Francesco Aprile is a freelance journalist, poet, visual-poet, and essayist from Lecce, Italy. He is also author of asemic writing, glitch, asemic cinema (2016), code poems. In 2010 he became member of the literary movement called New Page-Narrativa in store, that has founded in 2009 by Francesco Saverio Dòdaro; currently he is the director of this movement. In April 2011 he founded the group of artistic research Contrabbando Poetico, subscribing the first manifesto. He is the co-founder of the magazine "Utanga.it" (2014, with C. Caggiula). In 2021 he founded the experimental group named "Liminalism."
Glenn Bach is originally from Southern California, and now lives in the Dugway Brook watershed of Cleveland, Ohio. Glenn retired from a career in sound art and experimental music to focus exclusively on Atlas, a long poem about place and our (mis)understanding of the world. Excerpts have appeared in such journals as DIAGRAM, jubilat, and Plumwood Mountain; sequence-length excerpts include cricket (eclipse) (Stone Corpse Press, 2024) and verdugos (Ghost City Press, 2024). Glenn documents his work at glennbach.com and @atlascorpus.bsky.social.
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.
Kenneth M Cale lives in Oregon and makes word/image things. His work has been published in print and online in various journals, and his chapbooks include Greater Vegas Bleeds into the Dreams of my Cryogenic Slumber (Steel Incisors, 2022) and Midnight Double Feature (C22 Press, 2025 / Sweat Drenched Press, 2020). You can find him on bluesky: @kennethmc.bsky.social
Cecelia Chapman’s work navigates between folktale and visual exploration of the mythic, driven by her interest in consciousness and its attempts to reconcile the unseen, synchronicity, the possibility of accident, and the absurd unpredictability and impermanence of life. http://ceceliachapman.com/
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. Underrated Provinces is recently out from MadHat Books. Bone Chapel is coming out soon from Chax. For more than forty years, Chace was a working jazz pianist. He is an NEH Fellow.
Mark DuCharme’s newest book, Complicated Grief, is just out from C22 Open Editions. Other recent books includeThousands Blink Outside, also from C22; Here, Which Is Also a Placefrom Unlikely Books; Scorpion Lettersfrom Ethel; and his work of poet’s theater, We, the Monstrous: Script for an Unrealizable Film, from The Operating System. His poetry has appeared widely in such venues as BlazeVOX, Caliban Online, Colorado Review, Eratio, First Intensity, Gas, Indefinite Space, New American Writing, Noon, Otoliths, Shiny, Spinozablue, Talisman, Trilobite, Typo, Unlikely Stories, Utriculi, Word/ for Word, The Writing Disorder, and Poetics for the More-Than-Human World: An Anthology of Poetry and Commentary. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Brenda Mann Hammack teaches digital storytelling and creative writing at Fayetteville State University. She is the managing editor of Glint Literary Journal. Other selections in her "Living Dead Woman Sonnets" have appeared in Mudlark, Eclectica Magazine, and BlazeVOX. Her scholarly writing focuses on psychological vampires in fiction by Florence Marryat, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Arabella Kenealy, and Violet Hunt.
Richard Hanus had four kids but now just three.
Lee Johnson is a LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent poet. He is a master’s student at Weber State University studying Creative Writing. His works have been published or forthcoming by the Seneca Review, Sugar House Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Ballast Journal, Bellingham Review and others. He has presented his poetry at English Honors conventions held in Minneapolis, MN and Louisville, KY.
Martha McCollough is the author of Wolf Hat Iron Shoes (Lily Poetry Review Books 2022) and the chapbook Grandmother Mountain (Blue Lyra 2019) . Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Pleiades, The Boiler, RadarPoetry, Bear Review, and Tampa Review, among others. Originally from Detroit, she lives in Amherst, MA.
Seth McKelvey teaches at Clemson University. He is the author of No Exit: Contemporary American Literature and the State (University of Virginia Press, 2025), and his scholarship appears in American Literature, Journal of Modern Literature, and Nineteenth-Century Literature. His poems appear in Michigan Quarterly Review, Sip Cup, Madcap Review, Word For/Word, TRANSOM, E-ratio, Bateau, BlazeVOX, and elsewhere.
Pamela Miller is the author of six books of poems, most recently How to Do the Greased Wombat Slide (Unsolicited Press, 2024) and Mr. Mischief (forthcoming from dancing girl press). Her text poetry and visual poetry have appeared in Ranger, Utriculi, After Hours, Book of Matches, BlazeVOX, and the late, great Otoliths, among others. She lives in Chicago.
Sheila E. Murphy’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Verse Daily, Lana Turner, Fortnightly Review, Poetry, Hanging Loose, and others. Forthcoming is I Want To Be Your Radio (Unlikely Books). Most recent book: Escritoire (Lavender Ink, 2025). Gertrude Stein Poetry Award for Letters to Unfinished J. (Green Integer Press, 2003). Hay(ha)ku Book Prize for Reporting Live From You Know Where (Meritage Press, 2018). She lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
Oona Ratcliffe is located in Brooklyn, NY at the moment, and grew up in Bolinas, CA.
Emma Grey Rose is a writer based in San Diego, California from Portland, Oregon. Her work has appeared in Jasper’s Folly, Louisiana Literature, Ephemeral Elegies, A2, and elsewhere. She is the author of the chapbook, All The Beautiful Things (Midsummer Dream House, 2024).
