In addition to peer review, several poetry editors also review work:
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Geoff Anderson
Geoff created diVERSES to promote the writing of multi-racial, multi-ethnic, and under-represented poets in building writing that supports creative and financial independence. His poems can be found in journals like Cimarron, Tar River, Ninth Letter, Indiana Review, and Hobart. He's a Callaloo fellow, Cave Canem fellow, Frost Place finalist, BOAAT chapbook prize finalist, Driftwood finalist, poetry retreat organizer, event curator, and dad. He founded Columbus's first poetry Conference (the Poet Assembly), the first non-print and non-online poetry journal (Brick & Mortar) and Columbus's first poetry-dedicated venue (the Stanza).
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Violeta Orozco
Ajanaé Dawkins
Violeta Orozco is a bilingual poet, fiction writer and essayist from Mexico City, author of three poetry collections: The Broken Woman Diaries (Andante Books 2021) Stillness in the Land of Speed (Jacar Presss 2022) and Atlas of an Ancient World (Black Lawrence Press 2024). Her first book of essays in Spanish was published by UNAM in Mexico City in 2023. She completed her Ph.D. with a concentration in Creative Writing and Chicanx Literature at University of Cincinnati. She is also a translator of Chicano Literature, and has translated Dreaming with Mariposas into Spanish. Her editorial work includes being a reader for Cincinnati Review. She is currently working on a book of parodic ghost stories taking place in Mexico City.
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Ajanaé Dawkins is a poet, conceptual artist and theologian raised between Metro Detroit and New Rochelle, NY. She works through poetry, visual art, performance, and audio to explore the politics of faith, grief, and intimate relationships between Black women. As a theologian, she blends cultural criticism, memoir, and theology as autotheory to consider the relationship between Black church history, spirituality, and creation. Her work has appeared in Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, The Rumpus, Prairie Schooner, and more. Her exhibition, No One Teaches Us How To Be Daughters, debuted at Urban Arts Space in 2024. Her chapbook, BLOOD-FLEX, won the New Delta Review prize. Ajanaé is an Elizabeth George Grant Recipient and Writing Freedom Fellow. She was the Taft Museum’s 2022 Duncanson Artist in Residence and Ohio State University’s 2024 UAS Community Artist in Residence. She is a fellow of Torch Literary, The Watering Hole, and Pink Door. She cohosts the VS Podcast with Brittany Rogers at the Poetry Foundation. Ajanaé lives in Columbus, Ohio and is writing a manuscript and developing a theology space for artists on the margins of their faith to explore spirituality and creation.
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