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Jenkin Benson is a graduate student, musician, and poet. New Mundo Press published his debut full-length book of poems are we rocking with this? August 2025. Stone Corpse Press is publishing his chapbook anxiolytics for phytoplankton April 2026. Find all of his publications and music here: https://linktr.ee/jenkinbenson

Robert David Carey is a writer, teacher, and labor organizer currently based in Philadelphia, but he has lived many places and worked many jobs. Limited copies of I WAS NOT ALONE, a spoken-word/field recording cassette, are available by emailing robertdavidcarey@pm.me

Yuyi Chen is from Sichuan, China. They are now a PhD candidate in anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Erotic Continent is their first book, out now from Discount Guillotine. The Academics is forthcoming from Blue Bag Press. Their work can be found or forthcoming in Chicago Review, Cleveland Review of Books, Common Place Poetics, and others. They go by Echo.

Mary DiPrete makes poems and other objects. She holds an MFA from Syracuse University, where she was the recipient of The Joyce Carol Oates Award in Poetry. Most recently, her poems have appeared in The Brooklyn Review, Peach, and Poetry Northwest. She currently works as a professor. Before that, she has worked as a farmhand, bartender, elementary school arts teacher, lead pipe surveyor, and at Portland, Oregon’s smallest distillery. With roots in the deep woods of Oregon, the islands of the Puget Sound, and the prairies of Western Illinois, she currently lives in central New York.

Thom Eichleberger-Young is an artist and editor living in Buffalo, New York.

Scout Faller is a Pushcart-nominated poet and recipient of the Leijia Hanrahan Scholarship for Communist Women Who Smoke.  They have been published or are forthcoming in Little Mirror and Blush Lit. They live in Iowa City and coedit Hearsay, a journal of poetry.

Mark Faunlagui was born in the Philippines, grew up in NJ/NY and graduated from Cornell University. He is an architect in NYC and lives in Jersey City. His work has appeared in journals such as Fence, Omniverse, The New Engagement, Broken Lens, White Stag, Assaracus, Quarter Notes, The Corduroy Mountain, By the WAYE and The Red Wheelbarrow. He has been a featured reader at the NYC Poetry Festival (’24 + ’25). On Some HispanoLuso Miniaturists, (1913 Press/June ‘18) and Porn W/Out Sex (Fence Books/Fall ‘27) are the first and third books in the projected Third World Lover Trilogy.

Christine Kanownik is a Chicagoan in Michigan. She hosts FIELD TRIP, a monthly reading series in Detroit, and is the author of two books of poetry: HEAD (Trembling Pillow Press, 2018) and King of Pain (Monk Books, 2016). Blood Bath, her latest chapbook, is out from Philadelphia horror press, Cul-de-Sac of Blood. Her poetry can be found in FENCE, DIAGRAM, b l u s h lit, and DISCOUNT GUILLOTINE.

Matthew Klane lives and writes in Albany, NY. His books of poetry include Of the Day (Publication Studio 2025), Hist (w/ James Belflower, Calamari 2022), Canyons (w/ James Belflower, Flimb Press 2016), Che (Stockport Flats 2013), and B (Stockport Flats 2008). An e-book My is online at FENCE. In 2025, as well, he released his first record, Too Little Too Late, in his second record, Sunshine Committee, is forthcoming in March 2026. A poetry cassette with Warren Longmire is also forthcoming from Elis Press and Spiral Editions. The founder and co-editor of Flim Forum Press, Matthew currently co-curates the poetry and performance series Salon Salvage.

Francesca Kritikos is the editor in chief of SARKA, a journal and publisher focused on works of the flesh. Her latest book, The season of lilacs is monstrous, was released by Blush Lit in October 2025. Her writing has been published in English, French and Greek in numerous online and print journals. She also writes the Substack column Body Composition.

Emmett Lewis lives in Queens, NY. His work has appeared in Chicago Review, Coma, Blackbox Manifold, Nat. Brut, Tagvverk, Mercury Firs, and elsewhere.

PJ Lombardo is the author of THE BLUE CHERUB (Cult House Books, 2026). He serves as co-founding editor of GROTTO, a journal of grotesque-surrealist poetry. Read his writing in Tripwire, Midcult, Hobart Pulp, SARKA and elsewhere.

