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Pansy Maurer-Alvarez, born in Puerto Rico, grew up in Pennsylvania and settled permanently in France. Her work is widely published and she is the author of 6 collections of poetry, including In a Form of Suspension (corrupt press) and Oranges in January (Knives Forks and Spoons Press).

Nadia Arioli is the cofounder and editor in chief of Thimble Literary Magazine. Arioli’s poetry can be found in Cider Press Review, Rust + Moth, McNeese Review, Penn Review, Mom Egg, and elsewhere. Essays can be found in Hunger Mountain, Heavy Feather Review, and SOFTBLOW. Artwork has appeared in Permafrost, Kissing Dynamite, Meat for Tea, Pithead Chapel, Rogue Agent, and Poetry Northwest. They have chapbooks from Cringe-Worthy Poetry Collective, Dancing Girl Press, Spartan, Fernwood Press and a full-length from Luchador.

marcia arrieta is a poet & artist, who lives on the canyon close to mountains in Pasadena, California. Her recent books include a collection of her art & poetry, through time waves (Arteidolia Press)  and thereof (Dancing Girl Press). the voyages her fifth poetry collection is forthcoming this year from BlazeVOX Books. She edits & publishes Indefinite Space, a poetry/art journal.

AWG lives and works in Dallas.

Kourosh Bahar is an Iranian-born American artist based in New York.

Lisa Baird lives on the territories of the Attawandaron, also the treaty land of the Mississaugas of the New Credit and Dish with One Spoon territory (Guelph ON). Her book, Winter’s Cold Girls (Caitlin Press 2019) was shortlisted for the 2020 Relit Award for poetry.

Daniel Barbiero is a writer, double bassist, and composer. He writes about the art, music, and literature of the classic avant-gardes of the 20th century as well as on contemporary work; his essays and reviews have appeared in The Amsterdam Review, Heavy Feather Review, periodicities, Word for/Word, Otoliths, Offcourse, Utriculi, London Grip, and elsewhere. His collection of essays, As Within, So Without, was published by Arteidolia Press. His score Boundary Conditions III appears in A Year of Deep Listening (Terra Nova Press).

Michael Begnal is author of the collections Future Blues (Salmon Poetry 2012) and Ancestor Worship (Salmon Poetry 2007), the chapbooks Tropospheric Clouds (Adjunct Press 2020) and The Muddy Banks (Ghost City Press 2016), and the critical monograph The Music and Noise of the Stooges, 1967-71: Lost in the Future (Routledge 2022).

C. Mehrl Bennett is an artist living in Columbus, Ohio. Her media includes junk assemblings, digital art, collage/drawing/painting, poetry, visual poetry, short songs, performance events, mailart (handmade books, artistamp sheets & rubberstamp carving, flux related ephemera, archiving, network activities), video and audio recordings. She is book designer/ associate editor with John M. Bennett of publishing imprint Luna Bisonte Prods.

John M. Bennett has published over 400 books and chapbooks of poetry and other materials. He has exhibited and performed his word art worldwide in thousands of publications and venues. He was editor and publisher of LOST AND FOUND TIMES (1975-2005), and is Curator of the Avant Writing Collection at The Ohio State University Libraries. His work, publications, and papers are collected in several major institutions, including Washington University (St. Louis), SUNY Buffalo, The Ohio State University, The Museum of Modern Art, and other major libraries.

Canadian poet Bill Bissett started publishing in the 1960s. He is known for his unconventional writing style and spirited performances. The author of more than 60 books of poetry, he is also a painter and musician. His collections of poetry include Th influenza uv logik (1995), Loving without being vulnrabul (1997), Scars on th seehors (1999), narrativ enigma (2004), northern wild roses (2005) and Breth (2019).

Miriam Bloom is from Denver, Colorado and has lived and worked in New York City since 1975. She has exhibited her work in galleries and museums around the country as well as in Germany, Spain, and Sweden and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The MacDowell Colony, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Gottlieb Foundation among others.

Giovanni Boskovich is a poet and educator born and raised in San Pedro, California. His work has appeared in California Quarterly, the Santa Barbara Literary Journal, Big Windows Review, and POETiCA REVIEW. His first full-length poetry collection The Tautology of Water was published by Moon Tide Press in 2025. In his free time, he surfs anywhere from Palos Verdes to Mexico.

patrick brennan coordinates ensembles, composes, & plays the alto saxophone.  His “multidirectional creative music” interfaces flexibly jointed compositional matrices with extended polyrhythm & collective improvisation. His book Ways & Sounds was published by Arteidolia Press in 2021. brennn writes about what “transforms sounds into ‘music’ that they are not the sounds by themselves, but the weave of human activities directed toward those sounds.

Lisa Brognano is a visual artist and poet. Her published novels include, In the Interest of Faye (Golden Antelope 2017) and A Man for Prue (Resplendence 2017), plus the full-length poetry books The Willow Howl (Nixes Mate 2017), The Copper Weathervane (Luchador 2020), and Royal Blue Shutters (Fernwood 2022).  Her poetry and fiction have appeared in national and international literary journals.

EL L¡BROTORIO [¡!] PR!NT RUN + friends is a roving open-air book lab in the phoenix metro area which is a project of F*%K IF I KNOW//BOOKS. we are committed to exploring how creative approaches to bookmaking [both in print and digitally] can foster cultural cross-pollination, constructive disruption, and community [re]creation. A community collaboration project, subsuelo // subsoil: an intervened cento / / un centon intervenido was published by Arteidolia Press, 2024.

Maudie Bryant is a multidisciplinary artist based in Shreveport, Louisiana. Her writing explores the thresholds between grief, healing, and the metaphysical, often tugging at the unspoken realms of the human condition. Her work has appeared in Progenitor, Welter, 3Elements Review, among others. Maudie is the founding editor of Audi Locus, an online poetry journal. She creates from the margins and making meaning from what lingers there.

Michael Bussey is an award winning cartographer. After exploring cinematography he discovered his passion for visual storytelling. He now follows in the tradition of the West African Griot, exploring the many facets of self, society and the globe, weaving visual stories from his experiences.

billy cancel is a Brooklyn based poet, performer and collage artist. His collection BUTTERCUP TANTRUM MUTTON ENCORE is out from Broadstone Books. His poetry has most notably appeared in Boston Review, PEN America and The Rialto (UK). With Thursday Fernworthy (Lauds) he makes up the noise band Tidal Channel.

Bette P. Caperon is a poet and photographer based in Toronto, Ontario. She is an immigrant to Canada and a member of the 2SLGBTQ+ community. Her poetry has been published in the literary journals, Voices Unbound, an Anthology of International Poetry, produced by Fresh Words: An International Literary Magazine. She splits her time between the three continents she calls home and where she has family – Europe, North and South America.

[sarah] Cavar is a transMad writer-about-town. Their debut novel, Failure to Comply was published by featherproof books in 2024. Cavar is editor-in-chief of manywor(l)ds.place, and has had work published in CRAFT Literary, Split Lip Magazine, Electric Lit, and elsewhere.

