Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918)—art critic, novelist, provocateur, bibliophile, fritterer on two riverbanks, and coiner of the term surreal—was a central figure of international modernism and remains one of France's most beloved poets. His late visionary poem “The Hills,” written while recovering from a WWI head injury and published shortly before his death by influenza, appears in his final book, Calligrammes.

Sylvia G. Dziewaltowska is a Polish-American poet from Southern California living and working in New York City. Their first poetry collection, Sunbather, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2024. They have taught creative writing in prisons, elementary schools, and universities.

Born and raised in western Pennsylvania, Nathaniel Farrell is a poet and collage artist. He is the author of two books on Ugly Duckling Presse: Newcomer (2014) and Lost Horizon (2019). He currently lives in St. Louis, where he teaches rhetoric and composition.

Farrah Field is the author of Wolf and Pilot (Four Way Books), Rising (Four Way Books), and the chapbook Parents (Immaculate Disciples Press.) Her writing has appeared in many publications, including Best American Poetry 2011, and she is a regular contributor to Harp & Altar, having published poems, essays, and short fiction in the magazine. She co-founded Berl’s Poetry Shop in Brooklyn and now lives with her family in Rhode Island. 

Endi Bogue Hartigan’s third book oh orchid o’clock was published by Omnidawn Publishing in 2023. Her previous full-length books are Pool [5 choruses], selected for the Omnidawn Open Prize, and One Sun Storm, selected for the Colorado Prize for Poetry. Her work has appeared in journals, collaborations, and two chapbooks, the most recent being the seaweed sd treble clef from Oxeye Press. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Brian Henry is the author of eleven books of poetry, most recently Permanent State, and the prose book Things Are Completely Simple: Poetry and Translation. He has translated Tomaž Šalamun’s Woods and Chalices and Kiss the Eyes of Peace: Selected Poems 1964–2014, and six books by Aleš Šteger, most recently Burning Tongues: New and Selected Poems. His work has received numerous honors, including two NEA fellowships, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, a Howard Foundation fellowship, and the Best Translated Book Award.

Poet, translator, novelist, and Zen monk, John High (Ninso) has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as four Fulbrights. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Scrolls of a Temple Sweeper (Wet Cement Press). A co-founder of the Long Island University MFA Program, he has taught in Istanbul, Moscow, Hangzhou, and San Francisco, and facilitated workshops in creative transformation in Asia, Europe, and the U.S. His co-translation (with Matvei Yankelevich) of Osip Mandelstam’s Voronezh Notebooks is forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press. He lives in Lisbon.

Rebecca Watson Horn received a BFA from the Cooper Union and an MFA from Rutgers University, and attended the Mountain School of Arts, Los Angeles. Horn’s solo exhibitions include Sono (Villa di Geggiano, Siena); The Secret Life of Vowels (Emanuela Campoli, Paris); Sigils (Auroras, São Paulo); Letters as such (Deli Gallery, New York); Rub It In (Soloway, Brooklyn); and White Columns (New York). She has participated in group exhibitions at several New York galleries, including James Fuentes, Derosia, 1969, Rumpelstiltskin, and Lyles & King, as well as at KAJE in Brooklyn, Forland in Catskill, N.Y., and Hotel Pupik in Austria. Horn presented works from her Semaphores series in a collaborative project with choreographer Andros Zins-Browne and designer Victoria Bartlett at Canepa Selling in L.A. As a member of the collective Canaries, she participated in an exhibition at Cleopatra’s in Brooklyn and a residency at Recess in New York. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn and São Paulo.

Gregory Howard is the author of Hospice. His short fiction and essays have been published in magazines and journals across the web. He teaches creative writing and contemporary literature at the University of Maine. 

Karla Kelsey is the author of seven books, including the poetry collections On Certainty (Omnidawn) and Blood Feather (Tupelo), and the experimental essay Of Sphere, selected by Carla Harryman for the 2016 Essay Press Open Book Contest. A recipient of awards and fellowships from the Poetry Society of America, the Fulbright Scholars Program, and Yale University, she is the editor of Lost Writings: Two Novels by Mina Loy (Yale University Press) and the co-publisher of SplitLevel Texts.

Sam Lohmann is a poet and librarian living in Vancouver, Washington. He is a co-organizer of the long-running Spare Room reading series in Portland, Oregon. A new chapbook, Poems for Shy Communists, was self-published under the Airfoil imprint in 2025. “The Hills” is his first publication as a translator.

James Loop is a writer from Central New York and the author of several chapbooks. He lives in Brooklyn and works as the publicity director for World Poetry. His first poetry collection, Metronome, is forthcoming from Winter Editions in the spring of 2026.

Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938) is widely regarded as one of Russia’s most important modernist poets. Before his 1934 arrest for privately circulated poems critical of the Soviet regime, he published two poetry collections, a memoir, a collection of essays and prose works, and numerous works of journalism, travel writing, and translation in the Soviet press. From 1934 to 1937, serving his exile in a southern Russian city, Mandelstam composed the body of work known as The Voronezh Notebooks. Re-arrested a year after his return from exile, Mandelstam died in a transit camp near Vladivostok.

Mike Newton is a visual artist, writer, and software developer based in Brooklyn. He is one of the editors of Harp & Altar and a regular contributor to the magazine.

Jon Pack is a Brooklyn-based photographer. He is the co-creator, with Gary Hustwit, of The Olympic City, an ongoing photography project, initially published in 2014, that looks at the legacy of the Olympic games in former host cities around the world. His work has been exhibited at SFMOMA, the Brooklyn Museum, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, and Storefront for Art and Architecture. For more than a decade, he has worked on numerous films and television shows as a still photographer, and he is a member of the International Cinematographers Guild, IATSE Local 600.

Caryl Pagel is the author of four books, most recently Free Clean Fill Dirt (University of Akron Press) and Out of Nowhere Into Nothing (FC2). She is a publisher and editor at Rescue Press and was the 2025 Lorine Niedecker Fellow. Pagel’s recent work can be found in Either/Or, The Hopkins Review, and Cleveland Review of Books.

Matt Reeck is a poet, translator, and avid sci-fi reader living in Brooklyn. His recent poetry has appeared in Bath House, Voice & Verse (Hong Kong), Other Rooms, and remue (France).

Tomaž Šalamun (1941–2014) published more than 50 books of poetry in Slovenia. Translated into over 25 languages, his poetry received numerous awards, including the Jenko Prize, the Prešeren Prize, the European Prize for Poetry, and the Mladost Prize. In the 1990s, he served for several years as the Cultural Attaché for the Slovenian Embassy in New York, and later held visiting professorships at various universities in the U.S. Kiss the Eyes of Peace: Selected Poems 1964–2014 appeared from Milkweed Editions in 2024.

Matvei Yankelevich is a poet, translator, and editor. His translations include Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Overlook) and Alexander Vvedensky’s An Invitation for Me to Think (NYRB Poets; with Eugene Ostashevsky), winner of the National Translation Award. His co-translation (with John High) of Osip Mandelstam’s Voronezh Notebooks is forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press. He is editor of World Poetry Books, a nonprofit publisher of poetry in translation and proprietor-publisher of the small press Winter Editions. He teaches translation at Columbia University and elsewhere.

Michael Zeiss lives in Portland, Oregon. He has built a long career of service to his fellow Earthlings while writing fiction at the intersection of the literary, the fantastic, and the comic.