Gabriella Bedetti’s translations of Meschonnic’s essays have appeared in New Literary History and Critical Inquiry. She interviewed him in Diacritics and wrote on his work in New Literary History. The Modern Language Association of America funded Meschonnic’s participation at a roundtable that she conducted including Ralph Cohen and Susan Stewart.

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Eric Tyler Benick wrote the fox hunts (Beautiful Days, 2023) and is a co-founding editor of Ursus Americanus Press, a publisher of shorter poetics. His more recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bennington Review, Copper Nickel, Harvard Advocate, Meridian, NOIR SAUNA, Puerto Del Sol, and Tagvverk. He lives in Brooklyn.  

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Don Boes has written three books, Good Luck with That (FutureCycle Press), Railroad Crossing (Finishing Line Press), and The Eighth Continent (Northeastern University Press). The Eighth Continent was selected by award-winning poet A. R. Ammons to receive the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize.

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TR Brady received their MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Their work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, New England Review, Bennington Review, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. TR is the co-founder/co-editor of Afternoon Visitor and lives in Moscow, Idaho.

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Zoe Darsee is a poet, translator, publisher and teacher based in Berlin. Together with Nat Marcus, they are the co-founder of TABLOID press, a publishing initiative grounded in the poetics of the local. They are the author of BELL LOGIC (Spiral Editions, 2022) and Anzündkind (Creative Writing Department, 2023). A short story, Efflorescence in Stucco (2023), is recently out from Earthbound Press. Their translations of poet Mara Genschel are forthcoming.

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Tim Erickson is a former high school teacher now working as an editor at the University of Utah. His first book of poems, Egopolis, was published by OTIS Books|Seismicity Editions in 2015. His poems have appeared in Chicago Review, Molly Bloom, Western Humanities Review, and elsewhere. 

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Scout Faller is a Pushcart-nominated poet and recipient of the Leijia Hanrahan Scholarship for Communist Women Smokers. Their work has been shortlisted for the Surging Tide Writing Contest. Scout is rarely bored. They live in San Francisco with their girlfriend and their cat.

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Robert Fernandez is the author of Scarecrow (Wesleyan University Press, 2016), as well as Pink Reef (2013) and We Are Pharaoh (2011), both published by Canarium Books. He is also co-translator of Azure, a translation of the work of Stéphane Mallarmé. www.robert-fernandez.com

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Josh Fomon 's first book, Though We Bled Meticulously, was published by Black Ocean. New poems from Our Human Shores have appeared in or are forthcoming in Afternoon Visitor, DIAGRAM, Heavy Feather Review, Poetry Northwest, Provincetown Arts, TYPO, and Vestiges. Josh lives on the unceded lands of the Duwamish people in Seattle. His second book, Our Human Shores, will be published by Black Ocean in 2025.

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Jay Gao is a poet from Edinburgh, Scotland, living in New York City. His debut poetry collection Imperium (Carcanet, 2022) is a winner of the 2023 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. He is also the author of five poetry chapbooks and pamphlets, two of which are forthcoming. Currently, he reads for Poetry magazine and is a PhD student in English at Columbia University where he researches experimental poetics and race.

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Emiliano Gomez was reared+raised in Marysville, a gold rush place. His poetry collection Townies was a finalist for the DIAGRAM chapbook contest. He is a contributing writer at the Cleveland Review of Books. Through the California Arts Council (CAC) with the Yuba-Sutter Arts Foundation he received an Impact Grant. Through the Upstate Creative Corps (constituent CAC) he received an Independent Artist Grant. He graduated UCLA, completing his thesis with Brian Kim Stefans. He attends the MFA for Poetry at the University of Notre Dame.

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Sebastían Gómez Matus (Osorno, Chile, 1987), is a poet and translator who lives in Santiago with his two sons. He's the author of PO, La Constitution Borrada, Como Imaginé Bagdad, and Animal muerto, which was a finalist for the Juegos Florales Gabriela Mistral in 2019. He has published book-length translations into Spanish of Mary Ruefle, Chika Sagawa, and Etel Adnan, and is currently working on Descent of Alette by Alice Notley.

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Teemu Helle is the author of seven collections of poetry in Finland; work in translation can be found in Modern Poetry in Translation, EuropeNow, and Vittles.

