May 11: Kelsey, Pethybridge, Teare

Karla Kelsey is author of three volumes of poetry: Knowledge, Forms, the Aviary (Ahsahta Press), Iteration Nets (Ahsahta Press), and A Conjoined Book (Omnidawn, forthcoming). Along with editing and writing reviews for the Constant Critic she is co-editor of Split Level Texts. She teaches in the creative writing program at Susquehanna University.

Jeffrey Pethybridge is the author of Striven, The Bright Treatise (Noemi Press). His poems appear widely in journals such as Chicago Review, Volt, New American Writing, Poor Claudia, The Iowa Review and others. He is the North American editor for Likestarlings, a web-based archive of collaborative poetry and poetics. He is currently at work on documentary project centered on the recently released torture memos entitled "Found Poem Including History, an Essay on the Epic." He grew up in Virginia.

Brian Teare lived and taught in the Bay area for over a decade. He now lives and teaches in Philadelphia where he runs his own micropress, Albion Books. He's published four full-length books—The Room Where I Was Born, Sight Map, the Lambda Award-winning Pleasure, and Companion Grasses—as well as the chapbooks Pilgrim, Transcendental Grammar Crown, [black sun crown], and ] up arrow [.

April 27: Godfrey, Varrone, Arrieu-King

John Godfrey was born in New York in 1945. He has worked and written in New York's east village for more than three decades. Godfrey's recent books include Tiny Gold Dress (Lunar Chandelier Press, 2012), City of Corners (Wave Books, 2008), Private Lemonade (Zephyr Press, 2003) and Push the Mule (The Figures, 2001). A graduate of Princeton University and Columbia University's School of Nursing, Godfrey is a retired RN Clinician in HIV/AIDS. 

Kevin Varrone’s most recent publications are box score: an autobiography, published as a free iPad app (available through the Apple's app store) and Eephus (Little Red Leaves Textile Series, 2012). His previous publications include Passyunk Lost (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010), id est (Instance Press, 2007), and the chapbook g-point Almanac: 6.21-9.21 (ixnay press, 2000) all part of g-point Almanac, a four-part project loosely based on Almanacs and Books of Days. He is also the author of the chapbook the philadelphia improvements (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010). 

Cynthia Arrieu-King, a native of Louisville, KY, is a professor of creative writing at Stockton College and a former Kundiman fellow. Her books include People are Tiny in Paintings of China, Manifest, and with Sophia Kartsonis By a Year Lousy with Meteors. Her reviews and poems will appear this year in the Denver Quarterly, diode and the Kenyon Review.

March 30: Starkweather, Mitchell, Lyalin

Sampson Starkweather was born in Pittsboro, NC. He is the author of the First Four Books of Sampson Starkweather and 5 chapbooks from dangerous small presses. He is a founding editor of Birds, LLC and works for The Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNY where he helps run the Annual Chapbook Festival and Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative. He lives in Brooklyn, NY with his girlfriend, the escape artist Paige Taggart.

Natalie Lyalin is the author of the forthcoming Blood Makes Me Faint, But I Go For It (Ugly Duckling Presse 2014), Pink & Hot Pink Habitat (Coconut Books 2009), and a chapbook, Try A Little Time Travel (Ugly DucklingPresse 2010). She is a part of the Agnes Fox Press editing collective and the cofounder and coeditor of Natural History Press. She lives in Philadelphia and teaches at The University of the Arts.

Jason Mitchell was born in Camden, NJ. He is the author of 171 Lines and Sixth Harmonic and Other Poems, both self-published. Recent work has appeared in Stolen Island, NOÖ Weekly, Hi Zero, and Court Green. In the summer of 2012, he completed his MA in English at the University of Maine.

March 2: Nichols, McCarthy, Maugeri

Mel Nichols is the author of four collections of poetry, including Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon and Bicycle Day. Her work can also be found at The Huffington Post, Poetry, The Brooklyn Rail, PennSound, nightlightnight (with Mark Cunningham), HTML Giant, and on the LP Drew Gardner's Flarf Orchestra. Her recent essay about the collaborations of Frank O'Hara and Bill Berkson can be found in Jacket2. She teaches at George Mason University and has been a visiting artist at the Corcoran College of Art & Design, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit, and others. New books are forthcoming from Flowers & Cream Press and Edge.

