Kyle Carrero Lopez is an American poet of Afro-Cuban descent. Originally from North Jersey, he is a Poetry MFA Candidate at NYU & reads poetry submissions for Homology Lit. He collaborated with Garrett Allen on BLK MLK (2019), a live movement & video performance piece presented at Spectrum NYC. His poems are published or forthcoming in Poetry, THE BOILER, office magazine, The Florida Review, The Acentos Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, & elsewhere, as well as in the anthologies Grabbed & The Breakbeat Poets Volume 4: LatiNEXT.

Aleksander Zyw was born at Lida (then in Poland, now in Belarus) in 1905. He studied law and art history at university in Warsaw before going on to the Academy of Fine Arts, from 1926 to 1932. He then travelled in Europe, notably to Dalmatia, Greece and Italy, before settling in France in 1934, and establishing a studio in Paris. At this time he specialised in landscape, working both in oils and other media. In 1939 he enlisted in the Polish army in France, in which he served until the French surrender.