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Award-winning poetry by established and emerging poets throughout the summer.
Malachi Black is the author of Indirect Light, forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2024, and Storm Toward Morning (Copper Canyon Press, 2014), a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award and a selection for the PSA’s New American Poets Series (chosen by Ilya Kaminsky). Black’s poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Believer, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Paris Review, among other journals, and in a number of anthologies, including Before the Door of God (Yale U.P., 2013), The Poet’s Quest for God (Eyewear Publishing [U.K.], 2016), and In the Tempered Dark: Contemporary Poets Transcending Elegy (Black Lawrence, 2023). A 2024-25 Fulbright fellow in Lithuania, Black is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of San Diego.
JP Howard is a poet, educator, literary activist, and community builder. Her debut poetry collection, SAY/MIRROR (The Operating System), was a Lammy Award finalist. She is also the author of bury your love poems here (Belladonna*), Praise This Complicated Herstory: Legacy, Healing & Revolutionary Poems (Harlequin Creature) and co-editor of Sinister Wisdom Journal Black Lesbians--We Are the Revolution! JP is a featured Lesbian Poet Trading Card (Headmistress Press). JP was a Brooklyn College Tow Mentor-in-Residence. She has received fellowships and/or grants from Cave Canem, VONA, Lambda Literary, and Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC). She curates Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon. JP’s poetry and/or essays have been featured in The New York Times, The Slowdown, The Academy of American Poets, Apogee Journal, Split this Rock, and elsewhere. JP is a Poetry Editor for Women's Studies Quarterly and Editor-At-Large of Mom Egg Review VOX online.
Linda Susan Jackson is the author of Truth Be Told (Four Way Books) and What Yellow Sounds Like (Tia Chucha Press), a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the Paterson Prize. She has received fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Calabash International Literary Festival, Soul Mountain Writers Retreat and The Frost Place. Her work has appeared in Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz and Literature, the Broadside Series of the Center for Book Arts, Crab Orchard Review, Harvard Review, the Los Angeles Review, Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora and Ploughshares, among others, and has been featured in Brooklyn Poets, The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day and Poets on Poetry series as well as in the audio archive of From the Fishouse. She is a retired associate professor of English from Medgar Evers College/CUNY.
Monica Sok is the author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon Press, 2020). Her poetry explores the history of the Cambodian genocide that her family survived in the mid-1970s and the intergenerational trauma passed down to younger generations. She has received fellowships from Hedgebrook, Kundiman, MacDowell, National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Society of America, and the Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford University. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, New Republic, Paris Review, POETRY, Kenyon Review, and The Washington Post. She was born and raised in the Amish country of Lancaster, Pennsylvania and currently lives in New York City.
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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.