Laura Henriksen // Bahaar Ahsan // Mel Elberg // Teline Trần

An overlap of place, a link in times, Laura Henriksen’s Duvall, Shelley is an invitation to come over, to watch a movie, to hold a seánce that calls on a star. A lyric reflection on desire, decay, resurrection and survival. An index for monsters and their fans.

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Laura Henriksen is the author of Laura’s Desires (Nightboat, 2024) and Duvall, Shelley (Newest York, 2025). Her writing can be found in LitHub, shitwonder, and other places. She lives in Bed-Stuy, Lenapehoking and teaches writing at Pratt Institute. She worked for a long time at the Poetry Project.

Bahaar Ahsan is a poet from the Bay Area living in New York City. Bahaar’s work is both speculative and deeply embedded in lineage(s). She is the author of Gay Girl Hyacinth (Eyelet 2021) and work can be found in Berkeley Poetry Review, We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat Books), and elsewhere.

Mel Elberg is a genderqueer poet and artist working across print, performance, video, memory, games, and long-term collaborative endeavors.

Teline Trần is a writer from Orange, California or Gabrieleño/Tongva land. They write about home and interstitial faith via several mediums such as fiction, poetry, film, and ultimately the browser. Teline works as the Membership and Community Engagement Coordinator at Wendy’s Subway, a reading room, writing space, and independent publisher in Bushwick, Brooklyn and the Development Manager at Mekong NYC, a Southeast Asian grassroots organization in the Bronx. Their work appears in Social Text Online, No, Dear Magazine, The Poetry Project, diaCRITICS, and MONO NO AWARE. Their first chapbook is Ad Học, published with Wendy's Subway (2023).