Poetry
| Chris Tysh, Editor
Juliana Spahr
Poet, scholar and editor, Juliana Spahr is the author of That Winter The Wolf Came (Commune Editions, 2015); Well Then There Now (Black Sparrow Press, 2011); This Connection of Everyone with Lungs (University of California Press, 2005); Fuck You—Aloha—I Love You (Wesleyan University Press, 2001); and Response (Sun & Moon Press, 1996), winner of the National Poetry Series Award. From 1993 to 2003, Spahr co-edited the arts journal Chain, which she co-founded with Jena Osman. Her latest publication is Ars Poeticas, Wesleyan UP, 2025.Jeffrey Joe Nelson
Jeffrey Joe Nelson hosts the Greetings Readings Series at Unnameable Books in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. His Road of a Thousand Wonders was published by Ugly Duckling Presse.Zan de Parry
Fiona Templeton
Fiona Templeton is a poet and director. She lives in New York but spends a lot of time in Scotland where she was born and grew up. Her books include The Medead, Cells of Release and You-The City, all published by Roof; Elements of Performance Art published by Raven Row, and London from Sun & Moon Press. She co-founded the Theatre of Mistakes in London in the 1970s, and is Artistic Director of The Relationship in New York. Fiona has received Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Asian Cultural Council, and the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard, as well as multiple theatre commissions internationally. Her poetry often uses oral methods of composition, and she has long been interested in the female voice. In addition to multiple voices and languages, her performance work particularly considers space and the audience. She is working on a Scottish/Japanese diptych.Ammiel Alcalay
Ammiel Alcalay is a poet, novelist, translator, critic, and scholar, and author of some thirty books. Controlled Demolition: a work in four books, Follow the Person: Archival Encounters, and Nasser Rabah’s Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece (co-translated with Khaled al-Hilli and Emna Zghal), have all come out in 2025. His work has appeared in small and large venues, from the Poetry Project Newsletter and Clothesline, to Time Magazine and The New York Times. He regularly writes on politics, most recently for Middle East Eye. While bringing works from other parts of the world to the US via translation and advocacy, Alcalay has also been a key figure in reconfiguring US literary and cultural history through the unique publishing, pedagogical, and public project, Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative. Founded in 2009, Alcalay’s work on Lost & Found was recognized in 2017 with a Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award.Kholoud Hammad
Kholoud Hammad is a Palestinian artist, illustrator, and graphic designer born in Gaza where she still lives. Repeatedly displaced in Northern Gaza with her family since October, 2023, she continues to make intricate and beautiful artwork about the beauty of Palestine and symbols of Palestinian identity and liberation. Her work is imbued with an overwhelming spirit of resistance, depicting heroic figures in epic tableaux, whirlwind scenes of chaos and destruction, or schematic views of exploding buildings. As she herself has written: “My art springs from the reality I live every day—harsh scenes of destruction, loss, and resilience... Art became my voice when words fail me. It is my way to process pain, resist injustice, and share my truth with the world.”