Poetry
| Chris Tysh, Editor
Poet and scholar, Jeanne Heuving has lived most of her life in Seattle, with forays into Palo Alto, New Haven and Cambridge. She is engaged by the tensions between prose and poetry and seeks to amplify these in her work. Indigo Angel (Black Square Editions, 2023), made up of three books—Mood Indigo, Brilliant Corners and Air Time—takes its lead from different jazz modalities as these ray out into other arts, the natural world and human history. Heuving’s scholarly work includes Inciting Poetics: Thinking and Writing Poetry, co-edited with Tyrone Williams (Recencies Series, University of New Mexico Press, 2019) and The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics (Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Series, University of Alabama Press, 2016).
Jennifer Firestone is the author of several books of poetry,
including Ten (BlazeVox, 2019), Gates & Fields (Belladonna, 2017), Flashes (Shearsman Books, 2013), and STORY (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2019). Firestone recently co-edited, with Marcella
Durand, the MIT collection, Other Influences: An Untold History of
Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry. She lives
in Brooklyn.
Timothy Yu is the author of the poetry collection 100
Chinese Silences (Les Figues Press, 2016), recently reissued by punctum books,
2024. He is also the author of two scholarly
books, Diasporic Poetics: Asian Writing in the United States, Canada,
and Australia and Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and
Asian American Poetry since 1965, and the editor of The Cambridge
Companion to Twenty-First Century American Poetry and Nests
and Strangers: On Asian American Women Poets. His work has appeared
in Poetry, The New York Times Magazine, Fence, and The
New Republic. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
Carly Sachs is the author of the steam sequence (Washington
Writers’ Publishing House, 2006) and Descendants of Eve (Blue
Lyra Press, 2020). She is the editor of the why and
later (Deep Cleveland Press, 2007), a collection of poems
about rape and assault. Her poems and stories have been included in The
Best American Poetry series and read on NPR’s Selected Shorts. Recent
work has appeared in the Mid-Atlantic Review, the At the Well blog, and the Earth Etudes for Elul project. She lives in Lexington, Kentucky.
Dong Li is a multilingual author who translates from Chinese,
English, French, and German. His debut poetry collection, The
Orange Tree (University of Chicago Press, 2023), was the inaugural
winner of the Phoenix Emerging Poet Book Prize and a finalist for the Poetry
Society of America’s T.S. Eliot Four Quartets Prize. He currently lives in
Leipzig, Germany.
Poet, performer and visual artist, julie ezelle patton is the author of several publications, including Using Blue To Get Black (Tender Buttons, 2015) and Writing with Crooked Ink (Belladonna, 2015). Her most recent title is The Flower Poem (Tender Buttons, 2024). A special issue of Chicago Review (Vol. 67, 2024), ARKiTEXT, focuses on patton’s “poetic conceits” and her role in the creation of Let it Bee (LIB) Arkhive, a Rust Belt based legacy adventure which, since the mid-aughts, has advocated for, collected, and housed the work of Depression-era creatives Russell Atkins, Clifton Clay, Virgie Patton, Theresa Ramey, stray cats, native trees, artists, and others in a 110 year-old brownstone. A recipient of an Acker Award, Doan Brook Watershed Hero Award, a Foundation for Contemporary Art Poetry Award, she divides her time between Harlem and the North Coast.