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Bio: DeeSoul Carson is a poet, educator, and host of the O,Word? podcast. A Stanford alum, his work is featured or forthcoming in POETRY Magazine,Muzzle Magazine, AGNI, & elsewhere. For his work, DeeSoul has received a National Endowment for the Arts and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, as well as fellowships from the NYU MFA program, the Watering Hole, and the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference. His debut full-length, The Laughing Barrel, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in Spring 2027. Find more of his work at deesoulpoetry.com

Saba Keramati is a Chinese-Iranian writer from California. She is the author of Self-Mythology (University of Arkansas Press, 2024), selected by Patricia Smith for the Miller Williams Poetry Series. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Lit Hub, Kenyon Review, and The Rumpus, among others, and has been awarded the Discovery Poetry Prize, the Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize, and the Third Coast poetry prize. She is the poetry editor for Sundog Lit. Saba lives in Dearborn, Michigan with her partner and their two cats.