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Emily Bark Brown is a poet from Alabama and New York. They received degrees from Wesleyan University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Along with Zoe Tuck, they co-edit Hot Pink Magazine, a poetry venture, at hotpinkmag.com. Read more at emilybarkbrown.com
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Stanislav Belsky (Станислав Бельский) is a Russian language Ukrainian poet born in 1976 in Dnipropetrovsk. He is also a translator of contemporary Ukrainian poetry to Russian and works as a programmer. He has published thirteen books of poetry in Russian, including most recently: Quarantine Times (2023), On Sunny Concrete (2023), and Friendly Conversations with Robots (2024). His poems have been translated into Italian, Polish, Hebrew and Czech, and published widely in journals nationally and internationally. Belsky is a curator of the poetry book series Тонкие линии [“Thin lines”] and is co-organizer of a Dnipro and Kyiv poetry festival Чернил и плакать [“Get ink and weep”].
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Rhoni Blankenhorn is a Filipina American writer. Her debut, Rooms for the Dead and the Not Yet, won the Trio Award, and is forthcoming from Trio House Press in summer 2025. A Sewanee scholar and a Saltonstall fellow, her work can be found in Narrative, AAWW, Couplet, Adroit, Honey Literary, and elsewhere. She serves on the advisory board for the87press.
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Chris Campanioni lives and writes.
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MICHAEL CHANG (they/them) is the author of SYNTHETIC JUNGLE (Northwestern University Press, 2023), TOY SOLDIERS (Action, Spectacle, 2024) & THINGS A BRIGHT BOY CAN DO (Coach House Books, 2025). They edit poetry at Fence.
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Maddy Chrisman-Miller work has recently appeared in GROTTO, NEW Journal of American Poetry, and Tyger Quarterly. She lives in Kentucky.
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Jonny Collazo has written The High & The Low (NEW Books), Antiquity Antiquity (Creative Writing Department), and the erotic diptych Waves of Mousse: An Amorous Tale and a Lurid Poem (NEW Smut Series). He operates in Kentucky.
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Will Cordeiro has work published in AGNI, Bennington Review, Copper Nickel, DIAGRAM, and The Threepenny Review. Will is the author of Trap Street as well as the coauthor of Experimental Writing: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology, forthcoming from Bloomsbury. Will received an MFA and a Ph.D. from Cornell University. Will coedits Eggtooth Editions and lives in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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Stella Corso is the author of Green Knife (Rescue Press, 2023) and Tantrum (Rescue Press, 2017), selected by Douglas Kearney for the Black Box Prize, along with chapbooks from Sixth Finch and Blush Lit. She currently lives in Denver where she cohosts The Ritter podcast with Leah Nieboer.
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Paul Cunningham co-manages Action Books. He is the author of two poetry collections from Schism Press: Fall Garment (2022) and The House of the Tree of Sores(2020). New writing has appeared or is forthcoming in BOMB Magazine, Texas Poetry Review, The Ocean State Review, and the anthology A Flame Called Indiana: New Writing from the Crossroads (Indiana UP, 2023). His translation of Sara Tuss Efrik's play Danse Macabre Piggies will be anthologized in Experimental Writing: A Guidebook and Anthology (forthcoming from Bloomsbury). Cunningham currently manages the MFA in Creative Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame.
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César Dávila Andrade (Cuenca, 1918—Caracas, 1967) was an Ecuadorian poet, short fiction writer, and essayist. He was known as El Fakir for both his physical appearance and the mystical and esoteric concerns of his work. His chronicle of atrocities and forced labor under Spanish rule, “Bulletin and Elegy of the Mitas,” is widely acclaimed, both critically and popularly, as a key text of 20th century Ecuadorian poetry.
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Marie de Quatrebarbes has published several books of poetry, including Les vivres (P.O.L.), and Vanités (Éric Pesty Éditeur), as well as a novel inspired by the life of Aby Warburg, Aby (P.O.L.). She edited an anthology dedicated to contemporary poetry by young French women: Madame tout le monde (Le Corridor bleu).
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Seyhan Erözçelik (1962-2011) is a Turkish poet. Born and raised in Bartın, Turkey, a town in the Black Sea region, Erözçelik studied psychology at Boğazici University and Oriental languages at Istanbul University. In 1986, he co-founded Şiir Atı, a small press which published over forty titles in the 1980s. He was a member of the Turkish PEN Center and Writer’s Syndicate of Turkey. His first poem, Düştanbul (“Dreamstanbul”), was published in 1982 and followed by a number of collections. He also wrote poems in the Bartin dialect and in other Turkic languages, and brought a modern approach to the classical Ottoman rhyme, aruz, in his book Kara Yazılı Meşkler (“Tunes Written on the Snow,” 2003). He published a critical essay on the modern mystical poet Asaf Halet Çelebi, collected works of the forgotten poet Halit Asım, and translated the poetry of Osip Mandelstam and C. P. Cavafy into Turkish. He was awarded the Yunus Nadi Prize in 1991, the Behcet Necatigil Poetry Prize in 2004, and the Dionysos Prize in 2005.
