Shamar Hill, a Black and Jewish writer, is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Cave Canem, and the Fine Arts Work Center. He has been published in American Poetry Review, Missouri Review, Washington Square Review, and Poetry Northwest, among others. Enzo Silon Surin is a Haitian-born, award-winning poet, educator, librettist, publisher and social advocate. He is the author of four collections of poetry, including American Scapegoat (Black Lawrence Press, May 2023), which interrogates the socio-political framework of a democracy at war with itself and its humanity, and When My Body Was A Clinched Fist (2020), winner of the 21st Annual Massachusetts Book Awards for Poetry. Martha Collins recently published her eleventh collection of poetry, Casualty Reports (Pittsburgh, 2022), and her fifth volume of co-translated Vietnamese poetry, Dreaming the Mountain, poems by Tue Sy (Milkweed, 2023).
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