Issue #6 Contributors

Cal Freeman

(he/him) is the author of the books Fight Songs, Poolside at the Dearborn Inn, and The Weather of Our Names (Cornerstone Press 2025). His writing can be found in many publications, including The Glacier, Berkeley Poetry Review, and North American Review.

Claire Denson

is a Teaching Artist with The National Book Foundation in NYC and the Publication Manager at Atmosphere Press. Her poems are most recently in Prairie Schooner, DIAGRAM, Cream City Review, and Terrapin Books. She just launched Atmo and has read for The Adroit Journal, The Greensboro Review, and Sarabande Books. Claire attended a frankly absurd public school, Millburn High School in New Jersey, and University of Michigan which is, famously, a public school. Find her work at clairedenson.com.

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Ellen Welcker

is the author of the forthcoming collection, I Am The Horse, as well as Ram Hands (Scablands Books, 2016), The Botanical Garden (Astrophil Press, 2010) and five chapbooks, including "Keep Talking" (Sixth Finch, 2023) and “The Pink Tablet” (Fact-Simile Editions, 2018), which she and her collaborators transformed into a live, multi-genre feral opera of the same name. She lives in the US midwest.

Jay Griffith

lives and teaches in North Jersey.

Kristie L. Williams

is an Eastern North Carolina poet and mixed-media artist. She is a 2022 Pushcart and Best of the Net Nominee, a 2025 Best of the Net Finalist and author of Finding Her (Finishing Line Press). This author photo was taken just before she discovered a love poem would earn her a date with her high school’s version of Jordan Catalano.

Matthew E. Henry

(aka MEH) is an educator, essayist, occasional fiction writer, and author of seven poetry collections, most recently Promises to Keep (Wayfarer Books, 2026). Editor-in-chief of The Weight Journal, a poetry editor at American Poetry Journal, and creative nonfiction editor at Porcupine Literary, MEH earned an MFA yet continued to spend money he didn’t have completing an MA in theology and a PhD in education. MEH writes about education, race, religion, and burning oppressive systems to the ground at www.MEHPoeting.com.

Sally Rosen Kindred

is the author of No Eden (2011) and Book of Asters (2014), from Mayapple Press, and Where the Wolf (2021), winner of the Diode Editions Book Prize and the Julie Suk Award. She has received two Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council. Her poems have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, New Ohio Review, Image, and Kenyon Review Online. You can find out more at sallyrosenkindred.com.

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Sarah Carson's

poetry and other writing have appeared in The Rumpus, The Slowdown, Guernica, The Missouri Review, and The Christian Century, among others. She is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, including How to Baptize a Child in Flint, Michigan (Persea Books, 2022), and is currently at work on a memoir about single motherhood, work, and the rules that govern the universe.

Shannon K. Winston

is the author of The Worry Dolls (Glass Lyre Press, 2025) and The Girl Who Talked to Paintings (Glass Lyre Press, 2021). Her individual poems have appeared in Cider Press Review, Radar Poetry, RHINO Poetry, SWWIM Every Day, West Trestle Review, and elsewhere. Find her here: https://shannonkwinston.com/.

Stephen Leggett

grew up in Manistee on the shores of Lake Michigan, a region with a geography of snow, wind, and waves that has continually informed his writing. He has published several chapbooks of poetry, including The All-Forest (1979), The Form It Takes (1988), and Entropy in the New World 2016). His most recent chapbook of poetry, For All Things in Motion, was published by Alice Greene & Co. in 2021.