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This series of texts, guest edited by Ben Libman, is being published in the run up to minor [i]ncident, a night of readings and discussion happening in Paris on October 12th, 2024. You can find more information about the event and its participants here.

Maureen Alsop, Ph.D. is the author of a debut collection of fiction: Today Yesterday After My Death (Erratum Press, forthcoming); Arbor Vitae: Tender to Empress (visual poetry); Pyre; Later, Knives & Trees; Mirror Inside Coffin; Mantic; Apparition Wren (also a Spanish Edition, translated by Mario Domínguez Parra); and several chapbooks. She is the winner of several poetry prizes including the Tony Quagliano International Poetry Award through the Hawaii Council for the Humanities, Harpur Palate’s Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry, The Bitter Oleander’s Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals including AGNI, Blackbird, Tampa Review, DIAGRAM, Missouri Review, Meanjin, The Kenyon Review and featured on Verse Daily. Her visual poetry  has featured in galleries and journals including Riverside Art Museum, Umbrella Studio, Perc Tucker Art Gallery, Tupelo Quarterly, Drunken Boat and ctrl + v.

Ben Libman is the author of The Third Solitude: A Memoir Against History. He lives in Paris.