Reid's bio
Is that Reid lives in Olympia.
I'm peeling life...
( Losarc Raal )
LOSARC RAAL / CARLOS LARA are writers, translators, and editors originally from Chula Vista, CA and Varna, Bulgaria. They were tyrants over the controversial poetry and arts journal NOMATERIALISM (2020—2022). They have translated two books of Blanca Varela's poetry: Material Exercises (Black Sun Lit, 2023) and Rough Song (The Song Cave, 2020). With Tamas Panitz, they translated The Selected Poems of Charles Tomás (Schism, 2022). They are the authors of the chapbooks: [SELF-SELECTIONS] (Trainwreck Press, 2021), The Poetry of Carlux Carluxlax (Reverse Catfish, 2022), and The Adverse Keys (Spiral Editions, 2022). A pamphlet, Dead or Alive (The Creative Writing Department), was also published in 2022. Their pseudo-novella, NO MATERIAL, was published by Black Sun Lit in 2023. They have also written the poetry books Subconscious Colossus (Schism, 2021), Like Bismuth When I Enter (Nightboat, 2020), The Green Record (Apostrophe, 2018), and The Audiographic As Data (Oyster Moon, 2016). A new poetry collection, The Pact of Non Self, is forthcoming from NEW Books in 2024. They have lived in Los Angeles, Olympia, Chicago, Brooklyn, Greece, Argentina, and Saudi Arabia, and they currently reside with their wife and sons in Chula Vista, CA. Hit them at losarcraal@gmail.com
( Cameron Lovejoy )
Cameron Lovejoy is a self-taught poet and fine printer living in New Orleans. He operates Tilted House, a small press focussed on intimately made handbound books. His work can be found or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Ghost Proposal, and others.
leeping postures study the mud so darlings pass unnoticed.
( Sean Devlin )
Sean Devlin is an experimental musician and sound artist living in Philadelphia. Anxious atmospheres that tend to fall out of control.
I've been peeling stickers off of the floor. From various products.
( junkmail )
junkmail is a desert aid volunteer currently living in Tucson, AZ.
My thumb, because I cut it off last month and now I literally peel it every day.
Kimaya Kulkarni is a fiction writer from Pune. In her free time, she works as editor for Bilori Journal. Her work can be found in Liminal Transit Review, Honey and Lime Lit, Lily Poetry Review, ROM Mag and a fiction anthology by Four Palaces Publishing.
Thank you so much for asking. My ajji turned 85 today and celebrating her made me think we might have been peeling away time, holding on to the peel of time, gathering the peels from time, making sure we're not peeling it so much that we accidentally nick its flesh. Time, yours, mine and ajji's, is shedding its snakeskin around us and slithering away with a brand new coat of cat fur, bringing in mosambi from the market, compelling me to hold the fruits under running water to rid them of the saliva, before I can sit and ask you to peel them for me. My fingers are cramping from the repetition. Can we share the peeling? We can watch as ajji spits out the seeds after consuming the juiciest parts of the citrus. She knows how to make them land exactly at the base of the jasmine tree. It's simultaneously galactic and tectonic.
Henry Goldkamp (he/they) lives in New Orleans, where he co-runs The Splice Poetry Series, acts as intermedia editor of TILT for the small press Tilted House, and teaches experimental poetry and clown studies at Louisiana State University. Recent art, criticism, and performance appear in Annulet, Accelerants: An Action Books Poetry Film Series, Volt, Works & Days, Bat City Review (winner of the 2022 Editors' Hybrid Prize), Afternoon Visitor, and DIAGRAM, among others. More at henrygoldkamp.com.
leave the husk out long enough
and it begins to crack.
with 6 classes, readings, review deadlines, etc.
—that's where i'm at:
dry between the peel and the fruit.
but literally,
most recently:
a potato, for soup.
