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Contributor features from ballast 4.2:
Here’s Jeffrey Hecker from "Jane Byrne Interchange (Chicago, Illinois)"

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August 4, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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Contributor features from ballast 4.2:
Here’s Seth Copeland with “Someone Told Me to Download an App Today”
@petrichorlit.bsky.social
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July 15, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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Contributor features from ballast 4.2:
Here’s Rocío Cerón,translated by Dana Delibovi @danadelibovi.bsky.social

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July 9, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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Contributor features from ballast 4.2:
Here’s vincent a celluci and “once upon a time in security”

See more in the issue (and hear the poet read!)

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July 8, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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Contributor features from ballast 4.2:
Here’s Sam Calhoun (@weatherman_sam on IG) and “Stewart’s Point”

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Text from Sam Calhoun’s poem “Stewart’s Point” in ballast 4.2. White text against chestnut brown background with cartoon image of window with flowers. Poems text reads “We could crack a window, taste the air still left from the night, inverted, notes of smoke and salt, let it slip in, no labor added to our breathing, easy as the sea breeze that comes later”
July 7, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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Contributor features from ballast 4.1:
Here’s Alicia Potee with “Hermitage”
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April 19, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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Contributor features from ballast 4.1:
Here’s Chelsey Keith Ignacio with “Reality TV set in the rain”

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April 16, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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Contributor features from ballast 4.1:
Here’s nat raum with “grief as a blistered shishito”

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April 14, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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Contributor features from ballast 4.1:
Here’s Dennis Hinrichsen with “drip-dry buffalo”

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April 13, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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Contributor features from ballast 4.1:
Here’s Ben Egerton with “Currency”

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April 9, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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Contributor features from ballast 4.1:
Here’s Marthine Satris with “Wrack Line Elegy” @msatris.bsky.social

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April 8, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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Contributor features from ballast 4.1:
Here’s Maia Sauer with “Risk”

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April 5, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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Contributor features from ballast 4.1:
Here’s Peach Delphine with “wasn’t barter but trade-“

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April 3, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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Contributor features from ballast 4.1:
Here’s Maurizio Brancaleoni’s translation of Scipione with “I Hear the Screeches of the Engels”

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April 1, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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Contributor features from ballast 4.1:
Here’s Wes Civilz with “Accident”

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March 31, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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Contributor features from ballast 4.1:
Here’s Matt Turner from 6AMING

And don’t miss the full collection coming later this year from @antiphonyjournal.bsky.social

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March 21, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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Contributor features from ballast 4.1:
Here’s Robyn Art with “My Strange Addiction”

See the poem in the issue

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March 14, 2026 at 10:54 PM
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Here’s Miharu Yano and “Three Paintings; Redux” to round out ballast 3.4’s contributor features

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January 24, 2026 at 12:57 AM
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Here’s Rebecca Valley and “January in the Japanese Garden” for ballast 3.4’s contributor features

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January 21, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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Here’s Misha Tentser and “Sacred Heart” for ballast 3.4’s contributor features

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January 19, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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Here’s Hannah Azar Strauss and “Warner’s Lolly” for ballast 3.4’s contributor features

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December 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Here’s Kelly R. Samuels and “Re: Talking of Wallpaper” for ballast 3.4’s contributor features w/ @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social

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December 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Here’s · R L · powell and “Polaroids I didn’t take only to leave in Basque” for ballast 3.4’s contributor features

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December 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Here’s Meg Pokrass and “The Stranger Likes Soup” for ballast 3.4’s contributor features @megpokrass.bsky.social

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December 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Here’s Caroline Picker for ballast 3.4’s contributor features

Content Warning: grief, loss of child

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December 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM