Micah Cozzens
Micah Cozzens received her PhD from Ohio University. While her work often wears the facade of confusion and obliviousness, it is vested in troves of epiphany. To read one of Cozzens’s poems is like coming to a cup of tea with an old friend with whom you expect to have a casual chat only to end up with a harshly torqued new paradigm. To read her is to be enthralled by her tortuous lyric which complements her always burgeoning themes. She’s got something to say, and each poem is an exploration of humanity. You become smarter after each poem of hers you read, or should I say, more well-versed. Her work has appeared in LIT Magazine, Irreantum, and Segullah.
M. Anthony C.
M. Anthony C. received his MFA from Brigham Young University. His work is what would happen if T. S. Eliot, Alexander Pope, and Delmore Schwartz climbed into a trench coat together, Pope propped on Schwartz’s shoulders, T. S. Eliot hogging space, and decided to write poems as one individual. M. favors at times a strict meter, but with the postmodern whimsy of an episode of NBC’s Community. His thesis project was a series of epistolary poems that contemplate love, language, and Tinder. In short, M’s poetry escapes a single definition but it’s most distinct in that it has ambition, scope, and a sense of all-encompassing grandeur that is not content to be the strangled outcry of a fixed point in history but strives instead for a clear-sighted universality achieved paradoxically through the intimacy with which the reader becomes familiarized with the potent self-deprecation of his speakers.
Scott Darrington
Scott Darrington is a small-town Nevada escapee currently in Utah. He has always enjoyed the rugged beauty of the high-desert and the strange ways nature and civilization intersect. To read a Darrington poem is to be plunged waist deep into a world of whimsy, etymological depth, and existential dread all at the same time. You will readily laugh and then be stunned by the idea of a tear clinging to your lower eyelid. What dark epiphanies and lithe surrenders accompany her who reads his verse. Besides poetry, he enjoys cats, board games, and pickleball.
M. Taylor
Like many cats, M. Taylor is excitable, disruptively curious and thoroughly convinced that a box is just as important as the things that come in it. She can often be found on the suspect peripheries of respectable creative practices, burning mixtapes, building bookshelves, emceeing open mics, and writing letters as an excuse to put something in the mail. As an epitext enthusiast, Taylor is always looking at people looking at media. She strongly believes that art cannot be divorced from community, so whether she is sending cryptic postcards to friends across the country or hand delivering oranges to closely observe how persons eat them, she will make her project your problem! To put it simply: Taylor writes in her books. She wants to know if you do too.
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