Collection of 10 poems with original art inspired by the poems printed on 10 postcards (4’’x6’’) printed in a limited edition of 240.

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Issue 2 Contributors:

MICHELLE BITTING was short-listed for the 2023 CRAFT Character Sketch Challenge, the 2020 Montreal International Poetry Prize, and a finalist for the 2021 Coniston Prize and 2020 Reed Magazine Edwin Markham Prize. She is the author of five poetry collections, including Nightmares & Miracles (Two Sylvias Press, 2022), winner of the Wilder Prize and recently named one of Kirkus Reviews 2022 Best of Indie. Her chapbook Dummy Ventriloquist is forthcoming in 2024 from C & R Press. Recent poetry appears on The Slowdown, Thrush, Cleaver, The Poetry Society of New York’s Milk Press, and is featured as Poem of the Week in The Missouri Review. Bitting holds an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Mythological Studies, emphasis Poetry and Psychology. She is writing a novel that centers around Los Angeles and her great grandmother, stage and screen actor Beryl Mercer, and is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and Literature at Loyola Marymount University.

LISA CICCARELLO is the author of At Night (Black Ocean, 2015), as well as several chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in the PEN Poetry Series, The Academy of American Poet's Poem-a-Day, Tin House, Denver Quarterly, & Sixth Finch, among others.

TODD DILLARD's work has appeared in numerous publications, including American Poetry Review, The Adroit Journal, and Poet Lore. His debut collection Ways We Vanish (Okay Donkey Press) was a finalist for the 2021 Balcones Poetry Award, and his chapbook Ragnarök at the Father-Daughter Dance is forthcoming from Variant Literature. He is a Poetry Editor at The Boiler. 

NOAH FALCK is the author of Exclusions (finalist for the 2020 Believer Book Award) and the co-authored chapbook Prerecorded Weather (winner of the 2022 James Tate Poetry Prize). His poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, Poetry Daily & Poets.org. He lives in Buffalo, New York, where he works as Literary Director at Just Buffalo and curates the Silo City Reading Series, a multimedia poetry event series inside a 120-foot high, 100-year-old abandoned grain elevator. 

ADRIAN DALLAS FRANDLE (they/he) is a poet and queer fish who writes to the world about its future. They are Poetry Acquisitions Editor for Variant Press. “Book of Extraction: Poems with Teeth” out now with Kith Books. Recent work featured in Honey Literary, Hooligan Magazine, & The Connecticut Literary Anthology (Woodhall Press). Read more at adriandallas.com

REECE ROWAN GRITZMACHER lives in a mountain town surrounded by ponderosa pines, but grew up hugging trees in the Pacific Northwest. Their poetry and prose have appeared or are forthcoming on Barrelhouse, About Place Journal, Chapter House Journal, Eunoia Review, Bending Genres, and elsewhere. They work at a public library and serve on the board of the Northern Arizona Book Festival.

AMORAK HUEY is author of four books of poems including Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress, 2021). Co-founder with Han VanderHart of River River Books, Huey teaches at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He also is co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2024).

JENNY IRISH is the author of the hybrid poetry collections Common Ancestor (Black Lawrence, 2017) and Tooth Box (Spuyten Duyvil, 2021),  the short story collection I Am Faithful  (Black Lawrence, 2019), the chapbook Lupine (Black Lawrence, 2023) and most recently Hatch (Curbstone/Northwestern University Press, 2024). She teaches creative writing at Arizona State University and facilitates free community workshops every summer.

STEFANIE KIRBY lives and writes along Colorado’s Front Range. Her debut chapbook, Fruitful, is the winner of the 2023 Adrift Chapbook Contest, forthcoming from Driftwood Press. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, and Best of the Net, and appear in West Branch, phoebe, The Massachusetts Review, wildness, SAND, The Offing, and elsewhere.

CATE PEEBLES is the author of Thicket (Lost Roads Press, 2018) and Revenge Bodies (Tupelo Press, forthcoming). Her poems can be found in The American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, DIAGRAM, diode, Ghost Proposal, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. A co-editor of the poetry magazine Fou (foumagazine.net), she is a museum archivist and lives in Pennsylvania.