Oliver Dybing is a poet and conceptual artist residing in the Pacific Northwest. He thinks very deeply and not at all. His work has been featured in Upshod Quills, Spare Change, Second Factory, and Zaum Press.

sadé powell is a native new yorker and antidisciplinary poet, exploring fugitivity, legibility, and interobjectivity through visual and concrete poetry. inspired by her upbringing, she uses the sonic, kinesthetic, and linguistic elements of her 1940s mechanical typewriter to experiment with dissemblance as proximity and relation to otherwise potentialities. sadé holds a ma in performance studies at nyu tisch. her work can be found in Kolaj Magazine, and Tiny Spoon.

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