Marcia Arrieta’s books include within sky (BlazeVOX Books, 2022), through time waves (Arteidolia Press, 2022), perimeter homespun (BlazeVOX books, 2019), archipelago counterpoint (BlazeVOX books, 2015), and triskelion, tiger moth, tangram, and thyme (Otoliths Books, 2011). She edits the journal Indefinite Space.
Christopher Barnes co-edits the poetry magazine Interpoetry. His reviews and criticism have appeared in Poetry Scotland, Jacket Magazine, Peel, and Combustus. He has given readings in numerous venues, including Waterstones Bookshop, Newcastle's Morden Tower, and the Proudwords lesbian and gay writing festival. His poetry collection LOVEBITES was published by Chanticleer Press in 2005. He lives in Newcastle, UK.
John M. Bennett has published over 400 books and chapbooks of poetry and other materials. He has published, exhibited and performed his word art worldwide in thousands of publications and venues. He was editor and publisher of LOST AND FOUND TIMES (1975-2005), and is Founding Curator of the Avant Writing Collection at The Ohio State University Libraries. Richard Kostelanetz has called him “the seminal American poet of my generation”. His work, publications, and papers are collected in several major institutions, including Washington University (St. Louis), SUNY Buffalo, The Ohio State University, The Museum of Modern Art, and other major libraries. His PhD (UCLA 1970) is in Latin American Literature. His latest books are Select Poems, Poetry Hotel Press/Luna Bisonte Prods, 2016; The World of Burning, Luna Bisonte Prods, 2017; Poemas visuales, con movimientos con ruidos con combinaciones (with Osvaldo Cibils), Deep White Sound, 2017; Olas Cursis, Luna Bisonte Prods, 2018, Sesos Extremos, Luna Bisonte Prods, 2018; Dropped in the Dark Box, Luna Bisonte Prods, 2019; Leg Mist, Luna Bisonte Prods, 2019; OJIJETE, Luna Bisonte Prods, 2020; Having Been Named: De-Reading Popol Vuh, Luna Bisonte Prods, 2021; IS KNOT, Luna Bisonte Prods, 2021; SIX MONTHS HACKING (with Jim Leftwich; Luna Bisonte Prods, 2021; and FORMATIO EST, (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2022).. He is co-editor, with Geoffrey D. Smith, of two works by William S. Burroughs: Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs; and William S. Burroughs' “The Revised Boy Scout Manual”: An Electronic Revolution; both published by The Ohio State University Press.
Stephen Bett is a widely and internationally published Canadian poet with 26 books in print from BlazeVOX, Chax, Spuyten Duyvil, & others. His personal papers are archived in the “Contemporary Literature Collection” at Simon Fraser University. His website is stephenbett.com.
Megan Breiseth is the author of the chapbook Zia (Mrs. Maybe Press) and co-author of the chapbook the longer you stay here (Featherboard). Her poems have appeared in Parentheses, Rise Up Review, sPARKLE and bLINK, and antiphony. Her full-length manuscript, Sun Blue, was selected as a finalist for this year’s Airlie Prize. She lives in the Bay Area with her wife, son, pets, and plants.
Angela Caporaso was born in 1962. A visual artist from Caserta, Italy, she began to take an interest in figurative arts in the eighties, exhibiting repeatedly both in Italy and abroad.
Ian Cappelli's work has recently appeared, or is forthcoming, in Best New Poets (2023), Beloit Poetry Journal, Bennington Review, The Iowa Review, Blackbird, The Florida Review, West Branch, RHINO, The Journal, and Palette Poetry, among others. He is a creative writing (poetry) PhD student at the University of Denver.
Joel Chace has published work in print and electronic magazines such as Lana Turner, Survision, Eratio, Otoliths, Word For/Word, Golden Handcuffs Review, New American Writing, and The Brooklyn Rail. His full-length collections include matter no matter, from Paper Kite Press, Humors, from Paloma Press, Threnodies, from Moria Books, fata morgana, from Unlikely Books, and Maths, from Chax Press. Underrated Provinces is just out from Mad Hat Press. For more than forty years, Chace was a working jazz pianist. He is an NEH Fellow.
Matthew Cooperman is a poet, educator, editor and ecocritic. He is the author of eight books,, most recently, the atmosphere is not a perfume it is odorless (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, forthcoming 2024) and Wonder About The, winner of the Halcyon Prize (Middle Creek, 2023) as well as NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified), w/Aby Kaupang, (Futurepoem, 2018), Spool, winner of the New Measure Prize (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2016), and other volumes.. A Founding Editor of the exploratory prose journal Quarter After Eight, Cooperman received his PhD in English from Ohio University. He is Co-Poetry Editor for Colorado Review, and Professor of English at Colorado State University. He lives in Fort Collins with his wife, the poet Aby Kaupang, and their children. More info at http://matthewcooperman.org.
