Mary Newell

Mary Newell is the author of the poetry book ENTWINE (BlazeVox Press) as well as the poetry chapbooks TILT/ HOVER/ VEER (Codhill Press) and Re-SURGE, poems in numerous journals and anthologies, and occasional essays including “When Poetry Rivers” (Interim journal 38.3). is co-editor of Poetics for the More-than-Human-World: An Anthology of Poetry and Commentary and the Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics. Newell teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Connecticut, Stamford and intermittent online classes. She lives in the Hudson Highlands of New York.

Recording of an interview on ecopoetics with the Brooklyn Rail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIIp-pbuSjM.

Heller Levinson

HELLER LEVINSON’s most recent books are QUERY CABOODLE, SHIFT GRISTLE (Black Widow Press, 2023), THE ABYSSAL RECITATIONS (Concrete Mist Press, 2024), VALVULAR ASH (BWP, 2024), QUERY CABOODLE 2 (Sulfur Editions, 2024), with CROSSFALL (BWP) slated for a spring 2025 release. His book, LURE (Black Widow Press, 2022), won the “2022 Big Other Poetry Book Award.”