Contributors

Diya Abbas is a Pakistani Butch from the Midwest. Her poems and essays can be found in Sinister Wisdom, North American Review, Michigan Quarterly and others. She believes the poem is a clock. The poem makes time. Find more of her muses at diyabbas.com. 

Jason Abbate lives and writes in New York City. His work has been featured in publications such as The American Journal of Poetry, Red Rock Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, The Broadkill Review and Trampoline.   

Stephanie Anderson is the author of several poetry books and chapbooks, most recently Bearings (DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press) and If You Love Error So Love Zero (Trembling Pillow Press). They are also the editor of the interview book Women in Independent Publishing (University of New Mexico Press) and the co-editor of All This Thinking: The Correspondence of Clark Coolidge and Bernadette Mayer (University of New Mexico Press and Eclipse Archive). Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Annulet, Colorado Review, Fence, and elsewhere. She lives and works in Suzhou, China.

Jack Bachmann lives and writes in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His work has appeared in Mold, ÖMËGÄ, and Tagvverk among other places, including two chapbooks from Ghost City Press, dayglo and Soft Static Crushes.

Noah Balushi is a writer working under a process he calls "molecular autonomization." As a practice, each poem takes the cloying drift of sense impression and radiates the immediate surround of the author's psyche through semiotic rupture. Annihilations of sense and schematic habitus, even when familiar forms - rhythms - cadences - musics predominate, are grafted onto other sheathes of impulse, creating an authorial stadium of molecular conflict. His long experimental poem, “The Obliteration of a Library at the Hands of Hephaestus,” is yet to be published.

Martine Bellen is the author of ten books, most recently, An Anatomy of Curiosity (MadHat Press, 2023), This Amazing Cage of Light: New and Selected (Spuyten Duyvil); The Vulnerability of Order (Copper Canyon Press); and Tales of Murasaki and Other Poems (Sun & Moon Press), which won the National Poetry Series Award. "Woof" is part of the collection Into the Day and Out by Night to be published by Stalking Horse Press in August 2027. Her work appeared in The Best American Poetry, 2023, edited by Elaine Equi. Bellen has been a recipient of the Queens Art Fund and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship among other grants. She received a residency from the Rockefeller Foundation at the Bellagio Center in Italy. Please visit www.martinebellen.com.   

Valerie Coulton’s books include still life with elegy, small bed & field guide (above/ground press), open book, and The Cellar Dreamer (Apogee Press). Her work has been translated into Greek, Spanish and Italian. She curates palabrosa, an online chapbook and interview series, and she lives in Barcelona with the poet Edward Smallfield. 

Sterling Davis is a poet, screenwriter, and artist. He is the editor-in-chief and publisher of Poetries in English Magazine. A semi-finalist for The Adroit Journal Gregory Djanikian Scholars program, his work has appeared or is forthcoming in swamp pink, African American Review, Poetries in English Magazine, Nimrod, Notre Dame Review, Southword, and elsewhere. 

Anya Johanna DeNiro is the author of the novel OKPsyche (Small Beer Press) and the poetry chapbook From the Yew (Ethel). Her poems have recently appeared in Imposter Review, Radical Catalyst, Delicate Emissions, and Puerto del Sol. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Dominic Dulin is a poet and multidisciplinary artist out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They have had poetry published by Iterant, Yum! Lit, Coma, among others. Their first chapbook Type Man Type is forthcoming from Community Mausoleum.

Susanne Dyckman is the author of three poetry collections, equilibrium’s form (Shearsman Books), A Dark Ordinary (Furniture Press Books), and, in collaboration with the poet Elizabeth Robinson, Rendered Paradise (Apogee Press), as well as five chapbooks. She has taught in the creative writing programs at the University of San Francisco and SF State University, and for a number of years hosted the now occasional Evelyn Avenue Summer Reading Series. She lives in the San Francisco East Bay.

Mel Elberg is a poet, artist and collaborator living in  Brooklyn. Their chaplet SOME RAYS ABSORBED is just out from Belladonna Press. A full length collection is forthcoming in 2027.

Melissa Eleftherion (she/they) is a writer, a librarian, and a visual artist. Born & raised in Brooklyn, they are the author of four poetry collections: field guide to autobiography (The Operating System, 2018), gutter rainbows (Querencia Press, 2024), Suture (Cooper Dillon, 2026) & Malocchia (White Stag, 2026) as well as twelve chapbooks including abject sutures (above/ground press, 2024). Her work has been widely published & appears in venues like Sixth Finch & Verse Daily, with new work forthcoming in DIAGRAM and South Dakota Review. Melissa served as Poet Laureate for the City of Ukiah (2021-2024), and lives in Northern California where she manages the Ukiah Branch Library and curates the LOBA Reading Series. Recent work is available at www.apoetlibrarian.wordpress.com. 

Diego Espíritu (México, 1990). Part of the research and creation collective Arte+Ciencia of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).  Included in the anthology "Líneas en tierra. A collection of Mexican poems/ Lines in land. A collection of Mexican poems" (Australia: Australian Poetry, 2019), was translated in San Diego Annual Poetry 2019-2020. He teaches the expanded literature course Post_Concretes Machines on typewriter art and visual and concrete poetry.  Author of Poemas Panks para community managers (Argentina: Santos Locos, 2016; Mexico: Mantarraya 2017), the strange blue incandescence of mites (Paris, France: .able, 2024; Mexico: Imaginaria 2023 ), Spam Poetry (United States: Blue Bag Press, 2025), and TACET (Portugal, Paperview books, 2026). He is currently studying and working on poetics and visual writing in the Spanish Language and Literature PhD in the University at Buffalo in New York.

