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Contributors
Geoffrey Babbitt is author of A Grain of Sand in Lambeth (winner of the 2023 Betsy Joiner Flanagan Award in Poetry) and Appendices Pulled from a Study on Light (Spuytin Duyvil 2018). His poems and essays have appeared in North American Review, Pleiades, Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, Notre Dame Review, Washington Square, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Utah, is an Associate Professor of English & Creative Writing at Hobart & William Smith Colleges, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of Seneca Review. More at geoffreybabbitt.com
Adele Bardazzi works on issues of form and interpretation, poetry and poetics, lyric theory, gender and women’s studies, verbal-visual glitches. She joined the University of Utrecht as Assistant Professor in September 2023 and is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Oxford since September 2021. She has also been awarded various visiting fellowships, among which at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Groningen, University of Southern California, New York University, University of Toronto, and Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3.
Elisa Biagini has published several poetry collections such as L’Ospite (Einaudi, 2004), Fiato. parole per musica (D’If, 2006), Nel Bosco (Einaudi, 2007), The guest in the wood (Chelsea editions, 2013, 2014 Best Translated Book Award), Da una crepa (Einaudi, 2014), The Plant of Dreaming (Xenos books, 2017), Depuis une fissure (Cadastre8zero, 2018; Prix Nunc 2018), Filamenti (Einaudi, 2020), Filaments (Le Taillis Pré, 2022) and TRÅDAR (Bökforlaget Edda 2023). Her poems have been translated into fifteen languages and she has translated several contemporary American poets for reviews, anthologies, and complete collections (Nuovi Poeti Americani, Einaudi, 2006) as well as a selection of Paul Celan’s poems. She teaches Writing at NYU Florence and is the artistic director of the international poetry festival Voci Lontane, Voci Sorelle.
Roberto Binetti is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto, where he is working on his fourth monograph Italian Poetry in the Age of Nuclear Anxiety. Binetti’s research has been featured in leading journals such as Italica, Studi Novecenteschi, Ticontre, and the Journal of World Literature. His publications include the monographs Poetics of Becoming: On Italian Women’s Poetry (Peter Lang, 2023), La domanda dell’inconscio: Linguaggio e vita interiore nella poesia di Andrea Zanzotto e Amelia Rosselli (Mimesis, 2024), and Anne Carson. Letteratura liquida (Mimesis, 2024).
Karen Elizabeth Bishop is a UK/US poet, translator, and scholar. Recent poetry appears in Lana Turner, Bennington Review, Poetry Northwest, New Writing Scotland, and Modern Poetry in Translation. Her debut poetry collection, the deering hour, was published in 2021 by Ornithopter Press. She teaches literature and directs the new Translation Studies Initiative at Rutgers University, runs (with David Sherman) The Elegy Project, and was the 2023 recipient of the inaugural Community Megaphone Fellowship from Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Library. She divides her time between the wilds of New Jersey and Sevilla, Spain.
​Iain Britton is the author of several poetry collections. His work has been nominated in the UK for a Forward Prize for Best Single Poem and Best First Collection. Like This Press, Oystercatcher Press and Lapwing Publications have published small collections. Poems have been published in Harvard Review, Poetry, The New York Times, Poet Lore, Stand, Wild Court, New Humanist, Agenda, New Statesman, Prototype, Poetry Birmingham, and others. The Intaglio Poems was published by Hesterglock Press UK 2017. A new chapbook, Project Constellation, was published in London by Sampson Low in 2022.
Amy Catanzano publishes poetry, fiction, poetic theory, and multimodal literary art, including web-expanded poetry. Often writing in parallel to cutting-edge physics, as well as the literary and artistic subcultures of the avant-garde, she is the author of three books with a forthcoming collection, The Imaginary Present: Essays in Quantum Poetics, from the University of Michigan Press. Drawing from invited residencies at scientific research centers such as CERN in Switzerland and the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics in New York, Catanzano collaborates with scientists in addition to her independent projects. Recipient of the PEN USA Literary Award in Poetry and the Noemi Press Book Award in Fiction among other honors, she is an associate professor of English and the poet-in-residence at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.
Matthew DeLuca is a poet living in New York. He is a graduate of Boston College and Fordham University School of Law.
Elisa Gabbert is the author of seven collections of poetry, essays, and criticism, including Any Person Is the Only Self, Normal Distance, The Unreality of Memory & Other Essays, The Word Pretty, and The Self Unstable. She writes the On Poetry column for the New York Times, and her work has appeared in Harper’s, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, The Believer, The Yale Review, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Providence.
John Gallaher's most recent collection is My Life in Brutalist Architecture (Four Way Books, 2024). Gallaher lives in northwest Missouri and co-edits the Laurel Review. 
​Kathleen Hellen’s collections include Meet Me at the Bottom, The Only Country Was the Color of My Skin, and Umberto’s Night, and two chapbooks, The Girl Who Loved Mothra and Pentimento. Featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, her work has appeared widely in such journals as Arts & Letters, Cimarron Review, Colorado Review, Massachusetts Review, New Letters, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, The Sewanee Review, Southern Humanities Review, The Sycamore Review, and West Branch, among others. She is the recipient of the poetry prize from Washington Writers’ Publishing House, and prizes from the H.O.W. Journal and Washington Square Review.
Katharina Kiening creates stories existing between analytical observation and surreal imagination. She does so primarily through literature and visuals in the form of photography, very often combining words and pictures in one narrative. Her work has been published by various art and literature magazines in Europe and the US. She is based in Salzburg, Austria.
Jennifer McCormack studied English and Art in Glasgow, Scotland. She lives in Malmo, Sweden now. This story is dedicated to Ronnie Renton, who introduced her to Hamlet.
W. S. Merwin (1927-2019) was an American poet and translator who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1971 and 2009 and the National Book Award for Poetry in 2005, among others.
Daniel Carden Nemo is a poet, translator, and photographer. His work is forthcoming or has appeared in Magma Poetry, RHINO, Full Stop, Dream Catcher, Brazos River Review, Off the Coast, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, and elsewhere. More info at www.danielnemo.com
Dimitris Passas is a freelance writer and the editor of the online magazine Tap the Line, in which he reviews books, movies, and TV series while also featuring articles, news, and Q+As with authors and artists. His academic background includes bachelor studies in sociology and a master’s degree in philosophy. His short and flash fiction can be found in various literary magazines such as 34th Parallel, The RavensPerch, Asylum Magazine (UK), A Thin Slice of Anxiety and several others.
Marin Sorescu was a Romanian poet, playwright, and novelist nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992 and 1996. He published over twenty books of poetry.
Raisa Tolchinsky is the author of the poetry collection Glass Jaw (Persea Books), winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize (2023). She has published poems in Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Raisa earned her MFA from the University of Virginia and her B.A. from Bowdoin College. She was the 2022–2023 George Bennett Writer-in-Residence at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, and is currently a student at Harvard Divinity School.
www.raisatolchinsky.com 
Nur Turkmani is a writer and researcher in Beirut. Her research looks at displacement, social movements, and agriculture. She’s an editor-at-large for Rusted Radishes, Beirut’s Literary Journal, and her poetry, fiction, and essays are published in West Branch, Poetry London, Wilderness Journal, Jadaliyya, Syria Untold, and others. She studied creative writing at Oxford University, and politics at the London School of Economics and American University of Beirut.
Andrei Voznesensky (1933-2010) was a Russian poet and writer who has authored over 30 books of poetry, plays, and fiction. Robert Lowell called him "one of the greatest living poets in any language."