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Rob Stanton

Raised in the Midlands, educated in Cardiff and Leeds, Rob Stanton now lives and teaches in Austin. He is the author of The Method and Trip-.

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Michael C. Peterson

Michael C. Peterson is currently a George Elliston Fellow in Poetry at the University of Cincinnati. His work can be found in journals such as Blackbird, The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, Fence, The Winter Anthology, andMemorious. He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, The Kenyon Summer Writers’ Insititute, the Vermont Studio Center, among others.

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Yvette Siegert

Yvette Siegert’s poetry and translations have appeared in Aufgabe, Circumference, Stonecutter, St. Petersburg Review, The Literary Review and other places. She has edited for The New Yorker and taught at Columbia, Baruch College and the 92nd Street Y. For her translations of Alejandra Pizarnik, she has received support from PEN Heim/NYSCA and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Sandra Meek

Sandra Meek is the author of four books of poems, including Road Scatter and the Dorset Prize-winning Biogeography, and editor of Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad, winner of an Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal. Her fifth book of poems, An Ecology of Elsewhere, is forthcoming from Persea late 2015. Recipient of an NEA fellowship, the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and two Georgia Author of the Year awards, Meek is director of the Georgia Poetry Circuit, poetry editor for Phi Kappa Phi Forum, co-founding editor of Ninebark Press, and Dana Professor of English at Berry College.

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Jennifer L. Knox

Jennifer L. Knox’s new book of poems, Days of Shame and Failure, will be published by Bloof Books this October. Her poems have appeared four times in The Best American Poetry series as well as in American Poetry Review, Bomb, McSweeney’s, and The New Yorker, She teaches at Iowa State University.

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A. H. Jerriod Avant

A. H. Jerriod Avant is from Longtown, MS. A graduate of Jackson State University, he’s earned M.F.A. degrees from Spalding University and New York University. A graduate of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, his poems have appeared in the Mississippi Review, Boston Review, Pinwheel and Callaloo. A finalist for the 2015 Mississippi Review Prize and a recipient of a Vermont Studio Center residency, Jerriod is the 2nd-year poetry fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

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Kristin Prevallet

Kristin Prevallet is the author of I, Afterlife: Essay in Mourning Time and the trans-genre performance For He Whose Pornography Kills the False Woman and Keeps the Live One from Breathing.

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Logan Fry

Logan Fry edits Flag + Void with Matthew Moore, contributes to The Volta Blog, and has poetry featured in publications including Fence, Denver Quarterly, The Cultural Society, Reality Hands, and Best American Experimental Writing 2015.

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Morgan Parker

Morgan Parker is the author of Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night (Switchback Books, 2015). She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and a Pushcart Prize winner. She lives in Brooklyn.

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Alan West-Duran

Alan West-Duran is a poet, critic, translator, and essayist born in Cuba and raised in Puerto Rico. He is a professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Northeastern University.

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William J. Harris

William J. Harris, former Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Kansas, lives and writes in Brooklyn. He is coauthor of Crooners, a volume of poems, and editor of The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader. His poetry and essays have appeared in Catamaran, Callaloo, African American Review, Artforum and The American Scholar.

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F.T. Marinetti

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Juan Felipe Herrera

Juan Felipe Herrera was the United States Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017. He received the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry for Half the World in Light. 

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Krystal Languell

Krystal Languell is the author of the books Call the Catastrophists (BlazeVox, 2011) and Gray Market (1913 Press, 2016). She has won a 2013-2014 Poetry Project Emerge-Surface-Be fellowship and a 2014-2015 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council workspace residency. For seven years, she taught as an adjunct professor in NYC while also working with feminist publishing endeavors Belladonna* Collaborative and Bone Bouquet. New work is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Fence, and elsewhere. 

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Jeanine Deibel

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Heather Treseler

Heather Treseler's Parturition (2020) won Munster Literature Centre's international poetry chapbook prize, and her sequence of poems, "The Lucie Odes," won Missouri Review's Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize. Her poems appear in Cincinnati Review, The Iowa Review, and Harvard Review, and her essays about poetry appear in the Los Angeles Review of Books, PN Review, and in six books of criticism. She is associate professor of English and the Presidential Fellow for Art, Education, and Community at Worcester State University and a visiting scholar at the Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center.

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Charles Legere

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Lyn Hejinian

Lyn Hejinian is a poet, essayist, teacher, and translator. Her recent books are The Book of a Thousand Eyes and The Wide Road, written in collaboration with Carla Harryman. A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field 1982-1998, and the related Poetics Journal Digital Archive, both co-edited by Hejinian and Barrett Watten, have just been published by Wesleyan University Press.

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Dorothy Wang

Dorothy Wang is an Associate Professor in the American Studies Program at Williams College. Her book Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry was awarded Honorable Mention for the Poetry Foundation's first annual Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism in 2014.

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Ben Merriman

Ben Merriman is a doctoral candidate in Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. 

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Prageeta Sharma

Prageeta Sharma is the author of four poetry collections, most recently, Undergloom (Fence 2013). She teaches at The University of Montana and is co-director (with Joanna Klink) of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race and Creative Writing (2014, 2015).

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David Lloyd

David Lloyd is a poet and critic based in Los Angeles.  His Arc & Sill: Poems 1979–2009 was published by Shearsman Books in 2011.

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Erica Hunt

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David Marriott

David Marriott teaches at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of “In Neuter” (Equipage, 2014); The Bloods (Shearsman, 2011); and Haunted Life (Rutgers, 2007). He is currently completing a new book of poetry, titled The Nothing.