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TRANSOM POETS AND ARTISTS
[Spring 2011]
1: EMERGENCE
[wherein we gather work from nine poets’ most recent projects]
Lily Brown, Kristin Hatch, Andy Stallings, M.A. Vizsolyi, Chas. Kuo-Speck, Greg Wrenn, Dina Hardy, MRB Chelko, Nico Alvarado, Art by Philip Miller
[Fall 2011]
2: THE WORLD IS UNUSABLE
[wherein the word is all that is the case]
Amelia Rosselli trans. Diana Thow, Joseph P. Wood, Gregory Lawless, Kaeth Schwehn, Henk Rossouw, Avram Kline, Nate Pritts, Alec Hershman, Matt Hart, Art by Julia Schwadron
[Spring 2012]
3: ŠALAMUN IN AMERICA
[wherein we explore the work of Tomaž Šalamun and the poets who translate him]
Miklavž Komelj, Michael Thomas Taren, Christopher Merrill, Matthew Rohrer, Peter Richards, Phillis Levin, Thomas Kane, Brian Henry, Art by Metka Krašovec
[Fall 2012]
4: WALKING BETWEEN SAW AND WAS
[wherein we hitch our hoofing-it bone to our mind-bone]
Ryan Collins, Mathias Svalina, J.P Dancing Bear, Ray Succre, Bill Carty, Erika Jo Brown, J.A. Gaye, Boyer Rickel, Kristi Maxwell, Margaret Lemay-Lewis, Jessica Farquhar, Jennifer Moore, Morgan Lucas Schuldt, trans. Kurt Beals: Max Czollek, Laula Glamann, Maria Natt, Can Pestanli, Friederike Scheffler, Linus Westheuser, Ilja Winther, Art by Pete Schulte
[Spring 2013]
5: NEITHER NOW NOR ENGLAND
[wherein 11 British poets quilt for the mend]
Trobairitz trans. Claudia Keelan, April Pierce, Amy Evans, Ben Rogers, Emily Hasler, John Canfield, Edward Mackay, Nia Davies, Sarah Howe, Dai George, Mark Waldron, Roddy Lumsden, Art by Philip Miller
[Fall 2013]
6: ENOUGH BIRDS
[wherein 15 poets take up fiddling in a time of peril]
John Estes, Annik Adey-Babinski, Megan Watkins, Daniel Rzicznek, Rachel Abramowitz, Jennifer MacKenzie, Stephen Marvel-Coen, Joshua Diamond, Ari Banias, Hannah Craig, Zach Savich, Duncan Campbell, Robert McDonald, Annah Browning, Stephen Danos, Art by Ellen Siebers
[Spring 2014]
7: LET GO FLAMES
[Wherein 12 poets Still Hit Anything That Moves]
Cecco Angiolieri trans. Brett Foster, Anaïs Duplan, Jesse Lichtenstein, Theodore Worozbyt, Britt Melewski, Gregory Lawless, Henry Finch, Joseph P. Wood, Aimee Penna, Jessica Bixel, Aditi Machado, Matt Miller, Art by Emily Bowser
[Spring 2015]
8: HERSELF LIKE ME
[Wherein we go on smiting limes]
Horace and Theocritus trans. Luke Hollis, Jeff Downey, Chelsey Weber-Smith, Brent House, Dustin Hellberg, Lauren Haldeman, Jess Feldman, Deborah Brandon, Hannah Lipper, Andy Stallings, Art by Lauren Haldeman
[Fall 2015]
9: THE HARDER NOTES
[Wherein we find legs for the clouds above us]
Vivian Lamarque trans. Sarah Stickney, Anna Akhmatova trans. Olga Livshin and Andrew Janco, Holly Mitchell, Michael Robins, Cindy Carlson, Zach Savich, Daniel Coudriet, Khairani Barokka, Mark Gosztyla, Shira Dentz, John Myers, Christopher J. Adamson, Caroline Klocksiem, Nico Alvarado, Art by Jan Duschen
