RICHARD ANDERSEN is a former Professor of English at Springfield College (Massachusetts). The author of 30 books, he won his college’s first Excellent in Teaching Award and was college nominated for the Carnegie Foundation’s United States Professor of the Year Award. Richard has served as a Fulbright Professor in Norway; a Karolyi Foundation fellow in France; and a James Thurber Writer in Residence at Ohio State University. He also took home a bronze medal at the NYC Bicentennial Marathon and a gold medal in basketball at the New England Senior Olympics. Richard lives in Montague, Massachusetts, with his wife Diane Lyn Andersen.
ED BARRETT lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Author of ten books of poetry, his most recent The Leaves Are Something This Year, New and Selected Prose Poems will be published September 2023 by Quale Press.
LISA BOURBEAU’s work has appeared in a wide range of journals, including Yankee, Ploughshares, First Intensity, Zen Monster, Witty Partition and Edebiyat Ve Elestiri, and several anthologies including Under the Legislature of Stars, Poet Showcase and Letters to the World. She has translated poems of the Turkish poet Lale Muldur, and some of these translations have appeared in Ping Pong, Talisman and Turkish Poetry Today. A past recipient of a State of New Hampshire Individual Artist Fellowship, her book Cuttings from the Garden of Little Fears was published by First Intensity in 2003. She currently resides in Puerto Rico.
DAVID CAZDEN has three books of poetry, the most recent is New Stars And Constellations (Bainbridge Island Press, 2024). His poems have appeared widely in magazines including The New Republic, Passages North, Rattle, The Connecticut Review, Salvation South, and Midwest Quarterly. He was a semi-finalist for the Pablo Neruda Award, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and received an Al Smith Fellowship For Poetry From The Kentucky Arts Council. The former Poetry Editor of Miller’s Pond magazine, Cazden has lived in Kentucky for over 50 years.
JOHN J. DUNPHY is the author of the haiku collections Old Soldiers Fading Away, Zen Koanhead, Touching Each Tree, and pagan rites. He has three collections of scifaiku: Bullet Cluster, Stellar Possibilities, and Dark Nebulae. Dunphy’s work has been selected for the Red Moon anthologies and several topical anthologies. A poem of his was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2016. He was a judge in the Haiku Society of America’s Henderson Awards for haiku (1993) and Gerald M. Brady Awards for senryu (2014). He is the founder of the Mississippi Mud Daubers Haiku Poets (2006), which produced the anthology Confluence: A Haiku Collection in 2008. In addition to haiku, he is the author of nonfiction books, articles, and newspaper columns, and was a contributor to Cable Street’s haibun anthology in 2023. Dunphy is a retired community college instructor and has owned The Second Reading Book Shop in Alton, Illinois since 1987.
G. GREENE began composing poetry after the passing of his wife in 2018 due to an undiagnosed neurological disease. His work has appeared in publications that include The Montague Reporter, Witty Partition (now Cable Street), Rattle, Nine Mile Books and Literary Magazine, and Oprelle Publication’s Matter Anthology. He is the author of the book Poems in a Time of Grief. His second book, The Lonely Years, is scheduled for publication in April 2026.
MARTA LÓPEZ LUACES is a poet, writer, and translator born in Spain. She is a Professor of Latin America Literature at Montclair State University. She is the coordinator of the Bilingual Poetry Reading via Zoom. She has published seven books of poetry. The poetry published in this issue’s tribute to Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno comes from Luaces’ book, Architects of the Imaginary translated by G.J. Racz (Gival Press, 2022); this collection won the Pinnacle Book Achievement award, and Small Press Distribution listed it among its recommendations for the Hispanic Heritage Month 2023. A selection of her work was translated into Romanian and Italian. She has also published three novels and a book of short stories. She translated the poetry of Robert Duncan, Dorothea Tanning, Ann Lauterbach and Peter Gizzi into Spanish.
NATALIE MARINO is a poet and practicing physician. Her work appears in Heavy Feather Review, Little Patuxent Review, Pleiades, Salt Hill, wildness and elsewhere. She is the author of the chapbook Under Memories of Stars (Finishing Line Press, 2023), which was reviewed in Cable Street. She lives in California. You can find her online at nataliemarino.com or on Instagram @natalie_marino.
JANEL NOCKLEBY lives in Turners Falls, MA, obtained her MFA in poetry from UMASS Amherst, and is the poetry page editor for the Montague Reporter.
