A Selection of Contributor’s Publications:
[Issue 1.1]
Emily Bilman—Resilience, The Threshold of Broken Waters, and Apperception (all published by Troubador, UK)
Jace Brittain—Sorcererer (Schism)
Maryann Corbett—In Code (Able Muse) and The O in the Air (Colosseum Books)
Matt Dennison—Kind Surgery (Urtica Press) and Waiting for Better (Main Street Rag Press)
Jason Emde—My Hand’s Tired & My Heart Aches (Kalamalka Press) and little bit die (Bolero Bird Books)
Howie Good—frowney face and Swimming in Oblivion: New and Selected Poems (both from Redhawk Publications)
Whit Griffin—We Who Saw Everything (Cultural Society), and, with Timothy C. Ely, Interior Voice / The Great Practice (Granary Books)
J-T Kelly—Like Now (CCCP Chapbooks + Subpress)
Rogan Kelly—Demolition in the Tropics (Seven Kitchens Press)
Jahan Khajavi—Feast of the Ass (Ugly Duckling Presse)
Richard Kostelanetz—Ouroboros (NYQ Books)
Amit Majmudar—Black Avatar and Other Essays (Acre Books), Twin A: A Life (Slant Books)
Robert Savino Oventile—Sophia Lethe Talks Doxodox Down, with Sandy Florian (Atmosphere)
Rikki Santer—Stopover (Luchador Press)
[Issue 1.2]
S. T. Brant—Melody in Exile (Atmosphere Press)
Alexander Etheridge—Snowfire and Home (Belle Point Press)
KJ Hannah Greenberg—Word Magpie (Audience Askew Chapbooks)
Luke Johnson—Quiver (Texas Review Press)
Stephen Kampa—World Too Loud to Hear (Able Muse), Cracks in the Invisible (Ohio University Press), and Articulate as Rain (The Waywiser Press)
Mercedes Lawry—Vestiges (Kelsay Books)
Shannon Lise—Such Excess of Light (Kelsay Books)
Ann E. Michaels—The Red Queen Hypothesis (Highland Park Poetry) and Abundance/Diminishment (Kelsay Books)
Jon Riccio—Agoreography (3: A Taos Press)
Alina Stefanescu—Ribald (Bull City Press), Dor (Wandering Aengus Press), Every Mask I Tried On (Brighthorse Books)
Megan Wildhood—Bowed As If Laden With Snow (Cornerstone Press)
[Issue 1.3]
JC Alfier—The Shadow Field (Louisiana Literature Press)
Glen Armstrong—Night School: Selected Early Poems (Cyberwit.net)
Rich Boucher—All of This Candy Belongs to Me (Jules’ Poetry Playhouse Publications)
Kathryn de Lancellotti—Impossible Thirst (Moon Tide Press)
Brent House—The Wingtip Prophecy (April Gloaming)
Dennis Hinrichsen—Flesh-plastique (Green Linden Press)
Vanessa Couto Johnson—pH of Au (Parlor Press) and pungent dins concentric (Tolsun Books)
James Croal Jackson—Count Seeds With Me (Ethel Zine & Micro-Press) and Our Past Leaves (Kelsay Books)
Ella Leynard—Poems, Verses, We Have Time to Love, Unveiling Time, Explosion of Words, Love at the Root
Joshua Martin—SCHISMS (C22 Press), laminated tongue in aspic (Alien Buddha Press), and automatic message (Free Lines Press)
Sheleen McElhinney—Every Little Vanishing (Write Bloody)
Carolyn Oliver—The Alcestis Machine (Acre Books) and Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble (University of Utah Press)
Smitha Sehgal—How Women Become Poems in Malabar (Red River)
Sarah J. Sloat—Hotel Almighty (Sarabande Books)
[Issue 1.4]
Jack B. Bedell—Against the Woods’ Dark Trunks (Mercer University Press)
Clara Burghelea—Praise the Unburied (Chaffinch Press)
Barbara Daniels—Talk to the Lioness (Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press)
Bart Edelman—The Alphabet of Love, The Gentle Man, The Last Mojito, The Geographer’s Wife (all with Red Hen Press)
Gunilla T. Kester—If I Were More Like Myself (The Writers Den)
Desmond Kon—Depth of Field: My Guided Journal for Self-Healing (Penguin Random House Southeast Asia)
Nadja Küchenmeister—All the Lights (Schoeffling + Co.), Under the Juniper (Schoeffling + Co.), and In the Glass Mountain (Schoeffling + Co.)
