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Poem: “The Tree”*
Poet: Matt Dennison (Facebook)
Bio: Matt Dennison’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Verse Daily, Rattle, The New York Quarterly Magazine, The National Poetry Review, Bayou Magazine, Redivider, and Cider Press Review, among others. His fiction has appeared in ShortStory Substack, House of Long Shadows, Prole (UK), The Wondrous Real, and StoryUnlikely. He has also made poetry videos with Marc Neys, Jutta Pryor & Marie Craven.
*Originally published in Twelve Mile Review.

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Poems: “Transcendental” and “Teacup of Tears”
Poet: Abhik Ganguly (Twitter/X, Instagram, Link Tree)
Bio: Abhik Ganguly is a poet, writer, and scholar-practitioner. Currently, he’s a Junior Research Fellow pursuing his PhD at the Department of English, University of Delhi.

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Poems: “Moonless” and “GRID (play)”
Poet: Jaydn DeWald
Bio: Jaydn DeWald is the author of two books, The Rosebud Variations and Sheets of Sound, both from Broken Sleep Books, as well as several limited-edition chapbooks including A Love Supreme, winner of the 2019 Quarterly West Chapbook Contest. He is Associate Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Piedmont University in Demorest, Georgia and serves as managing editor for C O M P : an interdisciplinary journal.

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Poems: “The Scout” and “Living Poem”
Poet: Jessie McLean
Bio: McLean, who has been published in Rising Phoenix Review, Rise Up Review, and Sparks of Calliope, began writing poetry in childhood and continued as a way of processing symptoms and truths associated with McLean’s early diagnosis and experience of bipolar I disorder. McLean stopped writing for a long period but recently started again. The poet believes that sometimes we can describe a thought or feeling in a way it’s never been said before. Then the unique and the universal settle together, calling for art, but also connection.

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Poems: “Refigurations,” “Birth of Civilization,” and “About the Author”
Poet: Tim Duffy
Bio: Tim Duffy is a poet in Connecticut. His work has recently appeared in Pleiades, Salt Hill, trampset, Black Fork Review, and elsewhere.

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Poems: “RIP MTD,” “Sympathy for the Sober Sister,” and “Reunion Special”
Poet: Alex Carrigan (Twitter/X, Web)
Bio: Alex Carrigan (he/him) is a Pushcart-nominated editor, poet, and critic from Alexandria, VA. He is the author of Now Let’s Get Brunch (Querencia Press, 2023) and May All Our Pain Be Champagne (Alien Buddha Press, 2022). He has appeared in SoFloPoJo, Cotton Xenomorph, Bullshit Lit, HAD, fifth wheel press, and more. Visit carriganak.wordpress.com or follow him on Twitter @carriganak for more info.

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Poem: “America (Ode to Allen)”
Poet: Andrew Smith
Bio:  Andrew is a student and wishes to hear your song soon.

Poem: “The little things people say like ‘I miss the old you'”
Poet: Aurynanya (Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook, Web)
Bio: Aurynanya writes beautifully brutal, devastatingly dark poetry and prose. Her work has appeared in Hellbound Books, Hearth & Coffin, Move Me Poetry, and more. Aury, in 2022, created the limited edition “Between Blood and Bone” dark poetry book. She will soon release a revised version of her “My Heart is Out for Blood,” book; a short story collection called “Jonathan”; as well as her “A Girl Can Nightmare” collection. She lives tucked away in darkness at her Massachusetts home, where she is owned by two black cats.