interdisciplinary artist, TEDx Speaker and podcaster. She is the author of Side Notes from the Archivist (HarperCollins/Amistad), (v.) (Black Ocean), Forget It (Black Radish) and Here In The (Middle) of Nowhere . Her poetry and fiction have appeared in, BOMB, Prairie Schooner, Bellingham Review, Hobart, Foglifter, Auburn Avenue, Catapult, Alta, Torch, Poetry Northwest, Cascadia Magazine, The Fight and Fiddle, Ms. Magazine and others. Renee has received fellowships and residencies from Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, 4Culture,VONA, Ragdale, Mineral School, and The New Orleans Writers Residency.  

heidi andrea restrepo rhodes is a queer, non-binary, crip/disabled, brown, writer, artist, scholar, educator, cultural worker and creature of the Colombian diaspora. They are author of The Inheritance of Haunting, Ephemeral, Afterlives of Discovery: Speculative Geographies in the Settler Colonial Imaginary, Wayward Creatures, and the forthcoming Ampersand Organ: a more-than-human lyric. They are a professor of feminist, queer, and disability studies; and poetry co-editor at Apogee Journal. Their poetry and creative non-fiction have been published in American Poetry Review, The Normal School, Michigan Quarterly Review, Alocasia, Poetry, and Waxwing, among other places. They live in southern California.

Brad Richard is the author of Habitations (Portals Press, 2000); Motion Studies (The Word Works, 2011 - winner of the 2010 Washington Prize; 2nd, expanded edition, 2025); Butcher’s Sugar (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2012); Parasite Kingdom (The Word Works, 2019 - winner of the 2018 Tenth Gate Prize); and Turned Earth (LSU Press 2025). He has also published four chapbooks, including Larval Songs (Antenna, 2018), a collaboration with artist Kelly Anne Mueller, and, most recently, In Place, chosen for the Robin Becker Series from Seven Kitchens Press. He serves on the editorial board of The Word Works (as imprint editor for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection) and is on the faculty of the Kenyon Review Writing Workshops. He lives, writes, and gardens in New Orleans. More at bradrichard.org.

Kayla Rodney, author of Swimming Home, and instructional Designed for Clayton State University in Atlanta, has been writing since her time at Lusher Charter High School where she studied poetry as part of their certificate of artistry program. Since then, she has earned her PhD in English with a focus on education and Race and been working in different roles in higher ed. She is currently working on a small collection based around her interest in alternative spirituality and hopes to have it complete soon.

Diana Lizette Rodriguez is an experimental artist, poet, and filmmaker. Rodriguez is a graduate from Naropa University, studying at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and Visual Arts department. Her work has been published in Womanly Magazine, Asymptote, Unstamatic, the Hong Kong Review, and others. Her films have been screened in Mexico City, San Francisco, and the Performance Space in New York City. Her book Poemas de Nacer is forthcoming with diSONARE editorial. She is the founder of Calle Soledad Presa, an experimental rasquache press. 

Camilo Roldán is a bilingual Colombian-American poet and translator born in Milwaukee, WI and currently living in Houston, TX. He is the author of the poetry collections Dropout (Ornithopter Press, 2019) and El último soneto y nos vamos (HAO Rotativo de Letras, 2022). His translations include the chapbook Amilkar U., Nadaísta in Translation (These Signals Press, 2011), and María Paz Guerrero’s book God is a Bitch Too (Dios también es una perra) (UDP, 2020). Individual poems and translations have appeared in various print and digital magazines in the US and abroad.

Jake Rose is the author of JOAN, winner of the 2026 Phoenix Emerging Poets Book Prize.  A poet, artist, and educator living in California’s Central Valley, Rose has work published or forthcoming in West Branch, The Seventh Wave, The Atlantic, The American Academy of Poets, Foglifter, Coach House Books, and elsewhere. They teach at UC Davis and edit Vers literary magazine.

Mahid Rose is a queer poet based in Philadelphia, PA. 

Gabrielle Octavia Rucker is a writer, editor and teaching artist from the Great Lakes currently living in the Gulf Coast. She is a 2020 Poetry Project Fellow, a 2016 Kimbilio Fiction Fellow, and the founder of the The Seminary of Ecstatic Poetics, a non-traditional learning space for the poetically minded. Her debut poetry collection, Dereliction, is currently available via The Song Cave.