Issue 1

Collection of 10 poems with original art inspired by the poems printed on 10 postcards (4’’x6’’) printed in a limited edition of 115.

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Issue 1 Contributors:

KELLI RUSSELL AGODON is a bi/queer poet and editor whose newest book Dialogues with Rising Tides (Copper Canyon Press) was named a Finalist in the Washington State Book Awards and shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize in Poetry. She also coedited Demystifying the Manuscript: Essays and Interviews on Creating a Book of Poems with Susan Rich. Kelli is the cofounder of Two Sylvias Press where she works as an editor and book cover designer, and she also teaches at Pacific Lutheran University’s low-res MFA program, the Rainier Writing Workshop. www.agodon.com / www.twosylviaspress.com 

JARED BELOFF is the author of WHO WILL CRADLE YOUR HEAD (ELJ Editions, 2023). He is the editor of the Marvel inspired poetry anthology, Marvelous Verses (Daily Drunk, 2021) and has been a peer-reviewer for Whale Road Review since 2021. His work can be found at Night Heron Barks, Baltimore Review, River Mouth Review, The Shore, Contrary Magazine and elsewhere. You can find him on Twitter @Read_Instead and his website www.jaredbeloff.com. He is a teacher who lives in Queens, NY with his wife and two daughters. 

LAUREN CAMP currently serves as New Mexico Poet Laureate. She is the author of seven books, most recently An Eye in Each Square (River River Books, 2023) and Worn Smooth between Devourings (NYQ Books, 2023). Her poems have been translated into Mandarin, Turkish, Spanish, French, and Arabic. www.laurencamp.com

CHRISTOPHER CITRO is the author of If We Had a Lemon We'd Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021), winner of the 2019 Antivenom Poetry Award, and The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy (Steel Toe Books, 2015). His awards include a 2018 Pushcart Prize for Poetry. He lives in Syracuse, New York. 

DENISE DUHAMEL’s most recent books of poetry are Second Story (Pittsburgh, 2021) and Scald (2017). Blowout (2013) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is a distinguished university professor in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami.

ALBAN FISCHER is the author of the poetry collection Fake Moon and founding editor of Trnsfr Books. He lives in Michigan.

DUSTIN NIGHTINGALE is the author of Ghost Woodpecker (BatCat Press, 2018). His poetry has been or will be published in journals such as The Florida Review, The American Journal of Poetry, new ohio review, Cimarron Review, and Coal Hill Review. He lives in Hartford, Connecticut.

TOM SNARSKY is the author of the chapbooks Threshold (Another New Calligraphy) and Complete Sentences (Broken Sleep Books), as well as the full-length collections Light-Up Swan and Reclaimed Water (both from Ornithopter Press). His long poem A Letter From The Mountain can be read online at Metatron's GLYPHÖRIA. He lives with his wife Kristi and their cats in the mountains of northwestern Virginia.

LEAH UMANSKY is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently, OF TYRANT, forthcoming with The Word Works in April 2024. She earned her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and has curated and hosted The COUPLET Reading Series in NYC since 2011.  Her creative work can be found in such places as The New York Times,  The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A Day, USA Today, POETRY,  and American Poetry Review.  She is at work on a hybrid-memoir, DELICATE MACHINE,  is an exploration of womanhood, hope, and heart in the face of grief and a global pandemic. She can be found at  www.leahumansky.com or @leah.umansky on IG.

DONNA VORREYER is the author of To Everything There Is (2020), Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (2016) and A House of Many Windows (2013), all from Sundress Publications. Her work has appeared in many journals, including Ploughshares, Baltimore Review,  Poet Lore, Salamander, Cherry Tree, Milk Candy, and Autofocus Lit. She hosts the online reading series A Hundred Pitchers of Honey.

MARY ZHOU (they/she) is a queer Chinese American artist based in Philadelphia. They explore devotion, identity, and the body through writing, dance, and visual art. They are an alumnus of VONA/Voices, and their work is shared in The Rumpus, Oversound, ANMLY, and more. You can find their work online at marzhou.com