Special Feature

James Ardis: He Just Didn’t Breathe

James Ardis published the chapbook "Your Arkansas: A Strategy Guide" (Gauss PDF) in 2016, a project that combines psychosis and video game strategy guides. His writing appears in Leveler, The Rumpus, and Small Portions, among others. He writes semi-frequently for Heavy Feather Review, Bullshitist, and Crossing Genres.

James Ardis: He Just Didn’t Breathe

Tim Lynch: The Dreamless Fingers

Tim Lynch has poems forthcoming or published with Yes, Poetry, tenderness, yea, Occulum, Connotation Press, and more. He has directed various workshops for young writers through Rutgers University in Camden, NJ & conducts interviews for Tell Tell Poetry. He would be delighted to meet you on Twitter & Instagram @timlynchthatsit.

Tim Lynch: The Dreamless Fingers

Cameron Morse: In and Out of Total Eclipse

Cameron Morse taught and studied in China. Diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2014, he is currently a third-year MFA candidate at UMKC and lives with his wife, Lili, in Blue Springs, Missouri. His poems have been or will be published in over 50 different magazines, including New Letters, pamplemousse, Fourth & Sycamore and TYPO. His first collection, Fall Risk, is forthcoming from Glass Lyre Press.

Cameron Morse: In and Out of Total Eclipse

Carleen Tibbetts: This Has Very Little To Do With Saving

Carleen Tibbetts is the author of several chapbooks, most recently “to exosk(elle), the last sugar” (Zoo Cake Press, 2015) and with Isobel O’Hare, coedits the experimental journal, Dream Pop. Recent work has appeared in TAGVVERK, DREGINALD, The Offending Adam, Deluge, Reality Beach, and jubilat, among others. 
 

Carleen Tibbetts: This Has Very Little To Do With Saving

Lisa Marie Basile: Dead Boy Poetry

Lisa Marie Basile is the founding editor-in- chief of Luna Luna Magazine. She is the author of Apocryphal (Noctuary Press, 2014) and a few chapbooks. She was a finalist for the 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize, and her work can be found in PANKSporkletBest American PoetryPEN American CenterThe Atlas ReviewThe Rumpus, Narratively and more. She holds an MFA from The New School. She has books forthcoming from Clash Books and Inside the Castle. 

Lisa Marie Basile: Dead Boy Poetry

Philip Schaefer: Everyone Else’s Darkness

Philip Schaefer’s first collection of poems Bad Summon won the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize from the University of Utah Press and will be released Summer 2017. He is the author of three chapbooks, two of which were co-written with friend and poet Jeff Whitney. He won the 2016 Meridian Editor’s Prize in poetry and has work out or due out in Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Thrush Poetry Journal, Guernica, The Cincinnati Review, Salt Hill, Bat City Review, The Adroit Journal, Baltimore Review, and Passages North among others. He tends bar in Missoula, MT.

Philip Schaefer: Everyone Else’s Darkness