India Lena González is a poet and educator. She received her BA from Columbia University, where she graduated with honors, and her MFA from NYU. A two-time National Poetry Series finalist and 2021 BOA Editions A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize semi-finalist, India is also a professionally trained dancer, choreographer, and […]
Their Names | Kyoko Uchida
Kyoko Uchida’s poetry, prose, and translations have been published in journals including Boston Review, the Georgia Review, Nimrod International Journal, and Prairie Schooner, as well as publications in Australia and France. Her poetry collection Elsewhere was published in 2012 by Texas Tech University Press. She lives in Brooklyn and works for a nonprofit organization.
Two Poems from “Glass Manifesto” | Will Russo
Will Russo is a Chicago-based poet from New York and received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2020. His work has appeared in Annulet, Watershed Review, Salamander, and elsewhere. He is poetry editor at Great Lakes Review. Find him at willrusso.com.
One Last Wish for Warmer Kisses | Basie Allen
Basie Allen is a poet and visual artist from New York City’s Lower East Side. His work carves parentheses in-between dirt and feeling. His debut collection of poems, Palm-Lined with Potience, will be published by Ugly Duckling Presse in March 2022. Cristina Iorga has earned an MFA in Printmaking from […]
Three Poems | Jared Walsh
Jared Walsh is a novelist and poet who lives in Heidelberg, Germany. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University. His first novel, Interludes, was published by Scaffolds Press in 2020, and he will publish his second novel, November, later this year. Judith Skillman paints expressionist works in oil on […]
Portrait of a Scar | Sylee Gore
Sylee Gore is writing on new uses of photography in poetry at the University of Oxford, where she is poetry editor of the Oxford Review of Books. She was jointly awarded the Lord Alfred Douglas Memorial Prize in 2020, and her chapbook, Even Still, was published by Sampson Low of […]
Two Poems | Cody Tieman
Cody Tieman is a queer writer, cat dad, and poet based in Columbus, Ohio. He studied English and Women’s and Gender Studies at Denison University and is headed to Miami University for an MFA in Creative Writing in the fall. His work can be found in The Allegheny Review, Exile […]
Two Poems | zakia henderson-brown
zakia henderson-brown is the author of What Kind of Omen Am I, winner of the 2017 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship, selected by Cate Marvin. She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow, was a Poets House Emerging Poets fellow, and has received additional fellowships and support from the Fine […]
To Clara Hawwa (1936–2022) | Kaleem Hawa
Kaleem Hawa writes about art, film, and literature. Jon Perry Davis is an outsider artist and musician living and working in Brooklyn. He currently focuses on painting, drawing, and songwriting. Although he does not consider himself an overtly depressive or morose individual, his work often depicts scenes of chaos and despair. […]
Two Poems | Benjamin Krusling
Benjamin Krusling works in sound, language, and moving image. He is the author of the book GLARING (Wendy’s Subway, 2020) and a digital text-image project, i have too much to hide (Triple Canopy, 2021), and currently pursuing a PhD in English at CUNY Graduate Center.
For Hope | Suphil Lee Park
Suphil Lee Park (수필 리 박 / 秀筆 李 朴) is the author of the poetry collection Present Tense Complex, winner of the Marystina Santiestevan Prize (Conduit Books & Ephemera 2021), and has recently won the 2021 Indiana Review Fiction Prize. Her recent work appears or is forthcoming in the […]
Two Poems | Lewis Freedman
Lewis Freedman is, in this instance, the name of a poet sitting at this desk in Tulsa at 10:53pm writing this bio. A book, I Want Something Other Than Time, was recently published under this name. There is something confusing about writing this. This name can’t properly separate or attach […]
Lil Miquela Contemplates my Freckles | Em Dial
Em Dial is a queer, Black, Taiwanese, Japanese, and white chronically ill poet, grower, and educator born and raised on Ohlone land in the Bay Area of California. A 2022 Kundiman Fellow and recipient of the 2020 PEN Canada New Voices Award and the 2019 Mary C. Mohr Poetry Award, […]
DANSE MACABRE | Ellen Boyette
Ellen Boyette received her MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was an Alberta Kelley Fellow and Teaching-Writing Fellow. Her first book of poems, BEDIEVAL, was a finalist for the Slope Editions 2019 Book Prize judged by Solmaz Sharif as well as the CSU 2021 Lighthouse Series Book Prize […]
Two Poems | Loisa Fenichell
Loisa Fenichell’s work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net and has been featured or is forthcoming in Guernica magazine, Washington Square Review, Narrative magazine, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. She has been the recipient of an award from Bread Loaf Writers’ Workshop and is currently […]
Two Poems | Erika Rodriguez
Erika Rodriguez is a poet and essayist working in the public humanities.
Two Poems | Rowland Bagnall
Rowland Bagnall is a writer and poet based in Oxford, UK. His first collection of poems, A Few Interiors, was published by Carcanet Press in 2019. He is currently enrolled as a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham, where he specializes in North American poetry and poetics. A […]
Visual Erasure Poems from EVERYTHING IS
Five visual erasures by Katrina Roberts based on Nicole Callihan’s sequence of poems “Everything is Temporary.”
Excerpts from Kos | Steve Salmoni
Steven Salmoni’s recent publications include A Day of Glass and the chapbook Landscape, With Green Mangoes, both from Chax Press. He teaches at Pima Community College in Tucson, AZ and also serves on the Board of Directors for POG, a Tucson-based literary organization that hosts an annual reading series.