Diana Arterian&nbsp;is the author of the poetry collection&nbsp;<a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780999004906/playing-monster--seiche.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable">Playing Monster :: Seiche&nbsp;</a>(1913 Press, 2017), the chapbooks&nbsp;<a href="http://www.essaypress.org/ep-94/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable">With Lightness &amp; Darkness and Other Brief Pieces</a>&nbsp;(Essay Press, 2017),&nbsp;<a title="Death Centos" href="http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/catalog/browse/item/?pubID=246" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable">Death Centos</a>&nbsp;(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013), and co-editor of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781938900143/among-margins.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable">Among Margins: Critical &amp; Lyrical Writing on Aesthetics</a>&nbsp;(Ricochet, 2016). A Poetry Editor at&nbsp;<a href="http://noemipress.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable">Noemi Press</a>, her creative work has been recognized with fellowships from the Banff Centre, Caldera, Millay, Vermont Studio Center, and Yaddo, and her poetry, criticism, conversations, and translations have been featured in&nbsp;BOMB,&nbsp;Denver Quarterly,&nbsp;LitHub,&nbsp;Los Angeles Review of Books,&nbsp;NPR,&nbsp;The New York Times Book Review, and The Poetry Foundation website, among others.&nbsp;Diana holds a PhD in Literature &amp; Creative Writing at the University of Southern California. She is currently Assistant Director for Los Angeles Poet Laureate Robin Coste Lewis' Poetic Truths &amp; Reconciliation Commission: Los Angeles project. This spring, she was the Visiting Emerging Poet-in-Residence at Wichita State University.

Diana Arterian

Andrew Wessels is a poet and translator who currently lives in Los Angeles. He has lived in Istanbul, Turkey, where he taught writing at Koç University. His first book of poems, A Turkish Dictionary, was published by 1913 Press in 2017, and Semi Circle, a chapbook of translations of Nurduran Duman’s poems, is available from Goodmorning Menagerie. His poems, translations, and collaborations can be found in VOLT, Witness, Fence, Tammy Journal, Faultline, and Colorado Review, among others. He has held fellowships from Black Mountain Institute and Poets &amp; Writers and is an editor at Les Figues Press.

Andrew Wessels

A Dialogue on First Books, in Two Parts

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

Notes on a Foreign Country

The Power to Trace Power: On Suzy Hansen’s “Notes on a Foreign Country”

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Andrew Wessels is a poet and translator who currently lives in Los Angeles. He has lived in Istanbul, Turkey, where he taught writing at Koç University. His first book of poems, A Turkish Dictionary, was published by 1913 Press in 2017, and Semi Circle, a chapbook of translations of Nurduran Duman’s poems, is available from Goodmorning Menagerie. His poems, translations, and collaborations can be found in VOLT, Witness, Fence, Tammy Journal, Faultline, and Colorado Review, among others. He has held fellowships from Black Mountain Institute and Poets &amp; Writers and is an editor at Les Figues Press.

Andrew Wessels

Articles

A Dialogue on First Books, in Two Parts

The Power to Trace Power: On Suzy Hansen’s “Notes on a Foreign Country”