( Aminta Uly )
Aminta Uly writes from small spaces, glitch, and a grammar of self.
( Scout Faller )
Scout Faller is a Pushcart-nominated poet and recipient of the Leijia Hanrahan Scholarship for Communist Women Smokers. They are currently pursuing their MFA at the University of Iowa. They are rarely bored.
I've been peeling the wax off babybel cheese, and saving it (the wax) for later.
( Christine Kelly )
Christine is a poet and artist based in North Adams, MA. She is the author of Allow Me to Slip on Something a Little More Hypocycloid (PRROBLEM, 2025) and the chapbooks Food Gas Lodging Liquid Solid (Creative Writing Department, 2023), Dopamine Agonist Destiny Forest (Theme Can Print Editions, 2018), and Pudding Time (DoubleCross Press, 2015).
( Lyra Montoya )
Lyra Montoya is a performance artist whose practice explores fragmentation and breakage of the artistic medium in performance via improvisation and open form sound art. Her work explores queer and mixed identity as parallel performances of cultural identity and memory in diaspora and anaphora. The associated breakage of these forms of performance in identity and art and the associated artistic medium are emphasized through mixed/inter/transmedia forms of writing, visual arts, and sound art mixed media in the sites of translation and poetics. She is currently a Ph.D student in the Integrative Studies program at UC San Diego.
I would say that I'm peeling mostly skin, specifically little flakes of skin off of my fingertips because they catch on fabrics and scratch my skin. I have not been eating these peels.
( Abbigail Baldys )
Abbigail Baldys collects paper clips in Boston, MA. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Creative Writing Department, Tupelo Quarterly, RHINO, The Laurel Review, BlazeVOX, ANMLY, and elsewhere. She composes electronic avant-pop music under the moniker vaste.
Lately, I've been peeling skin from my cuticles.
( Ry Cook )
Ry Cook is a Brooklyn-based poet/performer who was recently awarded the Belladonna* Nonbinary Poetics residency. Their work has been published in the New Republic, Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, Iterant, Spiral Editions, Archway Editions, No Dear, and others. Freak of Nature, their first chapbook, is published by Choo Choo Press. Their second, ASUSHUNAMIR, is out this fall.
Lately I've been peeling off old nail polish into little flakes. The more intact the shape the better.
( Stephanie Cawley )
Stephanie Cawley is a poet in Philadelphia. They are the author of No More Flowers (Birds, LLC) and My Heart But Not My Heart (Slope Editions). Recent poems have been published in Protean, Prolit, and the tiny. More at stephaniecawley.com.
I have been in what I would describe as a personal banana renaissance, so I have been peeling a lot of bananas.
( Allison Evans )
Allison Olivia Evans is an artist, theorist, and educator living in San Diego, CA. They hold an MFA in Studio
Art with a concentration in Photography from the University of Notre Dame and are currently a doctoral candidate
in the Art History, Theory, Criticism and Art Practice program at the University of California, San Diego. Evans's
work engages with new materialism(s), feminist ecologies, queer phenomenology, and photographic histories. They
produce films, site-specific installations, and experimental photographic works that explore entanglement; a concept
used in the science studies writings of Donna Haraway and Karen Barad to describe both the heterogeneity and inter-connectivity
of matter. Since 2019, they have been developing the Solar Archive Project, an experimental project that explores the instability
and indeterminacy of the photographic archive. This expansive project incorporates a range of experiences, materials,
and processes that attempt to reveal sunlight's vitality and volatility.
Evans has received awards and scholarships including the Redux Contemporary Art Center's Award for Photography,
the ISLA Professional Development Grant, and the Russell Foundation Grant. They have presented their work internationally,
most notably at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin, Ireland. In recognition of their research on Nancy Holt's "Sun Tunnels,"
they were invited to attend Nancy Holt's Scholar's Day at Dia Art Foundation.
i am peeling timescales from brainstems
( Aminta Uly )
Aminta Uly writes from small spaces, glitch, and a grammar of self.
( Tom Jeep Carlson )
Tom Jeep Carlson teaches First Year Writing at Metropolitan State University of Denver, holds a couple graduate degrees of debatable use-value, a BA from The Evergreen State College, and a pile of debt he will pay off when he's rich. He has been published in Edge City (Noco Books), Metapsychosis, digital vestiges (Black Sun Lit), and The Ballet Review. His poems attempt whale syntax, afterlife physics, hosting gods, the landscape's mode of thought, and the poetics of poetry's obsolescence
( Sean F. Munro )
Sean F. Munro is a poet, professor of English, associate editor for Lavender Ink / Diálogos, & executive director of the New Orleans Poetry Festival. Sean also co-curates The Splice Poetry Series and founded LitWire: the literary events calendar of New Orleans. Recent or forthcoming poetry, criticism, and translation can be found in Annulet, Antiphony, The Texas Review Jacket2, and Some. More at seanfmunro.com
I'm not peeling apples or pears, but I am peeling bananas. There has been much fruit in my life in the new year. I've also been peeling the pages of The Only Poetry That Matters: Reading the Kootenay School of Writing by Clint Burnham. He is a great peeler of poems / poetry scenes / Frederic Jameson / &Canadians.
Eric Michael Acosta is a poet in Seattle. His debut collection Motion Flesh is out through Chat Room Books. His follow-up Underbelly is out through Carbonation Press. He hosts and curates the monthly performance series unpoetry. Find more of his work at printcopiesavailable.com, or on IG @bottle_meat.
I've been peeling expectation from poetry to be "poetry" -- unfolding word and image from its stagnant shapes -- finding the conversations of soil, and the aromatic texture in nectar and rind.
( Jesslyn Whittell )
Jesslyn Whittell is a poet and contingent academic from Los Angeles, where she teaches creative writing. Other recent work is out with or forthcoming from Annulet, Action, Spectacle, The Indiana Review, and The Bicoastal Review.
She usually eats the peel of things, unless she doesn't want to.
( Myene Yanu )
Myene Yanu (b.1992) is from Oakland, California. She currently lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
( Zach Peckham )
Zach Peckham is a writer, editor, and teacher. He is the author of the chapbook
cycle hum (Sistrum Books, 2025), the poetry collection As If And (New Mundo, 2026), and
his work has appeared in APARTMENT, Annulet, Oversound, mercury firs, Poetry Northwest,
American Book Review, and elsewhere. He runs the small press Community Mausoleum and the
journal Coma, and is the 2025-2026 Jennifer Jahrling Forese Writer-in-Residence at Colby College.
apposite and opposite each-facing waves
( Alex Tretbar )
Alex Tretbar is the author of the chapbooks According to the Plat Thereof (Ethel, 2025) and Kansas City Gothic (Broken Sleep, 2025). As a Writers for Readers Fellow with the Kansas City Public Library, he teaches free writing classes to the community. Recent work has appeared in Always Crashing, APARTMENT, Coma, like a field, and Tyger Quarterly.
The only thing I've been peeling lately are green bananas. I love green bananas.