THE POETS
Matthew Buxton is an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writers' Program. He won a 2024 Hopwood Theodore Roethke Prize judged by Sumita Chakraborty, was a finalist for the 2024 Diagram Chapbook Contest, a semi-finalist for the 2024 Verse Tomaž Šalamun Prize, and won the 2021 Academy of American Poets Prize for Emory University. His work appears in poets.org, Court Green, Frozen Sea, and Alloy Literary Magazine.
Richard Carey is a queer writer hailing from the Shenandoah Valley. He currently resides in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Reubern Gelley Newman (he/him) is the author of Feedback Harmonies (Seven Kitchens Press), a chapbook inspired by the musician Arthur Russell. He is a writer, musician, and librarian-in-training based in New York City, and he coedits for Couplet Poetry. Recent poems have appeared in Second Factory, Only Poems, Salamander, mercury firs, Tyger Quarterly, and Afternoon Visitor.
Chris Gylee (he/him, Stockport UK, 1983) is a queer writer and artist living between rural Finland and Berlin. His poems include the online collection FORTY, the micro-chapbook Ten For ‘A’ (Ghost City Press), and the short series Multiverse Listening (x7). His writing has appeared, or is forthcoming, in GARLAND (Fifth Wheel Press), Frozen Sea, Under the Radar (Nine Arches Press), Powders Press, Tidskriften Astra, and Feral (TUO TUO). Chris was long-listed for the Cúirt New Writing Prize 2023.
Ben Kline (he/him) lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. A poet, storyteller and Madonna mega-fan podcaster, Ben is the author of the chapbooks Sagittarius A* (Sibling Rivalry Press) and Dead Uncles (Driftwood Press), as well as the full-length collections It Was Never Supposed to Be (Variant Literature,) Twang (ELJ Editions,) and Stiff Wrist (fourteen poems.) His work has appeared in Poet Lore, Copper Nickel, Florida Review, DIAGRAM, Poetry, and other publications.
Kit McGuire is a multi-genre writer based in London. Their work includes poetry, fiction, and essays, and has been published and produced by Olit Magazine, SCAB, Queerlings Magazine, CultureClash Theatre, and elsewhere.
Tyler Patton is a writer from Portland, Oregon. He has received support from the Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation fellowship and the Fine Arts Work Center. He is the 2024 recipient of the queer writer fellowship from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. He is a former editor of Indiana Review and is pursuing his MFA at Indiana University.
Stuart Rawlinson (he/him), is a writer living in Glasgow, Scotland, where he works as a software developer. Previous poems have been published in Magma, Frozen Sea, strings, and Ink, Sweat and Tears, among other places. His micro-chap main args was published with Ghost City Press as part of their 2021 Summer Series. In 2022 he was selected as one of four mentees for Clydebuilt 15, through St Mungo's Mirrorball.
Adam Spiegelman is a writer based in NY. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Grand Journal, The Evergreen Review, The Adroit Journal, and Electric Lit, among others.
William Summay (he/him) is a poet and psychotherapist based in Pittsburgh, PA. Through writing, he explores queerness, nature/ecology, and the affective possibilities of eroticism and loss. He has been published in the Michigan Quarterly Review (forthcoming), Stone Of Madness, Volume Poetry, and more.