POLISHING MY ANIMAL MIRROR

Carolina Ebeid is a multimedia poet. She is the author of Hide (Graywolf Press, 2026), You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior (Noemi Press, 2016) and the chapbook Dauerwunder: a brief record of facts (Albion Books, 2023). Her work has been supported by the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University, CantoMundo, the NEA, and a residency fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. Her work has been installed and screened at universities and galleries such as Stelo Arts in Portland, and Squeaky Wheel Film and Video Art Center. A longtime editor, she currently edits the multimedia site Visible Binary.

Born into a family of tree workers, bohemians, poets, ne’er-do-wells, visionaries, and smalltime sort-of hustlers, Eleni Sikelianos is a poet, writer, collaborator, and “master of mixing genres.” As a student of the poets of Naropa, she is a lineage-holder in the Outrider poetics family tree. Deeply engaged with ecopoetics, her work takes up urgent concerns of environmental precarity and ancestral work. She has published ten books of poetry (most recently, Your Kingdom, 2023) and two unclassifiable hybrid works, sometimes called nonfiction, sometimes memoirs, sometimes fiction: The Book of Jon and You Animal Machine. Memory Rehearsal, (forthcoming from City Lights) was named One of Publishers Weekly’s Most Anticipated Books for 2026, and is a genre-busting encounter between a poet and her ancestral past documenting a startling intersection of queer history, ancient theater, utopian visions, and modern poetry.

Among other honors, she has been awarded two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, a Fulbright Artists fellowship, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Award in nonfiction. She grew up in earshot of the ocean, in small coastal towns near Santa Barbara, and has since lived in San Francisco, New York, Paris, Athens (Greece), Boulder (Colorado), and Providence.

Tiny Fires is an indie-folk duo based in Oakland, California, featuring Joe Sikelianos and Kat White. Their music blends textured guitars, rich harmonies, and storytelling that moves between the intimate and the playful. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Kat is the creator of In the Eye of the Owl, a children’s album. She’s also a longtime music coach and the founder of Magnolia Music School. Joe, a Santa Barbara native and professional arborist, comes from a long line of creative bohemians and poets. His debut album, Our Kind of Beast (2023), offers a lush, Americana-infused take on indie folk. Together, they also collaborate with Joe’s sister, poet Eleni Sikelianos.

ZORA’S CABIN

Sharony Green considers herself a storyteller who writes and makes art across genres. She was born and raised in Miami, Florida, with roots in the American South and the Bahamas.  Her published writings include The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras (John Hopkins University Press, 2023) and the forthcoming full collection of poetry A Psalm for Cottondale (University of Alabama Press). Also a visual artist, she teaches History at the University of Alabama and lives in Tuscaloosa with her husband and 19-year-old cat Ash Monster. For more on Green, visit https://sharonygreen.com/

PATH 13., QUAVER CIPHER

Performer / Director / Editor: Boedi Widjaja

Poetry: Hao Guang Tse

Boedi Widjaja (b. 1975, Indonesia; based in Singapore) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work examines migration, memory, and spatial imagination. Trained in architecture and design, he works across bio art, performance, experimental photography, and architectural installation. His research-driven practice explores ideas of house, home, and homeland, integrating scientific inquiry with poetic gesture to reflect on displacement, belonging, and diasporic experience. 

Hao Guang Tse (謝皓光) is the author of The International Left-Hand Calligraphy Association (Tinfish Press, 2023) and the LLM-generated White Dust From Mongolia (If A Leaf Falls Press 2025). He edited the new edition of Windham-Campbell prize-winning poet Wong May’s 1969 debut, A Bad Girl’s Book of Animals (Ethos Books, 2023) and Singaporean anthology of formal poetry UnFree Verse (Ethos Books, 2017); he also publishes literary pamphlets under Paper Jam. A 2016 University of Iowa International Writing Program fellow, his poems and essays appear in Poetry, Poem-a-Day, The Yale Review, Brick, Michigan Quarterly Review and elsewhere.

FIVE SOUND POEMS

[how long is it going to]

[did you touch my english]

[do you give more time to a reader]

[i am part of no narrative]

[i heard myself speaking]

Inna Krasnoper is a Berlin-based poet and dance artist. She is the author of two Russophone poetry collections. Her multilingual poetry has appeared in her chapbooks Over Sight (Eulalia Books) and Sealed (Black Sunflowers Poetry Press), as well as in Annulet, Gulf Coast, Ghost Proposal, and elsewhere. Her first English-language poetry collection dis tanz was published by Veliz Books.

Half Pronouced

Oak Morse lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and holds an MFA from Warren Wilson and an MLIS from the University of Southern Mississippi. He won the 2025 Larry Levis Post-Graduate Award and the 2024 A Public Space Writing Fellowship. Oak has received support from PEN America and fellowships from Brooklyn Poets, Twelve Literary Arts, Cave Canem’s Starshine & Clay, and was honored as a Stars in the Classroom recipient by the Houston Texans. His work appears in POETRY, Callaloo, Electric Literature, Black Warrior Review, Rattle, AGNI, Obsidian, Painted Bride Quarterly, and A Public Space, among others. More at oakmorse.com.

Laurence Lillvik is the editor of Skullcrushing Hummingbird, an international arts and literature zine. He’s published several collections of poetry including “Criterion” on Greying Ghost Press (a twice featured small press at Powell’s Books, Portland, OR.) Laurence founded KalloHumina (SkullHum in Finnish) as a musical collective for solo work, as well as live and studio improvised collaborations.

Music: KalloHumina featuring Dan Gonzalez and Laurence Lillvik

Cover image: “Skirnir” (1924), from the Tanzmasken of Lavinia Shulz & Walter Holdt

Cano is the squiggly lines that fit no box. The sagebrush bohemian, Welsh-Chicano, has made his own movies, produced his own plays, exhibited video in galleries and has had poems published in anthologies. For a decade or so he was a modern dancer. A teacher for ten years he’s been a teaching artist for thirty and will do kind things until he gets his wings.

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Ethan Fortuna is a trans writer and visual artist. He is a Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow at New York University and received his PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston as a Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts Interdisciplinary Fellow. He was selected as a finalist by Wendy’s Subway for the 2023 Carolyn Bush Award book prize, and his work has been published by Chicago Review, Black Sun Lit, beestung, TAGVVERK, bæst: a journal of queer forms and affects, and elsewhere. More can be found on his site.

Cover image: “Nervous Structure” from Dr. Alesha Sivartha’s Book of Life (1898)

Maura Modeya is a poet from rural Minnesota. Their work focuses on dykes with insomnia, the ghost of Sappho, U.S. empire violence, queer ecologies, and the reclamation of public space through wheatpasting. Their chapbooks include Only Interested in Everything (Meekling Press) and Sleepwalking (New American Press), selected by Angela Peñaredondo for a MAYDAY poetry prize. She holds an MFA from Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School and currently lives in Atlanta.

Cover image: The Nightmare, by Henry Fuseli (1781)