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Regie Cabico is the author of A Rabbit In Search of A Rolex (Day Eight, 2023)  and the Interim Executive Director of A Gathering of The Tribes.  

Lonely Christopher is the author of five books, most recently the poetry collections In a January Would and the 10th anniversary reissue of Death & Disaster Series, and is the founding creative director of Inter Poets Theater, managing director of the Segue Foundation, and an editor for Roof Books. 

Steven Cordova is a Brooklynite whose poems have most recently appeared in Poetry I$ Currency and Pleaides and are forthcoming in Grist. 

Bakar Wilson's debut collection of poetry, Daddy Show, was published by Get Fresh Books and is an adjunct lecturer of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College.

DJ Chauncey D has been a sound selector for every gay bar in the city throughout his 14-year career, from The East Village to The West Village and beyond. He enjoys a residency at the legendary Stonewall Inn as in-house tech and DJ for drag shows, cabaret performances, and more. 

Geoffrey Bridgman is a writer/bookbinder, born in New Jersey, raised in Los Angeles, but living now in New York, who writes dissociated, verge-of-surrealist fiction and works as a proto assistant librarian and cataloger, having just graduated from library school

Davidson Garrett lives in Manhattan and is the author of two poetry collections.

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Drew Pisarra is the author of three poetry collections: Infinity Standing Up (Capturing Fire Press, 2019), Periodic Boyfriends (Capturing Fire Press, 2021), and Fassbinder: His Movies, My Poems (Anxiety Press, 2024). 

Dan Meltz is a retired Google technical writer and teacher of Deaf young people, with a B.A. from Columbia (no honors); his first book of poems, It Wasn’t Easy to Reach You, and his first novel, Rabbis of the Garden State, were both published a couple of minutes ago. 

Jee Leong Koh is the author of Inspector Inspector, which was published by Carcanet and was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize.

Jerome Ellison Murphy is a poet and critic based in New York City. He earned his MFA from the Creative Writing Program at New York University, where he manages undergraduate programs. 

Joey De Jesus is the author of HOAX Limited Artist Set and the chapbooks We Animate the Dream: A Poet’s Run for Public Office and NOCT- The Threshold of Madness, and the recipient of a BRIC ArtFP Project Room Commission, co-editor at Apogee Journal, and lives in Ridgewood, Queens where they ran for NY Assembly District 38 in 2020.

Celine Lowenthal is a poet with a BA in English Literature from Cambridge University and a theater director who co-founded Pecs, a drag king ensemble in the U.K.

Pamela Booker is an interdisciplinary-writing artist, eco-activist, and faculty at Montclair State University, and recipient of the 2024 NJ State Council on the Arts Prose Fellow award for her fiction manuscript Dill’s Mirrors and the Lizzies. A“Lizzie” story was selected for the 10th-anniversary book publication of the journal Dark Matter: Women Witnessing, released in March. Currently, she is shopping her novel Fierce! Remains. 

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Casey Catherine Moore (she/her) is a bipolar, bisexual poet, educator, and writing coach. Her mythology and disability-inspired poetry collection, Psyche was published by Anxiety Press (2024) 

Mariah “Beyond Your Definition” Barber placed 20th in the Womxn of the World Poetry Slam and 19th in the Stonewall International Poetry Slam and co-chairs the DC Board of StartOut, an organization supporting LGBTQ+ startup founders.

Aurora Hatchel is a trans poet, novelist, and teacher in Washington, DC, whose work focuses on the intersection of gender, trauma, and hope. 

Micah the Poet is a writer, orator, poet, DJ, community activist, and author of the collection Things No One Else Wants To Say (Capturing Fire Press, 2020).

Amuchechukwu Nwafor (Amuche The Poet) is a dynamic DC-based poet, storyteller, teacher, and author of her first collection of poetry Salt Water Roots.

Jason Schneiderman is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Self Portrait of Icarus as a Country on Fire (Red Hen, 2024), and book of essays Nothingism: Poetry at the End of Print Culture (University of Michigan Poets on Poetry, 2025); he is Professor of English at CUNY’s BMCC and teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

Ishanee Chanda is the author or two books of poetry: Oh, these walls, they crumble and The Overflow. And her work appears in the Eckleberg Project, Stoked Words: A Queer Anthology, Z Publishing House’s Emerging Texas Writers, Flypaper Magazine, and Apricity Press.

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Malcolm Tariq is the author of Heed the Hollow (Graywolf Press, 2019) and director of the Prison and Justice Writing Program at PEN America.

Nancy Huang is a queer poet and essayist putting together her first novel; she works at Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

Brionne Janae is a poet living in Brooklyn with their two dogs.

Asia Letlow has been published in Hunter Hodkinson’s Dead End Zine and is a featured reader at The KGB Bar Monday Night Poetry Series and Cafe Calaca’s Syntax and Sound, orchestrated by Nikki Kramer.

Ken Meyers has work published in Iron City Magazine, Atlantis, and Absinthe Literary Review, and has been honored by the PEN Prison Writing Awards.

TA Penny (aka TAP) was born in Mississippi, based in Brooklyn, an educator, collagist, and the curator of the KGB Bar Monday Night Poetry Series whose work—appearing in Narrative, Best New Poets, Denver Quarterly, Washington Square Review, and elsewhere—has earned them fellowships, grants, residencies from institutions like Poets & Writers, the Mississippi Arts Commission, The Peter Bullough Foundation, and the Vermont Studio Center..

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Tim Stobierski is a writer and content strategist focused on the world of finance, investing, software, and other complicated topics. His first book of poems, Dancehall, was published by Antrim House Books in 2023.

Anna Lemoitas-Salisbury has been featured at Camperdown, a poetry reading series at Halyards, Honey Dipped Productions, Body Love, Leaf Lit Live, WOC Reading Series, and her poetry, which was nominated for Best of the Net 2021, also appears in SFWP Quarterly, The Poets Corner, and La Libreta. 

Bonnie Rose Marcus, lesbian/queer poet, author of The Luminosity, and Consultant at SAGE (Services and Advocacy for LGBTQ+ Elders) where she facilitates support/empowerment groups using poetry and meditation.  

Rosalind Aparicio Ramirez is an indigenous reconnecting (Mixteco/Zapoteco) writer and multimedia artist whose work focuses on belonging, indigeneity, non-linear time, and migration.

tash nikol is a Brooklyn-based editor, poet, and worker-owner of Grace Issues Press, whose work honors Black and Indigenous ancestral practices through experimental publishing that speculates and memorializes them as vital ancient technologies.

Al Salwen is a trans poet, playwright, and fungi enthusiast whose work has been published in A Gathering Of The Tribes, Superpresent, Boston Art Review, and elsewhere. Their play, Soup Play, was produced by SHOW/UP Theater Collective in 2019. They live in Brooklyn with their cat.

Nathaniel A. Siegel created the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual + Poetry Reading: COME HEAR ! with poet Regie Cabico to present L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ poets to L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ persons in L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ friendly places!  His chapbook,  Tony, was published by Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs.  

Credit NATHANIEL A. SIEGEL