Poets are, and always have been, plunderers of other poets:
the true patron of poetry is Hermes, the god of thieves.
J.G. Nichols
April 21
Dorsey Craft is the author of Plunder (Bauhan Publishing 2020), and the winner of the May Sarton NH Poetry Prize. Her recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Blackbird, Copper Nickel, Narrative, Mississippi Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She currently teaches at the University of North Florida and serves as Assistant Poetry Editor at Agni.
April 28
Chen Chen is the author of two books of poetry, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency and When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, both published by BOA Editions. He teaches for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College, Stonecoast, and Antioch.
April 21
Philip Schaefer’s collection Bad Summon (University of Utah Press, 2017) won the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize, while individual poems have won contests from The Puritan, Meridian, & Passages North. His work has been featured on Poem-A-Day, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and in The Poetry Society of America. He runs a modern Mexican restaurant called The Camino in Missoula, MT.
April 14
Andrea Jurjević is the author of In Another Country (2022 Saturnalia Prize), Small Crimes (2015 Philip Levine Prize) and Nightcall. Her translations from Croatian include Olja Savičević’s Mamasafari and Marko Pogačar’s Dead Letter Office, which was shortlisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry. She’s a native of Croatia.
April 7
Micaela Camacho-Tenreiro is a Venezuelan-American poet, dancer, and translator. Her work appears in the American Poetry Review and has been featured by Brooklyn Poets. She received a 2023 Finalist award from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and holds a B.A. in Hispanic Studies from Brown University.
March 31
Zachary Forrest y Salazar is a software engineer, amateur photographer, and American poet. You can find him on Instagram @zdfs.poet and his photography @zd.fs. He grew up in the Midwest, where he studied poetry at Missouri State University under Marcus Cafagña and the late Michael Burns. He calls Santa Barbara, California, home.
March 24
Andrea Cohen is the author of eight books of poetry, including The Sorrow Apartments (Four Way Books, 2024). Other collections include Everything, Nightshade, Unfathoming, Furs Not Mine, Kentucky Derby, Long Division, and The Cartographer's Vacation. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Threepenny Review, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, and elsewhere. Awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and several fellowships at MacDowell. She directs the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, MA, and is currently teaching at Boston University.
March 17
Kaylee Young-Eun Jeong is from Oregon and lives in New York. Her work appears in Shenandoah, The Columbia Review, and Diode Poetry Journal, among others. She loves her parents, her brother, Anne Carson, and her platform shoes.
March 10
Francis de Lima is a Finnish-Brazilian poet and translator, currently living in the UK. They are completing their undergrad at Royal Holloway, focusing on the intersections between class, ecology, and poetry. They’ve collaborated extensively, mainly with Finnish underground artists, on projects like art books, albums, and performances at venues ranging from concert halls to backyards
March 3
Leigh Sugar is a Michigan-based artist. Poetry and other work appears in POETRY, Split This Rock, jubilat, and more. A disabled and chronically ill writer, Leigh holds an MFA in poetry from NYU and an MPA in Criminal Justice Policy from John Jay College, and has taught writing at CUNY's Institute for Justice and Opportunity, NYU, various prisons in Michigan, and other settings. Leigh edited the anthology That's a Pretty Thing to Call It: Prose and poetry by artists teaching in carceral institutions (New Village Press, 2023), and her debut poetry collection, FREELAND, is forthcoming (Alice James Books, 2025).
February 25
Todd Dillard's work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Guernica, Fairy Tale Review, The Adroit Journal, Best New Poets, Waxwing, and elsewhere. His debut collection Ways We Vanish (Okay Donkey Press) was a finalist for the 2021 Balcones Poetry Award. His chapbook Ragnarök at the Father-Daughter Dance is forthcoming from Variant Literature. He is a Poetry Editor for The Boiler Journal. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, two kids, and works as an editor and writer for a hospital.
February 18
Carey Salerno is the executive director and publisher of Alice James Books. She is the author of Shelter (2009) and Tributary (2021). Her third collection of poems, The Hungriest Stars, is forthcoming with Persea Books. She serves as the co-chair for LitNet: The Literary Network and occasionally teaches poetry and publishing arts at the University of Maine at Farmington. In 2021, she received the Golden Colophon Award for Independent Paradigm Publishing from CLMP for the leadership and contributions of Alice James Books.
February 11
Halee Kirkwood is a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, a Tin House Summer Workshop alumni, and an Indigenous Nations Poets (IN-NA-PO) fellow. They were awarded the 2022 James Welch Poetry Prize, published with Poetry Northwest. Kirkwood’s work can be found in Poetry Magazine, Ecotone, Gulf Coast, and others. Kirkwood is a direct descendant of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe.
February 5
Paul Hostovsky's poems have won a Pushcart Prize, two Best of the Net Awards, the FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize, the Muriel Craft Bailey Award, and have been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, The Writer's Almanac, and the Best American Poetry blog. His thirteenth book of poems, Pitching for the Apostates, is just out from Kelsay Books. He makes his living in Boston as a sign language interpreter.
January 28
Réka Nyitrai is a spell, a sparrow, a lioness’s tongue—a bird nest in a pool of dusk. She is the recipient of a Touchstone Distinguished Books Award for 2020 for her debut haiku volume While Dreaming Your Dreams (Mono Ya Mono Books, 2020). Her debut full-length poetry collection will be out in September 2024 with Broken Sleep Books.
