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 the author of brume d'amour (Wonder Press, 2025), neuron waterfall (Heinzfeller, 2023), Ecstasy (Topos Press, 2021), an audio cassette of poems. She records a weekly guided meditation for WFMU 91.1 FM radio and lives in New York.

Nikki Dasos has had poetry published in Unsaid, Diagram, Gobbet, Juked, Requited, The Collagist, Vestiges, and the Atticus Review. Her forthcoming titles include the chapbook Into the Bowels (Antiphony, 2026) and the full-length collection Folktales (Antiphony, 2027). 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. She is also a PhD student of comparative literature who works on abstract languages as poetic form. Her writing and weaving have appeared in The Brooklyn Review, Notch Magazine, and Ethics Magazine and are forthcoming in Revue Du Coeur and The Queens Review.

KT Dorfman is pursuing her MFA at NYU. Her work has been long listed for the National Poetry Competition, and a finalist for Tucson Literary Awards. Her poems are titled after Hinge prompts, and she is working on a collection of first dates. Her work is upcoming in DriftwoodPress, Reed Magazine, Paddock Review, Sam FiftyFour, and more.

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.

Ethan Fortuna is a trans writer, visual artist, and educator. His work can be found in Chicago Review, Blue Bag Press, Black Sun Lit and elsewhere; his full-length poetry collection, body of the bather, is forthcoming with Antiphony Press in 2028. More at ethanfortuna.com.

Jane Freiman (she/her) is a writer and PhD student in Baltimore, MD. Her work has previously appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Boston Art Review, Landfill Journal, DIAGRAM, Creative Writing Department, and more.

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 is a poet. Read them in Motor Dance Journal, Peripheral Review, The Poetry Project Footnotes, Simulacrum Magazine, Hobart, CV2, & beyond. They are the co-creator of Devotional Chaos, the reading group, Piss Press, & Undisciplined, an inter-arts collaborative that produces workshops, zines, exhibitions, & residencies. They also curate Cross-Pollinations, a reading series by the League of Canadian Poets. Mic has facilitated workshops on trans-medium collaboration, somatic sonnet writing, foam & ekphrasis, trash as archive, the New York School & the New Narrative. They are a 2026 Tin House Scholar and their writing has received support from the Banff Centre, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center, The Poetry Project, The Shipman Agency, the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, & Toronto Arts Council. They live in Toronto with a blue & brown eyed dog named Steve.

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. jessliu.net.

Brian Lucas’s previous books include Eclipse Babel (2015, Ensemble Editions), Circles Matter (2012, Blaze Vox Books), and Light House (2006, Meeting Eyes Bindery) and the chapbooks Telepathic Bones (2010, Berkeley Neo-Baroque), Force Fields (with Andrew Joron; 2010, Hooke Press), and Lost Comet (2022, Two-Way Mirror Books). He has exhibited his visual work at Electra Gallery (Santa Fe, NM), Center for New Music (SF), Airesis (Guadalajara, Mexico), Planthouse Gallery (NYC), Emerald Tablet (SF), and Krowswork (Oakland), among others. As a musician he’s released several albums on labels including Feeding Tube Records, Cardinal Fuzz, Centripetal Force, and Eiderdown Records. He resides in Oakland, CA.

Jessi MacEachern is a writer and teacher in Montréal. She is the author of the poetry collections Cut Side Down (2025)and A Number of Stunning Attacks (2021). New poems have been published or are forthcoming in This Magazine, The Dalhousie Review, P-Queue, Arc, Grain, and The Ex-Puritan. Her most recent academic publications include a chapter on Gail Scott that appears in the edited essay collection Shelter in Text and an annual review of poetics scholarship in The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory.

Martha Ronk has published 13 books of poetry, most recently CLAY bodies+matter (Omnidawn 2025). Transfer of Qualities was long-listed for the National Book Award; Vertigo was a National Poetry Series selection; in a landscape of having to repeat was a PEN USA best poetry book of the year. She was Professor of English at Occidental College and coordinated the creative writing program.

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 lives, works, walks, and makes various kinds of art in West Michigan. He is the author of several chapbooks and a handful of full length poetry books. He enjoys correspondence at michael.sikkema@gmail.com.

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 is a poet and Russian translator, living in New Mexico. His third book is Be a Lamb.

Rodrigo Toscanois a poet based in New Orleans. He is the author of twelve books of poetry. His latest books are WHITMAN. CANNONBALL. PUEBLA (Omnidawn, 2025, National Poetry Series finalist). The Cut Point (Counterpath, 2023), The Charm & The Dread (Fence, 2022). Forthcoming is Salvage Nation: 100 sonnets (Winter Editions, fall 2026). His Collapsible Poetics Theater was a 2008 National Poetry Series winner. His poetry has appeared in over 25 anthologies, including, Best American Poetry and Best American Experimental Poetry. Toscano 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 on educational projects that involve environmental and labor justice culture transformation. rodrigotoscano.com. ‍