carpet jaw [sudjūd]

remy malik is a Black Trans nonbinary poet and performance artist from St. Louis, Missouri. They are the 2022 Allen Ginsberg Fellow at the Jack Kerouac School. Their work has been published in Nat Brut, Sleepingfish, and as part of the 2021 Transformation Residency in Portland, OR. malik’s work is centered on blackness and abstraction.

Bo Hwang is an artist and writer working in poetry, movement, and things so mundane, nothing happens and that’s narrative. She grew up in Indonesia, lived in Los Angeles, and is currently based in Colorado where she is the 2022 Anselm Hollo Fellow at the Jack Kerouac School. Previously, she was a 2022 Periplus Fellow. Her short fiction can be found at Wildness and the Poetry Project.

I am not a wife

Ginger Ko is the author of Motherlover (Bloof Books) and Inherit (Sidebrow), as well as several chapbooks. Her latest project is POWER ON, a book as interactive app, produced by The Operating System. Her poetry and essays can be found in The Atlantic, American Poetry Review, The Offing, VIDA Review, and elsewhere.

Katie Jean Shinkle’s books include Tannery Bay (coauthored with Steven Dunn, FC2/University of Alabama Press, 2024). Other work can be found in or is forthcoming from Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance (Sarabande Books), American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, The Nation, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. Awarded fellowships and residencies from Lambda Literary and the Ragdale Foundation, she serves as co-poetry editor of DIAGRAM.

The Forest

Jesse Lee Kercheval is a poet, writer, translator and artist.  She is the Editor of the Wisconsin Poetry Series at the University of Wisconsin Press. Her latest books include the poetry collections I Want To Tell You ( University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023) and Un pez dorado no te sirve para nada / A Goldfish Buys You Nothing (Editorial Yaugarú, Uruguay, 2023). Her graphic memoir, French Girl, is forthcoming from Fieldmouse Press.

The Partition-Reimagined

The Partition – Reimagined is an erasure poem that has reworked a famous radio transmission that officially announced the British departure from British India, and the division of the subcontinent into two countries. As narrated in the original transmission by British official, Lord Mountbatten, this moment is often narrated by Western media as a proud moment of independence. Without dismissing the hard-earned independence from colonialism, this erasure poem reworks the original text to highlight the sentiments of a common citizen at the time; one who is not celebrating liberation, but rather facing displacement and, what is now recorded as, the largest migration in human history. Given the current discourses around displacement, right to land, and media-washing, I believe this piece is incredibly relevant today.

Shehrbano Naqvi is a Pakistani writer, currently pursuing an MFA at The New School. In honor of her late brother, her work primarily explores the themes of mental health and grief, while also including discourses around identity, social inequalities, and cultural movements that define the 21st century. Writing under the name @banoqvi on Instagram, her work has a pending publication in Pinhole Poetry, while also having appeared in Poets Reading The News, Rue Scribe, Eunoia Review, and The Tempest, and she has performed on stage in Pakistan, Italy, and the USA.

The Wild Emptiness

Kathryn Smith’s most recent poetry collection, Self-Portrait with Cephalopod (Milkweed Editions, 2021), won the Jake Adam York Prize and was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. Her poems and visual poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in DIAGRAM, Copper Nickel, Poetry Northwest, Ninth Letter, Gettysburg Review, RHINO, Brink, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. She lives in Spokane, WA.

The Cedars

Starring: Daniela Cruz (born 1990) is a Mexican City native raised in Texas whose work explores themes of time, nature, and the built environment through mediums of sculpture, photography, video, and installation. Cruz’s art explores socio-political issues of identity, race, gender, and class through an eco-focused lens. Follow on Instagram @danielacruz.

Director and Editor: The recipient of a 2022 Fellowship from the NJ State Council on the Arts, Boris Tsessarsky directed and co-produced the award-winning hip-hop documentary, The Remedy (2021). He directed King’s Highway: the Story of Malcolm Fairfield (2016), which won the award for Best Director of a Short Documentary at Chain NYC FIlm Festival. In 2018, Boris co-founded—along with PaulA Neves—Parkway North Productions. His most recent film, The Cedars, explores one Dallas artist’s obsession with architectural ruins and trash. It premiered at the 2023 FICIMAD festival in Madrid, Spain where it was awarded Best Cinematography for a Short Documentary. Follow on Instagram @btsessarsky, @parkwaynorthproductions.

you left as a cycle

Matt Baczewski (he/him) is an artist from New Jersey working primarily across text, image and sound, and is co-founder of Naan cül Press. Recently published works include ‘you settle on movement’ (Falt, 2021) with civyiu kkliu and ‘Baby 01’ (Baby Blue Ensemble, 2021) with F Johnson.

assume the role of Cassandra, wearing a mask, speaking into the camera

Carolina Ebeid is a multimedia poet and author of You Ask Me to Talk about the Interior and the chapbook Dauerwunder: a brief record of facts. Her work has been supported by the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University, Bread Loaf, CantoMundo, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, as well as a residency fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. A longtime editor, she helps edit poetry at The Rumpus, as well as the online zine Visible Binary. From 2023-2025 she is the Bonderman Assistant Professor of poetry at Brown University.

Do not mistake this desert

Jeff Russell is a poet living in Durham, North Carolina. The text from this selection is the beginning of the opening multi-voiced sequence from By the Time this Reaches You forthcoming from Selva Obscura Press. Selections of this work have appeared in Miracle Monocle, Entropy, Dream Pop Press and Titled House.

Nora Zubizarreta is a filmmaker based in Durham, NC. She received her BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. While at Tisch she produced Umama, a film that went on to win gold at the Student Academy Awards. She has since worked professionally in film and television production. Nora is now pursuing her MFA at Duke in Experimental and Documentary Arts.

(w/Joseph Donahue, Laura Jaramillo, and Marta Nunez Pouzols)