I hosted my first Mental Marginalia a year ago this month, which means it's the one year anniversary of me saying my favorite word (spooky!) a million times into a microphone. Join us next Tuesday at the West!

Lauren Hilger’s debut poetry collection, Lady Be Good, is forthcoming from Civil Coping Mechanisms, October 2016. Awarded the Nadya Aisenberg Fellowship from the MacDowell Colony, where she was a fellow in 2012 and 2014, her work has appeared in Gulf Coast, Harvard Review Online, and Kenyon Review Online, among other journals. She serves as a poetry editor for No Tokens.

Laura Buccieri lives in Manhattan, where she is currently working on her MFA in Poetry at The New School. She is a participant of Ashbery's Home School. You can find her forthcoming and most recent work in Prelude, Potluck, Word Riot, The Seventh Wave, Nourrir, Yes Poetry, Public Pool, Entropy, and FORTH. She works at Freeman’s Journal and Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop. Check out more of her work here: laurabuccieri.com.

Amber Atiya is an interdisciplinary poet whose work incorporates elements of performance, book arts, and visual arts. Her work has appeared in Boston Review, Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color, PEN America, and elsewhere. A proud native Brooklynite, she is the author of the fierce bums of doo-wop and a member of a women's writing group that will be celebrating 15 years next spring.

Phillipe Martin is the founder of In Parentheses and a poet from New York City with a Master’s Degree in Poetry from The New School. He writes as someone in the tradition of the urban troubadour or the flaneur–wandering, taking notes. He believes that poetry of our generation has taking on a much more digital definition. His series taking shots alone was self published in 2012-2015. (@uptownvoice)