Poetry | Chris Tysh, Editor


Eléna Rivera

Eléna Rivera is the author of several poetry collections, including Arrangements, with Peter Hughes (Aquifer Press, 2022), Epic Series (Shearsman Books, 2020), Scaffolding (Princeton University Press, 2017), and The Perforated Map (Shearsman Books, 2011). She received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Translation and was a recipient of poetry fellowships from MacDowell, Trelex Paris Poetry Residency, and the SHOEN Foundation. She currently lives in New York City.




Vanessa Place

Vanessa Place is an American writer and criminal defense appellate attorney. She has published numerous books of poetry and prose, including Dies: A Sentence (2005), La Medusa (2008), the Tragodía trilogy, composed of legal documents, and Boycott (2013). She coauthored Notes on Conceptualisms (2009) with Robert Fitterman. She is also the author of the legal analysis The Guilt Project: Rape, Morality, and Law (2010). Place coedited I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women with Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, and Teresa Carmody, and translated Frank Smith’s Guantanamo (2013).  She has performed internationally, including at the Musée d’Orsay, the Getty Villa, the European Parliament (Brussels) and the Modern Museum of Art (New York), and was the first poet to perform in the Whitney Biennial.  She lives in Brooklyn.



Benjamin Paloff

Poet, translator and scholar, Benjamin Paloff is the author of Lost in the Shadow of the Word: Space, Time, and Freedom in Interwar Eastern Europe (Northwestern University Press, 2016), and of two poetry collections, And His Orchestra (2015) and The Politics (2011), both published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. He has translated numerous books and theoretical texts from Polish, Czech, Russian, and Yiddish, notably works by Dorota Masłowska, Marek Bieńczyk, Richard Weiner, and Yuri Lotman, and he has received grants and fellowships from the Michigan Society of Fellows (2007-2010), Poland’s Book Institute (2010), the Stanford Humanities Center (2013), and the National Endowment for the Arts (2009, 2016). He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.



E. Tracy Grinnell

E. Tracy Grinnell is the author of five books of poetry, including Hell Figures (Nightboat Books, 2016) and portrait of a lesser subject (elis press, 2015). With Isabelle Garron, she is the translator of way by Leslie Scalapino into French (Éditions Corti, 2020). Her writing has also appeared in a wide range of journals and collections, including BAX 2016: Best American Experimental Writing, edited by Charles Bernstein and Tracie Morris (Wesleyan University Press, 2016). She lives in Brooklyn, New York and is the Founding Editor and Executive & Artistic Director of Litmus Press.



Philip Metres

Philip Metres is the author of numerous books, including Fugitive/Refuge (2024) and Shrapnel Maps (2020). His work has garnered fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Lannan Foundation, the NEA, and the Ohio Arts Council. He has received the Hunt Prize, the Adrienne Rich Award, three Arab American Book Awards, the Lyric Poetry Prize, and the Cleveland Arts Prize. He is based in Ohio.






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