Yuan Changming grew up in an isolated village, started to learn the English alphabet in Shanghai, China at age nineteen, and published monographs before moving to Canada as an international student. Yuan lives in Vancouver, where he co-edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan and helped establish the Saskatchewan Chinese Monthly, where he served as chief editor until 1992. In 2004, Changming started to write poetry in English and is now probably the world’s most widely published poetry author who speaks Mandarin but writes mainly in English: since mid-2005, Changming has had poetry appearing in more than 1,000 literary journals/anthologies across 51 countries.

Cecelia Chapman is an American artist and filmmaker living in Portugal. She works in short film, minimalist painting and investigative projects that evolve from her environment. Chapman seeks to disrupt the performance of global-corporate commercial interests and revel in the cosmic-grotesque imaginary as a vehicle of discovery and freedom.

Joshua St. Claire is from a small town in Pennsylvania. His poetry has been published in Notre Dame Review, Lana Turner, Sugar House Review, Two Thirds North, and ballast, among others. His haiku have appeared in several annual anthologies. He is the winner of Rattle: Poets Respond, the Gerald Brady Memorial Senryu Award and the Trailblazer Award. He firmly believes that the interrobang should be added to the standard keyboard.

Paul Clemence is an American-Brazilian visual artist and poet working mainly in photography and video. His photography explores the ways we relate to the built and natural environment, creating expressive, abstract  images that are often informed by unique light moments, and thus ultimately commenting on Time itself. His artwork has been featured at the Venice Biennale, ArtBasel/Design Miami, Fuori Salone Milan, NYCXxDesign, Wanted Design, and in many galleries, film festivals, public exhibitions, and private collections worldwide.

Colette Copeland is an interdisciplinary visual artist living in Texas. Inspired by Dada and Fluxus, her artistic practice combines personal narratives, history, and contemporary culture using a variety of media including video, photography, sound, performance, printmaking and sculptural installation.  Over the past 34 years, Copeland’s work has been featured in 40 solo exhibitions and 170 group exhibitions and festivals across 35 countries. In 2023–2024, she received a Fulbright Scholar Research Award to document contemporary female artists in India working with socially engaged practices, and to develop an experimental sound project that amplifies the voices of female, non-binary, and queer communities. She writes for Arteidolia and Glasstire online publications.

Mitch Corber is a poet, weekly NYC Poetry Thin Air cable producer, as well as founder/poetry videographer of Thin Air Poetry Video Archives. His published poetry books, Quinine (Thin Air Media 2009) and Weather’s Feather (Fly By Night Press 2014), were both lauded for their creative musicality. His work has appeared in Sensitive Skin, Spinozablue, Blackbox Manifold, BlazeVOX, Poetry Bay, Polarity, Vanitas, listenlight, gobbet and And Then.

Kelvin Corcoran lives in Brussels. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, including The Republic of Song from (Parlor Press Free Verse Editions 2020), Facing West 2017, the Medicine Unboxed commissioned Not Much To Say Really 2017, Article 50, 2018 and Below This Level, 2019. The sequence “Helen Mania” was a Poetry Book Society choice and the poem “At the Hospital Doors” was highly commended by the Forward Prize 2017.

Ioana Cosma is a writer, playwright and lecturer from Romania. Her first volume of poetry By the Book was published with The European Institute Press in Romania. In Aevo by Silver Bow Publishing in Canada and The Book of Stephen by dancing girl press. Her poetry has appeared in Pomona Valley Review, Scarlet Leaf Review or Uppagus.

Jeff Crouch is alive. In Texas.

John Crouse lives in New Mexico and author of many  books including Croushinizy (Avantacular, 2002), with Jim Leftwich; Bumcamps Trolls (Xtantbooks, 2002), with Stanley Zappa; Conscripts (Zemis, 2003), with Tim Gaze; Road (Anabasis, 2003), with Mark Sonnenfeld; An Idea (Marymark, 2003), with Andrew Topel; Yalp (Luna Bisonte, 2003); Jimmys (Anabasis Xtant, 2003); Speechings (2004); Huddles (2006); and Obstructs (Spectacular Diseases, 2007).

Jesse Curran is a poet, essayist, scholar, and teacher who lives in Northport, NY. Her essays and poems have appeared in a number of literary journals including About Place, Ruminate, After the Art, Allium, Blueline, and Still Point Arts Quarterly.

Visual artist Tania David with roots in photography focuses on photo collage, sculpture and mixed media.  Originally from New York, she lives and works in her studio outside of San Miguel de Allende in Guanajuato, Mexico and has shown her work in San Miguel de Allende and Mexico City. The call & response photography collaboration with Randee Silv, Eventually you have to jump the tide, was published in 2025 by Arteidolia Press.

Merridawn Duckler is a writer, poet, playwright and provacateur from Portland, Oregon working cross-genre in poetry, prose and text-based installations. She is the author of INTERSTATE (dancing girl press) IDIOM (Harbor Review, Washburn Prize) and MISSPENT YOUTH (rinky dinkpress). Her writing has been published widely in journals and anthologies. She is an editor at Narrative Magazine and the international journal of philosophy Evental Aesthetics. Arrangement, a collection of short stories, flash and micro ictions was published by Southernmost Books, 2024.

Fabián Espejel is a poet and translator from Mexico City. He is the recipient of the 2023 Aguascalientes Fine Arts Award for Poetry, considered one of Mexico’s most prestigious poetry prizes, for his first book, Antártida.

Federico Federici is a conceptual artist working in the fields of writing, video art, installations and physics. His work has appeared in 3:AM Magazine, Art in America, Diagram, Perspektive, Jahrbuch der Lyrik, Poet Lore, The Shanghai Literary Review, The Manhattan Review and others. His books include A private notebook of winds (Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo 2019); Transcripts from demagnetized tapes (LN 2021); Biophysique Asémique (LN 2021); Profilo Minore curated by Andrea Cortellessa (Aragno 2021); Maß des Schlafes (und andere verbovisuelle Forschungen)(Anterem 2021); EIS with a critical note by Peter Schwenger (LN 2022).

David Felix is a visual poet who lives in Denmark.  For more than fifty years his writing has taken on a variety of forms, in collage, three dimensions, in galleries, anthologies, festival performances and video and in over forty publications worldwide, both in print and online. Born into a family of artists, magicians and tailors he still has the wherewithal to draw from from the model, saw a woman in half and skillfully drape a dummy.

Rich Ferguson is an L.A.-based poet and spoken-word performer who has shared the stage with Patti Smith, Wanda Coleman, Moby, and other notable artists, and is a featured performer in the film What About Me?, alongside Michael Stipe, Michael Franti, and k.d. lang. He is the author of the poetry collections Somewhere, A Playground and Everything Is Radiant Between the Hates (Moon Tide Press), 8th & Agony (Punk Hostage Press), the novel New Jersey Me (Rare Bird Books), and is the lead editor of Beat Not Beat (Moon Tide Press). Ferguson served as California Beat Poet Laureate (2020–2022) and U.S. Beat Poet Laureate (2024–2025).