Tanner Crunelle earned his M.F.A. from the College of Charleston, where he was the Woodfin Fellow in poetry from 2022-2024. During this time, he also studied philosophy at the European Graduate School and worked for swamp pink Literary Magazine (Editorial Assistant) and Charleston Literary Festival (Writer). He recently moved to Ithaca, New York, where he is now earning a Ph.D. in Literatures in English at Cornell University. He likes mustard-based barbecue sauce and hot tea.
Mark Dow is the author of Plain Talk Rising.
Mark DuCharme’s sixth full-length book of poetry, Here, Which Is Also a Place, was published in 2022 by Unlikely Books. That same year, his chapbook Scorpion Letters was released by Ethel. Later this year, C22 Open Editions will publish his collection Thousands Blink Outside. His poetry has appeared widely in such venues as BlazeVOX, Blazing Stadium, Caliban Online, Colorado Review, Eratio, First Intensity, Gas, Indefinite Space, New American Writing, Noon, Otoliths, Shiny, Spinozablue, Talisman, Typo, Unlikely Stories, Word/ for Word, The Writing Disorder, and Poetics for the More-Than-Human World: An Anthology of Poetry and Commentary. A recipient of the Neodata Endowment in Literature and the Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Poetry, he lives in Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Luc Fierens is a networked collagist and visual poet provocateur. Together with Elena Marini they are considered as the Poesia Visiva ‘enfants terribles’ for their authentic radical vision.
Neil Flory is the author of mudtrombones knotted in the spill (Arteidolia Press, 2023). A Pushcart Prize nominee for “hail”, appearing in the September 2022 issue of swifts & slows, Flory’s poetry has also appeared in various journals such as Superpresent, Sleet, shufPoetry, Down in the Dirt, and Fleas on the Dog. Beyond his literary work, he is a composer of classical music, a college music professor, and a pianist whose enthusiasm for improvisation in live recital settings knows no bounds. He lives among the wooded hills and lakeshores of Western New York State with his wife, published poet and fiction writer Elaine Flory, and their three hyperactive cats.
Laura Hope-Gill is a deaf writer and painter. Her work appears in 13th Moon, Bayou, Briar Cliff Review, Cape Rock, Carquinez Poetry Review, Chattahoochee Review, Cincinnati Review, Cold Mountain Review, Diagram, Denver Quarterly, Hampden-Sydney Review, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Illuminations, Laurel Review, Madison Review, Mindprints, North Carolina Literary Review, Parabola, Phantasmagoria, Poet Lore, Primavera, Owen Wister Review, Rivendell, Sortes, South Carolina Review, Spillway, Willows Wept Review, Wrath-Bearing Tree, Xavier Review, and other journals. Her poem “The Dimension of Dog” was nominated by Denver Quarterly for the 2022 Pushcart Prize. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College, and is the founding director of the MFA program at Lenoir-Rhyne University. She founded the multicultural poetry festival Asheville Wordfest and was named the first poet laureate of the Blue Ridge Parkway. She has published several books, including co-authoring Look Up Asheville: An Architectural Journey Vol. 1 (2010) and Look Up Asheville Collection II (2011) by the Grateful Steps Foundation. She enjoys playing the piano, dog sitting, and sailing.
Jasper Glen is a poet and artist from Vancouver. His work appears or is forthcoming in The Brooklyn Review, A Gathering of the Tribes, Posit, Rogue Agent, BlazeVOX, Another Chicago Magazine, and elsewhere. Poems have been nominated for Best New Poets and the Pushcart Prize.
David Hadbawnik is a poet, translator, and medieval scholar. Recent books include a translation of the Aeneid (Shearsman, 2023); an edited volume, Postmodern Poetry and Queer Medievalisms (Medieval Institute Publications, 2022); and a book of poetry, Holy Sonnets to Orpheus and Other Poems (Delete Press, 2018). He currently lives in the Minneapolis area with his wife and family.
Jeff Harrison has publications from Writers Forum, Persistencia Press, and Furniture Press. He has e-books from BlazeVOX and Argotist Ebooks. His poetry has appeared in An Introduction to the Prose Poem (Firewheel Editions), Noon: An Anthology of Short Poems (Isobar Press), three Meritage Press hay(na)ku anthologies, Sentence: a Journal of Prose Poetics, Otoliths, Moria, Indefinite Space, and elsewhere.
Jeffrey Kingman lives by the Napa River in Vallejo, California. His poetry collection, Beyond That Hill I Gather, was published by Finishing Line Press in June of 2021. His poetry chapbook, On a Road, was published by Finishing Line Press in December of 2019. He is the winner of the 2018 Eyelands Book Award (Greece) for an unpublished poetry book, a finalist in the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk Prize poetry book competition, and a finalist in the 2022 Prime Number Magazine Award for Poetry. He has poems published in PANK, Clackamas Literary Review, Crack the Spine, Visitant, and others. Jeffrey is a copy editor at Omnidawn Publishing. He has a Master’s degree in Music Composition and has been playing drums in rock bands most of his life.
