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ROSEBUD BEN-ONI is the winner of the 2019 Alice James Award for If This Is the Age We End Discovery, forthcoming in 2021; her second collection, turn around, BRXGHT XYXS, was selected as Agape Editions' Editor's Choice, and will be published in 2019. Her poem "Poet Wrestling with Angels in the Dark" was commissioned by the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York. She writes for the Kenyon Review blog.*

GEORGE DAVID CLARK's Reveille, published by the University of Arkansas Press in 2015, won the Miller Williams Prize. His recent poems can be found in AGNI, the Georgia Review, the Gettysburg Review, Image, Ninth Letter, Poetry Northwest, the Southern Review, and elsewhere. He edits 32 Poems and teaches creative writing at Washington & Jefferson College.

GWENDOLYN BROOKS (1917–2000) published more than twenty poetry collections, including A Street in Bronzeville, Blacks, In the Mecca, The Bean Eaters, and Annie Allen, for which she won a Pulitzer Prize. Among her many honors were an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, the Frost Medal, the Shelley Memorial Award, a lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets and the Guggenheim Foundation. She was named poet laureate of Illinois in 1968, and in 1985, she became the first black woman to hold the position now known as poet laureate of the United States.

KATIE FARRIS is the author of Boysgirls, from Marick Press, and coeditor of Gossip and Metaphysics: Russian Modernist Writers, from Tupelo Press. Her poetry has appeared in the Believer, Verse, Virginia Quarterly Review, and the Massachusetts Review, which awarded her the Anne Halley Poetry Prize last year.*

ANA TERESA FERNÁNDEZ, born in 1981 in Tampico, Mexico, lives and works in San Francisco. She explores the politics of intersectionality through time-based actions and social gestures, translated into masterful oil paintings, installations and videos. Within her work, performance becomes a tool for investigation, illuminating the psychological and physical barriers that define gender, race, and class. Her work has been exhibited throughout North America and Europe and has been collected by institutions such as the Denver Art Museum, the Nevada Museum of Art, and Kadist Art Foundation.*

EMILY KENDAL FREY is the author of several chapbooks and chapbook collaborations, including Frances, Airport, Baguette, and The New Planet. The Grief Performance, her first full-length collection, won the Norma Farber First Book Award from The Poetry Society of America in 2012. Her second collection, Sorrow Arrow, won the Oregon Book Award in 2015. She is a practicing psychotherapist.* [End Page 155]

ROSS GAY is the author of three books of poetry, including Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. He is a founding editor, with Karissa Chen and Patrick Rosal, of the online sports magazine Some Call It Ballin', and a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a nonprofit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project. Gay has received fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at Indiana University. The essays in this issue are from his new book Delights. Algonquin will be publishing his next book, This Black Earth, in 2019.*

MATTY LAYNE GLASGOW's debut collection, deciduous qween, forthcoming from Red Hen Press in June 2019, was selected by Richard Blanco for the Benjamin Saltman Award. His poems appear in the Missouri Review, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Poetry Daily, Houston Public Media, and elsewhere. He lives in Houston, where teaches with Writers in the Schools and worships his holy trinity—trees, drag queens, and Kacey Musgraves.*

CHRISTINE GOSNAY's first book, Even Years, published by Kent State University Press in 2017, won the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize. Her chapbook The Wanderer is the 2019 title in Beloit Poetry Journal's Chad Walsh Chapbook Series, and her poetry has appeared recently in Poetry, Image Journal, and Bennington Review. She studies classics at the University of Maryland.*

ABIGAIL GREENBAUM's essays and stories have appeared in the Atlantic, New World Writing, Free State Review, the Butter...