Danielle Ferrara with Gabrielle Lessans are founding members of Atmosphere Poetics, an inductively reasoned, ritual-based anti-system that operates toward writing self-contained episodes of form within infinity. From quantum philosophy to trance, shadow and sound, her poetics embrace the experimental and eclectic. Her work has been featured in Black Sun Lit’s *Vestiges*, Dream Pop Press, among others.

Kathleen Florence is the author of Prayers With a Side of Cash (Moon Tide Press 2025). Her work appears in anthologies including Maintenant and Catching Fire (Three Rooms Press), and in L.A.’s Cultural Daily and Paris Lit Up. She is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans poetry, film, music, and performance. She has presented work at NYC’s Poets House, L.A.’s Beyond Baroque, and Ottawa’s Versefest. Her short films have screened at festivals in Los Angeles and Quebec City.

Neil Flory is a poet, composer and improvising pianist living in the hills of western New York State. His poems have appeared in Fleas on the Dog, Superpresent, and other journals. His poetry collection mudtrombones knotted in the spill was published by Arteidolia Press, 2023. His upcoming collection, locust blindfold stompchant rain will be published in 2026.

Kofi Fosu Forson is writer, poet and playwright. His Blog, BLACK COCTEAU explores matters of sexual, gender, and ethnic politics in modern society, culture and arts. His current poetry manuscript, Never Rode Me A Horse In The Appalachian Hills, deals with his transformative experience from race, family dystopia and rock and roll.

Deborah Garfinkle is a writer, literary critic, filmmaker and award-winning translator whose work has appeared in publications in the US and abroad. She is a two-time recipient of the NEA translation grant for Worm-Eaten Time and Sylva Fischerová’s short-story collection, Thousands of Plateaus. Her film, DKK, was included at the inaugural screening of Gravitational Lensing, a feminist film series.

Sabrina Gaskill is a creative spirit living in rural New Mexico. She has lived in the coal regions of Pennsylvania, New York City, Texas, on a desolate lake in Michigan, and in the mountains of Arizona. Her work is experimental, layering textual and visual spaces into unfolded, translucent, and opaque interpretations of the psyche. She has participated in two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships focusing on Tibetan Buddhist studies and culture in Oaxaca, Mexico. Her publications include Rendezvous Journal of Arts and Letters, Driftwood Press, and The Legacy.

Tyler Gebauer is a literary translator from Minneapolis, U.S.A. His translations have been published in Packingtown Review, The Tiger Moth Review and SORTES, among others.

BrianSGore is a writer of short stories, poems, and songs. He has published several collections including Barstool Ballads and Eleven Stories for Short … Attentions, as well as coordinating a collaborative project entitled “A Collection of Poems by Various Poets Regarding the Line ‘10,000 Miles of Farewell”. His book, Tangled World, along with his album Going, Never Stopping, are both on bandcamp.

James Green paints indulgent, abstract images that critique (rather than celebrate) a system that favours the fortunate and neglects the less-so. Rooted in a balance somewhere between fine art tradition and contemporary practice, his paintings often include obscured faces, within compositions somewhat resemblant of a visual fist fight between Francis Bacon and Jean Michel Basquiat. James has been included in exhibitions from London to Sydney.

John Greiner is a writer and visual artist living in NYC. Greiner’s work has appeared in numerous magazines. His books of poetry include In An Attic Palace Beneath a Slaughtered Sky (Arteidolia Press), Circuit (Whiskey City Press), Turnstile Burlesque (Crisis Chronicles Press) and Bodega Roses (Good Cop/Bad Cop Press).  He is one of the 2024 recipients of the James Tate Award for his chapbook, Clouded Saints and Kinky Shadows published by SurVision Press.

Alex Vartan Gubbins has authored poetry and translations in publications, including the Northern American Review; And Here: 100 Years of Upper Peninsula Writing, 1917-2017; and Metamorphoses Literature & the Arts; North American Review; Split Rock Review; and The Progressive He’s had translations of Arabic poetry in Metamorphoses, Diode, and Asymptote. His Armenian heritage pushed him to live in Armenia from 2016 to 2019. He now works in the Detroit Metro Area, reviving the lit mag thisthatlit.

Nathan Hassall believes in poetry’s transformational potential. He weaves dreams, altered states, numinous experiences, and the natural world into his work. Hassall’s poems have appeared in Hare’s Paw Literary Journal,  La Piccioletta Barca, The Inflectionist Review, and more. Founder of The Poetry Vessel which brings poetry into conversation with neuroscience, psychology, and art through global education programs and a multidisciplinary podcast.

Catherine Henke is a visual artist living in Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal. This radical change in her living conditions encouraged her to learn about rural life and the practice of organic agriculture. She has developed knowledge related to the rhythms of nature and to an ecological consciousness. Her art practice comprises varying uses of numerous techniques, such as painting, sculpture, ceramic and mixed media installation.

Lee Kathryn Hodge is visual artist and writer whose work has appeared in Granta, Black Warrior Review, Thrush, Heavy Feather Review, Euphony, Heartwood, The William & Mary Review, Oberon, Clinch Mountain, After Hours, Mouth and The Tulane Review.

Janis Butler Holm served as Associate Editor for Wide Angle, the film journal, and currently works as a writer and editor in Los Angeles. Her prose, poems, and performance pieces have appeared in small-press, national, and international magazines. Her plays have been produced in the U.S., Canada, Russia, and the U.K.

David Harrison Horton is a Beijing-based writer, artist, editor and curator.  He edits the Pushcart Award-winning SAGINAW (2011-present). He’s the author of the well-reviewed, genre-breaking Maze Poems (Arteidiola, 2022). His chapbooks include Model Answers (CCCP Chapbooks/Subpress, 2024), BeiHai (Nanjing Poetry, 2005), and Pete Hoffman Days (Pinball, 2003). His chapbook, Salt & Iron, was serialized by In Parentheses in 2020. His poetry has appeared in The Oregon Review, Boog City, Denver Quarterly, The Belfast Review, Variant Literature, Roi Fainéant, Yolk, Verbal Art, and Pennsylvania English.

Born in Korea and raised in East Africa, Melanie Hyo-In Han moved from the U.S. to the U.K. She is the author of My Dear Yeast (Milk & Cake  Press 2023) and Sandpaper Tongue, Parchment Lips (Finishing Line Press 2021), as well as the translator of several collections of Spanish poetry (Hebel Ediciones). Han has received fellowships from Sundress Academy and Banff Centre and is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Flora Fiction and Two Languages Prize Editor at Gasher Press.

Australian author Melinda Jane – The Poet Mj  has a sharp, perceptive witness of all that she sees and possesses, with a wide and constant explorative imagination. With the wind patterning in the dancing stalks of grass, this poet senses poetical voice. As classical music sweeps in waves, this poet draws on musical voice with saturated senses, refracted voice; it does disturb the air like Wi-Fi. Her poetry books are Nature’s Nuptials and Bite Me. Her works have been published in international anthologies and literature journals.