Diana Magallón says that drawing was her first language. She is the author of Oxygenation, De l’oiseau et de l’eau, largoscabellosflotantes, Bravísima Reseña and Fábulas Furtivas. Her works have appeared in E∙ratio, Word for/Word, Slova, Compostxts, Fenamizah, Moria, Sentence, Great Works, Otoliths, The New Postliterate, and Shampoo, among others.
Elena Marini is a visual poet and activist based in Italy. Since 2001, she has been an internationally collaborating with visual artists, poets and activists working on independent projects such as mail-art and visual poetry denouncing societal abuses.
Pamela Miller’s newest collection of poems is How to Do the Greased Wombat Slide (Unsolicited Press, 2024). She is the author of five other books, including Recipe for Disaster and Miss Unthinkable (both from Mayapple Press) and the visual poetry chapbook Mr. Mischief (forthcoming from dancing girl press). Her work has appeared in BlazeVOX, Otoliths, shufPoetry, RHINO, New Poetry From the Midwest, and many other journals and anthologies. She is currently working on a new chapbook, Ghost Stories.
Bill Neumire’s first poetry collection, Estrus, was a semi-finalist for the 42 Miles Press Award, and his second book, #TheNewCrusades, was a finalist for the Barrow Street Prize. His poems have appeared in Harvard Review Online, Beloit Poetry Journal, and West Branch. In addition to writing, he also served as an assistant editor for the literary magazine Verdad and as a reviewer for Vallum.
Suzanne O’Connell’s recently published work can be found in Cantos, Chaffin Journal, Drunk Monkeys, Doubly Mad, El Portal Literary Journal, Flights, Ignatian Literary Magazine, Medicine and Meaning, Midwest Quarterly, Open: Journal of Arts and Letters, The Opiate, Paterson Literary Review, Perceptions Magazine, Pine Hills Review, Pink Panther Magazine, Rue Scribe, San Diego Poetry Annual, Silver Birch Press, Sublunary Review, Tulsa Review, Visitant Lit, Wrath-Bearing Tree, and others. She was awarded second place in the 2019 Poetry Super Highway poetry contest. O’Connell was also nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and received Honorable Mention in the Steve Kowit Poetry Prize, 2019. Her two poetry collections, A Prayer For Torn Stockings and What Luck, were published by Garden Oak Press.
Benjamin Norman Pierce is a professional dishwasher with BA's in Philosophy, History, and English. He self-published a novel, "Snuck Past Death and Sleep," and has two albums available on Spotify. He has had graphics in Penultimate Peanut, Ancient Heart, Convergence, Bitterzoet, Moebius and Aji, and poetry in Lilliput Review, Poesy, Dragonfly, Raintown Review, Red Owl, Scifaikuest, Free Verse, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Calendar, Primordial Traditions, Convergences, Acme: a Journal of Critical Geography, Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition, Chiron Review, Euphony, Alchemy, Poetica Review, Aji, Vagabond, the Triumvirate Anthology, The Bees Are Dead, Portland Metrozine, Innumerable Stumble, Fly In The Head, Aberration Labyrinth, Dreich, Word For Word, Locust Review, the Dillydoun Review, Rind, Blue Unicorn, Madswirl. He is a recent cancer survivor.
D. E. Steward has many hundreds of literary magazine credits. His five volumes of Chroma are published by Avante-Garde Classics/Amazon (2018). Chroma is a month-to-month calendar book, the months are continuing past the books of them published and “Altamira” is one.
Brian Strang is a poet, visual artist and musician. He is the author of four full-length books of poems including, most recently, Are You Afraid? (Duration Press, 2022), reviewed in Poetry Flash. His poems, translations and essays have appeared in many journals, including Big Other, The Rumpus, New American Writing, The Denver Quarterly, Inside Higher Ed., and (translated) in the Portuguese journal DiVersos. He was a founding editor of 26: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics in the early 2000’s. His paintings, music and other work can be found at brianstrang.com. He has been teaching writing at SFSU for over 25 years.
Adam Strauss lives in Louisville, KY. Most recently, poems of his appear in the Brooklyn Rail, Blackbox Manifold, Black Warrior Review, The Columbia Review, Dream Pop, and Prelude.
Lynn Strongin is a Pulitzer Prize nominee in poetry. She has poems in forty anthologies, and fifty journals, including Poetry and New York Quarterly. Alan Corkish notes that “KIOSK is heartbreaking but over and above that it is magnificently uplifting due in full to the exceptional talents of an exceptional poet.”
Marguerite Strongin was born in 1914 to Romanian parents. She studied with the great sculptor Archpenko, and at the Art Students League in New York City.
Steve Timm lives with his wife, Shari Bernstein, in Madison, Wisconsin, and is the author of Rule of Composition, This's That, Un storia, and Disparity.