SIMON PETTET is an English-born poet and long-time resident of New York’s Lower East Side. Hearth, his Collected Poems, appeared from Talisman in 2010. Talisman also issued his Selected Poems (1995), More Winnowed Fragments (2006), and As A Bee (2014), (a welcome addenda to the Collected Poems). He also compiled and edited the Selected Art Writings (Black Sparrow, 1998) of the “New York School” poet James Schuyler, as well as co-editing (with James Meetze) Other Flowers (FSG, 2010), Schuyler’s posthumous poems. He made two now legendary collaborations with photographer-filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt – Conversations about Everything (Vehicle, 1987) and Talking Pictures (Zoland, 1994), as well as a fine-arts limited edition, Abundant Treasures (Granary Books, 2001) with painter Duncan Hannah. Learn more about him at simonpettet.com.
PATRICK PRITCHETT is the author of a critical study, Make It Broken: Toward a Poetics of Late Modernism, and six full-length collections of poetry, including Sunderland, Refrain Series, Orphic Noise, and SONG X. His poems have appeared in Hambone, Lana Turner, New American Writing, Colorado Review, and Talisman among others. He reviews poetry regularly for Restless Messengers, Jacket 2, Rain Taxi, and On The Seawall and serves on the advisory editorial board for Journal of Modern Literature. He earned his Ph.D. in English from the University of Colorado-Boulder and has taught at Harvard University, Amherst College, and Hunan Normal University in China. Currently he lectures in Comp Lit at Rutgers University. To Speak The Estranged: Selected Poetry Reviews 1995-2025 is forthcoming from Selva Oscura.
LIV ROSS is an urban monk, a poet, an essayist, and a reviewer with several years of engagement in creative writing, and more recent experience in publication beginning in 2022. She serves on the Traces Journal editorial team as Reviews Editor for Poetry. Liv also practices gardening, pipe-smoking, leather-working, and mischief in addition to writing in order to participate fully in the world and seek the things truly worth writing about. She has been published in Fare Forward, The Front Porch Republic, Silence and Starsong, Solum Journal, and VoeglinView. She can also be found on Instagram @liv_ross_poetry, or her substack, https://substack.com/@theabbeyofcuriosity.
RAPHAEL RUBINSTEIN’s most recent book is Negative Work: The Turn to Provisionality in Contemporary Art (Bloomsbury, 2023), which Johan & Levi will publish in Italian translation in 2025. Other publications include The Miraculous (Paper Monument, 2014) a book of micro-narratives about contemporary art, A Geniza (Granary Books, 2015) an experimental long poem, as well as monographs on Shirley Jaffe (Flammarion, 2014) and Guillermo Kuitca (Lund Humphries, 2020). Since 2008 he has been Professor of Critical Studies at the University of Houston School of Art. He is a recipient of the award of Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters from the French government.
LEONARD SCHWARTZ is the author of numerous books of poetry, including, most recently, Actualities I: Transparent, to the Stone, Actualities II and III: Two Burned Hotels, and Actualities IV/V Comic Earth (2021, 2022, 2023, Goats & Compasses). His three books with artist Simon Carr, Horse on Paper, Not a Snake and Salamander: A Bestiary (Chax Press, 2017), are also out and about.
IAN C. SMITH has published his work in BBC Radio 4 Sounds, Cable Street, The Dalhousie Review, Gargoyle, Griffith Review, Honest Ulsterman, Southword, and Stand. His seventh book, wonder sadness madness joy, has been published by Ginninderra (Port Adelaide). He writes in the Gippsland Lakes area of Victoria, and on Flinders Island.
DAVID “IRISH” “SULLY” SULLIVAN was born in New York’s Greenwich Village in 1951. Over the course of his life, Sully’s vocations, occupations and identities included historian, tactician, steelworker, labor organizer, builder, welder, husband and father. Beginning at age 17, he was arrested numerous times for his anti-Vietnam war and civil rights activities. An avid hiker and traveler, Sully had a particular love of the Austrian Tyrol. He died unexpectedly in 2009 while working on Troublemaker, a memoir of growing up, and staying, radical.
BARRY CHARLES THARAUD is Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Colorado Mesa University. After retirement from Colorado, he taught in Tangier, Morocco and in Istanbul, Turkey. His most recent books include Paul Bowles: In the American Grain, and Çukurova: Foundations of Yaşar Kemal’s Literary Art (in Turkish). He lives in Santa Barbara, California.
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ERIC DARTON is the author of Free City, a novel, first published in 1996 by WW. Norton and recently re-released by Dalkey Archive Press, and the New York Times bestseller Divided We Stand: A Biography of The World Trade Center (Basic Books, 1999, 2011). Other of his writings may be found at bookoftheworldcourant.net, ericdarton.net, and tupeloquarterly.com. Darton is a partner in Love Child, a Berlin-based content developer for film, television, print and online media. He co-wrote, co-produced, and appears in Bill Hayward’s award-winning feature films Asphalt, Muscle & Bone (2019) and Beauty Is No Show – Designing the Dead (forthcoming in 2024). He teaches college-level literature, writing, and urban studies, and leads Writing at the Crossroads, an ongoing interdisciplinary prose workshop. Darton is an Internal Arts International-certified instructor in foundational Ba Gua Zhang.
