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Julian E. Zelizer

Julian E. Zelizer is the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University. His many books include The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and The Battle for the Great Society. A new edition of the Kerner Report introduced by Zelizer is out this month from Princeton University Press.

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Holly Case

Holly Case is Professor of History at Brown University. Her most recent book is The Age of Questions.

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Carlie Hoffman

Carlie Hoffman is a creative writing teaching fellow at Columbia University, where she served as poetry editor of Columbia Journal.

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Gala Mukomolova

Gala Mukomolova's poems have appeared in Vinyl, James Franco Review, Nailed Magazine, and PANK.

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Miller Oberman

Miller Oberman's poems and translations are forthcoming in Poetry, Tin House, and The Nation.

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Ryan Fox

Ryan Fox holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Virginia and a JD from Fordham University. His poems have appeared in Iowa Review, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere.

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Clint Smith

Clint Smith is a doctoral student at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. His writing appears in The New Yorker and The Guardian.

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Lucas Stanczyk

Lucas Stanczyk is Professor of Political Science at MIT.

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Michel DeGraff

Michel DeGraff, Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT, directs the MIT-Haiti Initiative.

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Bishakh Som

Bishakh Som’s work investigates the intersections between image and text, figure and architecture, architecture and landscape. Exploring themes of gender and sexuality, memory and urbanism, love and loss, these pieces are inspired by the grammar of comics and graphic novels. To learn more, go to www.bishakh.com.

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Vidhu Aggarwal

Vidhu Aggarwal grew up in the southern United States. A Kundiman fellow, her book of poems The Trouble with Humpdori (2016) received the Editor's Choice Prize from The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective.  

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Bhanu Kapil

Bhanu Kapil lives in Colorado. Her newest book is Ban en Banlieue (Nightboat Books, 2015).

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Louis Bury

Louis Bury is author of The Way Things Go and Exercises in Criticism. He is Professor of English at Hostos Community College, CUNY.

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Ken L. Walker

Ken L. Walker lives in Brooklyn but keeps a Kentucky driver’s license in his wallet. He is the author of the chapbook Twenty Glasses of Water (Diez, 2014) and has work in the anthologies, Oil & Water (Typecast, 2010); and Devouring the Green (Jaded Ibis, 2015). His prose and poetry can also be found in The Poetry Project Newsletter, The Brooklyn Rail, The Seattle Review, Atlas Review, Lumberyard, and Tammy.

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Joan Naviyuk Kane

Joan Naviyuk Kane is the author of The Straits, Hyperboreal, The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife, and Milk Black Carbon, which will be published in the 2017 Pitt Poetry Series. She teaches in the low-residency MFA program in creative writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts and raises her children in Anchorage, Alaska.

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MC Hyland

MC Hyland holds MFAs in Poetry and Book Arts from the University of Alabama and is a PhD candidate at New York University. She is a former Director of Adult and Artist Programs at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts and the founding editor of DoubleCross Press. Her poetry has been published in several chapbooks, including the forthcoming THE END PART ONE (Magic Helicopter Press), and the poetry collection Neveragainland (Lowbrow Press), and her reviews have been published in Rain Taxi, Sink Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn.

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Simone White

Simone White's Of Being Dispersed was published by Futurepoem in spring 2016. She is Program Director at The Poetry Project.

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Janet Elise Johnson

Janet Elise Johnson teaches at CUNY–Brooklyn College. She is the author of Gender Violence in Russia: The Politics of Feminist Intervention.

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Aracelis Girmay

Aracelis Girmay is the author of the poetry collections Teeth, Kingdom Animalia, and the black maria.

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Stephen Kinzer

Stephen Kinzer is a former bureau chief for the New York Times and the author of The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War.

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Ignacio Infante

Ignacio Infante is the author of After Translation: The Transfer and Circulation of Modern Poetics across the Atlantic (Fordham University Press, 2013). He is Assistant Professor of comparative literature and Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Vicente Huidobro

Vicente Huidobro (1893–1948) is one of the so-called “big four” of Chilean poetry, which also includes Pablo de Rokha and Nobel laureates Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda. Author of over thirty books, he is one of the most important figures of the Latin American avant-garde.

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Kwame Dawes

Kwame Dawes is the author of nineteen books of poetry and numerous other books of fiction, criticism, and essays. His most recent collection, City of Bones: A Testamentwill appear in 2016 along with Speak from Here to There, a collection co-written with John Kinsella and a tri-lingual anthology of Haitian Poetry written after the earthquake, A Bloom of Stones, which he edited. He is teaches at the Pacific University MFA Program and is director of the African Poetry Book Fund and artistic director of the Calabash International Literary Festival.

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Dylan Furcall

Dylan Furcall's work has previously appeared in BOMB Magazine, Prelude, and Ekphrasis. He lives in New York City.

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