RICHIE HOFMANN’s new book of poems is The Bronze Arms, forthcoming in February. He is the recipient of a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2025 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His poetry appears in two previous collections, A Hundred Lovers (2022) and Second Empire (2015), and in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, and The Yale Review. His honors include the Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and the Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University.
DANIEL KHALASTCHI is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the author of four acclaimed books of poetry. His most recent collection, The Story of Your Obstinate Survival, received the National Jewish Book Award for Poetry and was longlisted for the PEN/Volecker Award for Poetry. He lives in Iowa City where he is the executive director of the University of Iowa’s Office of Writing and Communication. Daniel is also the cofounder and managing editor of Rescue Press.
CATE LYCURGUS is the author of Seacliff (forthcoming Bull City Press, 2025); her work has also appeared in Best American Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Orion, and elsewhere. Cate lives in San Jose, California where she conducts interviews for 32 Poems, co-curates the Headwaters Reading Series for Health and Well-being, and teaches. You can find her at www.catelycurgus.com or on Instagram @catelycurgus.
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