Pattie McCarthy's most recent book is Marybones, published in December 2012 from Apogee Press. She is also the author of bk of (h)rs, Verso, and Table Alphabetical of Hard Words – all also from Apogee. Her chapbook L&O was published in 2011 by Little Red Leaves. Another chapbook, scenes from the lives of my parents, is forthcoming in 2013 from Bloof Books. A 2011 Pew Fellow in the Arts, she teaches literature and creative writing at Temple University.

Carolina Maugeri's recent mixed media works, A Note on School of the Holy Beast and Takoyaki Hiss, Come L'amore, were included in the exhibitions Cinematic: Medi(t)ations Upon a Medium at the Osvaldo Romberg Studio and Containment Policy at the Pterodactyl Gallery. Since then she has performed music with Tristan Dahn in the Moles Not Molar series. She lives in Philadelphia. 

Jan 26: Myles & Conrad

Eileen Myles came to New York in 1974 to be a poet and has produced more than twenty collections of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, plays and libretti most recently Snowflake/different streets (poetry), Inferno (a poet’s novel) for which she won a Lambda book award for lesbian fiction, and The Importance of Being Iceland/travel essays in art which was supported by a Warhol/Creative Capital art writers’s grant. In 2009 she received the Shelley Prize from the Poetry Society of America. She was awarded a 2012 Guggenheim fellowship to work on Afterglow (a memoir) which is a fantastic dog book. She lives in New York and is teaching poetry this semester at NYU.

CAConrad is the author of TRANSLUCENT SALAMANDER (TROLL THREAD Press, 2013), A BEAUTIFUL MARSUPIAL AFTERNOON: New (Soma)tics (WAVE Books, 2012), The Book of Frank (WAVE Books, 2010), Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled The City Real & Imagined (Factory School, 2010). He is a 2011 PEW Fellow, a 2012 UCROSS Fellow, and a 2013 BANFF Fellow. He is a 2012 and 2013 visiting faculty member for the Summer Writing Program of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. Visit him online at http://CAConrad.blogspot.com

Dec 15: Lewis, Cory, Richter

Joel Lewis has been monitoring the outer rings of Gotham for over thirty years, his Baggu back pack loaded with the essentials to aid him in his semi-dérive: a Metrocard, a PATH Smart Link pass, NJT bus tickets, transfers, Hudson-Bergen Light Rail tickets, about a dozen up-to-date schedules, a charged iPod, three to four notebooks and too many roller ball pens. The results of his wanderings have resulted in: Surrender When Leaving Coach, Learning From New Jersey, Vertical’s Currency and House Rent Boogie. While anchored in his homeport of Hoboken, NJ, his archival efforts have resulted in Bluestones and Salt Hay: An Anthology of Contemporary New Poets, On The Level Everyday: The Selected Talks of Ted Berrigan and Reality Prime: Selected Poems of Walter Lowenfels.

Jim Cory, in addition to all kinds of writing, takes an interest in reptiles, birds, history, painting, the piano, architecture, yoga and strange conversations overheard. Not necessarily in that order. Poems have appeared recently in Apiary, Assaracus, Burp, Court Green, Lungfull!, ETZ (Australia), unarmed journal, and Skidrow Penthouse. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the Pennsylvania Arts Council and Yaddo. Rain Mountain Press published No Brainer Variations in 2011. He lives in Philadelphia.

Peter Erich Richter is the author of KING OF HIS OWN HEAD. His poetry has been featured in Monkeybicycle, ucity review, >kill author, decomP, THE2NDHAND, Indiefeed Performance Poetry and other publications. He received his BA from Rider University.

Nov 17: Boyer, Mertz, McCreary

Anne Boyer is the author of The Romance of Happy Workers, Anne Boyer’s Good Apocalypse, Selected Dreams with a note on phrenology, My Common Heart, The 2000s, and Art is War. Recent work has appeared in The New Inquiry, Joyland Poetry, and Rethinking Marxism. New work also appears here: http://anneboyer.tumblr.com/ . She lives on the edge of Kansas and is a professor at the Kansas City Art Institute.

