Jordan E. Franklin
3: poet speaks of doomsday preachers
poet’s day: “Cooties”
poet self-edits: Report for Dr. West
Jordan E. Franklin hails from Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA from Stony Brook Southampton and a PhD from Binghamton University. She is the author of the poetry collection, when the signals come home (Switchback Books), and the chapbook, boys in the electric age (Tolsun Books). Her work has appeared in Breadcrumbs, Frontier, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, the Southampton Review, Torch Literary Arts, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 2017 James Hearst Poetry Prize, the 2020 Gatewood Prize, and the 2024 AWP Intro Journals Project Award.
Rose Jenny
An Alcoholic Contrapuntal & Zombie Girl in the Dairy Barn & It Gets Cold in Here
Rose Jenny is a trans writer/performer based in Tennessee. Her chapbook, My Apocrypha, is available through Bottlecap Press. Rose's other selected poems have been published in SWWIM Every Day, Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly, SoFloPoJo, new words {press}, and elsewhere. Her work has received additional support from Tin House and the Sewanee Writers' Conference; she was also a finalist for the 2025 Maureen Seaton Poetry Prize. Rose has an MFA in Creative Writing from University of Miami, where she was a Michener Fellow. All of her work can be found at rosejenny.com.
Richard James Mehdi
climate apocalypse aura song
Richard James Mehdi (he/him) is a writer and visual artist, a trans man who is legally disabled by mental illness and who has lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado since 2003. He has self-published a few experimental literary novels, including The Food in the Manger and Furtive and Bearable Cessation. He also likes to compose and play music on his piano.
Dominic Anaya Gulaya
re-sew the fruit of her womb
TUE, SEP 24, 6:01-6:10 PM
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