Joel Bettridge, Tom Fisher, & Jamondria Marnice Harris

Jamondria Harris is a poet & multimedia artist living in Portland, OR. They use words, sounds, wires, instruments, textiles & what falls into their hands to engage with blackness, desire, spirit/source, decolonization, fairy tales, femme supremacy, & body horror. They are a VONA Workshop Fellow and an artist-in-residence at S1 Gallery, among other things. Their book of poetry and art, quaerere, is available from Magic Helicopter Press and their music can be found at meroitic.bandcamp.com .

Tom Fisher is the author of Convivium (Publication Studio), Writing Not Writing (University of Iowa Press), and Sorsere (The Cultural Society). He lives in Portland and teaches at Portland State.

Joel Bettridge is the author of three books of poetry, That Abrupt Here (The Cultural Society 2007), Presocratic Blues (Chax 2009), and The Public Life of Chemistry (The Cultural Society 2018), as well two critical studies, Avant-Garde Pieties: Aesthetics, Race, and the Renewal of Innovative Poetics (Routledge 2018) and Reading as Belief: Language Writing, Poetics, Faith (Palgrave 2009). He co-edited, with Eric Selinger, Ronald Johnson: Life and Works (The National Poetry Foundation 2008). Currently he is an Associate Professor of English at Portland State University.