D’Jean Jawrunner’s art illuminates the shadows of cities, gardens, museums, and private collections. The work reflects the cyclical yet sustainable nature of what it means to find connection in a world that is often fleeting. Natural and urban realities are community building archetypes inspiring dialogue, growth, and human connection. Jawrunner has exhibited internationally and nationally beside artists such as Edgar Degas, Kiki Smith, and Andy Warhol.

Vanessa Couto Johnson is the author of the full-length poetry books pH of Au (Parlor Press, Free Verse Editions Series 2022) and Pungent dins concentric (Tolsun Books 2018), as well as three poetry chapbooks. Here poems have appeared in  The Shore, The Broken City, Rough Cut, and Landfill, among others.

Mary Kasimor poetry collections are The Landfill Dancers (BlazeVox Books 2014), Saint Pink (Moria Book 2015), The Prometheus Collage (Locofo Press 2017), and Nature Store (Dancing Girl Press 2017). She’s been a reviewer of many small press poetry collections.

Mohamed Abdulsalam Khalili was a Palestinian journalist, painter, and poet. In 1973, as a chief editor at Jerusalem’s weekly newspaper El Fajr, he published an article with evidence that the 1967 Six- Day War had been agreed upon by Israel and Jordan. Without permission to publish, he was taken as prisoner by Israel, and given a twenty-five-year sentence. A small group of western journalists pressured Amnesty International to step in and fight for his freedom. Salam was exiled from Palestine and relocated to California. He was a frequent speaker at Spirit Rock Meditation Center on forgiveness, building peace and cooperation.

Basil King has been painting for over six decades and writing since 1985. He attended Black Mountain College as a teenager and completed an apprenticeship as an abstract expressionist painter in San Francisco and New York. Since 1958 in San Francisco he has been involved with poets, producing covers and art for poetry books. His books include Warp Spasm, Identity, Mirage: a poem in 22 sections, 77 Beasts, History Now and Learning to Draw/A History.

Martha King has been living In Brooklyn since 1968 and has produced 31 issues of a free zine “Giants Well in the Drizzle Play” in the 1980s. She worked as an editor in mainstream book publishing. She published two collections of short stories, North & South (2007) and Little Tales of Family and War (1999). A collection of poetry, Imperfect Fit, was published in 2004. A long memoir, Outside Inside: Just Outside the Art World’s Inside (2018). She’s been writing whodunits featuring Max, a semi-successful New York artist who seems to attract trouble: Max Sees Red (2019) and Max Turns Yellow (2020.

R. D. King is a Northern California poet and digital artist.

Ivan Klein’s The Hat and Other Poems and Prose was published by Sixth Floor Press. His other publications include Toward Melville (New Feral Press), Alternatives to Silence (Starfire Press) and the chapbook Some Paintings by Koho & A Flower Of My Own from Sisyphus Press. His work has been published in the Forward, Urban Graffiti, Otoliths, and numerous other periodicals.

J.I. Kleinberg artist, poet, and freelance writer lives in Bellingham, Washington. 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, and she needs the river has been published by Poem Atlas.

Rory Lee. Behind the counter. Get your day started with coffee in the morning. Calling a day with a pint of beer, or a bottle of wine. Write my own rules and history illustrates my experience and observation of heart.

Daniel Lehan lives in Dungeness, England. He teaches collage workshops to a wide range of participants, including those in prison. His visual and collaged poetry have appeared in And/Or, DITCH, experientialexperimental-literature, foam:e, Indefinite Space, Kumquat Poetry, the delinquent, shuf, Otoliths, Word For/Word and in The New Concrete, Visual Poetry in The 21st Century. Since 2015, he has kept a typewritten collaged diary titled DAY PAGES.

Jim Leftwich was a poet, essayist and networker involved in organizing and/or documenting mail art, fluxus, sound poetry, visual poetry and noise events. His books include Poetry Makes Things Happen: Poems, essays, texts, afterwords, blurbs, notes is published by Luna Bisonte Prods, 2021, The Blue Seam (mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press, 2020), Doubt (Potes & Poets, 2000), Containers Projecting Multitudes: Expositions on the Poetry of John M. Bennett (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2019), three volumes of essays entitled Rascible & Kempt Vols. 1 – 3 (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2016-2017), Six Months Aint No Sentence Books 1-187 (Differx Hosting@Box, 2011-2016), Death Text Books 1-9 (cPress & Vugg Books, 2005-2007 and Dirt (Luna Bisonte Prods, 1995), Rascible & Kempt: Meditations And Explorations In And Around The Poem, Volumes 1, 2  &  3 (Luna Bisonte 2016, 2017). He was the editor and publisher of the micropress, TLPress, specializing in tacky little pamphlets, broadsides, and pdf ebooks.

Gabrielle Joy Lessans is an experimental poet from Baltimore, Maryland. She is the author of the poetry collections BREAD OF (Ornithopter Press, 2021) and [a go] (Ornithopter Press, 2022) and the collaborative chapbook [Re]Collection of the [Un]Likely (Trainwreck Press, 2021). Her poems have appeared in Black Sun Lit, Inverted Syntax, Bone Bouquet, Metatron, and Dream Pop Press. She lives and teaches in Denver, Colorado.

Susan Lewis is the author of Zoom, winner of the Washington Prize, and ten other books and chapbooks, including her latest, As In As If, from Antiphony Press. Her poetry has been published in a great number of anthologies and journals, including Agni, Boston Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Conjunctions, New American Writing, Tupelo Quarterly, and VOLT. Her collaborations have been recorded and performed at the Kennedy Center and Carnegie’s Weill Hall and are held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She co-hosts the KGB Monday Night Poetry series and is the founder and editor-in-chief of Posit.

Renée LoBue is a musician, performance and visual artist. Best known as the singer for the band, Elk City, she recently embarked on a 2nd musical endeavor: Flowers of America. Dividing time dancing between mediums, she explores the possibility of the Self via music, analog collage and video art.

Giulio R.M.Maffii is from Florence, Italy. His work focuses on poetry (linear, experimental and visual) and its dissemination. He has been published in numerous international magazines, also as a visual artist. Maffii collaborates with the theatre company “Bubamara Teatro.” He enjoys playing with photography and collage.

Jesse McCloskey grew up in Plympton Massachusetts, near the cottage of war hero Deborah Sampson so New England history seeps into his work. He’s exhibited work in solo and group shows in New York City since 1987 including the American Academy of Arts and Letters and recently at the Duck Creek Arts Center in East Hampton. He has a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship and has attended the artist residencies of Yaddo and Millay.

Stuart McFarlane has spent many years, abroad and in the UK, teaching English. In the UK this mainly involved teaching Esol to refugees and asylum seekers. His poems have been published in Borderless Journal, based in Malaysia and Culture Matters, based in the UK.

