Contributors

Ivan Akhmetiev (born 1950, Moscow)—poet, dedicated minimalist. Also known as a publisher of unofficial poetry and prose (E. Kropivnitsky, G. Obolduev, I. Pulkin, Yan Satunovsky, P. Ulitin, etc.) and an anthologist (Russian Poems 1950-2000, etc.). Nominated for the Andrei Bely Prize “for his contributions to literature” (2013).  Previous books were published in 1990, 1993, 2001, 2002, 2011, 2013. 

Jay Brecker walks and writes in southern California. His poems are forthcoming or have appeared in Rattle Poets Respond, Birdcoat Quarterly, The Shore, Permafrost, Lily Poetry Review, Ocean State Review, RHINO Poetry, and elsewhere. His manuscript, blue collar eclogue, was awarded the 2024 Marsh Hawk Press Rochelle Ratner Prize. 

Zoe Brezsny is a poet from the bay area who currently lives in NYC. Sheis the author of the chapbooks neuron waterfall (Heinzfeller, 2023), Ecstasy (Topos Press, 2021), an audio cassette of poems, and brume d'amour (Wonder Press, 2024). She records a weekly guided meditation for WFMU 91.1 FM radio.

Nikki Dasos has had poetry published (under the pen name Nic Leigh) in Unsaid, Diagram, Gobbet, Juked, Requited, The Collagist, Vestiges, and the Atticus Review. Her previous roles include contributing editor at Territory, fiction reader at Guernica, and production editor at Numéro Cinq. nikkidasos.com.

Claire Dauge-Roth is a poet and textile artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work circles the textures of memory-sound, materialities of translation, and what it means to know. As a Lost & Found Archival Fellow, she is conducting archival research on Anni Albers’ textiles as kinetic poetics. She is also a PhD student of comparative literature at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she works on abstract languages and poetic form with Wayne Koestenbaum. Currently, Dauge-Roth works closely with poet Lisa Hiton at Brooklyn Poets, and she previously studied and workshopped with Solmaz Sharif at Stanford University. Her writing and weaving have appeared in Brooklyn Review, Notch Magazine, and Ethics Magazine. She has a forthcoming essay in The Chicago Review.

Kathyrn Dorfman

David Egan is a writer from Altadena, CA. His essays and fiction have appeared in The Adroit Journal, The New Criterion, Westwind Journal of the Arts, the Saints & Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival Anthology, The Foundationalist, and The Bruin Review.

Jane Freiman

Knar Gavin (they/any) is an educator, song-fiddler, and community defense organizer living on unceded Lenni-Lenape lands in so-called Philadelphia. A second-generation Armenian-American settler, they are committed to anti-capitalist struggle, abolition, and most urgently, Palestinian liberation. Recent poetry and other writings have appeared or are forthcoming in Notre Dame Review, Etc., Annulet, the Tiny Mag, River Styx, Diagram, AGNI, Bat City Review, and Environmental History Now.

Mic Jones

Robert Kiely is a poet and critic whose latest book is Psalms from Distance No Object.

Wayne Koestenbaum—poet, critic, novelist, artist, filmmaker, performer—has published 24 books, including Stubble Archipelago, Ultramarine, The Cheerful Scapegoat, Figure It Out, Camp Marmalade, My 1980s & Other Essays, The Anatomy of Harpo Marx, Humiliation, Hotel Theory, Circus, Andy Warhol, Jackie Under My Skin, and The Queen’s Throat (nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award).  His newest book, a novel, My Lover, the Rabbi, is being published by FSG in March 2026.  He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and a Whiting Award.  He is a Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York Graduate Center.

Christine Larusso  holds a BA from Fordham University (Lincoln Center) and an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in BOMB, Colorado Review, Volume, the Los Angeles Times, The Literary Review, Pleiades, Court Green, Narrative, and elsewhere. She is the 2017 winner of the Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer’s Residency Prize, and has been named a finalist for both the Orlando Poetry Prize and the James Hearst Poetry Prize.

Jess Liu is a queer Asian-American poet from Madison, Wisconsin. They live in New Haven, Connecticut.

Brian Lucas

Martha Ronk

Rina Shamilov is a poet and visual artist from Brooklyn, New York, born to Soviet immigrants. Her chapbook, My Mother’s Armoire, was published by Bottlecap Press. Her manuscript, Hungering: Dance of the Figurines, has recently been named a finalist in Black Lawrence Press’ Immigrant Writing Series contest. She is a nonfiction editor at MAYDAY and a reader for Fence Books. Her work has either been featured in or is forthcoming in The Laurel Review, Club Plum Lit, Kismet Magazine, Ranger, Heavy Feather Review, and Another Chicago Magazine, among others. The Academy of American Poets has recognized her work, and she received a Best of the Net nomination.

Mike Sikkema

Maria Sledmere  is a poet-scholar based in Glasgow, Scotland. She is managing editor of SPAM Press and lectures in English & Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde. Recent books include an ambient novella, The Indigo Hours (Broken Sleep, 2025), experimental monograph Midsummer Song (Hypercritique) (Tenement Press, 2024) and the poetry collection Cinders (Krupskaya, 2024). Poems can be found in Fallow, b l u s h, Berlin Lit, DELEUZINE, Ludd Gang, The Stinging Fly and elsewhere.

Kerri Sonnenberg  is author of The Mudra (Litmus Press). Recent work appears in VOLT, Second Factory, and Oversound. Originally from Chicago, she now lives in Cork, Ireland. Digital residence is here:kerrisonnenberg.com.

James Stotts

Rodrigo Toscano is a poet and dialogist based in New Orleans. He is the author of twelve books of poetry. His latest books are The Cut Point (Counterpath, 2023), The Charm & The Dread (Fence, 2022). Forthcoming is WHITMAN. CANNONBALL. PUEBLA. (2025). His previous books include In Range (Counterpath, 2019), Explosion Rocks Springfield (Fence Books, 2017), Deck of Deeds (Counterpath, 2012),Collapsible Poetics Theater (a National Poetry Series selection; Fence Books, 2008), To Leveling Swerve (Krupskaya, 2004), Platform (Atelos, 2003), Partisans (O Books, 1999),and The Disparities (Green Integer, 2002). His poetry has appeared in over twenty anthologies, including, Best American Experimental Poetry (BAX), Best American Poetry(2023, 2004), Invisible Strings (a Taylor Swift Anthology, 2024), Invisible Strings (a Taylor Swift Anthology, Penguin, 2024) Latino Poetry Anthology (Library of America, 2024), Voices Without Borders, Diasporic Avant Gardes, Imagined Theatres, In the Criminal’s Cabinet, Latino Poetry (The Library of America Anthology, 2024). His poetry has recently appeared in the Boston Review, Protean, Poetry Magazine, Bennington Review, The Kenyon Review, The Harvard Advocate, Georgia Review, Yale Review, Fence, Annulet, Diagram, among many others. Toscano has received a New York State Fellowship in Poetry. He won the Edwin Markham 2019 prize for poetry. Toscano’s poetry has been translated into French, Dutch, Italian, German, Portuguese, Norwegian, and Catalan. He works for the Labor Institute in conjunction with the United Steelworkers. rodrigotoscano.com. 

Spring Ulmer