January 21
Myriam Klatt (she/her), born 1984, has published two novels with Aufbau Verlag as well as multiple fictional and non-fictional pieces in literary magazines. She only recently switched from her native German to English, focusing on poetry and creative nonfiction. She lives in Berlin, Germany.
January 14
Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow. He is the author of The Fire Eater (Texas Review Press, 2020) Bad Mexican, Bad American (Acre Books, 2024) and The Parachutist (Sundress Publications, 2025). He has been published in The Yale Review, Poetry, Poetry Wales, The Southern Review, and in The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He teaches generative workshops for Hugo House, Lighthouse Writers Workshops, The Writer's Center, and serves as a Poetry Mentor in The Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program.
January 7
Denise Duhamel’s most recent books of poetry are Second Story (Pittsburgh, 2021) and Scald (2017). Blowout (2013) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She also served as a guest editor for The Best American Poetry 2013. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, she is a distinguished university professor in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami.
2023
December 31
Bob Hicok is the author of Water Look Away (Copper Canyon Press, 2023). He has received a Guggenheim, two NEA Fellowships, the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress, nine Pushcart Prizes, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His poems have appeared in nine volumes of the Best American Poetry.
December 24
Tim Seibles was the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2016 to 2018. He is a former NEA fellow and Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center fellow. His seven books of poetry include Fast Animal, a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award and winner of the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize. This was followed by One Turn Around The Sun in 2017. His latest collection, Voodoo Libretto: New & Selected Poems was released by Etruscan Press in 2022.
December 17
Hillary Smith-Maddern is a proud cat mom and collector of dilapidated plants. Her favorite things include cats, coffee, cobblestone streets, and the crisp, blank pages of a writing notebook. She resides in Greenfield, MA and enjoys exploring the world. When she’s not writing, you can find her coaching, hiking a mountain, or yelling about the patriarchy.
December 10
Reuben Gelley Newman is the author of Feedback Harmonies (Seven Kitchens Press), a chapbook on Arthur Russell. His poems are available or forthcoming in Salamander, The Fairy Tale Review, South Dakota Review, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. A Co-Editor at Couplet Poetry, you can find him on social media @joustingsnail and in real life in New York City.
December 3
Robert Okaji holds a BA in history, and was recently diagnosed with stage four metastatic lung cancer. He thanks the editors of the following presses/journals for supporting his work in recent years: Threepenny Review, Evergreen Review, Slipstream, Shō Poetry Journal, Vox Populi, One Art, and Panoply.
November 26
Rae Armantrout is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and The National Book Critics Circle Award (for Versed, Wesleyan 2010). Her most recent book is Finalists (Wesleyan 2022). Her 2018 book, Wobble, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her other books with Wesleyan include Partly: New and Selected Poems, Just Saying, and Money Shot. A new book, Go Figure, and a chapbook, Notice, are forthcoming in 2024.
November 19
Chiwenite Onyekwelu’s debut poetry chapbook, EXILED, will be published in 2024 by Red Bird Chapbooks. His poems appear in Adroit Journal, Frontier, Cincinnati Review, Palette, Hudson Review, Lolwe, Chestnut Review, Mizna, and elsewhere. He won the Hudson Review Inaugural Frederick Morgan Poetry Prize, 2020 Jack Grapes Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Prize 2023.
November 12
Rosebud Ben-Oni is the author of several collections of poetry, including If This Is the Age We End Discovery (March 2021), which won the Alice James Award and was a Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. She has received fellowships and grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and others. Her work appears in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets, Tin House, Guernica, Electric Literature, among others.
November 5
Leigh Chadwick's most recent collection is Sophomore Slump (Malarkey Books, 2023).
October 29
M. Cynthia Cheung is a physician whose poems can be found in The Baltimore Review, Four Way Review, Pleiades, RHINO, swamp pink, Tupelo Quarterly and others, and she is a prior Idyllwild Arts Writers Week fellow. She reads for Bear Review and serves as a judge for Baylor College of Medicine’s annual Michael E. DeBakey Medical Student Poetry Awards.
October 22
Matthew Nienow is the author of two collections with Alice James Books: House of Water (2016) and If Nothing (Forthcoming, 2025). His work has appeared in Gulf Coast, New England Review, Ploughshares, and POETRY, and has been recognized with fellowships from the Poetry Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is currently pursuing a degree in Mental Health Counseling.
October 15
Amit Majmudar’s new books in 2023 published in the United States are Black Avatar and Other Essays (Acre Books) and Twin A: A Memoir (Slant Books). The same year, Penguin India will publish The Book of Vows, the first of three volumes in a Mahabharata retelling, as well as an original mythological story cycle, The Later Adventures of Hanuman.
October 8
Arah Ko is a writer from Hawai'i. Her work is published or forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Frontier Poetry, Ninth Letter, Threepenny Review, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. She received her MFA in creative writing from the Ohio State University where she edited for The Journal. Arah is a current Poetry Editor at Surging Tide Magazine.
October 1
Jane Zwart teaches at Calvin University, where she also co-directs the Calvin Center for Faith & Writing. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Southern Review, Threepenny Review, HAD, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. In addition, she is the co-editor of book reviews for Plume; her own reviews have been published there and in The Los Angeles Review of Books.
September 24
Major Jackson is the award-winning author of six poetry collections including Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems (2023). His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. He is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review.