Artist Discipline: Poetry

  • Basalt Hsu

    Basalt Hsu (they/them) is a queer and trans poet, researcher, and organizer who grew up in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley. They arrived in the United States via Chinese diasporas, shaped by escalating arms races across the Pacific, mandatory conscription policies developed during the Cold War, and the codependent relationship between research universities and…

  • Wo Chan

    Wo Chan

    Wo Chan (they/them), who performs as The Illustrious Pearl, is a poet and drag artist. They are a winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize and the author of Togetherness (2022). Their poems appear in Poetry, WUSSY, Mass Review, No Tokens, The Margins, and elsewhere. As a member of the Brooklyn-based drag/burlesque collective Switch N’ Play,…

  • Aynsley Vandenbroucke

    Aynsley Vandenbroucke

    Aynsley Vandenbroucke is a writer and performance-maker obsessed with the movement of ideas, the choreography of language and experiences. Her writing has been published by Seneca Review, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, and The Brooklyn Rail. Her performances have been presented by Danspace Project, Abrons Arts Center, and The Chocolate Factory.   Aynsley co-founded Mount Tremper…

  • Edwin Torres

    Edwin Torres

    Edwin Torres is a New York City native and resident of Beacon, New York. He is the editor of The Body In Language: An Anthology (Counterpath Press) and the author of 15 poetry collections including; Quanundrum: i will be your many angled thing (from Roof Books, which was awarded a 2022 American Book Award), Xoeteox:…

  • Dana Salisbury

    Dana Salisbury

    Dana Salisbury, originally a visual artist, shifted mid-career to experimental choreography. More recently she has focused her attention on writing, in the last two years, her work has appeared in Nashville Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Months to Years and Meat for Tea. Another piece is slated to appear in LIT Magazine. 

  • Julian Talamantez Brolaski

    Julian Talamantez Brolaski

    Julian Talamantez Brolaski (it/xe/them) is a poet and country musician, the author of Of Mongrelitude (Wave Books, 2017), Advice for Lovers (City Lights, 2012), and gowanus atropolis (Ugly Duckling Press, 2011). Julian is a 2023–2024 Bagley-Wright Lecturer, a 2021 Pew Foundation Fellow, and the recipient of the 2020 Cy Twombly Award for Poetry. Its poems…

  • Catherine Chen

    Catherine Chen

    Catherine Chen is a multidisciplinary poet and performer. Encompassing poetry, video, collaboration, and modes of installation, their work explores the relationship between textuality, mythology, and material histories. Chen is the author of the full-length poetry collection Beautiful Machine Woman Language (Noemi Press, 2023).

  • Jhani Randhawa

    Jhani Randhawa

    Jhani Randhawa is an interdisciplinary artist, community organiser, and researcher interested in the limits of desire, legality, and self within the ongoing crises of settler colonialism, racial capitalism and ecological collapse. Jhani’s performances and works have featured at the New Art Gallery Walsall (Walsall, England), the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Thymele…

  • Mathew Weitman

    Mathew Weitman

    Mathew Weitman’s poetry appears in Bennington Review, Copper Nickel, The Georgia Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. He is the winner of the Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, the AWP Kurt Brown Prize, and the Inprint Verlaine Prize in Poetry. He has also received residencies and fellowships from MacDowell, Ucross, and the Bloedel Reserve. Currently, he…