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Elise Houcek is a writer, artist, and teacher. She is the author of TRACTATUS (Spuyten Duyvil, 2021) and The Leafs (Creative Writing Department, 2022). Recent writing has appeared in Keith LLC, APARTMENT Poetry, NOMATERIALISM, and DIAGRAM.

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Valerie Hsiung is a poet and the author of eight poetry and hybrid writing collections, including The pedestrian (Nightboat Books, forthcoming), selected for the 2023 Nightboat Prose Prize, The Naif (Ugly Duckling Presse, forthcoming), The only name we can call it now is not its only name (Counterpath), To love an artist (Essay Press), selected by Renee Gladman for the 2021 Essay Press Book Prize, and outside voices, please (CSU), selected for the 2019 CSU Open Book Prize. Born in the Year of the Earth Snake and raised by Chinese-Taiwanese immigrants in Cincinnati, Ohio, she now lives in the mountains of Colorado where she teaches at Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.

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Elijah Jackson is a poet based in New York, where he is an MFA candidate at NYU, and the assistant poetry editor of the Washington Square Review. Recent work has been published by or is forthcoming in Annulet, Keith LLC, fieldnotes, 1080press, NEW and others.

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Angel Leyba is a writer and creative from South Bay San Diego living in Oakland. They are the founder and curator of Queer Storytime, an intimate night where gay people can bitch&complain&laugh&cry&holdeachothertight. Their words have appeared in Dadakuku, The B'k, Honey Literary, Perhappened Mag, and elsewhere. Find them on instagram @_slutstation2 or twitter @xspacebar

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Born and raised in South Africa, Adrian Lürssen now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. His full-length manuscript (HUMAN IS TO WANDER) was selected by Gillian Conoley for the 2022 Colorado Prize for Poetry, and was published by The Center for Literary Publishing at CSU. His Chapbook NEOWISE was published in 2022 by Trainwreck Press (Canada). 

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Henri Meschonnic (1932-2009) is a key figure of French “new poetics,” best known worldwide for his translations of the Old Testament and his Critique du rythme: Anthropologie historique du langage. His poetry prizes include Max Jacob International Poetry Prize, the Mallarmé Prize, the Jean Arp Francophone Literature Prize, the Guillevic-Ville de Saint-Malo Grand Prize for Poetry, Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

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Born in Kyiv, Olga Mikolaivna works in the (intersectional/textual) liminal space of photography, word, translation, and installation. She is interested in memory, dream spaces, absences, inheritance, (dis)place, and the construction of language. She cofounded and co-curated Desuetude Press. Her work can be found in Cleveland Review of Books, TQR, New Delta Review, Peach Mag, and elsewhere. She is getting her MFA in creative writing at UCSD, and her debut chapbook "cities as fathers" is available through Tilted House.  

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Abby Minor lives in the ridges and valleys of central Pennsylvania, where she works on poems, essays, drawings, and projects exploring regional & reproductive politics. Her first book, As I Said: A Dissent (Ricochet Editions, 2022), is a collection of long documentary poems concerning abortion, justice, and citizenship in U.S. history. Granddaughter of Appalachian tinkerers and Yiddish-speaking New Yorkers, she teaches poetry in her region’s low-income nursing homes and serves on the Board of the internationally active nonprofit Abortion Conversation Projects. Her poems and essays have appeared in Fence, American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, and Feminist Studies; in 2018 she was awarded Bitch Media’s Writing Fellowship in Sexual Politics.

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Daniela Naomi Molnar is an artist, poet, and writer collaborating with the mediums of language, image, paint, pigment, and place. She is also a wilderness guide, educator, and eternal student. Her book CHORUS was selected by Kazim Ali as the winner of Omnidawn’s 1st /2nd Book Prize. Her visual work has been shown nationally, is in public and private collections internationally, and has been recognized by numerous grants, fellowships, and residencies. She teaches about poetry and the poetics of pigment-making. In 2016, she founded the Art + Ecology program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and is a founding Board member of the artist residency Signal Fire.

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Julianne Neely received her MFA degree from the Iowa Writer's Workshop, where she received the Truman Capote Fellowship, the 2017 John Logan Poetry Prize, and a Schupes Fellowship for Poetry. She is currently a Poetics PhD student and an English Department Fellow at the University at Buffalo. Her writing has been published in Hyperallergic, VIDA, The Poetry Project, The Rumpus, The Iowa Review and more. She has three chapbooks out with Slope Editions, garden-door Press, and Foundlings Press.

