That all sounds pretty emotional actually: A Rail Reading Curated by Anselm Berrigan

Ama Birch was born during a blizzard on the Lower East Side. Some recent work has appeared in Hanging Loose Magazine, Lonesome Press, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. Listen to the Ferguson Interview Project recordings on Spotify and YouTube. She teaches undergraduates writing at Hunter College in New York City.

Poet and filmmaker Courtney Bush is from the Mississippi Gulf Coast. She lives and works as a nanny in New York. She is the author of Isn’t This Nice?, Every Book Is About The Same Thing, and I Love Information, a 2022 National Poetry Series selection, forthcoming in 2023 from Milkweed Editions. Her films, made with collaborators Jake Goicoechea and Will Carington, have been screened at festivals internationally.

Ed Steck is a writer from Pittsburgh, author of The Garden, An Interface for a Fractal Landscape, Mountain Forge Serviceberry Systems, more.

Poet Jennifer Soong’s books and chapbooks include Suede Mantis / Soft Rage (Black Sun Lit), Contempt (SPAM Press), When I Ask My Friend (co-bound with Dan Owen’s Points of Amperture, DoubleCross Press), and Near, At (Futurepoem). Her chapbook Hand Hiding Hand, illustrated by Thom Donovan, is forthcoming with Face Press. Originally from New Jersey, she currently lives in Oxford, UK.

Anselm Berrigan is the poetry editor for the Brooklyn Rail, and author of a number of books of poems, most recently Pregrets, from Black Square Editions.