Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more!
https://www.neiu.edu/academics/colleges-departments/arts-and-sciences/departments/english/student-groups-and-honor-society/82-writers-reading
Poet, artist, apprentice to light. 3rd poetry collection CORVUS AND CRATER (2023) ED: Storyknife Writers Retreat & Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference. BEI Fellow. At the end of the road in Alaska.
http://www.beingpoetry.net
Author of Crying Shame (BlazeVOX [Books], 2009) and The Last Note Becomes Its Listener (Conduit Books & Ephemera, 2019), winner of the Mind's on Fire Prize.
nyc public school teacher. NBCT. author of Curriculum, @GunpowderPress, 2021. perpetually running five minutes late. mostly here to listen. (she/her)
Poet w/ 8 books, Marin County Poet Laureate Emeritus
Assistant Editor @narrativemag.bsky.social
YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR (Backbone Press, October 2024)
PME-ART
The Air Contains Honey
Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
Polyamorous Love Song
Rich and Poor
Authenticity is a Feeling
https://radicalcut.blogspot.com
Writer, editor, educator. Director of Publicity, Arrowsmith Press. Editor, MicroLit. CatherineParnell.com
writer / body / ingatherer
linktr.ee/ummleora
Poet + Executive Editor The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social
Books: TIC TIC TIC (9/25); MARILYN: ESSAYS & POEMS (An Insomniac's Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe); GIVE A GIRL CHAOS
NYU mfa
heidiseabornpoet.com
Undocupoets co-founder author of📚Cenzontle (BOA Editions) 📚Children of the Land (Harper Collins) & Co-Editor 📚Here To Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora (Harper Collins)
Writer, editor, reader, D&Der.
linktr.ee/tashaxandra
freelance writer | poet | Bennington MFA '20 | Rochester, N.Y.
jonathaneveritt.com
Arts Council supported poet. ‘Raised Among Vultures’ & 'Chic to be Sad' published by The Gallery Press. Host of ‘Just to Say’ international poetry event. https://mollytwomey.com/ 💫
Senior leader in high-tech learning | Poet & author of two books: So Far Afield; and, In the Year of Our Making & Unmaking | Proud husband & dog dad | Gaymer & geek | Wildlife fan | Colorado | Pronouns: he/him 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ Personal account: views are my own.
poetry, nature, writing, reading, art, culture, languages, photography, travelling 🎨🖌️🖼️
Let's also be friends on Substack:@poetrywithlinda
Poet
marthasilano.net
@marthasilano
Writer, reader, editor, librarian, UU, mama, rider of bicycles. 🚲 🚲
Writer of poems + small fiction | The Girl with the Black Lipstick (novella-in-flash, Black Lawrence Press, July 25) | Order from BLP at https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-girl-with-the-black-lipstick/
Author of the National Bestselling short story collection THE GOODBYE PROCESS, a Library Journal Best Book of 2024.
Rep'd by Julia Kenny (DCL) books & Jiah Shin (CAA) tv/film.
linktr.ee/maryjoneswriter
Poet + Translator / New Book: THE END OF CHILDHOOD (Milkweed Editions, March 2025) / Editor of Copper Nickel / Co-director of the Unsung Masters Series / http://waynemillerpoet.com
Just trying to put words together. God Elegy forthcoming from BOA Editions 2028. The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis (Soft Skull 22), House Is an Enigma (Bull City Press), medi(t)ations (Noctuary Press, 16).
He collected things, each of a holy intention in isolation, but pagan in the variety of his choice.
—William Gaddis
📚 @anothernewcalligraphy.com, @ornithopterpress.bsky.social, @animalheartpress.bsky.social, @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
Arab American Poet
https://linktr.ee/smbadawi
Poet and Writer. Books: DIVINE FIRE (Georgia Review Books/Univ. of Georgia Press) & THE ECLIPSES (BOA). Poetry chair, Board of Directors, National Book Critics Circle. he/him
www.davidwoo.info
https://linktr.ee/davidwoo?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
author of MAGICAL/REALISM, Tiny Reparations Books, 2024 and BEAST MERIDIAN, Noemi Press, 2017.
Poet and cultural critic. I co-host the podcast VIBE CHECK. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World, The People’s Project.
Poetry Daily presents a poem each day from new books and journals, along with poetry news, announcements, and more. Est. 1997.
Poems.com
Poet, scholar, environmental humanist • Author of The Milk Hours (Milkweed, 2019), Winter, Glossolalia (Black Spring, 2022), and Extinction Song (Tupelo, 2026) • Following the X-odus.
Pushcart nominee. Gay poet. Baltimore. POETRY, Threepenny, TSR, Gulf Coast, Copper Nickel. First book Worth Burning coming Feb. '26 Black Lawrence Press. https://mickiekennedy.com
Author of Freak Kingdom (on Hunter S. Thompson) & Hyper (about ADHD). Associate Prof, George Mason MFA.
