Anthony Procopio Ross is an artist based in Kansas City, Missouri, where he works with youth at a local nonprofit and teaches night classes. His poems and visual art have been published or are forthcoming in I-70 Review, MemeZine Lit, The Inflectionist Review, Wild Roof Journal, Outskirts Lit, Bear Review, The McNeese Review, Laurel Review, and others. Awarded a 2025–27 residency at the Charlotte Street Foundation, he can often be found talking with fellow residents in the communal and gallery spaces. Across his work, he looks at what happens off to the side of dominant discourses, interfacing with people, traditions, and ideas that quietly shape our shared, everyday life.