DANA DELIBOVI is a poet, essayist, and translator. Her new book of translations and essays—Sweet Hunter: The Complete Poems of St. Teresa of Ávila—was published by Monkfish Book Publishing in 2024. Her work has appeared in After the Art, Apple Valley Review, Moria, Noon: The Journal of the Short Poem, Psaltery & Lyre, Salamander, and many other journals. She is a 2020 Pushcart Prize nominee, a 2020 Best American Essays notable essayist. Delibovi’s poems traveled the St. Louis Metro as part of the Poetry in Motion Series sponsored by the Poetry Society of America. She posts at Bluesky, LinkedIn, and https://sweethunter.org/.
HARDY GRIFFIN is a writer and translator whose novel, Broken Kismet won the Eyelands Book Awards grand prize and has been published in Greek from Strange Days Press. He has published writing in Fresh.ink, New Flash Fiction, Alimentum, Assisi, The Washington Post, American Letters & Commentary, and a chapter in The Gotham Guide to Writing Fiction (Bloomsbury). His translations can be found in Words Without Borders, The Istanbul Biennial, and for the award-winning EU-sponsored study Ermeniler, which documents the lives of Armenians living in contemporary Turkey.
BRONWYN MILLS is the author of Beastly’s Tale (a novel) and Night of the Luna Moths (poetry); her education, an MFA from UMass, Amherst, a Ph.D. from NYU. Mentored by James Tate, Samuel Delany, Kamau Brathwaite, and Ngugi wa Thiong’o she was an Anais Nin Fellow and Fulbright Fellow (La République du Bénin, West Africa) she has lived in Paris, France, New York City, Istanbul, Turkey; Cotonou, Bénin, and Latin America and taught Caribbean literature, African literature, and writing in Istanbul, Bénin, and just outside New York City. Formerly a dance and theatre writer in New England, Bronwyn is a founding co-editor for Cable Street and a Senior Prose Editor for Tupelo Quarterly. Guest-editor for the Turkish issue of Absinthe; New European Writing (#19), her current projects include By the Spoonmaker’s Tomb, a collection of vignettes from her time in Istanbul and the newly finished Canary Club, a novel set in medieval Spain. Most recently, Agni Online has published an excerpt from Spoonmaker. She has also published work on African vodou. More of her work can be found at bronwynmills.org/. Bronwyn now lives and writes in a tiny mountain village far, far away.
JAN SCHMIDT is a writer living in New York City. Her short story “Returns Department” was published in Calyx recent issue, Vol 34 no. 3. “Pandora” was a Solstice Fiction Prize finalist and published in their 2023 summer issue. Litro Magazine published “EX-TING-GWISH-ER” online November 9, 2023. Other fiction writing appeared in Anti-Heroin Chic, The Wall, Tupelo Quarterly, The Long Story, IKON and New York Stories. Her short story collection “Everything I Need” was a finalist for the Eludia Award, Hidden River Arts, 2019. Her unpublished novel “Sunlight Underground” was a finalist for the Novel Slices Award, 2021. Till 2015, she held the position of Curator of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Some of her published writing can be seen on her website http://contactprod.com/janschmidt/
† CHRISTOPHER SAWYER-LAUÇANNO, whose memoir, Becoming, was serialized in these pages, authored more than two dozen books including biographies of Paul Bowles, E.E. Cummings, and The Continual Pilgrimage, a group portrait of American writers in Paris 1944-1960. For Cable Street, he translated Salvador Dalí’s prose poem, “San Sebastien,” and several other works. His book translations include work by Paul Eluard, Rafael Alberti, Panaït Istrati, García Lorca, Isidore Ducasse (Comte de Lautreamont as well as the Mayan Books of Chilam Balam. His work was featured in the inaugural issue of Wet Cement Magazine: www.wetcementpress.com/wcpmag. Night Suite, his most recent book of poems, was published by Talisman House. Other books include, Dix méditations sur quelques mots d’Antonin Artaud, translated by Patricia Pruitt (Paris: Alyscamps, 2018), Remission (Talisman House, 2016), and Mussoorie-Montague Miscellany (Talisman House, 2014). He wrote librettos for Thomas Adès (America: A Prophecy Part I), Faber Music/Warner Classics CD, 2011, and for Andrey Kasparaov (Lorca: An Operatic Cycle in Five Acts. Alyscamps, 2022). Until his retirement, Sawyer-Lauçanno taught writing at MIT for over a quarter-century. Many of his books may be found on Amazon and Bookshop.org.
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