Warren C. Longmire is a Negro poet, performer, and technologist from North Philadelphia. A co-founder of the Excelano Project Spoken Word Collective, his work has appeared publications including Action, Spectacle, The Offing, and The American Poetry Review. Warren was featured in The Best American Poetry 2021. His latest book, Bird/Diz [an erased history of bebop], was published by Bunny Presse in 2022. He is currently completing his MFA in Poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Tony Mancus is the author of Same After Life (Gasher, 2024) and All the Ordinariness (The Magnificent Field, 2022) along with a handful of chapbooks. He lives in Colorado with his wife, son, and two black cats and serves as chapbook editor for Barrelhouse. You can find more of his work at tonymancus.com.

Jericho Jennifer Nelson is the author of four books of poetry, most recently On the Way to the Paintings of Forest Robberies, winner of the Ottoline Prize from Fence. They are also the author of two art history monographs, most recently Lucas Cranach: From German Myth to Reformation. They teach art history at the University of Delaware and live in Philly.

Reuben Gelley Newman (he/they) is a writer, musician, and librarian based in New York City. His book Dear Dear, winner of the Louise Bogan Award, will be published by Trio House Press in July 2026. They also wrote a chapbook, Feedback Harmonies (Seven Kitchens Press, 2024), in homage to the musician Arthur Russell. His poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Fairy Tale Review, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere.

Will Newman (they/them) is an educator and poet based in West Philadelphia. Free Palestine, fuck ICE, go birds.

John Pinto is a film lab technician living in Philadelphia. Some of his work has appeared in Sarka, ergot., Scaffold, Little Engines, and X-R-A-Y. Find him online at pintopintopinto.com.

Léon Pradeau smuggles poems across the Atlantic. Upcoming runs include Cécile Mainardi's Superliquid Water (translated with cj nizard: Prroblem, 2026), Anne Portugal's My Domestic Robots (The Year, 2026) and Kai Ihns's D' (Les murmurations, 2027). Léon is the founding editor of Transat', and a host of the COMPORTMENT reading series in Chicago.

Kimberly Ann Southwick (she/her) teaches creative writing and literature at Jacksonville State University in Alabama. She is the author of the debut full-length poetry collection Orchid Alpha (Trembling Pillow Press, 2023). She founded and edited the literary-arts journal Gigantic Sequins, from 2009 to 2026, when it began a semi-permanent hiatus. She is a member-at-large on the board of the Emily Dickinson International Society. Find her work in American Poetry Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, Birdcoat Quarterly, and more. Find her on socials via @kimannjosouth or visit kimberlyannsouthwick.com for more.

Sampson Starkweather is a poet, and author of Slip on the Ski Mask of Night, PAIN: The Board Game, The First Four Books of Sampson Starkweather and over a dozen chapbooks from dangerous and/or defunct underground small presses. He is a founding editor of the independent poetry press Birds, LLC

Danika Stegeman is the author of Ablation (11:11 Press, 2023) and Pilot (Spork Press, 2020). She’s a contributing editor for Conduit and serves as board treasurer for Fonograf Editions. Along with Jace Brittain, she co-curates the online collaborative reading series It’s Copperhead Season. She lives in St. Paul, MN. Her website is danikastegeman.com

Paige Taggart is is the author of two full-length collections, Or Replica (Brooklyn Arts Press) and Want for Lion (Trembling Pillow Press) and 7 chapbooks, most recently LIFE AFTERWARDS (Third Man Books (only available at Third Man Records in London in a randomized literarium machine)), Faux Pas (Factory Hollow Press) and I am Writing To You From Another Country; Translations of Henri Michaux (Greying Ghost Press). She’s an artist, designer and maker with a jewelry line (mactaggartjewelry.com).

Rodrigo Toscano  is 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 was an Honorable Mention for the 2023 International Latino Literary Awards. 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

Alex Tretbar is the author of the chapbooks toofarwandered (Tilted House, forthcoming 2026), According to the Plat Thereof (Ethel, 2025) and Kansas City Gothic (Broken Sleep, 2025). He works in the Center for Digital and Public Humanities at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, where he is currently studying the archive of early issues of New Letters (1934-1951) and assisting with the Kansas City Monuments Coalition. Recent work can be found in 128 Lit, Annulet, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Full Stop, VOLT, and elsewhere. Alongside UMKC students, alumni, and faculty, he teaches creative writing at Chillicothe Correctional Center, a women’s prison in Missouri.

Birch Wiley is a transsexual writer living in New York. Their work can be found in Pleiades, Voicemail Poems, and Querencia Quarterly, among others. Their debut collection, Mythweaver, was published by new words {press}. You can learn more about them at birchwiley.com.

Evan Williams is a writer and law student based in Michigan. Their work can be read in Denver Quarterly, the Bennington Review, and the Indiana Review, among others.

S.H. Yan lives and works in Massachusetts. https://memory-object.com/