[Spring 2016]
10: THE AROMATIC FOREST
[wherein you may live as many years as you wish]
Óscar Sandoval trans. Alice-Catherine Jennings, Sébastien Smirou trans. Andrew Zawacki, Ignacio Uranga trans. Michelle Gil-Montero, Katerina Gogou trans. Ilias Kolokouris, Tomaž Šalamun trans. Katarina Vladimirov Young and Jeffrey Young, Paul Verlaine, trans. Kurt Heinzelman, Abraham Sutzkever trans. Maia Evrona, Mirza Gualib trans. Yousuf bin Mohammad, Louis de Góngra trans. Stephen French, Francis Coffinet trans. James Haelin, Pierluigi Capello trans. Todd Portnowitz, Art by Katie Waugh
[Fall 2017]
11: EVENING IN AN OCCUPIED COUNTRY
[Wherein we let go of each other’s hands]
Abi Pollokoff, Carson Sawyer, Conyer Clayton, Christopher Merrill, Wang Changling trans. Daniel Bosch, Paul Griner, Adam Day, Cheryl Clark Vermeulen, Chris Emery, Rachel Abramowitz, Stephen French, Kim Parko, Megan Leonard, John Zedolik, Art by Richard Kegler
[Fall 2018]
12: THE HARD TURN
[Wherein everything comes to a halt]
Elizabeth Threadgill, Kyle Valentine, Alexandra Akuginow Haines-Stiles, Leanna Petronella, Laurinda Lind, Chiyuma Elliott, Jessica Cuello, Sarah Gridley, Margaret Reges, Terrence Abrahams, Molly Brodak, Devanshi Khetarpal, Colby Gillette, Kathleen Hellen, Khal Torabully trans. Nancy Naomi Carlson, with Art by Steve Pittelkow
[Summer 2019]
13: TRANSITIONS
[in which our heroes venture beyond the familiar]
GC Cohen, Lauren Roberts, Chaney Williams, Dana Curtis, Amy Poague, Julie Choffel, Art by Angelo Jank
[Spring 2020]
14: THE NEW NORMAL
[in which we all live online and login to digital dance parties]
Michael Chang, Ashley Taylor, Natasha Deonarain, Lee Peterson, Stephen French, Gale Acuff, Paige Menton, Danielle Mitchell, Edward Mayes, Seth McKelvey
[Autumn Equinox 2022]
15: PARADOX
[wherein we absurd the alien of language]
Poetry: Kristina Erny, Libby Maxey, Carlota Gamboa, Darcy Cleaver, Ashley D. Escobar, Laine Lloyd, Delilah Silberman, Robert Eric Shoemaker, Yousuf bin Mohammad, Wally Swist (trans. Pablo Neruda), Mervyn Seivwright, Carmine di Biase (trans. Ernesto Livorni), Brady Alexander
Photography: Natosha Cundiff, Portfolio Gallery
[Autumn Equinox 2023]
17: ON THE PORCH
[wherein we hear each other start to sweat]
Poetry: Miriam Taylor, Keith Gaboury, Sarah Koenig, Lucie Chou, John Zedolik, Vishal Prabhu, & Michael Kozlowsky
Art: Miriam Taylor & Edward Supranowicz
Cover: Stuart Gerard Walker
[Vernal Equinox 2024]
18: UNFURL
[wherein we open our throats & unbury]
Poetry: Diane LeBlanc, V. Joshua Adams, Christian Lozada, livio farallo, Joel Best, Harrison Fisher, MICHAEL CHANG, Sofia Fall, David Blair & Donald Langosy, Peter Mladinic, Nicholas Alti, Stephen C. Middleton, Misha Lynn Moon, Geoffrey Babbitt, James Miller, David Wolf, Giulio Maffii, Ryan Clark, Danielle Sellers
Art: Michael Moreth, Donald Langosy, Antoni “Toni” Szostak
Cover: Michael Moreth