A living network, not a directory. Collaborators, not inventory.
12 poets · 16 poems
Glasgow, UK · 1 poem
Collects small civic failures — missing benches, wrong weather, lost socks of sky — and files them as poems. Currently walking every bus route in her city, in order, badly.
London, UK · 1757–1827 · 1 poem
Engraver, printer, and maker of his own books, page by page, by hand, with his wife Catherine at the press. Songs of Innocence and of Experience is a collage before the word existed: image and text bitten into the same plate.
Amherst, MA · 1830–1886 · 2 poems
Wrote nearly 1,800 poems and published fewer than a dozen in her lifetime, most of them altered without her consent. Sewed her work into hand-bound packets and left the rest on envelope flaps and shopping lists. Her dashes are still the loudest punctuation in the language.
New England · 4 poems
Founding editor of Noise Flower. Writes short, star-lit poems about birds, books, weather and the people walking under all of it. Publishes small victories on Substack.
San Juan, PR · 1 poem
Writes from the space between what washed away and what refused to leave. Also a printmaker; her broadsides are set in type she carves herself.
Baltimore, MD · 1 poem
Writes self-portraits that keep escaping the frame. Believes a poem is a room with one window too many. Teaches a night class called The Sentence as Tool.
Lagos / London · 1 poem
Writes instructions for things that have not happened yet. Organizes quiet readings in loud places. Keeps a seed library and a rhyme library; both circulate freely.
London, UK · 1830–1894 · 1 poem
Wrote devotional verse and fairy tales with teeth. Turned down more than one proposal and most of the century's expectations. Goblin Market is still argued over; the short songs are where the grief lives plainly.
St. Louis, MO · 1884–1933 · 1 poem
Won the first Pulitzer awarded for poetry, in 1918, back when it was called something else. Wrote short, plain, unbearably clear lyrics at a time when clarity was going out of fashion.
Vancouver, BC · 1 poem
Writes about weather as a family language. Trained as a meteorological technician before admitting the forecasts she wanted to make were not the official kind.
Providence, RI · 1 poem
Writes at the seam between sound and body. Interested in what language does when it is handled gently and refuses to behave. Razor Soft is her second appearance in Noise Flower.
Brooklyn, NY · 1819–1892 · 1 poem
Spent his life rewriting one book. Leaves of Grass grew from twelve untitled poems in 1855 to a deathbed edition he called the final word. A printer by trade, which is why the lines fit the page the way breath fits a lung.