R/B "Becca" Mertz is a poet and teacher from Pittsburgh, PA. Many of her poems can be found online by utilizing a search engine. She teaches writing at Penn State New Kensington and Duquesne University. She also posts a series of pop song poems at mylyriccompany.tumblr.com, and sometimes she twitters. R/B Mertz is a big fan of Anne Boyer and Philadelphia.

Chris McCreary's chapbook Elseworlds was just published by Cy Gist Press. His most recent full-length collection is Undone : A Fakebook (Furniture Press), and a section from his ongoing prose project, The Great American Songbook, is forthcoming in a future issue of Fact-Simile. He teaches at a private high school outside of Philadelphia.

Oct 20: Giscombe, Kremer, Wight

C. S. Giscombe was born in Dayton, Ohio. His poetry books are Prairie Style, Two Sections from Practical Geography, Giscome Road, Here, At Large, and Postcards; his prose book—about Canada—is Into and Out of Dislocation. He has worked as a taxi driver, a hospital orderly, and a railroad brakeman, and for years he edited a national literary magazine, Epoch, at Cornell University. His writing has appeared in several anthologies: the Best American Poetry series, the Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry, Telling It Slant: Avant-Garde Poetics of the 1990s, Bluesprint: Black British Columbia Literature and Orature, American Hybrid, and elsewhere. He teaches poetry at the University of California, Berkeley.

Anne-Adele Wight is the author of Sidestep Catapult and the forthcoming Opera House Arterial, both from BlazeVOX Books, and an out-of-print chapbook, First Lizard Chronicles, from Kali Momma Press. Her work has appeared in American Writing, Philadelphia Poets, Tabula Rasa, Shrike, Mad Poets Review, Fairies in America, and elsewhere. Based in Philadelphia, she works with the long-running series Poets and Prophets and has just started curating the Jubilant Thicket series. She works as a medical editor and lives with her husband and two cats.

Matthew Kremer is at riverbottum-enterprises.

Sept 29: Poe, Short, Warfield

Deborah Poe is the author of the poetry collections the last will be stone, too, Elements (Stockport Flats), and Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords), as well as a novella in verse, Hélène (Furniture Press). She is also co-editing a collection of Hudson Valley innovative poetry (Station Hill Press). Deborah’s poetry is forthcoming or has recently appeared in Handsome, 1913, Shampoo, Denver Quarterly, Otoliths, The Dictionary Project, and Yew Journal. She is assistant professor of English at Pace University, founder and curator of the annual Handmade/Homemade Exhibit, and guest curator for Trickhouse.

Kim Gek Lin Short is the author of two lyric novels The Bugging Watch & Other Exhibits and China Cowboy, both from Tarpaulin Sky Press, and the cross-genre chapbooks The Residents (dancing girl press) and Run (Rope-a-Dope). She lives with her family in Philadelphia.

Brian Warfield writes stories about strange ideas and weird feelings. He also publishes chapbooks through Turtleneck Press.

May 12: Lawlor, Potter, Irwin

Andrea Lawlor lives in Western Mass now but misses Philly! Lawlor studied creative writing at Temple University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst's Program for Poets and Writers, and was awarded fellowships in 2011 by RADAR Labs and the Lambda Literary Foundation. Find poems and stories in The Brooklyn Rail, Encyclopedia (Volume II), MiPOesias, OCHO 31, Occupoetry, and the forthcoming Faggot Dinosaur.

Stephen Potter, a graduate of Temple University's MA program in Creative Writing: Poetry, lives and works in his native town of Philadelphia. His poems have made scattered appearances over the years in ixnay, Aufgabe, Mirage #4 Period(ical), American Poetry Review, EOAGH, and Blood and Tears: Poems for Matthew Shepard. A selection of his poems are forthcoming in the July 2012 issue of Assaracus, and his poems can be found both on the PennSound website and in the Live at the Writers House archives.

H.B. Irwin grew up in rural Arkansas. She has lived in Philadelphia, studying at Temple University for 4 years. She currently lives and works in Fishtown.