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Molly Bendall
Molly Bendall is the author of five books of poetry, most recently, Watchful from Omnidawn Press. She teaches at the University of Southern California.
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Omar Cáceres
Omar Cáceres (1904–1943) was a cult figure in the Chilean avant-garde. He published one book of poetry, Defense of the Idol (1934), with an introduction by Vicente Huidobro, of which only two copies survived after Cáceres tried to burn the entire print run upon publication due to the edition's numerous typos. He had ties with the Communist Party, and according to poet Jorge Teillier, played the violin in an orchestra of the blind. He was murdered by unknown assailants in 1943.
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Ali Power
Ali Power is a poet and psychotherapist. She is the author of A Poem for Record Keepers (Argos Books, 2016) and the chapbook The Lawn is a Social Construction (Sixth Finch Books, 2018).
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Scott Casleton
Scott Casleton is a PhD student in political philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Francey Russell
Francey Russell is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Barnard College and Columbia University.
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Ayesha Ramachandran
Ayesha Ramachandran is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University and author of The Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe.
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Georges Henein
Georges Henein (1914-1973) was an Egyptian poet and journalist. The son of a Coptic diplomat, Henein was educated in Europe and developed close ties to André Breton and the French Surrealists. In the 1930s he founded the Cairo Surrealist group, Art et Liberté, and helped to build a community of engaged artists including Edmond Jabès, Joyce Mansour, Albert Cossery, and Ramses Younane. Having fallen out of favor with President Nasser due to his staunch anti-fascist principles, Henein left Egypt in 1962 and settled in France, where he worked as a journalist for L’Express and Jeune Afrique, continuing to write poems that went mostly unpublished until after his death.
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Eduardo Martinez-Leyva
Eduardo Martinez-Leyva's poems have appeared in The Adroit Journal, Apogee Journal, Nepantla: A Journal for Queer Poets of Color, The Journal, Best New Poets 2015, and elsewhere. He received his MFA from Columbia University, where he was a teaching fellow. He is a CantoMundo fellow.
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Ted Hamilton
Ted Hamilton is an attorney, writer, and cofounder of the Climate Defense Project, which provides legal support to climate activists.
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William T. Vollmann
William T. Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, war correspondent, short story writer, and essayist. He won the National Book Award for Fiction for Europe Central.
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Irène Mathieu
Irène Mathieu is a pediatrician, writer, and public health researcher who has lived and worked in the United States, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Peru, and elsewhere. She is winner of the Bob Kaufman Book Prize and Yemassee Journal's Poetry Prize, and author of the book orogeny (Trembling Pillow Press, 2017) and poetry chapbook the galaxy of origins (dancing girl press, 2014). A Fulbright and Callaloo fellow, Irène is a poetry book reviewer for Muzzle Magazine and an editor for the Journal of General Internal Medicine‘s humanities section.
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Mutsuo Takahashi
Mutsuo Takahashi is one of the most prominent and prolific poets, essayists, and writers of contemporary Japan, with more than three dozen collections of poetry, several works of prose, dozens books of essays, and several major literary prizes to his name.
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Aditi Machado
Aditi Machado is the author of Some Beheadings (Nightboat, 2017), the translator of Farid Tali's Prosopopoeia (Action, 2016), and the poetry editor of Asymptote. Her writing also appears or is forthcoming in Volt, Western Humanities Review, Lana Turner Journal, Seedings, and elsewhere.
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Jeffrey Angles
Jeffrey Angles is the author of Writing the Love of Boys (University of Minnesota Press, 2010), These Things Here and Now: Poetic Responses to the March 11, 2011 Disasters (Josai University Press, 2016), and the translator of dozens of Japan’s most important modern authors and poets. His own book of poetry in Japanese, Watashi no hizuke henkō sen (My International Date Line, Shichōsha, 2016) won the Yomiuri Prize for Literature, making him the first non-native speaker ever to win this award.
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Hiromi Itō
Hiromi Itō emerged in the 1980s as the leading voice of Japanese women’s poetry with a series of sensational works that depicted women’s psychology, sexuality, and motherhood. In the late 1990s, she relocated to southern California, and since then has written award-winning books about migrancy, relocation, identity, linguistic alienation, aging, and death. A selection of her early work appears in Killing Kanoko: Selected Poems of Hiromi Itō, translated by Jeffrey Angles (Action Books, 2009). Angles has also translated her book-length narrative poem Wild Grass on the Riverbank (Action Books, 2014).
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Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is the author of But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise (Red Hen Press), a slice from the cake made of air (Red Hen Press), and Personal Science (Tupelo Press). She teaches in the MFA program at UMASS Boston.
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Andrew Elrod
Andrew Elrod recently completed a dissertation on the history of wage and price controls in the United States between 1945 and 1980. His writing has also appeared in Phenomenal World, Jacobin, Dissent, and New Labor Forum.
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Arlie Hochschild
Arlie Hochschild is the award-winning sociologist and author of nine books, including The Second Shift, The Time Bind, The Managed Heart, The Outsourced Self, and Strangers in Their Own Land—a finalist for the National Book Award.
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Aaron Beasley
Aaron Beasley currently lives in Salt Lake City. He studies in the English department at the University of Utah & interns for the Eclipse digital archive for small-press writing (eclipsearchive.org). He is co-author with artist Jeremy Kennedy of NOTE TO SEA (Rebel Hands Press 2017).
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Nazifa Islam
Nazifa Islam’s poetry and paintings have appeared in Fourth & Sycamore, Hot Metal Bridge, and The Bennington Review among other publications, and her collection Searching for a Pulse (2013) was released by Whitepoint Press. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram at @nafoopal.
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Alejandro Albarrán Polanco
Alejandro Albarrán Polanco was born in Mexico City in 1985. He has published three collections of poetry, Ruido (Bonobos, 2012), Tengo un pulmón que no es el cielo (FETA, La Ceibita, 2014), and Persona fea y ridícula (FETA, 2017). He is a founding editor of the press Canón Accidental, co-director of the radio program Radio Rara, and is also a musician and conceptual artist who works with textual, visual, and sound poetry. His performances, installations, and artist’s books have been featured in numerous contemporary art exhibitions.
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Mervyn Taylor
Mervyn Taylor is a Trinidad-born poet currently residing in Brooklyn. A retired teacher, his most recent collection of poetry is Voices Carry (Shearsman Books, 2017).
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Diana Goetsch
Diana Goetsch has written several poetry collections, most recently In America (2017, Rattle) and Nameless Boy (2015, Orchises Press), and is also a literary journalist. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The American Scholar, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune. She is the recipient of fellowships from the NEA, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and The New School, where she was the 2017 Grace Paley Teaching Fellow.
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