About Us

Our mission is to showcase poetry by emerging, mid-career, and established writers. We publish one poet a week. We welcome both traditional and experimental forms.

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Editor - Angelo Mao is the author of Abattoir (2021) and A White Horse Is Not a Horse (forthcoming in 2027). His poetry has appeared in Poetry, The Georgia Review, AGNI, Denver Quarterly, Lana Turner, and elsewhere. His poetry reviews have been published in Adroit Journal, Full Stop, and The Lost Angeles Review.

Editor - Timothy Ashley Leo is the author of The Dog’s Letter (2026). His work appears in Annulet, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Lana Turner, Nat. Brut, Narrative Magazine, and elsewhere.

Reader - Caroline Kanner is a writer and teacher from California. She has poems in or forthcoming from Denver Quarterly, Bat City Review, Peripheries, and Action, Spectacle, as well as the math textbook Fractal Worlds: Grown, Built, and Imagined. She co-founded and edits Some Creek Press.

Past Staff

Claire Zhou, Social Media Manager
Robert CaRyan Boyd, Reviews Editor (Vol. III, Issue I–Vol. V, Issue I)
Robert Campbell, Poetry Editor, Reviews Editor (Vol. I, Issue II–Vol. III, Issue II)
Brandon Courtney, Poetry Editor (Vol. I, Issues I–III)
Jonas Criscoe, Art Editor (Various)
Dante Di Stefano, Poetry Editor (2016-2022)
Emily Grise, Reviews Editor (Vol. I, Issues III & IV)
Jeff Handy, Poetry Editor (Vol. I, Issue IV–Vol. III, Issue IV)
Ashley Kolka, Art Editor  (Vol. I, Issue III–Vol. III, Issue I)
Michael Loruss, Founder/Editor Emeritus
Jennifer Palmer, Art & Interviews Editor (Various)
Daniel Pecchenino, Reviews Editor (Vol. II, Issue I–Vol. III, Issue IV)
Ludmila Polyakova, Social Media Manager (Interim: Vol. III, Issue II)
Jessica Rooney, Poetry Editor (Vol. I, Issues I–III)
Lia Snyderman, Website Manager (Vol. I, Issues I & II)
Brittany Stigler, Social Media Manager  (Interim: Vol. I, Issue III)
Anna B. Sutton, Poetry Editor (Vol. I, Issue IV–Vol. III, Issue IV)
Allison Valiquette, Art Editor (Vol. I, Issue IV–Vol. III, Issue II)
Rachel Lin Weaver, Art Editor (Vol. I, Issues I–IV)

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