Jim Andrews has been publishing vispo.com since 1996. It is his life's work.

Jeff Bagato produces poetry and prose as well as mail art, electronic music and glitch video. His most recent books document experimental text work from the past few years, including In the Engine Room with Bettie and Andrea Reading Pornography, Gonch Poems, Robot Speak, and Floral Float Flume: Flue Flit Flip. A blog about his writing and publishing efforts can be found at jeffbagato.wordpress.com.

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. Angela Caporaso's art has always been characterized by a constant research and experimentation. Since her first exhibitions she has revealed a constant strain towards new expressive languages. This constant research led Angela to contaminate sign with colour, font with image, literature with painting, as though one single medium was not sufficient to express her complex imaginative world. She has worked on the words of the main contemporary writers and has dedicated some of her exhibitions to Albert Camus, Emily Dickinson, Pier Vittorio Tondelli. Influenced by Pop Art, she has inserted in her works the typical comics “bubbles”, as well as advertising references, decontextualized and transformed into a proper artistic language. She has worked with unrecyclable waste material, humble and inert, which has acquired new sense and meaning thanks to the artist’s intervention.

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.

Kelvin Corcoran lives in Greece. His first book was published in 1985 and his Collected Poemsin 2023, drawing upon the fifteen books published subsequently.His work has been commended in the UK by the Poetry Society, the Forward Prize committee and commissioned by the Arts Council and Medicine Unboxed. It is the subject of a study edited by Andy Brown, The Writing Occurs as Song. Corcoran has edited an account of Lee Harwood’s poetry in Not the Full Story: Six Interviews with Lee Harwood, 2008. He is co-editor with Robert Sheppard of the New Collected Poems of Lee Harwood. Corcoran’s most recent publication is the libretto Under Tainaron, 2025.His work has been anthologised in the UK and the USA and translated into Greek.

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-three poetry collections, most recently 'So Much More' (November 2024, Harbor Editions). 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. Some of his Index Card Poems appeared in WF/W 44.

Connor Fisher is the author of A Renaissance with Eyelids (Schism Press, 2024), The Isotope of I (Schism Press, 2021) and three 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 Creative Writing and English from the University of Georgia. His writing has appeared in journals including Denver Quarterly, Random Sample Review, Tammy, the Colorado Review, and Diagram. He currently lives and teaches in northern Mississippi.

Neil Flory is the author of mudtrombones knotted in the spill (Arteidolia Press, 2023). Nominated for a 2023 Pushcart Prize by swifts & slows, Flory’s poetry has also appeared in various other journals such as Ink in Thirds, dadakuku, Sleet, Poetry Pacific, and The Gorko Gazette. Beyond his literary work, he is a composer of experimental 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 flamboyant cats.

A Chicago native, Carolyn Guinzio has lived in the Ozark Mountains just outside Fayetteville, Arkansas since 2002. Her eighth book is Cameo Blue (2026, Carnegie Mellon University Press). Earlier collections include A Vertigo Book, (The Word Works, 2021) winner of The Tenth Gate Prize, and Meanwhile in Arkansas, winner of the Quarterly West Chapbook Prize. Her website is https://carolynguinzio.my.canva.site

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 son.

Richard Hanus had four kids but now just three. Zen and Love.

W. Scott Howard teaches in the Department of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver, where he edits Denver Quarterly and FIVES. His books include Archive and Artifact: Susan Howe’s Factual Telepathy (Talisman House) and two collections of poetry, SPINNAKERS (The Lune) and ROPES (Delete Press). Scott lives in Englewood, CO, where he gardens and writes.

George Kalamaras, former Poet Laureate of Indiana (2014–2016), is the author of twenty-seven books of poetry (eighteen full-length books and nine chapbooks). One of his recent books, To Sleep in the Horse’s Belly: My Greek Poets and the Aegean Inside Me> (Dos Madres Press, 2023), received the 2024 Indiana Book Award for Poetry. He is Professor Emeritus of English at Purdue University Fort Wayne, where he taught for thirty-two years. He now lives in Livermore, Colorado.

Beth Kephart is a National Book Award finalist, the award-winning author of some forty books in multiple genres, an award-winning teacher, co-founder of Juncture Workshops, and a paper artist whose visual poetics appear in publications ranging from Reed Magazine and Print digital to (upcoming) Indiana Review and Global City Review. She is the author of the bestselling words + image substack, The Hush and the Howl. More at bethkephartbooks.com.

J.I. Kleinberg lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA, and on Instagram @jikleinberg. 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; a full length volume, She needs the river (Poem Atlas), was published in 2024. All of we is forthcoming from Anhinga Press.