( Matthew Klane )
Matthew Klane has an MA in Poetics from SUNY Buffalo and an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His books of poetry include Hist (w/ James Belflower, Calamari 2022), Canyons (w/ James Belflower, Flimb Press 2016), Che (Stockport Flats 2013) and B (Stockport Flats 2008). An e-chapbook from Of the Day is online at Delete Press and an e-book My is online at Fence Digital. He is co-founder of Flim Forum Press and currently co-curator of Salon Salvage, a poetry and performance series inside of Weathered Wood in downtown Troy, NY. See: www.matthewklane.com.
peeling myself, peeling myself
Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo is a recent graduate of the Rutgers University-Camden MFA program, where she wrote about deer, hand models, and trees. She is the author of the chapbook "DUH" (Bullshit Lit) and her work appears or is forthcoming in The Offing, Joyland, The Cleveland Review of Books, and Tagvverk, among others. Juliet lives in Philadelphia, where she runs the reading and open mic series Spit Poetry. She can be followed @tall.spy (Instagram) and @tall__spy (Twitter) but she can never be caught.
Zo Flicker (she/her/hers) is a transfemme poet, sound artist, and photo artist based in Philadelphia, PA and hailing from the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds an MFA in Writing from UC San Diego, has published work in Reality Beach, Miramar, Voicemail Poems, and Frozen Sea, and has designed and distributed two DIY chapbooks, Anaerobics (2018) and [SIC].rar (2022). Her work could be called a queer neoformalism or a humble little offering to sexed noise.
Lately, I've been peeling my entire life (one rind, wish me luck).
Eric Tyler Benick wrote the fox hunts (Beautiful Days, 2023) and the essay Memory Field: A Travelogue of Forgetting (Long Day, 2024). With Nick Rossi, he runs Ursus Americanus Press, a publisher of shorter poetics. His recent work has appeared in Bennington Review, Brooklyn Review, Copper Nickel, Harvard Advocate, Mercury Firs, NOIR SAUNA, and Puerto Del Sol. His chapbook Solip Schism is forthcoming from Blue Bag Press. He lives in Brooklyn.
Ebs Sanders is a poet living in Philadelphia. They co-edit the tiny with Gina Myers. They are the author of Intimacies that did not destroy us (Bottlecap Press, 2022) and A Fallow Channel (Gauss PDF, 2020). Their work has appeared in Asterion Projects, baest, bedfellows, blush, Full Stop, Fungiculture, Prolit, The Rumpus and Tripwire, among others. Their art has been exhibited at Vox Populi.
finding refuge in dykedom. jill says it's soft ocean foam. in our third floor apartment, skin to skin contact soothes the landlord's interfering in our small pleasures. he installs digital locks on all our units and brings investors through. he's been trying to sell it for years on end. he's charging too much — the building's in disrepair, the tenants seem hostile. we paint one room pink and the other yellow. domesticity makes me restless and the city weary. when the tiktok says this sound isn't available what are you left with? the professor who complained he couldn't teach cage's 4'33 that day because of the sound of students protesting. ambient comes from going all around. joanne kyger writes the dominant culture's voraciousness is so overwhelming. this is a letter to all the sounds we hear sleepwalking.
PJ Lombardo was born in New Jersey. He earned an MFA from the University of Notre Dame. Currently, he serves as co-founding editor of GROTTO, a journal of grotesque-surrealist poetry. Read his work in Reap Thrill, Mercury Firs, SARKA, Spectra Poets, and elsewhere.
Lately, I've been peeling Joyelle McSweeney's Death Styles, an Andreas Malm article on the link between Zionism and global resource depletion, the album You're Nothing by Iceage, and plastic wrappers off zinc lozenges (caught the flu last week).
Harper Dang grew up in San Bernardino, CA.
the metallic layer off of gum wrappers then folding it into many triangles.
Jonny Collazo is the author of The High & The Low (New Books, 2023), Antiquity Antiquity (Creative Writing Department, 2023), and Waves of Mousse (New Smut Series, 2024).
Lately I've been peeling fretty good.
Will Newman is an educator and poet living in Philadelphia, PA. Some of their previously published work can be found here: https://wmnewmanjr.wixsite.com/uumn.
At least three bananas.
Akari Komura (b.1996) is a sound/text/visual artist from Tokyo, Japan. Her works center around contemplative and perceptual engagement with listening and soundmaking. She is interested in curating a participatory performance space inviting a multi-sensorial experience for performers and audiences. Akari is a Ph.D. composition student at the University of California San Diego.
And I have been peeling figs lately.