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Award-winning poetry by established and emerging poets throughout the summer.
John Deming is author of the poetry book Headline News (Indolent Books 2018). His work has been featured in Boston Review, New Orleans Review, Fence, and other publications. He lives in New York City, where he teaches at LIM College and curates KGB Monday Night Poetry.
Sarah Kain Gutowski is the author of two books, The Familiar, a narrative-in-poems about female midlife existential crisis, and Fabulous Beast: Poems, winner of the 14th annual National Indies Excellence Award for Poetry. With interdisciplinary artist Meredith Starr, she is co-creator of Every Second Feels Like Theft, a conversation in cyanotypes and poetry, and It's All Too Much, a limited edition audio project. Her poems have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Threepenny Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and The Southern Review. A member of the National Book Critics Circle, her criticism has been published by Colorado Review, Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, and the New York Journal of Books.
Poet and writer Reginald Harris was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award for his first book, 10 Tongues, and won the 2012 Cave Canem / Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize for Autogeography. A member of the National Book Critics Circle and recipient of Individual Artist Awards for poetry and fiction from the Maryland State Arts Council, his work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, This is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets, and The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South. He and his partner live in Brooklyn.
Safia Jama was born to a Somali father and an Irish American mother in Queens, New York. A Cave Canem graduate fellow, she has published poetry in Ploughshares, Boston Review, World Literature Today, Spoken Black Girl, and Poem-a-Day. Her poetry has also been featured on WNYC’s Morning Edition and CUNY TV’s Shades of US series. Jama was a semi-finalist in the Pleiades Press Editors Prize for Poetry, and she is the author of Notes on Resilience, included in the New-Generation African Poets chapbook box set (Akashic Books, 2020). Her full-length poetry collection, Crowded House, is published with Beltway Editions (2023).