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mercury firs is an online journal of poetry, text, and whatevfir else— with a special interest in translation, hybrid texts, & 'ecologically-minded' work. Founded in 2022, published biannually, and chapbooks forthcoming, mercury firs aims to foreground innovative, novel, and exploratory work engaging dirt/flora/trash/fungus/non-human entanglements, porous boundaries of languages, dream/waking planes, & etc.,. to expand the thinkable… inside the outside…. This reading, hosted by mf editor and New Orleans-based poet, Ian U Lockaby, will bring together contributors from the first three years of the journal. Readers will include poets and translators— Alexis Almeida, Olivia Muenz, Matt Broaddus, Cecily Chen, Elijah Jackson, olga mikolaivna, Cleo Qian, Emily Bark Brown, Eric Tyler Benick, and Chloe Bliss Snyder.
