Basie Allen (b. New York City) uses poetry and painting to explore the space between living in cities and being in nature. Through a process of layering written text, paint, décollage, and transfer, Allen experientially mimics the sensation of putting on boots and walking into a landscape. The work is accentuated by cultural and personal identity, memory, and gestural abstraction. His work has been exhibited at Eric Firestone (New York, 2024), V1 (Copenhagen, 2024), MoMA PS1 (Queens, 2024), Massimodecarlo (Milan, 2022), Olympia (NYC, 2021), and Marlborough Contemporary (NYC, 2018). Art fairs include The Armory Show (NYC 2024), NADA (Miami 2024), and Art Expo Chicago (Chicago 2025). He’s been an artist in residency at Modern ancient Brown (Detroit 2022) and Mount Lebanon (NY 2019). His debut collection of poetry, Palm-Lined with Potience, was nominated for the National Book Award in 2023.
Mosie Romney (b. 1994, New York) lives and works in Ridgewood, Queens, New York. A Jamaican-American artist, they received their education from SUNY Purchase, obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Visual Arts in 2016. They have been an artist in residence at the Home School, Hudson in 2018 and at Pocoapoco, Oaxaca City in 2021 (upcoming). Exhibitions include Mosie Romney, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles (2021, solo, upcoming); Evening Lark, Y2K Group, New York (2020, solo); PAPA RAGAZZE!, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles (2020); Mosie Romney and Juan Guiterrez, Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York (2020); and Materia Prima, Gern en Regalia, New York (2019).
David Lindsay is a poet, visual artist, independent curator and writer currently residing in New York. Past collaborators in poetry include Artist Space, Segue Foundation, and anonymous gallery. Most recently David curated an exhibition at St Marks Church on the Bowery, aka Poetry Project. His work has been exhibited internationally, most recently at anonymous gallery (New York, NY, January 2024) and Phillip Zollinger (Zurich, Switzerland, April 2024). He is currently a candidate for a Masters in Fine Arts at Bard College and has a forthcoming poetry book “Pink and Tourmaline and Canton Rose”
Sara Jane Stoner is a writer, poet, and teacher who currently works in the Architecture Writing Program at Pratt Institute, the New England Literature Program (an experiential learning project and temporary intentional community), as well as New York-based community organizations like the Poetry Project and Wendy’s Subway, along with holding classes virtually from her home. In her practices of reading and writing as actively social experiments in the creation and negotiation of subjects, within and without institutions, the relational recognition and mobilization of desire has always formed a weird center and mysterious periphery in all of her work. Her publications include Experience in the Medium of Destruction (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2015, nominated for a Lambda Award in Poetry), a chapbook “Grief Hour” (published in Black Warrior Review, 2017), the essay “Failing at Subjects” (VIDA, 2017), and forthcoming in 2022, the anti-genre performance text “VNN LIVES” from Gloss Press and an essay, “READING” in The Poetry Project Newsletter.
Addison Bale is an artist and poet from New York City, Bale's work is split between the visual and literary arts, which overlap not only in theme, but also in subject-matter. Neither discipline holds court: poetry informs his drawings while drawing informs his poems. Though Bale is currently working as a painting assistant for Federico Solmi in Brooklyn, his focus is on mixed-media drawings where he incorporates anything from acrylic and oil paints to ink, graphite, pencil, colored pencil, and ball-point pen.
Tilghman Alexander Goldsborough (b. Richmond, VA, USA, 1991). Poet. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Matvei Yankelevich is a poet, translator, and editor. His books include the poetry collections Some Worlds for Dr. Vogt (Black Square) and Dead Winter (Fonograf), as well as the translations Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Overlook) and Alexander Vvedensky’s An Invitation for Me to Think (NYRB Poets; with Eugene Ostashevsky), winner of the 2014 National Translation Award. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for Humanities, among others. In the 1990s, he co-founded Ugly Duckling Presse where he edited and designed books, periodicals, and ephemera for more than twenty years. As of 2022, he is editor of World Poetry Books, a nonprofit publisher of poetry in translation. He teaches translation and book arts at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.
Emil Bognar-Nasdor (b. 1990, NYC) is a practitioner of creative expressions whose constructions manifest across several mediums and modalities. Over the past two decades, they have practiced live expression through frequent interdisciplinary collaborations, and performed with a myriad of musical groups, including Dawn of Humans and Slender. Through highly devotional idiosyncratic approaches, they have developed a transformative and poignant body of work, exhibiting locally in NYC and internationally
