Terrence Arjoon is the author of The Disinherited (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025) and Acid Splash, or Into Blue Caves (1080PRESS, 2023). His work has appeared in Annulet, Tagvverk, The Poetry Project Newsletter, and Smooth Friend. In The Disinherited, Arjoon communes with dandy and symbolist Gérard de Nerval. Writes Mónica de la Torre, “The speaker in one of the poems in this indelible collection asks […]: “Am I Nerval or Villon… Harris or Rodney?” His question echoes and distorts a line in Nerval’s own “El Desdichado”: “Suis-je Amour ou Phoebus?…. Lusignan ou Biron?” If despair has muddled the identity of the original’s lovelorn speaker, it only makes sense that its translator’s also becomes blurred in his mirroring, exponential version.”

Aaron Fagan is the author of five collections, including Atom and Void (Princeton University Press, 2025) and A Better Place Is Hard to Find (The Song Cave, 2020). His poems have appeared in Granta, Harper’s, The London Magazine, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, and Raritan. Poet Zoë Hitzig writes, “Reading Atom and Void is like skating a Möbius strip—one continuous surface where metaphysical inquiry and tactile horror loop into and through each other.” Drawing on influences as diverse as physics, art, and philosophy, the poems create a space where the reader encounters the immediacy of experience alongside its inevitable fading.

Peter Spagnuolo studied poetry at Berkeley in the 1980s.  He is a co-founder of the book-arts collective Booklyn, as well as the Squatter-Homesteader Archive at NYU’s Tamiment Collection/Bobst Library.  Spagnuolo has won poetry fellowships from both the California and Pennsylvania State Arts Council and recently completed a residency at Studio Panicale in Tuscany.  His work has appeared in Poetry, The Threepenny Review, and The London Review of Books. His collection, Click-Bait/Spit-Take, was published in 2025 by Epic Phail Books. He works as a carpenter and electrician, and moonlights as a criminal defense investigator in New York City.