Philip F. Clark, John Deming, Cornelius Eady, Joanna Fuhrman, Christine Stoddard
Philip F. Clark is the author of The Carnival of Affection (Sibling Rivalry, 2017). His poetry and reviews have appeared in Lambda Literary, HIV Here & Now, The Conversant, The Good Men Project, and Atomic Micro Press, as well as in Poems in the Aftermath: An Anthology from the 2016 Presidential Transition (Indolent Books, 2018), edited by Michael Broder. He teaches English and poetry at City College (City University of New York), where he received his MFA in Creative Writing/Poetry in 2016.
John Deming is the author of Headline News (Indolent Books, 2018). He lives in New York City, where he is editor of Coldfront, Writing Center Director at LIM College, and co-curator of KGB Monday Night Poetry. His writing has appeared in Salon, Boston Review, A Public Space, and elsewhere.
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Cornelius Eady is the author of Hardheaded Weather (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2008); Brutal Imagination (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2001), a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry; The Autobiography of a Jukebox (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1997); You Don’t Miss Your Water (Henry Holt, 1995); The Gathering of My Name (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1991), nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; BOOM BOOM BOOM (State Street Press, 1988); Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (Ommation Press, 1986), chosen by Louise Glück, Charles Simic, and Philip Booth for the Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets; and Kartunes (Warthog Press, 1980). With Toi Derricote, Eady is co-founder of Cave Canem, a national organization for African American poetry and poets. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Guggenheim Foundation, and The Rockefeller Foundation, and was awarded The Prairie Schooner Strousse Award.
Joanna Fuhrman is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The Year of Yellow Butterflies (Hanging Loose Press, 2015) and Pageant (Alice James Books, 2009). She’s finishing a new collection, The Bad Witness, and teaches creative writing at Rutgers University. For more, see joannafuhrman.com.
Christine Stoddard is a Salvadoran-American artist and writer originally from Virginia. Her work has appeared in the The Feminist Wire, the New York Transit Museum, The Huffington Post, the Queens Museum, Bustle, the Poe Museum, Pank, Annmarie Sculpture Garden, Bushwick Daily, FiveMyles Gallery, and elsewhere. She is the author of Water for the Cactus Woman (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018), among other titles, and the founder of Quail Bell Magazine. Her most recent chapbook is The Tale of the Clam Ear (AngelHouse Press, 2018).