brunson has been making sounds & performing since childhood. he was reared in the AME churches of South Carolina and sang and dabbled with many instruments growing up. today, he lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. brunson sings often, scribbles poems into his journals, and facilitates live music experiences through his original healing soul music which comprises piano, spoken word poetry, original songs and the grey areas in between. he is an artist, a facilitator. he is a feeler, a hugger. he is a delicate flower. https://www.justbrunson.com/
PAUL CONNOLLY has been been shortlisted twice for the Bridport poetry prize, longlisted for the Orwell Prize in the blog category and for the Bridport novel prize, Paul Connolly has had poems published in Agenda, The Warwick Review, Poetry Salzburg, Stand Magazine, The Reader, Scintilla, The Manchester Review, Chiron Review, Dawntreader, Takahē, Dream Catcher, Orbis, The Journal, FourXFour, The Seventh Quarry, Sarasvati, Envoi, Obsessed with Pipework, The Bombay Review, The Cannon’s Mouth, Southlight, Foxtrot Uniform, Guttural, The High Window, Nine Muses, Eunoia Review, The Honest Ulsterman, Canada Quarterly, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Littoral Magazine, Northampton Poetry Review, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, London Grip, The Saltbeck Orion, Wildfire Words, Sixty Odd Poets, and Quadrant. Shortlisted for the Charles Causley Prize and a finalist in the Walk:Listen:Create Walking at Night competition, he was highly commended in the Sentinel Quarterly, placed third in the Magna Carta Competitions, and has a Best of the Net 2026 nomination.
BRIAN CULLMAN is a musician and writer living in New York and France. His book How to Prepare for the Past: Travels in Music & Time will be published in April 2026 by Ze Books (www.zebooks.com/books).
JYOTISH GOPINATHAN is a nephrologist, clinician-educator, and researcher from Kozhikode, India. Returning to poetry after a three-decade hiatus, his first collection, The Coppiced House, was published by Writers Workshop, Kolkata, in 2024. This was followed by Almanac of the Sickle Moon (Hawakal Publishers, August 2025). Since December 2024, his poems have appeared in several journals, magazines, and anthologies. The Coppiced House won the Kala Prathibha Award at the Kala Literature Awards 2026.
VUSLAT D. KATSANIS is an academic and curator, cofounder of the MinEastry of Postcollapse Art and Culture in Zurich, and faculty at New York University in Berlin. Her research and translations have appeared in a number of publications including New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, ASAP/Review, Antennae: The Journal Of Nature In Visual Culture, Interstitial: A Journal of Modern Culture and Events, Necessary Fiction, K1N: Journal of Literary Translation, and The Bosphorus Review.
JONIE McINTIRE is the first female Poet Laureate of Lucas County, Ohio (2022–2026). Her most recent chapbook, Semidomesticated (re-released by Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2022) won Red Flag Poetry’s 2020 chapbook contest. Her prior chapbooks are Beyond the Sidewalk (Nightballet Press, 2017) and Not All Who Are Lost Wander (Finishing Line Press, 2016). She hosts a monthly reading series called Uncloistered Poetry, now in its eleventh year, from Toledo, Ohio. https://www.joniemcintire.net.
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.
JOSHUA WALKER writes poetry that navigates memory, resistance, and identity. Published in Solarpunk Magazine, Libre, and Potomac Review, Walker’s work blends intimate personal narrative with broader cultural and historical resonance, exploring the persistence of human and communal spirit in the face of erasure and oppression. Walker sometimes writes under the nom de plume, The Last Bard.
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ERIC DARTON’s novel Free City, was recently re-released by Dalkey Archive Press. He is also the author of the New York Times bestselling cultural history 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 as well as in numerous journals and several anthologies. Darton is a partner in Love Child, a Berlin-based content developer for film, television, print and online media. He teaches writing, and urban studies at NYU and the Harry van Arsdale School of Labor Studies (SUNY), 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, Asymptote, Ballast, Lothlorien, Moria, Noon: The Journal of the Short Poem, Psaltery & Lyre, Salamander, Spinozablue, 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 Journeys from Seferad, 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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