Nancy McGalliard’s emphasis has been in painting, Installation and performance art. She has worked at numerous museums in administration, as well as owned and managed galleries in Kansas City, Texas, and San Miguel de Allende, MX, where she is presently living.

Gerald Majer’s poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in Callaloo, Georgia Review, Puerto del Sol, Quarterly West, Yale Review, and other journals. Their literary nonfiction book The Velvet Lounge: On Late Chicago Jazz was published by Columbia University Press. They recently completed a book on a Baltimore music collective, The Vibe Notebooks, and also last year the experimental poetry book Fountainous. They live in Baltimore and New Mexico where they pursue a range of theater and music projects, including the sound-art duo Vibranium Experiments and the performance project One Thousand Jicaritas.

s. g. mallett lives in Quebec, and his poems have appeared in Apocalypse Confidential, Bruiser, Heavy Feather Review, and elsewhere. His full-length poetry collections include Disparate Logoi (Alien Buddha Press), and Sunolon (Vraeyda Media). His chapbooks include A Brief History of Scarecrows (Back Room Poetry) and Markov Chainmail (Cactus Press).

Addy Malinowski is a poet, musician, and educator from Southeast Michigan living in Brooklyn, NY. Their work can be found at Full-Stop Mag, Social Text, Inverted Syntax, The Poetry Project Newsletter, and Indolent Books. Malinowki’s From a Halogen Sea, 2023 is a “poetic translation” of the entirety of Arthur Rimbaud’s Illuminations.

Joshua Martin is a Philadelphia-based writer and filmmaker, who currently works in a library. He is the author of the books combustible panoramic twists (Trainwreck Press), Pointillistic Venetian Blinds (Alien Buddha Press), and Vagabond fragments of a hole (Schism Neuronics). He has had numerous pieces published in various journals including Otoliths, M58, The Sparrow’s Trombone, Coven, Scud, Ygdrasil, RASPUTIN, Ink Pantry, and Synchronized Chaos.

Stephen Mead is an Outsider multi-media artist and writer.  His work has appeared in Crow Name, Wordpeace and DuckuckMongoose. He is resident artist/curator for The Chroma Museum, artistic renderings of LGBTQI historical figures, organizations and allies predominantly before Stonewall.

Jonathan Memmert is a writer and poet living in Manhattan. Jonathan’s poetry has been published in Fourthreethree.org., Global City Review, 1455 Movable Type, Promethean Literary Journal, and on the WordshedNYC website. He has read his poetry at WordshedNYC literary events in New York City, CCNY MFA reading events, and at the annual New York Poetry Festival in New York City.

James Mesiti studies the poetic links that bring together the Iberian Peninsula with the Americas. He also seeks to engage poetry’s approximations to not only other literary genres, such as by means of poetry in prose or poetic prose, but also to other art forms, for example as manifested through visual or experimental poetry. His book of poems Algo de nadie (Something of No one) was published by Valparaiso Ediciones, 2021 and petal / transport, Arteidolia Press, 2024.

Jonathan Minton lives in central West Virginia.  He is the author of the book Technical Notes for Bird Government (Telemetry Press, 2018), and the chapbooks In Gesture (Dyad Press, 2009) and Lost Languages (Long Leaf Press, 1999).  His poetry has appeared in the journals Ecolinguistics, Connotation Press, Asheville Poetry Review, Coconut, Columbia Poetry Review, Reconfigurations, Free Verse, Trillium and elsewhere and has been included in the anthologies Poems for Peace (Dyad Press, 2006), Oh One Arrow (Flim Forum Press, 2007) and Crazed by the Sun (Cyberwit Press, 2008).  He edits the journal Word For/Word and co-curates the Little Kanawha Reading Series.

maija mist is a writer & artist. her collection, on(3) time, was published with Arteidolia Press in 2022. maija has published work with Metatron Press, Women.Weed.WiFi., SPECTRA Poets, & Perennial Press, amongst others. she has a pamphlet, “decommodify self,” forthcoming with TABLOID Press, slated for release in Spring, 2026. her book, pythoness, was shortlisted for the Metatron Prize for Rising Authors.  she explores non-linearity & nature.

Cari Moll is a poet, artist, and punk rock enthusiast. They published their first chapbook titled Late Night Train Lights under their previous name with Ibbetson Street Press, and have since featured work with publications such as Dream Noir Magazine,  Cardinal Sins Journal, and Awakenings Magazine.

Jason R. Montgomery is a Chicano/Indigenous Californian writer, painter, community artist and engagement artist. In 2016, along with Poet Alexandra Woolner, and illustrator Jen Wagner, JRM founded Attack Bear Press in Easthampton, MA. Jason’s work engages the cross-section of Chicano/Indigenous identity, cultural hybridization, post-colonial reconstruction, and political agency. His work has appeared in Split Lip Magazine, Storm Cellar, Ilanot Review, Rust and Moth and other publications. Jason is also the co-founder of the police abolition group “A Knee is Not Enough” (AKINE) in Easthampton, MA. His collection of poetry, These Latest Apocalypses was published by Arteidolia Press, 2023.

Sharon Lopez Mooney was a poet and retired Interfaith End of Life Chaplain, that lived in Sonora Mexico, and part-time in Northern California. Mooney received a California Arts Council Grant for a rural poetry series. Mooney’s poems were published in national & international publications like, Ginosko, California Quarterly, Galway Review, Tipton Poetry, Kennings Literary Journal, Glassworks, Kennings Review, Visible Magazine, Breakwater Review, NewVerse and others.  Her collection of poems, Cantata for a desert poet was published by Arteidiolia Press in 2024.

Ron Morosan is an artist, writer, and curator. He has shown his work internationally at the American Pavilion of The Venice Biennale and the Circulo De Bellas Artes in Madrid, Spain. In the US he has shown at the New Museum and had a one-person exhibition at the New Jersey State Museum, and at numerous galleries in New York. He curated the Robert Dowd exhibition, Subversive Pop, at Center Galleries in Detroit, as well as Denotation, Connotation, Implication at Eisner Gallery, City University of New York. In the 1990’s he started and ran B4A Gallery in Soho, New York, writing press releases, articles, and catalogues.

Raphael Moser’s poetry has appeared in Chronogram, Salonika, BigCityLit.com, Madhatter’s Review, Far out, Further Out, Out of Sight, and Catskill Mountain Region Guide. She was a regular contributor to the poetry blog October Babies. She’s read at the Bowery Poetry Club, Bluestockings and the Ear Inn and performed original music and poetry in venues on Long Island and NYC. She was a consultant and her poetry was included in the visual arts project Poetry Alley by artist Robert Tomlinson. Her manuscript Blindly Swept Frankly was published by Red Glass Books.