Latest project: Joan Didion's political evolution:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/opinion/joan-didion-mystery-rfk.ht
• poet • organizer • trans lesbian • author of R E D (erasures of Bram Stoker's Dracula) (@Birdsllc 2018) • she/her • 🇵🇸 free palestine 🇵🇸
www.chaseberggrun.com
Poet: Singing from the Deep End (2026) & Uncertain Acrobats (2021) @cavankerrypress.bsky.social * Editor/Director: @perugiapress.bsky.social * writing teacher * mother * adorer of the Atlantic 🌊 * she/her
https://linktr.ee/rholanderpoet
Reason respects the differences and imagination the similitude of things
Author of Not on the Last Day, but on the Very Last, Milkweed Books
Poet/Writer. Writing Coach. Speaker. Books: The Amoeba Game, next up: Faith Farm. CEASEFIRE NOW. FREE PALESTINE. 🍉
Poet, professor, mama, redhead - THE CLEARING (Milkweed) 📚 - Work in Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, Threepenny, Best American Poetry, Pushcart anthology. Hybrid enthusiast. www.allisonadair.com
Poet, novelist, essayist, translator.
Recent and forthcoming books: THE GREAT GAME (Acre Books, 2024), THE BOOK OF DISCOVERIES (Penguin India, 2024), THREE METAMORPHOSES (Orison Books, 2025), THE BOOK OF KILLINGS (Penguin India, 2025).
Author of Bestiary and The Renunciations and The Natural Order of Things | Graywolf Press | Kate Tufts | Hurston/Wright | Anisfield-Wolf |NEA | Iowa English | she/her/dr.
Assistant memoir editor at Split Lip Magazine, assistant editor at Brevity. Reader for River Teeth, Fourth Genre, TriQuarterly
Doug Holder is the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press, and on the board of directors of The New England Poetry Club
Copper Canyon poet (Cocklebur: New & Selected Poems coming fall 2026), professor, Girl Scout from Omaha. She/her
Poet/Author. Graywolf Press/Carnegie Mellon University Press. Professor Emerita. Perpetual student of light.
lesliemillerpoet.com
NEA Poetry| CantoMundo |Fulbright | Calif Arts Council | Author of 4 poetry books. Work in Paris Review, Witness, APR, Laurel Review and Nimrod. #Portuguese #poetrycommunity #Binders #Yaddo https://www.millicentborgesaccardi.com/
Poet ❤️🔥 Associate Editor for Poetry Northwest ⛰️ Research Associate & Lecturer at UVA 📚
I still don't know what I want to be when I give up.
Poet. Winner of the 2025 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry for retrovirology (Pitt 2026). Editor of Cape Cod Review. Words in Gulf Coast, Foglifter, Electric Lit, & Michigan Quarterly Review. More here: www.johnbonanni.com
Poet Laureate of Orange County, CA. Author of Flower Grand First (Moon Tide Press 2021) and Bachelor (FlowerSong Press 2025)
Poet. Shelley Memorial Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Guggenheim Fellow, NEA Fellow. Books available through @graywolfpress.bsky.social.
Poetry, Sex, Music, Food, Politics. 🏳️🌈
http://poets.org/poet/d-powell
Writer/ Poet/ educator/ artist/ feminist/
Host + Curator of @coupletseries.bsky.social in NYC since 2011
Curator/creator of #staybrave substack
Repped by Annie DeWitt
https://linktr.ee/leahumansky
Editing prose @ Poetry magazine + Poetry Foundation // Writer // Working on Midnight Tremor: The Life and Art of Roger Brown // www.jeremylybarger.com
Author of BROTHER SLEEP (@AliceJamesBooks 2022) & THE HOUSE HAS TEETH (AJB, 2026) | NEA & CantoMundo Fellow | they/them
https://skygoneout.carrd.co
Poet ⚖️ THE COURT OF NO RECORD (LSU Press, 2023, Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize). Editor @ Ploughshares. Professor @ Emerson College.
editor @BullCityPress | #SLC #PGH | he/him/his 🏳️🌈
Poet, Editor, Alchemist --- lover of visual art --- especially that of Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo. Proud cat lover and bird watcher. Author of 6 books of poetry, most recently BLUE ATLAS, Red Hen Press, 2024.
poet. new chapbook, Love That For Us, out march 6. abolish the police & free palestine
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https://www.chenchenwrites.com
reviews in contemporary poetry // ed. christopher kempf
• Helping writers get into print since 1991.
• Poets on Poetry Series Editor (Univ. of Michigan Press): https://poets-on-poetry.carrd.co
• Author of ‘On the Verge of Something Bright and Good’ (Barrow Street) & ‘Inconsequentia’ (BlazeVOX).
“argentine abstraction approaching form”
Poet. Teacher. Rara Avis (Four Way Books 2024). SDSU MFA.
Poet! Asst. Prof, Photographer
vintage seller, art curator | @harpersbazaarus @nymag.com @wmagazine.com.web.brid.gy @interviewmag @marthaliving past Table of the Elements record label, Album 88, Criminal Records, Wuxtry Records, Deitch Projects. words: @burnaway.org nyc->athens ga
poems inside grain silos / on sidewalks / in the books that change our lives
Extremely louder and incredibly gayer, now. Writer/public historian. San Francisco
www.brendanpmchugh.com
author of CROWD SURFING WITH GOD (Half Mystic Press 2018/2023), EREV GILDENE (Game Over Books, 2022), GOOD LUCK IN THE REAL WORLD (Button Poetry, 2026)
poet | author of
PICTURING | End of the Line Press
ALL THIS DIVIDE | Spuyten Duyvil Press
WILDERNESS//KINGDOM | Floating Bridge Press
https://t.co/gcu0NORJ2h
they/them 🌈 | All opinions are my own.
