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Matthew Buckley Smith

Matthew Buckley Smith is the author of Midlife, winner of the 2021 Richard Wilbur Award, and Dirge for an Imaginary World, winner of the 2011 Able Muse Book Award. His poems have been featured in American Life in Poetry, Best American Poetry, and Poetry Daily. He hosts the poetry podcast SLEERICKETS and lives in North Carolina with his wife and daughters.

 

 

Steven Withrow

Steven Withrow has authored four chapbooks—Crackles of Speech, The Sun Ships, The Bedlam Philharmonic, and The Nothing Box—and his poems for children and adults have appeared in numerous journals, anthologies, and textbooks worldwide. He studied writing, literature, and publishing at Roger Williams University and Emerson College. He recently wrote the libretto for a chamber opera based on a classic English ghost story. He lives on Cape Cod, where he has worked as a newspaper editor and a bookseller.

 

 

Peter Kline

Peter Kline is the author of two poetry collections, Mirrorforms (Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions) and Deviants (SFASU Press). A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, he has also received residency fellowships from the Hemingway House, Amy Clampitt House, and James Merrill House. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry, Tin House, and many other journals, as well as the Best New Poets series and Verse Daily, and have won prizes from the Southwest Review, River Styx, and the Columbia Review.

 

Stephen Kampa

Stephen Kampa’s most recent of four poetry collections is World Too Loud to Hear (Able Muse Press, 2023). His earlier collections are Cracks in the Invisible (2011), Bachelor Pad (2014), and Articulate as Rain (2018). His work has appeared in the Yale Review, Cincinnati Review, Southwest Review, Hopkins Review, Poetry Northwest, Subtropics, and Smartish Pace. He was also included in Best American Poetry 2018 and Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America’s Poets Respond to the Pandemic (2020).

 

E. Hume Covey

E. Hume Covey grew up in Virginia, France, Germany, and Italy and has a PhD from the University of Arizona. He has worked as a professor of philosophy and as a manager, writer, and editor in the educational testing industry and has published articles in philosophical journals. He has recently published fiction in Streetlight Magazine and poems in Bellevue Literary Review and multiple issues of Nonbinary Review and Deep South Magazine.

 

Forester McClatchey

Forester McClatchey is a poet and critic from Atlanta, Georgia. He was a finalist for the 2023 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize and a runner-up in the 2023 Michael Waters Poetry Prize, and his work appears in the Hopkins Review, 32 Poems, Birmingham Poetry Review, Five Points, and Gulf Coast, among other journals. He teaches at Atlanta Classical Academy.

 

 

C. M. Hewitt

C. M. Hewitt’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Adroit Journal, Ecotone, the Southampton Review, 32 Poems, and elsewhere. He currently teaches at Cornell University.

 

 

Wendy Videlock

Wendy Videlock is Poet Laureate of the Western Slope in Colorado, serving thirty-two counties across the region. Videlock is the author of six books (four through Able Muse Press, and one each from EXOT Books and Lithic Books). Her poems appear most notably in Poetry, O Magazine, Hudson Review, Hopkins Review, the New York Times, and Rattle. She is a winner of the Cantor Prize and the Fisher Prize, and the three-time winner of the Keats Soul Making Prize. Her syndicated column, “The Barefoot Laureate,” appears in Colorado newspapers.

 

Christopher R. Vaughan

Christopher R. Vaughan’s poems have appeared in numerous journals, including the Cincinnati Review, Hawai‘i Pacific Review, Off the Coast, and Del Sol Review. He was a winner of the 2020 Princemere Poetry Prize and has received support from the Community of Writers, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, Indiana University Writers’ Conference, and Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference. He was a Fellow in the Loft Mentor Series in Poetry and Creative Prose in 2022–23. He lives in Minneapolis.

 

 

Malcolm Farley

Malcolm Farley’s poems have appeared in various journals including AGNI, the New Republic, the Paris Review, the American Scholar, Commonweal, the American Journal of Nursing, the Harvard Review, and the Los Angeles Review. His prose has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Boston Review, and Psychoanalysis Today.

 

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