Edward Kulemin was born in Yaroslavl, Russia. He is the organizer of various creative societies, including KEPNOS, Group of Unknown Artists, Smolensk School of Appologists, and the Association damned poets. He is the author of the books It seems to have begun (1994), Odnohujstvenny Ulysses(1995), By the artificial way (1998), Multimatum (2002), Lowdown (2012), and Cash register poems (2018). His work has been published in the anthologies Crossing Centuries: The New Generation in Russian Poetry (Talisman House Pub, USA, 2000), Cool-Strip-Art-Antology (Prilep, Macedonia, 2000), Secondary literature (New literary review, Moscow, 2001), Mailartpoemics anthology (Lublin, Poland, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/85756418/mailartpoemicsanthology), The Last Vispo Anthology: Visual Poetry 1998-2008 (USA, 2012, http://www.thelastvispo.com/), and An Anthology of Asemic Handwriting (USA, 2013, http://www.uitgeverij.cc/publications/an-anthology-of-asemic-handwriting).

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), Crossfall chapbook (Sandy Press, 2024), with Crossfall (BWP, 2025) & From A Reduced Philanthropy (The Bodily Press, 2025). Anticipated for a spring 2026 release is Flutterrudderbutterfly (BWP). His book, Lure (Black Widow Press, 2022), won the “2022 Big Other Poetry Book Award.” .

Bill Marsh is a teacher and writer living in Chicago. His poems and essays have appeared in After Hours, Allium, Cimarron Review, TIMBER, and The Normal School, among other journals.

Caleb Merritt is an artist who lives and works in the Pacific Northwest. Free Poetry Press, #Ranger, Bardics Anonymous, and Writers In The Attic have generously published his poems, art, typesetting and design.

Luna Rail is a social worker, artist, and organizer living and working in Chicago. He’s had images and words published in a variety of zines and journals. Notable among these are Coraddi Magazine, Alchemy, A Journal of Translation, and upcoming, Genrepunk Magazine, July 2026. In 2017 he co founded Agitator Artists Cooperative in Chicago. He’s more proud of what can be done collectively than anything he could have done alone.

Jason Ryberg is the author of twenty-two books of poetry, six screenplays, a few short stories, a box full of folders, notebooks and scraps of paper that could one day be(loosely) construed as a novel, and countless love letters (never sent). He is currently an artist-in- residence at both The Prospero Institute of Disquieted P/o/e/t/i/c/s and the Osage Arts Community, and is an editor and designer at Spartan Books. His work has appeared in As it Ought to Be, Up the Staircase Quarterly, Thimble Literary Magazine,I-70 Review, Main Street Rag, The Arkansas Review and various other journals and anthologies. His latest collection f poems is “Bullet Holes in the Mailbox (Cigarette Burns in the Sheets) Back of the Class Press, 2024)).” He lives part-time in Kansas City, MO with a rooster named Little Red and a Billy-goat named Giuseppe, and part-time somewhere in the Ozarks, near the Gasconade River, where there are also many strange and wonderful woodland critters.

Mykyta Ryzhykh is from Ukraine, now living in Tromsø, Norway. He has been nominated for the Pushcart and Touchstone prizes. His work appears in both Ukrainian and English publications, including Tipton Poetry Journal, Stone Poetry Journal, and Neologism Poetry Journal. His book Tombboy will be published in April by Lost Telegram Press.

James Sanders is a member of the Atlanta Poets Group, a writing and performing collective. He was included in the 2016 BAX: Best American Experimental Writing anthology. His most recent book is Self-Portrait in Plants. The University of New Orleans Press also recently published the group’s An Atlanta Poets Group Anthology: The Lattice Inside. Website is http://somejamessanders.com.

Katie Schaag is a writer, artist, and theorist. An Assistant Professor of Theatre & Performance at Spelman College with an English PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she is the author of the ecofeminist erasure poetry chapbook SEAL / WOMAN (Ethel Press, 2025), the feminist erasure poetry chapbook The Infinite Woman (Greying Ghost, 2021), and the interactive algorithmic feminist erasure poetry web app The Infinite Woman (Electronic Literature Organization, 2022). Her creative writing appears in FENCE, Nat. Brut, Yes Femmes, Sporklet, La Vague, Datableed, Requited Journal, Metatron, NightBlock, Guttural, Word For/ Word, Imagined Theatres, Vector Press, Rabbit Catastrophe Press, and Oxeye Press. She received a Fulton County Arts & Culture Distinguished Creative Residency Fellowship at the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences (2023), was an artist-in-residence hosted by the Academy for the Visual & Performing Arts at Texas A&M University (2024), and delivered the keynote lecture for the Everlasting Plastics symposium at the Cleveland Museum of Art (2023). Her conceptual script A Plastic Theatre was adapted as a libretto for a classical music composition by Joanna Marsh, which received its UK premiere at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (2024), its Scandinavian premiere at the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra & Opera (2024), and its Australian premiere at the Sydney Opera House (2025). She is currently working on a book of experimental scripts and scores entitled "The Moon Appears Upon the Stage and Other Conceptual Plays."

Alison Strub is a hybrid poet and visual artist who received her M.F.A. at George Mason University. Her poems have appeared in Gigantic Sequins, Salt Hill, Hayden’s Ferry Review and other fine publications. Her chapbook, Lillian, Fred, was published by BOAAT Press in 2016. Her book, Panacea, was published in 2023 by Milk & Cake Press and her next book, Dust Rites, is forthcoming from Milk & Cake Press in 2026. She can be reached by telegrams and texts.