Purveyor of words & images / Author of PYRRHIC SYMPHONY (UNIV. OF NEBRASKA, 2026) & INDEX OF HAUNTED HOUSES (SARABANDE, 2020) & its hotline: 619-329-5757.
www.adamodavis.com
Author of TO A DISTANT COUNTRY (PSA 2025) | poems @ A Public Space, Iowa Review, Boston Review, Poetry Daily, elsewhere | curator of the Wavemachine poetry + performance series in San Francisco
poet w/books, pubs & other qualities
poet
https://linktr.ee/erdesiqueira
Poet. Thinker. Professor. 2024 Gugg Fellow. Assembles without reading directions.
Poet, Essayist, Educator, Husband, Dad, Surfer. Aender the River (Texas Review Press), The Wounded for the Water (Salmon Poetry), Club Icarus (UNT), and Cameo Diner (Loom). Stegner Fellow, VCCA Fellow, Walter E Dakin Fellow. https://www.mattwmiller.com/
poet | dad | husband | pal | professor of English | deep north | books: The Cave & WARD @ Texas Review Press; To Keep Him Hidden @ Salmon Poetry; Distant Engines @ Backwaters Press | poems: American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, NPR
poet and artist / currently a stegner fellow at stanford... my brain lives rent free in my head
Novelist at HarperCollins and LSU Press; articles and book reviews in NYT, WaPo, SFChron, ChiTrib; Director of Creative Writing at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Poet/Artist, The Strange Wondrous Works of Eleanor Eleanor (Fence Modern Poets Prize, forthcoming), Maps and Transcripts (Milkweed)
Editor “Beyond Category”@SenecaReview
HWS Prof
Trias Writers Residency Director
www.kathryncowles.com
ALL-NIGHT PHARMACY, a national bestseller & california book award winner | ✍️ The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Cut, etc | HIV & primary care pharmacist
https://linktr.ee/ruthmadievsky
Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. Agent: Jin Auh, The Wylie Agency. alexanderchee.net
poet • author of AS SHE APPEARS (2022), National Book Award longlist, Lambda Literary Award 🌈
shelley-wong.com
Poet, prof, she/her. Books at @MilkweedEditions @W.W.Norton (forthcoming) #resist
🏳️🌈 🇵🇸🇺🇦
Poet. Essayist. Co-host of Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry and Culture. All opinions are my own.
poet, editor, writer, CCNY MFA teacher, culture worker. He/him
My seventh book, SONG SO WILD AND BLUE: A LIFE WITH THE MUSIC OF JONI MITCHELL, is out now from HarperOne. 🏳️🌈🦌🐊🦀
Loyola grad’s dad. BGSU dad. Poet. BGSU prof/director of creative writing. Proud union member. Co-founding editor @riverriverbooks.bsky.social. Auburn fan. Dodgers fan. I like board games & ttrpg. He/him. It's pronounced uh-MOR-ack. https://amorakhuey.com
author of HAVE YOU BEEN LONG ENOUGH AT TABLE (Tin House, 2023), NEA fellow, managing editor of New England Review (she/her) 🇨🇺🏳️🌈
debut novel, THE MEN CAN'T BE SAVED, Top 20 Book of 2023 Vanity Fair. words / poems in The New Yorker, The Nation, Slate. https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-men-can-t-be-saved-ben-purkert/19736868?ean=9781419767135
"Are you okay?"
MN, January 2026
Recent book“To 2040”,’23(Laurel Prize for Ecological Writing) Carcanet (UK)Copper Canyon (US). “The Dream of The Unified Field”(Pulitzer Prize for Poetry)“Killing Spree”(FSG coming May 2026)
poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting.
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
Goat herder. Happy poet.
Rhymes w/ gazette.
Five books, including
The ECHO CHAMBER
(Milkweed)
& CLOUDWATCHER
(Copper Canyon)
Translator of The Popol Vuh
& Humberto Ak'abal
NY Times Best Poetry 2018
NEA Fellow in Poetry & Translation
michaelbazzett.com
Author: THIS ELEGANCE (Spring 2026), TENDERNESS, and TROUBLE THE WATER (BOA Editions) | Wannabe Art Historian | He/Him
📍Chicago
https://linktr.ee/DerrickAustin
Writer | Poet | Randolph MFA student | poetry editor for Variant Lit, Revolute
✨Author of SELF-PORTRAIT AS A SINKING SHIP✨
(they) | Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco (Milkweed, 2023) 🎥
Poet. Author of Bianca + Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows
Senior Poetry Editor @ The Adroit Journal
Board President @ Brooklyn Poets
poet • professor • parent • perambulator • erikameitner.com | also keeper of https://post-mfa.tumblr.com