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CD Eskilson is a trans nonbinary poet, editor, and literary translator. Their work appears in Kenyon Review, The Offing, Hayden's Ferry Review, Passages North, and others. Their debut poetry collection, Scream / Queen, is forthcoming from Acre Books in 2025. Modern Woman, CD’s translation of Finland-Swedish poet Edith Södergran’s groundbreaking debut poetry collection, will be published by World Poetry Books in 2026.
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Aiden Farrell is a poet, translator, and editor living in Brooklyn, NY. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Posit Journal, Spectra Poets, Amygdala, among others, and two chapbooks: lilac lilac (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs) and organismalgorithm (Fence). Aiden is the Managing Editor of Futurepoem. Aiden's translation of The Vitals by Marie de Quatrebarbes will be published by World Poetry Books in 2025.
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Ariel Francisco is the author of the forthcoming All the Places We Love Have Been Left in Ruins (Burrow Press, 2024), Under Capitalism If Your Head Aches They Just Yank Off Your Head (Flowersong Press, 2022), and A Sinking Ship is Still a Ship (Burrow Press, 2020), and the translator of Haitian-Dominican poet Jacques Viau Renaud’s Poet of One Island (Get Fresh Books, 2024) and Guatemalan poet Hael Lopez’s Routines/Goodbyes (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022). A poet and translator born in the Bronx to Dominican and Guatemalan parents and raised in Miami, his work has been published in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets, POETRY Magazine, The New York City Ballet, Latino Book Review, and elsewhere. He is Assistant Professor of Poetry and Hispanic Studies at Louisiana State University.
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James Garwood-Cole is completing a PhD at the University of Chicago and is the Co-Editor of Chicago Review. They live in Chicago, IL. For the Brighton, UK–based Hi Zero reading series and press, in collaboration with Face Press and Earthbound Press, Room Sequence was written, printed with Risograph, and circulated, in 2019. James has previously lived in London and Brighton.
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Henry Goldkamp (he/they) is an interdisciplinary poet who enjoys clowning boundaries between language, visual art, and sensory performance. He lives in New Orleans, where he hosts the poetry reading Splice, acts as intermedia editor for Tilted House, teaches experimental poetics and clown studies at Louisiana State University, and serves as communications director for the New Orleans Poetry Festival. Recent art, criticism, and performance appear or are forthcoming in Chicago Review, DIAGRAM, Annulet, VOLT, Poetry Northwest, Accelerants: An Action Books Poetry Film Series, Triquarterly, NOIR SAUNA, and ( peel lit ), among others. More at henrygoldkamp.com.
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Brandan Griffin currently lives in Kansas City, MO, where he co-runs the pop-up / online bookstore New Material Books. He is the author of Four Concretures (Theaphora, 2024) and Impastoral (Omnidawn, 2022).
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Chris Hosea is the author of Put Your Hands In (2014, winner of the Walt Whitman Award, selected by John Ashbery) and Double Zero (2016), which the Brooklyn Rail called "a statement for our generation." He lives in New York City.
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Emily Hunerwadel is the author of the chapbook Professional Crybaby, selected by Kyle Dargan for the Poetry Society of America’s 2017 Chapbook Fellowship, and Peach Woman, selected by Doublecross Press for their Bound-Together contest and published alongside Zoe Tuck’s The Book of Bella.They won Columbia Journal’s 2019 Fall Poetry Contest, judged by Monica Sok, and their work has been featured by the Academy of American Poets, Bustle, Fonograf Editions, the Vassar Review, the Massachusetts Review, Quarterly West, Palette Poetry, Biscuit Hill, Afternoon Visitor, Burrow Press, The Pinch Journal, Hold: A Journal, Dream Pop Journal, Hot Pink and Windfall Room, among others. Hunerwadel holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Born and raised in the deep south, they work as a book designer and writer in Western Massachusetts.
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Tobi Kassim was born in Ibadan, Nigeria, and has lived in the United States since 2003. His poems have been published in The Volta, The Brooklyn Review, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Zocalo Public Square, and elsewhere. His chapbook Dear Sly Stone was published by Spiral Editions. He is an Undocupoets fellow, received a Katharine Bakeless Nason Scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and works in New Haven’s Public Library.
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Cameron Lovejoy is a self-taught poet and fine printer living in New Orleans. He operates Tilted House, a small press focussed on intimately made handbound books. His work can be found or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Ghost Proposal, and others.
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Kyle Marbut is the author of Black Swan Theory (Burnside Review Press, 2025) and a gaggle of uncouth homemade chapbooks. They live in Virginia.
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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 other works can be found in the Tiny Mag, LitHub, Metatron Press, Cleveland Review of Books, and elsewhere.