Mark Faunlagui was born in the Philippines, grew up in New Jersey and New York, and graduated from Cornell University. He is an architect in New York City, and lives in Jersey City. Poems appear in Fence, Omniverse, The Corduroy Mtn, Assaracus, The New Engagement, White Stag, Broken Lens Journal, Quarter Notes, Oscillations, By the WAYE and The Red Wheelbarrow. He has been a featured poet in readings throughout the NYC area, including the NYC Poetry Festival (2024 + 2025). His books ON SOME HISPANOLUSO MINIATURISTS (1913 Press/2018), MAJNUN (Roof Books/Fall 2028) and PORN W/OUT SEX (Fence Books/Fall 2027) form THE THIRD WORLD LOVER TRILOGY.

Connor Fisher is the author of A Renaissance with Eyelids (Schism Press, 2024), The Isotope of I (Schism Press, 2021) and four poetry and hybrid chapbooks including The Unholy Moon (salò press, 2024). He has an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Georgia. His writing has appeared in journals including Denver Quarterly, the Yalobusha Review, Tammy, the Colorado Review, Word for/Word, and Diagram. He currently lives and teaches in northern Mississippi.

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

Drew Gardner’s books include Sugar Pill (Krupskaya, 2002), Petroleum Hat (Roof, 2005), Chomp Away (Combo, 2010), Defender (Edge, 2018), and Ingenious Pleasures (University of New Mexico Press, 2023). His work has appeared in Poetry, The Nation, Chicago Review, and Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology. Gardner lives in New York City.

Jonathan Hobratsch received his MFA at Texas State University. He currently lives in Philadelphia and teaches at Drexel University. His latest project is his book-length manuscript erroreum, which can translate to “the shrine of straying” or “house of wandering”, among other translations.

Vasiliki Ioannou is a poet, artist, and archivist. She lives and works in Los Angeles, Paris, and Southwest Greece. 

Cassandra Kesig is a poet from Los Angeles, CA whose work has appeared in the Berkeley Poetry Review and Graphite Interdisciplinary Journal of the Arts. She currently lives and works in Williamstown, MA where she is a graduate student of art history.

Seth Kleinschmidt is a neurodivergent Midwestern writer from rural Wisconsin. His work appears or is forthcoming from Indiana Review, New Orleans Review, Columbia Review, and other journals. A former radio producer and disc jockey, he is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.  

Peter Leight lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. He has previously published poems in Paris Review, AGNI, Antioch Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, New World, and other magazines.

Matt Longabucco is the author of the poetry collections The Hummingbird (Nightboat Books, forthcoming 2026) and Heroic Dose (Golias Books, 2024), as well as M/W: An Essay on Jean Eustache's La Maman Et La Putain (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021), a book-length study of a landmark of French cinema and its creator.

Oliver Parsons is a New York-based writer, researcher, and performance artist. Their work has been published in The Columbia Review, Apricity Press, 4x4 Magazine, and The Saint Louis Poetry Center website, and is forthcoming in The Cadence Review. Recently, they were the 2025 finalist for the Saint Louis Poetry Center James H. Nash Award, judged by Daniel Borzutzky. They received their MA in performance studies from WashU in 2025.

Nathaniel Rosenthalis is the author of three full-length collections: Works and Days (Broken Sleep Books), The Leniad (Broken Sleep Books), and I Won't Begin Again (Burnside Review, winner of the 2021 Burnside Review Book Award). He is a musical theater actor who has performed Off-Broadway and at storied venues like Joe's Pub at the Public Theater, 54Below, GreenRoom 42. He teaches poetry at NYU.

Natalie Stamatopoulos is a writer based in Minneapolis. She wrote the chapbook Kikirikiki (Ursus Americanus Press, 2025) and sometimes she sells used books on the street. dust that made this dream (Antiphony, 2026) is her second chapbook.

Adam Stutz is a neurodivergent poet and the Editor-in-Chief and publisher of Broken Lens Journal. He is the author of one chapbook and three books of poetry including The Sham Tapestry and Compunctions + Thefts (White Stag Publishing, 2024). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in various print and online publications including Prelude, The Pinch, Dream Pop, Cover, Ghost Proposal, Columba Poetry, INKSOUNDS, Trilobite, hush: a journal of noise, SWERVE, The Sonora Review,Action Spectacle, Chartreuse Lit and Fourteen Hills. His work can also be found at https://stutzwrites.com. He currently resides in Los Angeles, CA.

Magdalena Styś is a writer currently based in Amsterdam. Find out more about them and their work at magdalenastys.com.

Ken Taylor is the author of eight published works and three plays. His most recent books are found poem(s) with Ed Roberson (Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2024), featuring photography by Ken and poems by Ed, and 57 wyomings (Black Square Editions, 2026). He is the founding editor and publisher of selva oscura press.

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Andrew Wells is a poet, editor, and teacher. His work has appeared in The London Magazine, Poetry Wales, The Rialto, berlin lit, SAND Journal, and others. He is the author of two chapbooks, Sealed (Hesterglock 2020) and Menacing Sense (Osmanthus 2021), and the editor of HVTN Press. He tutors for the Poetry School and works as a high school English teacher in Brooklyn.

Sam Yaziji is a poet from Miami, Florida. He works as the print production editor for Poetry International. His poems have been published in Zone 3 Press, Bicoastal Review, and Apocalypse Confidential. His research interests include Eastern Christian hymnography and cybernetics.