Mario José Cervantes is an experimental poet. His works have appeared internationally in journals such as Leere Mitte, La Hoja M, La Tzara, Tse-Tse, Otoliths, Alfarrabios, Zunai, Experiment-O, Desliz, Veneno, Rio Grande Review, Word for Word, Nyugat Plusz, and Big Ode. His visuals have appeared in collections around the world.
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 MadHat Books. For more than forty years, Chace was a working jazz pianist. He is an NEH Fellow.
Cecelia Chapman: https://ceceliachapman.com
Jeff Crouch: https://nothingandinsight.blogspot.com/
Claire Crowther has published six collections with Shearsman Books and has been shortlisted for the Aldeburgh Prize and awarded a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her most recent collection is Real Lear, New and Selected Poems, launched in October 2024. Her poems have appeared in Blackbox Manifold, Poetry Review, Times Literary Supplement and many other journals. She has a PhD in Creative Writing (Poetry) and teaches it at Oxford University.. She is Deputy / Reviews Editor of Long Poem Magazine and her poetry has been archived by the Poetry Archive.
Trevor Cunnington is a writer/artist/educator who lives in Toronto. He has published poems in Carousel and two anthologies. As well, he has published photographs and a drawing in magazines such as Maisonneuve and Cerasus. He has also published academic articles and encyclopedia entries. You can find him on instagram @trevorcunnington.
Darren Demaree’s poems have appeared, or are scheduled to appear in numerous magazines/journals, including Hotel Amerika, Diode, North American Review, New Letters, Diagram, and the Colorado Review. He is the author of twenty-one poetry collections, most recently 'in defense of the goat that continues to wander towards the certain doom of the cliff' (February 2024, April Gloaming Publishing). He is the Editor in Chief of the Best of the Net Anthology and Managing Editor of Ovenbird Poetry. He is currently living and writing in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.
Dario Roberto Dioli studied food technology and is a cynologist. He explores signs, senses and meanings with linear and visual poetry, asemic writing, collage and dada performance. In 2024 he published a bilingual book of poetry titled “Ciò che rimane del niente/ Ce Rāmāne din nimic” (Cosmopoli/Eikon, Bacau, Romania) and a visual chapbook titled “They are coming” (Paper view books, Leiria, Portugal). Together with his wife Zewditu under the name Legesse they joined Guido Oldani's “Realismo terminale” poetry movement during Book City Milano 2024 and also they are the publisher Asatami Legesse Edizioni. You can find several of his contributions in Italy, the United States, France and the United Kingdom.
Mark Dow is the author of Plain Talk Rising. He has another set of Index Card Poems at vimeo.com/showcase/11665524.
Jasper Glen is Canadian poet and collage artist. His work appears or is forthcoming in The Brooklyn Review, Posit, A Gathering of the Tribes, Die Leere Mitte, Anti-Heroin Chic, and elsewhere. Poems have been nominated for Best New Poets and the Pushcart Prize. jasperglen.com.
Richard Hanus had four kids but now just three.
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, Utriculi, and elsewhere.
Daniel Lehan studied Fine Art at Winchester School of Art, England, and later studied Art Therapy at Goldsmiths College, London. He has lived in New York, Florence, Finland, and Quebec, and now lives in Dungeness, on the south coast of England. His work has been published in various print and online poetry Journals including 3:AM, Arteidolia, Ballast, Feral, Frozen Sea, Indianapolis Review, Ink Sweat and Tears, M58, Otoliths, Revolver, Tentacular, Star 82 Review, Whiptail, and Word For / Word. His text - Book Pages Destroyed By Typewriter - is included in The New Concrete, Visual Poetry in the 21st Century, published by Hayward Publishing, 2015.
Genevieve Kaplan is the author of (aviary) (Veliz Books, 2020), In the ice house (Red Hen, 2011), and five chapbooks, most recently Felines, which sounds like feelings (above/ground, 2022). Her poems can be found in Third Coast, Puerto del Sol, Denver Quarterly, South Dakota Review, and other journals. She lives in southern California where she edits the Toad Press International chapbook series, publishing contemporary translations of poetry and prose
J.I. Kleinberg lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA, and on Instagram @jikleinberg. An artist, poet, and freelance writer, her poems have been published in print and online journals worldwide. Chapbooks of her visual poems, How to pronounce the wind (Paper View Books) and Desire’s Authority (Ravenna Press Triple Series No. 23), were published in 2023; She needs the river (Poem Atlas) was published in 2024.
Heller Levinson’s most recent books are Query Caboodle, Shift Gristle (Black Widow Press, 2023), The Abyssal Recitations (Concrete Mist Press, 2024), Valvular Ash (BWP, 2024), Query Caboodle 2 (Sulfur Editions, 2024), with Crossfall (BWP) slated for a summer 2025 release. His book, Lure (Black Widow Press, 2022), won the “2022 Big Other Poetry Book Award.”