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Mateo Morrison was born in Santo Domingo in 1946 to a Dominican mother and Jamaican father. A poet, lawyer, essayist, and author of more than ten books, he was awarded the Premio Nacional de Literatura in 2010, the Dominican Republic’s highest literary honor.
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Harryette Mullen’s books include Her Silver-Tongued Companion (Edinburgh University), Open Leaves (Black Sunflowers), Sleeping with the Dictionary (University of California), Urban Tumbleweed and Recyclopedia (Graywolf), as well as a collection of essays and interviews, The Cracks Between (University of Alabama). She teaches creative writing, American poetry, and African American literature at UCLA. A new poetry collection, Regaining Unconsciousness, is due in 2025 from Graywolf.
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Efe Murad is a Turkish poet, translator, and scholar of Islamic intellectual history, who teaches at New York University’s Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. He is the author of four books of poetry in Turkish and the translator of ten more, including the first complete translation of Ezra Pound’s Cantos into Turkish, as well as volumes by American poets Jack Spicer, Tom Clark/Ron Padgett, Susan Howe, Lyn Hejinian, and Austrian author Thomas Bernhard. His writings and translations from Turkish poetry have appeared in journals like Guernica, Asymptote, Jacket2, and The American Reader, and in exhibitions including the 13th Istanbul Biennale. One of his most recent books is a work of creative fiction, a volume of memoiristic essay about poetry scenes and flaneurship in Istanbul, The Pleasures of Empty Lots (Bored Wolves, 2021).
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Zach Peckham is a writer, editor, and educator. His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in Annulet, Territory, Poetry Northwest, Always Crashing, Oversound, American Book Review, Tilted House, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA in poetry from the NEOMFA and teaches at Cleveland State and the Cleveland Institute of Art. He is the managing editor at the CSU Poetry Center and an editor-at-large at Cleveland Review of Books. He also runs a small press called Community Mausoleum and a journal called Coma.
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Alyssa Perry's writing appears with Annulet, The Canary, Fence, the Experimental Sound Studio, and other venues. Perry is an editor at Rescue Press and Cleveland Review of Books. A book, Oily Doily, is forthcoming from Bench Editions in fall.
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Jonathan Simkins is the translator of El Creacionismo by Vicente Huidobro (The Lune). His translations of César Dávila Andrade have appeared in Bennington Review, Chicago Review, Interim, Lana Turner, Los Angeles Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, and others. His fiction has appeared in Bristol Noir, Close To The Bone, and Grim & Gilded.
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Edith Södergran (1892-1923) was a Finland-Swedish poet largely credited with introducing modernism to Swedish-language poetry. Södergran’s poems stand out through their rejection of previous lyrical forms and modes, along with radical depictions of feminine embodiment that today might be recognized as genderqueer. She released four collections during her lifetime though her poetry was largely ridiculed by critics. She died of chronic tuberculosis at age 31 receiving little positive recognition. However, her impact on Swedish poetry since has become monumental, and today she is remembered as one of the greatest modern poets in Scandinavian literature.
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Chloe Bliss Snyder lives and writes in upstate New York. Her work has recently appeared in Annulet, Grotto, Caesura, New American Poetry, The Swan, and elsewhere.
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Alana Solin is a writer from New Jersey. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Touch the Donkey, Afternoon Visitor, Dusie, Annulet, Second Factory, and elsewhere. You can find more at alanasol.in.
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Phil Spotswood is a poet from Alabama. His most recent work can be found in Screen Door Review, Broken Lens Journal (forthcoming), and Dreginald. You can find more of his work at https://www.philspotswood.com.
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Rodrigo Toscano is a poet and dialogist based in New Orleans. He is the author of eleven books of poetry. His latest books are The Cut Point (Counterpath press, 2023), The Charm & The Dread (Fence books, 2022). Forthcoming is WHITMAN. CANNONBALL. PUEBLA. (Omnidawn, 2025). His Collapsible Poetics Theater was a National Poetry Series selection. His poetry has appeared Best American Poetry and Best American Experimental Poetry (BAX). rodrigotoscano.com
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Nam Hoang Tran is a multidisciplinary artist living in New Orleans. His work appears in Posit, The Brooklyn Review, ANMLY, New Delta Review, Tagvverk, Always Crashing, and Diode, among others. W/ Henry Goldkamp, he co-edits TILT – a journal of intermedia poetics.
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Evan Williams is a Chicago-based writer interested in surrealism, sound, and the natural world. Author of the chapbook An Extremely Well-Funded Study of Doors (above/ground, 2023), their work has appeared in Indiana Review, Denver Quarterly, Bennington Review, and elsewhere.
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Alicia Wright is the author of You're Called By The Same Sound, forthcoming from Thirdhand Books in 2025. Her poetry has appeared in the Paris Review, Kenyon Review, and jubilat, among others. She is the editor of Annulet, publisher of Annulet Editions, and works as the Managing Editor of The Iowa Review. She lives in Iowa City and runs the poetry reading series Normie Creep in the Sacred Grove.