Debiprasad Mukherjee is an Indian freelance documentary photographer based out of London. He believes that as a documentary photographer, it is his responsibility to showcase the social changes and its impact on human race and is committed to leverage photography as the most powerful tool to capture the social changes & behaviors across the globe. Debiprasad was the convener of the first Kolkata International Photography Festival, represented World Climate Summit Madrid 2019 as Global Carbon Ambassador and author of “Sound of Silence”. His strong passion for documentary photography & visual journalism allowed him travel to various countries like India, Australia, Indonesia, France, Spain, China, Singapore, Thailand, UAE, UK, Iraq, Qatar, Bangladesh, Nepal, Malaysia and USA. He exhibited his works in more than 20 countries and published in 15+ international magazines & websites. Debi is winner of many international awards & honorable mentions from 32 countries across the continents. He was key member of Indo-China cultural collaboration team that represented India at Lishui Photo Festival, China.

The root of Mumtazz’s work was poetry. She found forms of expression through drawing, collage, ceramics, sculpture, scenery, photography, film, audio pieces, props and costumes, performance, and in agriculture. Mumtazz used perception as a material, as well as ephemeral, anonymous, and magic.  Her work has been exhibited in her native country of Portugal, as well as internationally.

Sheila E. Murphy’s poems have appeared in Poetry, Hanging Loose, Fortnightly Review, and numerous others. Her recent books are Permission to Relax, BlazeVOX Books, 2023, October Sequence: Sections 1-51, mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press, 2023, and Sostenuto Luna Bisonte Prods, 2023. Murphy received the Gertrude Stein Award for Letters to Unfinished J., Green Integer Press, 2003. Reporting Live from You Know Where (2018) won the Hay(na)Ku Poetry Book Prize Competition from Meritage Press, U.S.A. and xPress(ed), Finland. Her latest collection Escritoire was recently published by Lavender Ink Press.

Mark A. Murphy is a self-educated, neurodivergent writer from a working class background. He is currently working on his new collection: The Importance of Being Helene Demuth.

Jane Joritz-Nakagawa’s eleventh full length poetry collection, LUNA, was published by Isobar Press, London/Tokyo in 2024. Recent books include Poems: New and Selected, Isobar Press and, as editor, the anthology women : poetry : migration with theenk Books, USA.

Milen Neykov works in minimalistic photography and photomanipulation (composite overlay). He won the Grand award of Photosynthesis for overall work. One exhibition of his travelied in 5 regions of Bulgaria: Haskovo, Kardjali, Smolyan, Pazardjik and Plovidv. The theme was Women in the cities and villages and was displayed in the Sofia University. Another exhibition was inspired by the poetry of Margarita Serafimova. Her handwriting is implanted in the artwork.

Nicodemus Nicoludis is a poet & writer. His work has appeared in The Poetry Project Newsletter, Nat Brut, Small Orange Poetry Journal, the anthology Works & Days 2 published by beautiful days press, and elsewhere. His  poetry collection, Multicene was published by Arteidolia Press, 2023 and DAY DAY a collaborative chapbook written with Liz Janoff Dec 31, 2025 – Jan 1, 2026

Honey Novick is a singer/songwriter/voice teacher/poet, living in Toronto, Canada. She has been published in numerous anthologies and has 9 chapbooks and 8 CDs. She is the 2020 Recipient of the Mentor Award (CSARN) Canadian Senior Artists Resource Network), 3rd time awardee of the Dr. Reva Gerstein Legacy Fund and recipient of the 2020 Community Hero Award. She teaches Voice Yoga and sings with bill bissett. Her collection Hope comma Lucent, You Edify Me was published by the Taj Mahal Review and her collection of poetry Bob Dylan, My Rabbi, was published by Secret Handshake.

Antonella Ortelli lives and works in Milan. Her work has been exhibited in numerous collective and solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad. She conceived and founded the Progetto Casina with Carla Vendrami (1962-2009), Silvia Truppi (1950-2001), and with the collaboration of Aldo Rocco, Luca Quartana and Giorgio Zanchetti at the Women’s Section of the San Vittore prison in Milan.

Thomas Osatchoff, together with family, is building a self-sustaining home near a waterfall. Recent work has appeared in The Concrete Desert Review, Penumbra, ELJ Editions, and elsewhere.

Claudio Parentela is is an illustrator, painter, photographer, mail artist, cartoonist, collagist, and freelance journalist living in Catanzaro, Italy. Active for many years in the international underground art scene, he has collaborated with many zines, magazines of contemporary art, and comics internationally.

Janet Passehl is a writer and artist. Her poetry collection Clutching Lambs was published by Negative Capability Press in 2014. She lives in estuarial Connecticut with her husband, their greyhound, and the ghosts of greyhounds past.

Hailing from South Central, Los Angeles, Tauwan Patterson is a Black + Queer Poet.  His work has appeared Cool Beans Lit, 3rd Wednesday Magazine, and Muse-Pie Press’ Shot Glass Issue #41, Moonstone Arts Center anthology “Which Side Are You On?!”, the Winter Issue of Rise Up Review, Porkbelly Press’ “Love Me, Love My Belly” zine, the Rising Phoenix Review, the Academy of the Heart and Mind, and The Amazine. With his poetry Tauwan aims to, in the words of the great Poet and Thinker Marcus Jackson, announce his freedom and presence. Making a sound that echoes in the end that says Tauwan Patterson. No more. No less.

Matija Pavicevic: I was born in Belgrade. I don’t write for any blogs, I have never won any awards and don’t follow me on any social media platforms. I spent a good amount of my childhood in Berlin and Athens. However, I grew up metaphorically and literally in Belgrade, Serbia. I write poems, short stories and prose. I have done so since I was 15 years old and I will continue to do so until the day I disappear into thin air. My work has been published in various online literary magazines that, chances are, no one really reads. Alas my first novel, The Morning Blues was published in Serbia, in Serbian, in 2019.

Vitoria Pérez is a multilingual poet and writer from Louisiana whose work investigates altered perception, infrastructure, and material systems of transmission. Writing across lyric and documentary modes, she uses spatial form to engage bodily movement, labor, and historical residues. Her writing has appeared in Ranger Magazine, Small World City, Déraciné, Réapparition, Expanded Field, and elsewhere.

Tristan Petts is a student and teacher of Zen arts who has been living in China for more than a decade. He has been formally learning traditional Chinese insight calligraphy under Zen Master Paul Wang in Beijing since 2012, as well as, through other respected teachers, Zen ink wash painting, and kungfu yoga. He also teaches secular mindfulness as a qualified instructor and writes poetry based around any insights he gathers along the Way.

Christina Polge work has appeared in Pinesong published by the North Carolina Poetry Society, Just Above Water published by Voyage YA, The Albion Review, The Allegheny Review and The Auvert Magazine. She is a big fan of niche Spotify playlists. When not writing poetry, she enjoys belting out showtunes in her car, hosting board game nights and frolicking in meadows with her friends.

Joe Quigg is a fashion photographer living in London. His strong photographic ability, beautiful lighting and creative energy along with the fun atmosphere that accompanies him create the moment he wants to capture.