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Ruben Gelley Newman (he/him) is the author of Feedback Harmonies (Seven Kitchens Press), a chapbook inspired by the musician Arthur Russell. He is a writer, musician, and librarian-in-training based in New York City, and he coedits for Couplet Poetry. Recent poems have appeared in Only Poems, Salamander, Tyger Quarterly, and Afternoon Visitor, and you can find Reuben on social media @joustingsnail or at reubengelleynewman.com.

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Niina Pollari translated Tytti Heikkinen's poetry collection The Warmth of the Taxidermied Animal (Action Books). She is also the author of two poetry volumes, Dead Horse (2015) and Path of Totality (2022).

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Sofija Popovska is a poet and translator currently living in Germany. She works as an Editor-at-Large for Asymptote Journal, and her work can be found in Circumference Magazine, GROTTO Journal, and Farewell Transmission, among others. 

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Kylan Rice is the author of An Image Not a Book (2023), a collection of poems, and Incryptions (2021), a collection of essays. He is co-author of Primer (2023), a collection of conversations on poetry and poetics with Dan Beachy-Quick. His writing has been published in a variety of literary journals, including Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review Online, Tupelo Quarterly, Quarterly West, and West Branch, among others. 

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Sergio Salamanca (Santiago, Chile, 1988) has published two books of poetry, Pftschute, (Editorial Aparte, 2023) and Gezhongggeyangde (Litoral Punk, 2023, Argentina). He lives in Valdivia.

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Edward Salem is a 2023 Kresge Artist Fellow, a recipient of the PEN/Dau Prize, and the winner of the BOMB Fiction Contest, selected by Ottessa Moshfegh. His writing appears or is forthcoming in Narrative, Image, Prairie Schooner and elsewhere. He is the co-founder of City of Asylum/Detroit.

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Danika Stegeman’s second book, Ablation, was released by 11:11 Press November 1st, 2023. Her book Pilot (2020), was published by Spork Press. She’s a 2023 recipient of a grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and recently spent a 2-week residency in Marathon, TX outside Big Bend National Park. Her website is www.danikastegeman.com.

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Michael Joseph Walsh is the author of Innocence (CSU Poetry Center, 2022) and co-editor of APARTMENT Poetry. His poems, reviews, and translations from the Korean have appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Guernica, FOLDER, Fence, jubilat, and elsewhere. He lives in Denver.

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Tyrone Williams is the David Gray Chair of Poetry & Letters at SUNY Buffalo. He is the author of several chapbooks and seven books of poetry: c.c. (Krupskaya 2002), On Spec (Omnidawn 2008), The Hero Project of the Century (The Backwaters Press 2009), Adventures of Pi (Dos Madres Press 2011), Howell (Atelos Books 2011), As Iz(Omnidawn 2018), washpark (with Pat Clifford)(Delete Press, 2021)and stilettos in a rifle range (Wayne State University Press, 2022). A limited-edition art project, Trump l’oeil, was published by Hostile Books in 2017. He and Jeanne Heuving edited an anthology of critical essays, Inciting Poetics (University of New Mexico Press, 2019). His website is at https://www.flummoxedpoet.com/

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Margaret Yapp is from Iowa City, Iowa. She is the Managing Editor at Prompt Press and runs Rampage Party Press. Margaret has an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Iowa Center for the Book. She has taught classes in literature, creative writing, and book arts for the University of Iowa and Iowa City Poetry. Her debut book of poems Green for Luck is forthcoming from EastOver Press.

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Amie Zimmerman is from Portland, OR. Her work has been published, or is forthcoming, in Denver Quarterly, Protean, Annulet, Lana Turner, and Noir Sauna, among others. She is the author of four chapbooks, including Compliance (Essay Press) and, with artist Samantha Wall, the collaboration 31 Days/The Self (Ursus Americanus). Currently, Amie lives in upstate NY, where she works as a hairstylist, labor organizer, and PhD student. Alongside Hajar Hussaini and Matthew Klane, she curates the poetry and performance series Salon Salvage.

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