is a poet and essayist.  Her two books of poetry are “Post-Mortem” (Orison Books, April 2021) and “The Disappearing Theatre” (Poets at Work, 2016).  Her work is featured in the 2019 Best American Essays, Conjunctions Magazine, Orion Magazine, Aeon Magazine, Narrative Magazine, and others. She was the 2017 recipient of the Robert H. Winner Award with the Poetry Society of America and the 2015 recipient of the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. She teaches in the Department of Comparative Religion and Humanities at CSU Chico, and is finishing a collection of essays. www.heatheraltfeld.com

is the author of eleven books of poems, two novels, and three collections of critical essays.  He has received the Guggenheim and National Endowment of the Arts fellowships, an Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and one from the Academy of American Poets. In November 2017 he was inducted into the Georgia Writers’ Hall of Fame.  He has taught at Yale, Columbia, and UCLA. His translation of Rilke’s Duino Elegies appeared in 2021, and a volume of selected poems under the title The Returns appeared in 2022. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island." Websites include Wikipedia, "Alfred Corn". Facebook, Alfred Corn. Instagram, alfredcorn. Substack, "AlfredCornStacked” https://alfredcornstacked.substack.com/

is the author of twelve books of poetry, including most recently FALLING FINE: Selected and New Poems (Pickpocket Books). The Head of Creative Writing at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, he plays in the post-punk/indie rock band NEVERNEW and edits, solders, and publishes the poetry journal Solid State. Personal Instagram: @forkliftmatt https://www.instagram.com/forkliftmatt/

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has published fiction, poetry, translations, non-fiction, in New Orleans Review, Missouri Review, Massachusetts Review, Iowa Review, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, etc. Among his collections are The Orpheus Complex, Walk Like Bo Diddley. Living in the Candy Store and Other Poems and his new verse translation of the Polish Romantic epic, Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz. Craniotomy Sestinas appeared in 2021. He has grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council. Kress currently lives in Blackwood, NJ and teaches at Temple University. www.leonardkress.com

is the author of three essay collections, Disparates (2020), Sublime Physick (2016), and Quotidiana (2010), and coeditor of After Montaigne (2015). He teaches at Brigham Young University and Vermont College of Fine Arts; with Joey Franklin he edits the journal Fourth Genre; with David Lazar he edits the 21st Century Essays series at the Ohio State University Press; and he curates the online essay resource www.quotidiana.org.

His most recent book of poetry is Snakedoctor.  He lives with his family in Kentucky and teaches at Transylvania University.

is the author of six poetry collections, most recently We the Jury (Milkweed, 2021) and The End of Childhood, which is forthcoming in 2025. His awards include the UNT Rilke Prize, two Colorado Book Awards, an NEA Translation Fellowship, six individual awards from the Poetry Society of America, and a Fulbright Distinguished Scholarship to Northern Ireland. He has co-translated two books from Albanian—most recently Moikom Zeqo’s Zodiac, shortlisted for the PEN Center USA Award in Translation—and has co-edited three books, most recently Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century. He lives in Denver, where he co-directs the Unsung Masters Series, teaches at the University of Colorado Denver, and edits Copper Nickel. http://onlythesenses.com

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is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently I Love Hearing Your Dreams, forthcoming from Scribner in September 2024, as well as two books of prose: Why Poetry (Ecco, 2017) and Story of a Poem (Unnamed, 2023). He is editor at large at Wave Books, where he edits contemporary poetry, prose, and translations. From 2016-7 he held the annually rotating position of Editor of the Poetry Column for the New York Times Magazine, and was the Editor of Best American Poetry 2022. He teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College of California. https://matthewzapruder.com/

born in Durrës in 1949, was one of the most prominent writers and public intellectuals in Albania. Over the course of his life, he published 100 books, including poetry, fiction, monographs, and children’s books. His poetry was suppressed in the 1970s and 80s—during which time he reinvented himself as an underwater archeologist. In 1991, as the Albanian communist system was collapsing, Zeqo was named Albania’s Minister of Culture, and from 1998–2004 he directed the National Historical Museum in Tirana. In 2019, he was named a Knight of the Order of Skanderbeg, one of the highest civilian honors an Albanian can receive. Two of his poetry collections have been translated and published in the United States: Zodiac (Zephyr, 2015) and I Don’t Believe in Ghosts (BOA, 2007). “The Surrealism of Alexander the Great” comes from the book of prose Sellers of Chaos, which was published in Albania in 2010. Zeqo died of leukemia in 2020.

was born on a submarine base in New London, CT and for an embarrassingly long time thought this meant she had been born underwater. She practices as a psychotherapist after decades practicing as a civil rights lawyer. Her poems have appeared in the Laurel Review and The American Poetry Journal; other work will appear in forthcoming issues of Copper Nickel and Verseweavers. She recently won first prize in the Poet’s Choice category of the Spring 2023 Oregon Poetry Association’s poetry contest. She lives in the mountains of Southern Oregon.

is the author of four collections of poetry and of the essay collection Radical as Reality: Form and Freedom in American Poetry. A recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, he teaches in the graduate creative writing program at the University of Minnesota and serves as Executive Editor of Unbound Edition Press.

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was born in Rho (Milan) Italy in 1963. She received a MFA from Yale University in 1988. Since then, she has completed projects in Italy, Guatemala, Turkey and the United States. She has received several awards and fellowships, including the Friends of Photography/Calumet Emerging Photographer award in 2000 and the Paul Taylor/Dorothea Lange Prize from Duke University in 2001, Puffin Foundation Grant in 2003 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography in 2004 and Harnish Visiting Fellowship at Smith College 2005 to 2011 and 2016 to 2017. Her work has been collected by several museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Smithsonian Museum of American History. She is the author of 19 Pictures, 22 Recipes 2011. Her writing has appeared in Art in America, Photograph magazine and Afterimage.

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is the author of four books of poetry: The Year the City Emptied, Women’s Poetry: Poems and Advice, My Brother is Getting Arrested Again, and She Didn’t Mean to Do It. The recipient of Guggenheim, Hodder and Pew Fellowships, she is an occasional poetry critic for the New York Times, Poetry Foundation and elsewhere; poetry editor for the journal Scoundrel Times; and a member of the faculty of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and the BFA Program in Creative Writing at University of the Arts. She lives in Philadelphia.

His forthcoming collection is My Life in Brutalist Architecture (Four Way Books 2024). His other books include In a Landscape (BOA Editions, 2014 ) and Brand New Spacesuit (BOA Editions, 2020). He lives in northwest Missouri and co-edits the Laurel Review.

His newest books are The Fears (Copper Canyon Press, 2023) and Sleepaway: a Novel (Acre Books, 2024). Among his eight other books are Churches, which was named one of the best ten books of 2015 by The New York Times, and How He Loved Them, which was long-listed for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and received the Julie Suk Award for the best poetry book from the American literary press.

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received the 2011 Jackson Prize for Poetry. His books include By the Numbers (2010), a finalist for the National Book Award, and Interglacial (Ausable, 2004), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His 1992 collection As If was reprinted this Fall in Carnegie Mellon’s Classic Contemporaries series. His most recent book is For Now (Copper Canyon, 2020).

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