Stefan Manasia—The Aroma Stabilizer and The Chronovisor
Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay—this is our war (Penmanship Press) and everything is always leaving (M.C. Sarkar & Sons, Kolkata)
Christopher Nelson—Blood Aria (University of Wisconsin Press)
Tamas Panitz—The Country Passing By (Model City)
Patrick T. Reardon—Puddin’: The Autobiography of a Baby (Third World Press)
Christopher Shipman—Getting Away with Everything, with Vincent Celluci (Unlikely Books)
Michele Madigan Somerville—Glamorous Life (Rain Mountain Press), Black Irish (Plain View Press), and WISEGAL (Blue Streak Press)
Adam Strauss—For Days (BlazeVOX)
Liam Strong—everyone’s left the hometown show (Bottlecap Press)
[Issue 2.1]
Julia C. Alter—Some Dark Familiar (Sundog Poetry Book)
Jerome Berglund—Bathtub Poems (Setu) and Funny Pages (Meat for Tea Press)
Scott Ferry—each imaginary arrow (Impspired Press), Sapphires on the Graves (Glass Lyre), with Daniel McGinn, Fill Me With Birds (Meat for Tea)
Connor Fisher—A Renaissance with Eyelids (Schism), The Isotope of I (Schism), and Speculative Geography (Greying Ghost Press)
Jeffrey Hecker—Rumble Seat (San Francisco Bay Press), Ark Aft (The Magnificent Field)
Kathleen Hellen—Umberto’s Night (Washington Writers' Publishing House)
Philip Jason—Window Eyes (Unsolicited Press), I Don’t Understand Why It’s Crazy to Hear the Beautiful Songs of Nonexistent Birds (Unsolicited Press)
Frances Klein—New and Permanent (Blanket Sea) and The Best Secret (Bottlecap Press)
Shae Krispinsky—New Galilee (Bottlecap Press)
Christopher Munde—Slippage (Tebot Bach)
Matthew Murrey—Bulletproof (Jacar Press)
Eric T. Racher—Five Functions Defined on Experience: For Jay Wright
Danny Rivera—Ancestral Throat (Finishing Line Press)
[Issue 2.2]
Mary Ayetey—The Ghosts I Know (Cow Tipping Press)
Israel A. Bonilla—Landscapes (Ghost City Press, micro-chap) and Sleep Decades (Malarkey Books)
Jose Hernandez Diaz—The Fire Eater (Texas Review Press), Bad Mexican, Bad American (Acre Books), The Parachutist (Sundress Publications), The Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man (Red Hen Press)
Robbie Gamble—A Can of Pinto Beans (Lily Poetry Review Press)
Michael Goodfellow—Naturalism: An Annotated Bibliography and Folklore of Lunenburg County (both from Gaspereau Press)
Elijah Guerra—Feral Ecology (Bottlecap Press)
Candice M. Kelsey—POSTCARDS from a MASTHEAD (Boats Against the Current)
Justin Lacour—Little motors: some love letters (Bottlecap Press)
Kristin Lueke—(in)different math (Dancing Girl Press)
Jonathan Simkins—translator: El Creacionismo by Vicente Huidobro (The Lune)
Dylan Webster—Dislocated (Quillkeepers Press)
Ian C. Williams—Every Wreckage (Fernwood Press)
[ISSUE 2.3]
Erica Anderson-Senter—Midwestern Poet’s Incomplete Guide to Symbolism (EastOver Press)
Edward Anki—Screw Factory (Anxiety Press)
Isabel Bezerra Balée—diluvium // a bluejay (Dogpark Collective)
Katie Beswick—Plumstead Pram Pushers (Red Ogre Press)
C. W. Bryan—Celine: An Elegy (Bottlecap Press) and No Bird Lives in My Heart (In Case of Emergency Press)
Vikki C.— THE ART OF GLASS HOUSES (Alien Buddha Press, 2022) and WHERE SANDS RUN FINEST (DarkWinter Press, 2024)
Steve Carll— Hypnopompic Diaries (Books One and Two) (Alien Buddha), Tracheal Centrifuge (Factory School, 2006), and Tao Drops, I Change (with Bill Marsh, Subpress, 2004)
Matt Dennison— Kind Surgery (Urtica Press) and Waiting for Better (Main Street Rag Press)
Sekyo Nam Haines—Bitter Seasons’ Whip: The Complete Poems of Lee Yuk (Tolsun Books)
Abu Ibrahim—Music Has Failed Us (as IB), available on Spotify
Desmond Kon—Depth of Field: My Guided Journal for Self-Healing (Penguin Random House Southeast Asia)
Chris McCreary—awry (White Stag)
Roelof ten Napel—Dagen in Huis (Days at Home) (Hollands Diep)
Matt Pasca—A Thousand Doors and Raven Wire
Ann Pedone—The Medea Notebooks (Etruscan Press) and The Italian Professor’s Wife (Press 53)
Nicholas Pierce—In Transit (Criterion Books)
Amelia Rosselli— War Variations (1964), Hospital Series (1969), Document (1966-1973) (1976), Impromptu (1981), First Writings (1952-1963) (1980), Notes Scattered and Lost 1966-1977 (1983), Obtuse Diary 1954-1968 (1990), and Sleep: Poems in English (1992)
Roberta Antognini—Poscritto a Giorgio Bassani (LED, 2012, co-editor) and In Rhyme and Without (Agincourt Press, 2023, co-translator)
Deborah Woodard—Plato’s Bad Horse (Bear Star Press, 2006), Borrowed Tales (Stockport Flats, 2012) and No Finis: Triangle Testimonies, 1911 (Ravenna Press, 2018). Antognini and Woodard have co-translated Amelia Rosselli in Hospital Series (New Directions, 2015), Obtuse Diary (Entre Rios Books, 2018) and The Dragonfly (Entre Rios Books, 2023). Their translation of Rosselli’s Notes Scattered and Lost is forthcoming in the fall of 2024, also from Entre Rios Books. And World Poetry Books will bring out their translation of Rosselli’s Document in the winter of 2025.
Mervyn Seivwright—Stick, Hook, and a Pile of Yarn (Broken Sleep Books)
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