Poetry

Sometimes I Am Too Impatient for Poetry and Also for Sex
(Photo Credit: Petra Lee)
J. Bailey Hutchinson is a poet from Memphis, Tennessee. Her debut collection, Gut, won the 2022 Miller Williams Poetry Prize. She is an associate editor at Milkweed Editions, and her work can be found in Muzzle Magazine, Beloit Poetry Journal, Ninth Letter, and more. A complete list of her work can be found at jbaileyhutchinson.com

The Moonshine Economy
Jake Goldwasser is a poet and cartoonist based in Brooklyn. You can find his poetry in The Spectacle, The Meadow, and elsewhere. His cartoon work has appeared in The New Yorker, Weekly Humorist, and elsewhere. He is a New Jewish Culture Fellow for the 2020-2021 cycle, for which he is teaching a graphic memoir seminar. You can find him on Instagram at @jakegoldwasser.

The Weather in Brooklyn
Jake Goldwasser is a poet and cartoonist based in Brooklyn. You can find his poetry in The Spectacle, The Meadow, and elsewhere. His cartoon work has appeared in The New Yorker, Weekly Humorist, and elsewhere. He is a New Jewish Culture Fellow for the 2020-2021 cycle, for which he is teaching a graphic memoir seminar. You can find him on Instagram at @jakegoldwasser.

Alien Abduction Insurance
Corey Ginsberg’s prose and poetry have appeared in such publications as The Fiddlehead, Yemassee, Third Coast, and The Gettysburg Review. Corey enjoys eating spaghetti, spoiling her dachshunds, and listening to The Beatles.

Patrizate (intransitive verb)
Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer is a poet from Maryland. Their work has previously been published or is forthcoming in Memorious, The Roanoke Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and L’Éphémère Review. They were a poetry semifinalist for the 2017 St. Lawrence Book Award (Black Lawrence Press) and the 2019 and 2020 recipient of the Bryn Mawr Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize.

Ser La Leche
Clayre Benzadón is an MFA graduate student at the University of Miami, managing editor of Sinking City, and Broadsided Press’s Instagram editor. Her chapbook, “Liminal Zenith” was published by SurVision Books. She was also awarded the 2019 Alfred Boas Poetry Prize for “Linguistic Rewilding” and published in places including SWWIM, 14poems, and Crêpe and
Penn, as well as forthcoming in ANMLY and Fairy Tale Review. You can find more about her at clayrebenzadon.com.
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Dastardly
Weston Richey is a writer and academic. Weston earned a BA in philosophy and English from New York University and an MFA in creative writing from Rutgers University—Newark, and is now a PhD student in English at The University of Texas at Austin. Weston’s work has appeared elsewhere in Pigeon Pages, Strange Horizons, and FreezeRay Poetry.

A Man of My Own Sex
Weston Richey is a writer and academic. Weston earned a BA in philosophy and English from New York University and an MFA in creative writing from Rutgers University—Newark, and is now a PhD student in English at The University of Texas at Austin. Weston’s work has appeared elsewhere in Pigeon Pages, Strange Horizons, and FreezeRay Poetry.

Sometimes I Am Too Impatient for Poetry and Also for Sex
(Photo Credit: Petra Lee)
J. Bailey Hutchinson is a poet from Memphis, Tennessee. Her debut collection, Gut, won the 2022 Miller Williams Poetry Prize. She is an associate editor at Milkweed Editions, and her work can be found in Muzzle Magazine, Beloit Poetry Journal, Ninth Letter, and more. A complete list of her work can be found at jbaileyhutchinson.com

The Moonshine Economy
Jake Goldwasser is a poet and cartoonist based in Brooklyn. You can find his poetry in The Spectacle, The Meadow, and elsewhere. His cartoon work has appeared in The New Yorker, Weekly Humorist, and elsewhere. He is a New Jewish Culture Fellow for the 2020-2021 cycle, for which he is teaching a graphic memoir seminar. You can find him on Instagram at @jakegoldwasser.
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