Christina M. Rau is the author of the poetry collection What We Do To Make Us Whole, Alien Buddha Press, the Elgin Award winning sci-fi fem poetry collection Liberating The Astronauts, Aqueduct Press, and the chapbooks WakeBreatheMove, Finishing Line Press, and For The Girls, dancing girl press. She was named Long Island Poet of the Year 2020 by Walt Whitman Birthplace Association. She is also the founder of Poets In Nassau, a reading circuit on Long Island, NY. Her poetry has appeared on gallery walls in The Ekphrastic Poster Show, on car magnets for The Living Poetry Project.

Nicca Ray is the author of the poetry collections, Go-Go-Go Girl (Poison Fang Books), Curve (Gutter Snob Books), and Back Seat Baby (Poison Fang Books,) and the memoir, Ray by Ray: A Daughter’s Take on the Legend of Nicholas Ray (Three Rooms Press). Her memoir, Love and Cigarettes: A Mother Daughter Story (Punk Hostage Press). Her poetry has appeared in Glue Gun Maintenant (Three Rooms Press), A Shape Produced by a Curve and Paper Teller Diorama (Great Weather for Media), Love Love Magazine Issues, the anthology NYC from the Inside, Moon and Sun Issue and poetrybay. She is a 2020 Acker Award recipient for memoir and a Pushcart Prize nominee.

Caroline Reddy has work that appeared in Active Muse,Calliope, Clinch, Cultural Daily, Grey Sparrow, Starline, and Tupelo Quarterly Review among others. A native of Shiraz, Iran, Caroline’s work has also appeared in the anthology Iranian Women Speak to raise awareness for ZanZendegiAzadi/WomenLifeFreedom (International Human Rights Arts Festival.) Her first book Shake the Atmosphere to Reclaim an Empty Moment was published by Pierian Springs Press, 2024. Caroline recently published her chapbook, On the Precipice of Summer, with Alien Buddha Press (2025).  She’s the facilitator of “The Creative Breath” a workshop that combines meditation, creative visualization and writing prompts at Eastern Shore Writers Association, Poets House. This spring she will be teaching “The Immigrant’s Voice” at Poets House and Hudson Valley Writers Center, and The Creative Breath at New Rochelle Public Library.

Photographer Shannon Reece is originally from Kelowna, B.C. and moved to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where she’s been teaching students from all over the world in her darkroom studio that’s equipped with 10 enlargers and every conceivable gadget for film development and printing.

David Rees is a painter, photographer, writer, and cartoonist. Most recent solo exhibition ‘proof of work’ at the Menier Gallery, London Bridge, 2017. Runs the very occasional small poetry press ‘simple vice’ from the riverside at Hampton Wick.

Laura Rockhold is a poet, visual artist, and the inventor of the golden poetic form. She’s the recipient of the Save Our Earth Award, Bring Back The Prairies Award, International Academy of Visual Arts Awards, Hermes Creative Awards, and The Silver Brush. She explores the interconnectedness of environmental and social issues and healing. Her first book of poems was a finalist for the Ghost Peach Press Prize and Harbor Edition’s Laureate Prize, and semi-finalist for The Word Works Washington Prize and the Donna Wolf Palacio Poetry Prize.

April B. Rosenberg is a multidisciplinary artist working in mixed media collage, poetry, adornments and ritual crafts. She is the creatrix behind April Beila Studio. Through an animist, ecofeminist lens, she invokes the magic of nature, words and physical materials to honor and explore our spiritual connection to the Earth and beyond.

Gabriel Rosenstock is a bilingual poet, tankaist, haikuist, translator, short story writer, novelist, playwright, essayist and, to borrow a phrase from Hugh MacDiarmid, ‘a champion of forlorn causes’. Rosenstock is a member of Aosdána, The Irish academy of Arts & Letters, a Lineage Holder of Celtic Buddhism and a recipient of the Tamgha-i-Khidmat medal for services to literature. He’s edited and contributed to books of haiku in Irish, English, Scots and Japanese. He is a prolific translator into Irish of international poetry, plays and songs and has singable Irish translations of Lieder and other art songs.

Sofía Ruvira is a native artist and researcher from the stateless nation of Galicia in Northwestern Spain. Ruvira has shown her work at Ciclo MEXER at MIHL (Galicia), Newark Art Festival (New Jersey), PAUSA USA (Queens) and Acción Spring(t) (Madrid), IHRAF at The Tank (NYC) and others. Her art pieces have been exhibit in Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, CA+MP Recovery Lounge, Museo Interactivo de Historia de Lugo, Solaina Galería (Spain), among others. Her poetry collection Alalá was published by Arteidolia Press in 2024, Os corpos fráxiles (Aira 2025) and Casasoá (Vento Alto 2025).

Stephanie V Sears is a French/American ethnologist, free-lance journalist, essayist, short story writer, and poet whose poetry has appeared in The Comstock Review, The Non-Conformist Magazine, New Contrast Expanded Field, Lunaris, Fleas on the Dog, the Cannon’s Mouth, The Sunflower Collective, Handsome.ng. and elsewhere. Her poetry collection, The Strange Travels of Svinhilde Wilson was published by Adelaide Book in 2020 and Anaho was published by Arteidolia Press in 2023.

LB Sedlacek has had her poetry, fiction and non-fiction appear in a variety of journals and zines. Her poetry books include Unresponsive Sky (Purple Unicorn Media), Night Swim and Swim (Alien Buddha Press), The Poet Next Door and Simultaneous Submissions (Cyberwit), Words and Bones (Finishing Line Press), and The Architect of French Fries (Presa Press). She is a former Poetry Editor for “ESC! Magazine” and also co-hosted the podcast for the small press, “Coffee House to Go” with Michael Potter.  She founded and published the free resource for poets, “The Poetry Market Ezine” from 2001-2020.

Lisa Segal is a Los Angeles poet, writer, artist & sculptor. Her book, METAMORPHOSIS, was published by Bombshelter Press and includes poetry, prose, and photographs of her sculptures. She is a member of the Los Angeles Poets and Writers Collective and a founding member of StudioEleven Gallery. Her poetry has been published in Cultural Weekly, The Mas Tequila Review, ONTHEBUS, Poeticdiversity, Fjords Review’s Public Poetry Series, and FRE&D. Her paintings and sculptures have been shown in various galleries in Los Angeles.

Margarita Serafimova was shortlisted for the Montreal Prize 2017, Summer Literary Seminars and Hammond House Prize 2018; longlisted for the Christopher Smart Prize, Erbacce Prize and Red Wheelbarrow Prize 2018. She has three collections in Bulgarian. Her work has appeared in Agenda Poetry, London Grip, Waxwing, Trafika Europe, A-Minor, Poetry South, Nixes Mate, Journal, Orbis, Minor Literatures, Writing Disorder, Chronogram, Noble/ Gas,  Origins,  glitterMOB, among others.

M A Shaheed began writing in the seventh grade, was encouraged by English teacher. After H.S. started a column at factory magazine called Poets Corner. Moved to Sweden began music moves playing bass in the Avant Garde music. Continued to write for with a group called Muntu Poet, led by famous Avant Garde poet Russell Atkins. Have written and published many books of poetry, short stories, flash fiction and Novellas.

