Tai Allen, Nicole Callihan, Terence Degnan, Daniel Nester
Tai Allen is the author of No Jewels (Flowered Concrete, 2017). His poetry has appeared in Bomb, African Voices, and other publications. His music is available on iTunes, Bandcamp, Spotify, and other online destinations. Allen has performed music and poetry at venues including the Apollo Music Café, the National Black Writers Conference, the American Jazz Museum, the Art of Cool Festival, and The Nuyorican Poets Café, among others. 
Learn more at taiallen.com.
Nicole Callihan is the author of SuperLoop (Sock Monkey Press, 2014) and the chapbooks A Study in Spring (Rabbit Catastrophe Press, 2015), The Deeply Flawed Human (Deadly Chaps, 2016), and Downtown (Finishing Line Press, 2017). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Sixth Finch, Muzzle, Painted Bride Quarterly, The American Poetry Review, and as a Poem-a-Day selection from the Academy of American Poets. Callihan’s next project, Translucence, a dual-language, cross-culture collaboration with poet Samar Abdel Jaber, who writes in Arabic, will be published by Indolent Books in 2018. Find her on the web at www.nicolecallihan.com.
Terence Degnan is the author of Still Something Rattles (Sock Monkey Press, 2016) and The Small Plot Beside the Ventriloquist’s Grave (Sock Monkey Press, 2012). His poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Resist Much/Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance (Spuyten Duyvil, 2017), part of the Dispatches Editions series edited by Michael Boughn and Kent Johnson. Terence lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter. He’s on the web at terencedegnan.com.
Daniel Nester is the author of Shader: 99 Notes on Car Washes, Making Out in Church, Grief, and Other Unlearnable Subjects (99: The Press, 2015), How to Be Inappropriate (Soft Skull Press, 2009), God Save My Queen: A Tribute (Soft Skull Press, 2003) and God Save My Queen II: The Show Must Go On (Soft Skull Press, 2004). He is the editor of The Incredible Sestina Anthology (Write Bloody Publishing, 2012). His writing has appeared in the New York Times, American Poetry Review, Buzzfeed, and The Atlantic. Nester teaches writing at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY. Find him on the web at danielnester.com.