Sarah Rosenthal is the author of Estelle Meaning Star (Chax, 2024), Lizard (Chax, 2016), Manhatten (Spuyten Duyvil, 2009), and several chapbooks. In collaboration with Valerie Witte, she has published the hybrid work The Grass Is Greener When the Sun Is Yellow (Operating System, 2019). She edited A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Poets of the Bay Area (Dalkey Archive, 2010). Her collaborative film We Agree on the Sun won Best Experimental Short at the 2021 Berlin Independent Film Festival. Her new collaborative film, Lizard Song, is currently on the film festival circuit. She is the recipient of the Leo Litwak Fiction Award, a Creative Capacity Innovation Grant, a San Francisco Education Fund Grant, and writing residencies at Cel del Nord, This Will Take Time, Hambidge, Vermont Studio Center, Soul Mountain, New York Mills, and Ragdale, as well as a two-year Affiliate Artist term at Headlands Center for the Arts. From 2012 to 2023 she served on the California Book Awards jury.
Michael Ruby is a poet, literary editor and journalist. He is the author of nine poetry books, most recently Sounds of Summer in the Country (BlazeVOX, 2025), Close Your Eyes, Visions (Station Hill, 2024), The Star-Spangled Banner (Station Hill, 2020), The Mouth of the Bay (BlazeVOX, 2019) and American Songbook (Ugly Duckling, 2013). His trilogy in prose and poetry, Memories, Dreams and Inner Voices (Station Hill, 2012), includes ebooks Fleeting Memories (Ugly Duckling, 2008) and Inner Voices Heard Before Sleep (Argotist, 2011). His other recent ebooks are Titles & First Lines (Mudlark, 2018) and Compulsive Words (Argotist, 2024). He is co-editor of Bernadette Mayer’s early books, Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words (Station Hill, 2015); Mayer’s and Lewis Warsh’s collaboration Piece of Cake (Station Hill, 2020); and currently a large selected poems of Steve Dalachinsky. He lives in Brooklyn and worked for many years as an editor of U.S. news and political articles at The Wall Street Journal.
Abraham Smith was raised around Ladysmith, Wisconsin, and lives in Ogden, Utah, where he is associate professor of English and co-director of Creative Writing at Weber State University. His recent poetry collections include Surgencies (Baobab Press, forthcoming 2026), One Warm Morning (Stubborn Mule Press, 2025), Insomniac Sentinel (Baobab Press, 2023), and Dear Weirdo (Propeller Books, 2022). Away from his desk, Smith improvises poems inside songs with the Snarlin' Yarns: thesnarlinyarnsut.bandcamp.com.
Danika Stegeman’s second book, Ablation, was released by 11:11 Press in 2023. Her first book, Pilot (2020), was published by Spork Press. She’s an assistant editor for Conduit and does bookkeeping for Fonograf Editions. Along with Jace Brittain, she co-curates the virtual collaborative reading series It’s Copperhead Season. She lives in St. Paul, MN. Her website is danikastegeman.com.
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.
Lynn Strongin is a Pulitzer Prize nominee in poetry. She has poems in forty anthologies, and fifty journals, including Poetry and New York Quarterly.
Orchid Tierney is a poet and scholar from Aotearoa, New Zealand. She is the author of this abattoir is a college (Calamari Archive, 2025) and a year of misreading the wildcats (The Operating System, 2019) as well as several chapbooks, including pedagogies for the planthroposcene (above/ground press, 2025) and looking at the Tiny: Mad lichen on the surfaces of reading (Essay Press, 2023). She teaches at Kenyon College and is a senior editor at the Kenyon Review.
Ted Warnell lives and works on the western edge of a great Canadian prairie. He publishes his work in both online and print formats, with appearances in Utriculi, Utsanga, Taper, Word For/Word, Rhizome Artbase collection, Electronic Literature Organization directory, The Last Vispo anthology, et al. Online @ warnell.com
Ernest Williamson III has published work in numerous journals, including Roanoke Review, The Oklahoma Review, Review Americana: A Creative Writing Journal, Pamplemousse, formerly known as The Gihon River Review, I-70 Review, and The Copperfield Review. Some of his visual artwork has appeared in journals such as The Columbia Review, The GW Review, New England Review, Penn Review, and The Tulane Review. Williamson holds an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Memphis and a PhD in Higher Education Leadership, Management, & Policy from Seton Hall University. Ernest is three-time Best of the Net nominee. He lives in Tennessee.
David Weiss is a poet & arts organizer living in Tucson Arizona. David founded Sonorous Anchorite (2021), a not-for-profit literary arts press dedicated to publishing “innovative writing that tends toward the poem”. As part of Sonorous Anchorite he began A Moveable Beast, a poetical cabaret cultivating curious intersections between the varied practices of poets, musicians, artists, etc.David served as the Assistant Director at Chax Press & as a board member of POG, a community poetry & arts organization from 2019-2022. His recent poems have appeared in the journals BlazeVOX, Alienocene, & e•ratio. His book-length poem In Memoriam: in enquiry was published by Chax Press in early 2022.
Bill Wolak has just published his nineteenth book of poetry entitled What Love Calms Only With Nakedness with Expeditions International Publishing House. His collages and photographs have appeared as cover art for such magazines as Phoebe, The Passionfruit Review, Inside Voice, and Barfly Poetry Magazine.