Hillary Leftwich is a neurodivergent writer and the author of Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock (Agape Editions, 2023, new edition), Aura (Future Tense Books and Blackstone Audio Publishing, 2022), and Saint Dymphna’s Playbook, (forthcoming from Limit Zero, 2025). She owns Alchemy Author Services and Writing Workshop and teaches writing at several universities and colleges along with Lighthouse Writers, a local nonprofit for adults and youth. Her latest work can be found or forthcoming in The Sun, Best Small Fictions, Santa Fe Writers Project, The Rumpus, and Denver Quarterly. On the outskirts of the writing world, she is also a professional tarot reader and speaks with the dead. She lives in Denver.

Feature Image: Polychrome Woodblocks of Itō Jakuchū Birds – “Golden Pheasant in the Snow”

Michael Becker is a poet and an artist.

Feature Image: Maria Sibylla Merian’s Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705), detail of Arsenura armida, moths of the Saturniidae family, and Erythrina fusca, a species of flowering tree.

NOTE: A video poem engagement with an Aleppo Pine in the harbor of Cassis, France; a crip drift, with attention to mobility, disability, interdependence, temporality, pulse and sun song. Crip drifts are methods for moving through the world as a disabled artist living with pain: touching, being-with, sensing in a world that is likewise disabled, compromised, thriving in complexity. A collaboration between Petra Kuppers and the tree. Shot while in residence at the Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France, 2024.

Petra Kuppers (she/her) is a disability culture activist, a scooter user, and a community performance artist. Her fourth poetry collection, Diver Beneath the Street, investigates true crime and ecopoetry at the level of the soil, bringing together life and death (2024).  Her previous collection, Gut Botany (2020), was named one of the top ten US poetry books of 2020 by the New York Public Library and won the Creative Book Award by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. She teaches at the University of Michigan and was a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow. She is currently at work on Planting Disabled Futures, a virtual reality/community performance project, as a Just Tech Fellow (2024-2026).

Gregg Williard is a writer and visual artist based in Madison, Wisconsin. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Conjunctions, Diagram, New England Review, The Iowa Review, Shenandoah, Sweet Lit and others. His animations have been featured in the Mills Folly Microcinema Series at Art and Literature Lab in Madison, Wisconsin. He also does a long-running late night book reading hour on WORT FM (wortfm.org). 

Feature Image: A Remembrance of Aerial Forms: Odilon Redon’s À Edgar Poe (1882)

Hugo Gallo is a Brazilian media artist, filmmaker and actor based in São Paulo. Constantly drawing from his experience in theater and cinema, and holding an MFA in Image and Text, his projects have been published/exhibited at venues such as Rhizome DC, FOAM Magazine, the New York Art Book Fair, and Teatro Centro da Terra. His current work includes expanded cinema projects, theatrical plays, experimental clowning, writing, and photography.

Feature Image: A still from Paul Fejos’ Lonesome (1928)

 

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.