Poetry with Sally Keith, Joseph Legaspi, James Shea, and Nida Sophasarun

Award-winning poetry by established and emerging poets throughout the summer.

Sally Keith’s recent book of poems, Two of Everything, was published by Milkweed Editions in August. Her previous collections of poetry include River House (2015); Fact of the Matter (2012); Dwelling Song (2004); and Design, winner of the 2000 Colorado Prize in Poetry. A Guggenheim Fellow, her poetry has appeared in The New York Times, New England Review, APR, Poetry, and A Public Space. She is a professor of English and Creative Writing at George Mason University’s MFA Program, where she also co-edits Poetry Daily.  

Joseph O. Legaspi authored the collections Amphibian (forthcoming, April 2026), Threshold, and Imago and the chapbooks Postcards; Aviary, Bestiary; and Subways. He works at Columbia University, teaches at Fordham University, and resides in Queens, New York.

James Shea is the author of Last Day of My Face (University of Iowa Press, 2025), selected by Brenda Shaughnessy for the Iowa Poetry Prize. His previous collections include The Lost Novel (Fence Books) and Star in the Eye, selected by Nick Flynn for the Fence Modern Poets Series. He is the translator of Applause for a Cloud (Black Ocean, 2025), a collection of contemporary Japanese poetry by Sayumi Kamakura. He co-edited The Routledge Global Haiku Reader (Routledge) and co-translated Moving a Stone: Selected Poems of Yam Gong (Zephyr Press). He directs the bilingual creative writing program at Hong Kong Baptist University and has received grants from the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, National Endowment for the Arts, and Vermont Arts Council.

Nida Sophasarun is from Atlanta, Georgia. She received degrees from Wellesley College and the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. She has worked at National Geographic Magazine, the US State Department, and for nonprofit organizations in Asia and Eastern Europe for twenty years. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in New England Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, RHINO, 32 Poems, wildness and elsewhere. Her first collection of poems, Novice, came out in April as part of the Sewanee Poetry series by LSU Press.