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Award-winning poetry by established and emerging poets throughout the summer.
Molly Peacock is the author of eight collections of poetry, including The Widow’s Crayon Box. Her poems appear in leading literary journals such as Poetry and American Poetry Review and are anthologized in A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker. She is the co-founder of Poetry in Motion on New York’s subways and buses. After her husband of 28 years died, she began The Widow’s Crayon Box, realizing that the variety of feelings after a beloved partner dies comprise far more than an 8-color crayon box—it’s the whole 152. Peacock has discussed poetry with Phillis Levin for half a century, and their exchange became both the book A Friend Sails in on a Poem and an essay in Fast Famous Women. A former Leon Levy Biography Fellow, Peacock is also the author of two biographies about the lives of women artists, The Paper Garden and Flower Diary.
Phillis Levin is the author of An Anthology of Rain: Poems (Barrow Street Press, April 2025). She is a singular poet whose fifth collection, Mr. Memory & Other Poems (Penguin), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and received a starred review from Library Journal, which named the book one of its Top Picks in Poetry. Phillis is also the editor of The Penguin Book of the Sonnet. A Guggenheim Fellow, her other honors include a Fulbright Scholar Award to Slovenia, the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic, The Common, The New Yorker, Paris Review, Raritan and others. Widely anthologized, her work is included in three editions of The Best American Poetry and in A Century of Poetry in the New Yorker: 1925-2025, edited by Kevin Young. She lives on the Upper West Side.
Dante Micheaux is the author of Circus (Indolent Books, 2018) and Amorous Shepherd (Sheep Meadow Press, 2010). His poems, essays and translations have appeared in African American Review; The American Poetry Review; Callaloo; Essence; Gathering Ground; Literary Imagination; magma; My Diva; Poem-A-Day; Poetry; PN Review, Rattapallax; The Rialto and Tongue—among other journals and anthologies. Micheaux has been shortlisted for the Benjamin Zephaniah Poetry Prize and the Bridport Prize. His honors include a prize in poetry from the Vera List Center for Art & Politics, an Amy Clampitt Residency, the Ambit Prize, and a fellowship from The New York Times Foundation. Micheaux is a Fellow and Artistic Director at Cave Canem Foundation.
Amy Lemmon is the author of the poetry collections Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press) and The Miracles (C&R Press) and coauthor, with Denise Duhamel, of the chapbooks ABBA: The Poems (Coconut Books) and Enjoy Hot or Iced: Poems in Conversation and a Conversation (Slapering Hol Press, 2011). Her poems and essays have appeared in The Best American Poetry, Rolling Stone, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Verse, Court Green, The Journal, Marginalia, and many other magazines and anthologies. Recipient of fellowships from the Constance Saltonstall Foundation, Sewanee Writers’ Workshop, and Antioch Writers’ Workshop, Amy is Professor of English at the Fashion Institute of Technology-SUNY, where she teaches writing, literature, and creativity studies. She has performed her poetry widely including the KGB Bar-Lit series, the Montevallo Literary Festival, and the New York Public Library. She lives in Astoria, Queens.