6×6 magazine included 6 poets in each issue.

6×6 was supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and by the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

ISSN: 1553-9459

Alex Cuff is an educator, writer, and editor living in Brooklyn, New York. Her chapbooks include I Try Out A Sentence to See Whether I Believe (Ghost Proposal) and Family, A Natural Wonder (Reality Beach). Writing has been published in Apogee Journal, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Brooklyn Rail, Teachers and Writers Magazine, Poetry Project Newsletter, 6X6, and elsewhere. Cuff is a co-founding editor of the Brooklyn-based poetry journal No, Dear, a public high school teacher at the Academy for Young Writers, and a graduate of the Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts at Bard College.

Claudia La Rocco is the author of the selected writings The Best Most Useless Dress (Badlands Unlimited), the chapbook I am trying to do the assignment ([2nd Floor Projects]), and the sf novel petit cadeau (published by the Chocolate Factory Theater in print, performance, and digital editions). Her work frequently involves interdisciplinary projects; collaborators include the visual artist Anne Walsh, the choreographer Michelle Ellsworth, and the musician/composer Phillip Greenlief, with whom she is animals & giraffes, an ongoing experiment in improvisation. She has received grants and residencies from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation, and Headlands Center for the Arts, among others, and has writing in numerous publications and anthologies, including The New York Times, where she was a critic and reporter from 2005-2015. La Rocco is Editorial Director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s live and online commissioning platform Open Space.

Aisha Sasha John‘s medium is energy. A poet and choreographer, Aisha is the author of I have to live. (McClelland & Stewart), finalist for the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize, THOU (Book*hug), finalist for the 2015 Trillium Book Award, and TO STAND AT THE PRECIPICE ALONE AND REPEAT WHAT IS WHISPERED (UDP). Aisha was Writer-in-Residence at the University of Toronto (Scarborough) in 2018 and served as guest faculty for the 2019 Writing Studio residency program at The Banff Centre. Aisha is also the 2019-2022 Dancemakers’ Resident Artist—in 2021 she will commence research on an ensemble work DIANA ROSS DREAM. Her solo work the aisha of is premiered at the Whitney Museum in 2017.

Kristen Gallagher’s recent works include We Are Here, Florida (Well Greased Press), Dossier on the Site of a Shooting (GaussPDF), Untitled (Rosewood Trip) (Printed Web 3). Her essay “Cooking A Book with Low Level Durational Energy; or, How to Read Tan Lin’s Seven Controlled Vocabularies” is included in Reading the Difficulties (Univ. of Alabama), and her essay “Teaching Freire and CUNY Open Admissions” is anthologized in Class and the College Classroom: Essays on Teaching. She is Professor of English at City University of New York–LaGuardia Community College in Queens, New York.