Beate Sigriddaughter grew up in Nürnberg, Germany where playgrounds were a nearby castle and World War II bomb ruins. She lives in Silver City, New Mexico (Land of Enchantment), where she was poet laureate from 2017 to 2019. Her occasionally prize-winning work is widely published in literary magazines. In her blog “Writing in a Woman’s Voice”, she publishes other women’s voices.

Randee Silv’s wordslabs emerge as gestures, juxtaposed as tilting fragments. They’ve appeared in Posit, Urban Graffiti, Maudlin House, Sensitive Skin, Bone Bouquet & Otoliths, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Farnessity, was published by dancing girl press and her full-length collection, Nextness by Arteidolia Press. Her call & response photography project with Tania David, Eventually you have to jump the tide, was published in 2025.

Pavel Šrut was an award-winning poet, essayist, writer, rock lyricist, and translator who belongs to the generation of post-war Czech writers  whose voices gained prominence in the flowering of Prague Spring, voices silenced by censorship in the aftermath of the 1968 Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia. Šrut earned the Jaroslav Seifert Award in 2000 and the Czech PEN Club’s Karel Capek Prize for lifetime achievement in literature in 2012.

Joshua St. Claire is from small town in Pennsylvania. His poetry has been published in Notre Dame Review, Lana Turner, Sugar House Review, Two Thirds North, and ballast, among others. His haiku have appeared in several annual anthologies. He is the winner of Rattle: Poets Respond, the Gerald Brady Memorial Senryu Award and the Trailblazer Award. He firmly believes that the interrobang should be added to the standard keyboard.

Adam Stutz is a neurodivergent poet from Los Angeles, CA. He’s the publisher of The Broken Lens Journal. He is the author of Transcript (Cooper Dillon Books, 2017), The Scales (White Stag Publishing, 2018), The Sham Tapestry (White Stag Publishing, 2024), and Compunctions + Thefts (White Stag Publishing, 2024). His work has appeared in various print and online publications.

Tommasina Bianca Squadrito configures works as calligraphy without writing through movement, poetry, installations and performances that queries the environment and the people involved. Her work has appeared in The new post-literate, Asemic magazine 15, Utsanga, Gammm, White bridge, Slova issue 15, Zoomoozophone 8, and Brave new word 13.

Otoha Takenami is a visual artist and lives in Japan.

Yonatan Tewelde has been working as a video producer and photographer in Eritrea since 2007. He mainly works as a videographer and editor in local films and music videos. He has taken photographs over the years in different parts of Eritrea attempting to capture an up-close representation of his encounters.

Teline Trần is a writer from Orange, California or Gabrieleño/Tongva land. They write about home and interstitial faith via several mediums such as fiction, poetry, film, and ultimately the browser. Teline works as the Membership and Community Engagement Coordinator at Wendy’s Subway, a reading room, writing space, and independent publisher in Bushwick, Brooklyn and the Development Coordinator at Mekong NYC, a Southeast Asian grassroots organization in the Bronx. Their work appears in No, Dear Magazine, The Poetry Project, diaCRITICS, and MONO NO AWARE. Their first chapbook is Ad Học, published with Wendy’s Subway.

Kerry Trautman was  poetry editor at “Red Fez” from 2016 until it ceased in 2022, and has served as a judge and workshop leader for the NW Region of Ohio’s Poetry Out Loud competition annually since 2016. Trautman co-founded a website called ToledoPoet.com which hosts an online calendar to publicize NW Ohio poetry events, along with its companion Facebook page, “Toledo Poetry Museum.”

Nico Vassilakis is a poet who writes and draws language on the visual unmooring of letters from their word position. He has published several books of poetry and text/art. His recent books include VOIR DIRE (Dusie Press 2020) and LETTERS of INTENT (CyberWit 2022) along with other pamphlets and booklets. Nico is a contributing editor for UTSANGA. Vassilakis co-edited The Last Vispo Anthology: Visual Poetry 1998-2008 (Fantagraphics Books) and has curated several international visual/concrete poetry exhibitions.

Marc Vincenz is an Anglo-Swiss-American poet, fiction writer, translator, editor and artist. He has published over 30 books of poetry, fiction and translation. His work has been published in The Nation, Ploughshares, Raritan, Colorado Review, World Literature Today and The Los Angeles Review of Books. He is publisher and editor of MadHat Press and publisher of New American Writing.

Margot Wizansky’s chapbook, Wild for Life, was published with Lily Poetry Review Books 2022. Her poems have appeared on The American Journal of Poetry, Missouri Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Ruminate, River Styx, Cimarron, and elsewhere. She edited two anthologies: Mercy of Tides: Poems for a Beach House, and Rough Places Plain: Poems of the Mountains. She won two residencies, one with Writers@Work in Salt Lake City and also with Carlow University in Sligo, Ireland. Margot has recently retired from a career developing housing for adults with disabilities.

Koho Yamamoto, a master of the Japanese art of sumi-e, had a studio in Soho where she worked and taught for over thirty years. The subject of an NHK documentary, she has been profiled in the NY Times and had exhibitions at major universities and galleries in the United States. Her definitive statement of artistic method, evident in the above paintings is “these paintings come from nothingness. They are spontaneous occurrences.  …Sometimes the result of space, balance and dark and light (Notan) successfully emerge in the spirit of the moment.”

Aaron Yassin is a visual artist and a partner in the architectural design firm ATMOS. With his photo-based work he documents architectural details that act as references to both time and place and reconfigures them into abstract compositions. His work has been exhibited at galleries and museums including the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, PS122 in NYC, The Juan B. Castagnino Art Museum in Rosario, Argentina, the Hong-Gah Museum in Taipei, and the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing.

Azusa Yoneta is a photographer from Sapporo-shi, Hokkadido, Japan.

Mark Young lives in a small town in North Queensland in Australia. His books include Songs to Come for the Salamander: Poems 2013-2021, selected & with an introduction by Thomas Fink (Meritage Press & Sandy Press); Your order is now equipped for shipping (Sandy Press); & The Advantages of Cable (Luna Bisonte Prods). His poetry has appeared in The Sparrow’s Trombone, Scud, Ygdrasil, Mobius, SurVision, NAUSEATED DRIVE, Unlikely Stories, Don’t Submit, & Word For/Word, among others.

Zeid is an author, poet, and scientist from Jordan. After writing for almost a decade, they’re finally submitting their pieces to be published. Poetry of theirs was accepted into Assignment Literary Magazine, In Parantheses, Panorama, and Rising Phoenix Review.

Abraham T. Zere has been extensively writing on his country’s appalling deterioration of freedom of expression and the pervasive censorship for different media outlets such as The Guardian, The Independent, Index on Censorship magazine, Aljazeera English, Africa is A Country, African Arguments, among others. Abraham is currently serving as executive director of PEN Eritrea in exile and co-edited Uncensored Voices: Essays, Poems, and Art Works by Exiled Eritreans, 2017.