Bee Box Mission
We publish poetry books, anthologies, and multimedia wired up like flowers, blue and beautiful about our world’s small heated room.
Editorial
Bee Box Press is a collective or hive of poet-editors. More coming soon about our board of editors.
Josh Cory
Josh Corey is a poet, critic, translator and novelist whose most recent books include How Long Is Now, a novel; Hannah and the Master, a metapoetic masque on the love affair between Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger, and The Transcendental Circuit: Otherworlds of Poetry, a collection of critical writings. He lives in Evanston, Illinois with his family and teaches English at Lake Forest College.
Rachel Jamison Webster
Rachel Jamison Webster has published five books, including Mary is a River, a finalist for the National Poetry Series written in the voice of Mary Magdalene, and Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family, chosen as a Best Book of 2023 by The New Yorker, and an Editor’s Pick by The New York Times. She teaches creative writing at Northwestern University, where she is a full Professor of Instruction in the English Department, and a past Kaplan Humanities Fellow, a Public Voices Fellow, a Hewlett Fellow, and a recipient of an Alumni Award for excellence in teaching. Rachel also develops writing workshops through Ancestral Medicine and her online teaching platform, Meditative Creative Writing. Her poems, essays, and stories are published widely in journals and anthologies.
John McCarthy
John McCarthy is the author of three poetry collections, including Scared Violent Like Horses (Milkweed Editions), which won the Jake Adam York Prize; Ghost County (Midwestern Gothic Press), which was named a Best Poetry Book of 2016 by The Chicago Review of Books; and This Brutal Vanishing (Texas Review Press / Sam Houston State University, 2028). His work has appeared in 32 Poems, Best New Poets, Cincinnati Review, Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, and North American Review. John is the Managing Editor of RHINO.
cin salach
cin salach is a poet of page and stage, Illinois Arts Council recipient, four-time Ragdale fellow, and Emmy nominee for voice-over and on-screen narration of the PBS documentary “From Schoolboy to Showgirl.” She has collaborated with musicians, video artists, and most recently chefs and scientists, for over 30 years. She was honored to be the inaugural Poet Laureate of Covenant Farm in Sawyer, Michigan. Her two books of poetry, Looking for a Soft Place to Land and When I am Yes are housed there in the Porch Swing Poetry Box. cin leads circles of women writers in a monthly workshop called Splitting the World Open, and also creates workshops/poetry experiences for humans with dementia and Alzheimer’s.
Tony Trigilio
Tony Trigilio’s recent books of poetry and nonfiction include The Punishment Book (BlazeVOX [books], 2024; Craft: A Memoir (Marsh Hawk Press, 2023); and Proof Something Happened, chosen by Susan Howe as the winner of the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize (2021). He is editor of Elise Cowen: Poems and Fragments, originally published by Ahsahta Press in 2014 and released in a new edition by BlazeVOX [books] in 2025. A volume of his selected poems, Fuera del Taller del Cosmos, was published in 2018 by Guatemala’s Editorial Poe (translated by Bony Hernández). He serves as Poetry Editor and Nonfiction Co-Editor of Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose. He is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago.
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