Michael Dickman was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. His poems regularly appear in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Field, and elsewhere. He is the author of two books of poems, The End of the West, and Flies, which won the James Laughlin Award.

Published by Fivehundred places, founded in 2012 by Jason Dodge. On the cover of each book is a dead scissor by Paul Elliman.

Matthew Dickman was born in Portland, Oregon in 1975. His first book, All-American Poem, was winner of the 2008 American Poetry Review / Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry, published by American Poetry Review.His second full collection of poetry, Mayakovsky's Revolver, was published by Norton, 2012. Published by Fivehundred places, founded in 2012 by Jason Dodge. On the cover of each book is a dead scissor by Paul Elliman.

British artist Paul Elliman has consistently engaged with the production and performance of language as a material component of the socially constructed environment. In a world where objects and people are equally subject to the force fields of mass production, Elliman explores the range of human expression as kind of typography.

Published as a contribution to David Bennewith’s exhibition Latent Stare at CasCo, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2012.