Diana Magallón: https://cipollinaaaaa.blogspot.com/
Stephen Ratcliffe is the author of more than twenty books of poetry, including most recently w i n d o w (Spuyten Duyvil, 2024, Black and Yellow Notebooks (BlazeVox [books], 2023), Some Time (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022), Rocks and More Rocks (Cuneiform 2020), sound of wave in channel (BlazeVOX [books], 2018), Painting (Chax Press, 2014) and Selected Days (Counterpath, 2012) which won the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award. He has also written three books of literary criticism, Reading the Unseen: (Offstage) Hamlet (Counterpath, 2010), Listening to Reading (SUNY Press, 2000), and Campion: On Song (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981) as well as a collection of his correspondence, Barbara Guest & Stephen Ratcliffe : Letters (Chax Press, 2022). His ongoing series of seven 1,000-page books, each one written in 1,000 consecutive days, are at Editions Eclipse (hclipsearchive.org/projects/editions.html) and this series of daily poems-plus-photographs can be found at Temporality (stephenratcliffe.blogspot.com). Publisher of Avenue B books and Emeritus Professor at Mills College, he has lived in Bolinas California since 1973.
K. Anne Rickertsen was a beloved San Francisco poet who died in 2022 due to COVID-19 complications. She left behind a collection of unpublished and self-published poems. Her hand-made chapbook, caught between/ the cut & the scar, has been fully distributed to those close to her, and just two copies of the full-length collection she created in the 90s, Round A Circle, remained in her possession. A tribute and selected poems appeared recently in the LADige collection of California Poets. For inquiries about her work, contact meganbreiseth@gmail.com.
Jacob Schepers is the author of A Bundle of Careful Compromises (Outriders Poetry Project, 2014), the chapbook Connections & Choreography (Bottlecap Press, 2024), and the micro-chap Shipwreck Abstracted (Ghost City Press, 2024). His poems have recently appeared in or are forthcoming in antiphony, DIALOGIST, The Greensboro Review, Harpur Palate, Heavy Feather Review, Hobart, Indianapolis Review, The Shore, Psaltery & Lyre, and elsewhere. His reviews and critical work have appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, The Fanzine, Entropy, Cleveland Review of Books, and Contemporary Women’s Writing. He received his MFA and PhD from the University of Notre Dame, where he teaches in the University Writing Program. With Sara Judy, he edits the nonprofit literary journal ballast. He lives in South Bend, Indiana, with his wife and their four sons. More at www.jacobschepers.com, @JacobSchepers on Instagram and @jacobschepers.bsky.social on Bluesky.
Mark Schmidt is an adjunct English instructor at the University of South Dakota. He has critical and creative work published or forthcoming in Middle West Review, the Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Red Coyote, i19: The Incredible Nineteenth Century, Mantis, Penumbra, Potpourri, and elsewhere.
Tim Shaner is the author of Radio Ethiopia: Testimony of a Development Brat (Spuyten Duyvil, 2024), Noch Ein at the Stein: A Poetic Essay on Beer, Conversation, and Hippycrits (Spuyten Duvil, 2022), I Hate Fiction: A Novel (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018) and the poetry collection Picture X (Airlie Press, 2014). His work has appeared in Periodicities: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics, Broken Lens Journal, Exquisite Pandemic, Juxtapositions, Plumwood Mountain: A Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics, Colorado Review, Jacket, and elsewhere. In Eugene, he founded and hosted A New Poetry Series (2008-2014), curated The Windfall Reading Series (2017-2019), and is currently hosting the Studio 7 Reading Series. He teaches writing at Lane Community College.
Brian Strang is a poet, visual artist and musician. He is the author of four books of poems including, most recently, Are You Afraid? (Duration Press, 2022). His poems, translations, multimedia works and essays have appeared in many journals, including The Rumpus, Big Other, New American Writing and The Denver Quarterly. He was one of the founding editors 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.
Charles Wilkinson’s poems have appeared in Poetry Wales, Poems from the Borders (Seren, Wales), Poetry Salzburg (Austria), Shearsman , Magma, Under the Radar, Tears in the Fence, Scintilla, Orbis, Stand, Snow lit rev, Gargoyle (USA), The Manhattan Review (USA), Word/ for Word (USA) and many other journals. A pamphlet, Ag & Au, came out from Flarestack Poets in 2013. A full-length collection, The Glazier’s Choice (Eyewear, 2019), was nominated for a Forward Prize. His most recent poetry book is Horn & Glass (The Collective Press, Abergavenny, 2023). Wilkinson’s work includes The Pain Tree and Other Stories (London Magazine Editions, 2000); four collections of ‘weird’ short stories appeared from Egaeus Press. He lives in Presteigne, Powys, Wales, where he is heavily outnumbered by members of the ovine community. He also runs the Red Parrot Poetry Readings in his hometown.
Bill Yarrow is the author of twelve books of poetry including Blasphemer and The Vig of Love. His collages have been featured in JaamZIN and sundaysalon.