Ocho #1 is MiPOesias print companion. Cover artwork by Didi Menendez. This is the first issue. Poems by Jenni Russell, Jack Anders, Pris Campbell, John Korn, Ron Androla, Amy King, Laurel K. Dodge, Tom Blessing, and Helm Filipowitsch.

Featuring Lorna Dee Cervantes' poem "Shelling the Pecans" which won a Pushcart Prize. Also featuring poems by Lyn Lifshin, David Raphael Israel, Diego Quiros, Michael E. Carlton, Reyes Cardenas, John Korn, Zacahary Blessing, Michael Parker, Dan Coffey, Grace Cavalieri, Erica Fabri, and Adam Fieled.

Tara Birch, Pris Campbell, Ron Androla, Nin Andrews, Tom Blessing, Zachary Blessing, Nick Carbo, Grace Cavalieri, Denise Duhamel, Adam Fieled, Anthony Robinson, Leigh Stein, Mike Young, Aaron Belz, Campbell McGrath

OCHO #13 edited by Meghan Punschke. Jeffrey Morgan, Carly Sachs, Peter Moore, Matthew Thorburn, Eva Salzman, Geoffrey Gatza, Laura Van Prooyen and Kate Greenstreet. Joseph Lappie

Edited by Nick Piombino and cover by Toni Simon.

The call for this edition of OCHO went out as a response to several political events in the Fall-Winter season of 2008-2009. The first, a moment in the Vice Presidential debates early November between Governor Sarah Palin and Senator Joe Biden, in which both candidates seemed to befriend the gay community while denouncing our right to marry. What an awful laughter relieved both the candidates and the audience, as if everyone were too embarrassed to discuss the validity of a gay relationship in the national discussion. Then, the passing of propositions 8 in California, 102 in Arizona, and Amendment 2 in Florida changing state constitutions and making it illegal for gays to marry. This historic election brought with it the disappointment and dissolution of 18,000 marriages and families directly affected by the Prop. 8 vote in California and, in Arkansas, an amendment making it illegal for gay couples to adopt.....

Guest edited by Grace Cavalieri.

Edited by Collin Kelley and Didi Menendez and featuring poets on Twitter.

#25 Edited by Blake Butler. Cover art by Jaycee Menendez.

Publication Date: October 28, 2009 Edited by Emma Trelles, October 2009.