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Award-winning poetry by established and emerging poets throughout the summer.
Ryan Black is the author of The Tenant of Fire (University of Pittsburgh Press), winner of the 2018 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and Death of a Nativist, selected by Linda Gregerson for a 2016 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. He has published previously in Best American Poetry, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere, and has received awards from several organizations including Jentel Arts, Millay Arts, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the T. S. Eliot House, and Willapa Bay AiR. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Queens College of the City University of New York, and lives in Jackson Heights.
Winner of the 2023 Tenth Gate Prize and a 2023 Alma Award, Nicole Callihan has two recent poetry collections: chigger ridge (The Word Works 2024) and SLIP (Saturnalia 2025). Other books include This Strange Garment (Terrapin 2023), the 2019 novella, The Couples, and griefbeing, her most recent chap out from Lily Poetry Review Books in 2025. She also co-edited the Braving the Body anthology published by Harbor Editions in March 2024. Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Tin House, Conduit, The American Poetry Review, and as a Poem-a-Day selection from the Academy of American Poets.
Derek Pollard is editor of the critical anthology Till One Day the Sun Shall Shine More Brightly: The Poetry and Prose of Donald Revell (University of Michigan Press) and co-author with Derek Henderson of the poetry collection Inconsequentia (BlazeVOX Books). His writing has been published in Best of the Net, Drunken Boat, Edgar Allan Poe Review, Pleiades, Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak, and They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing, among numerous other anthologies and journals. His multimedia work has been performed and exhibited throughout the United States. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he was a BMI Fellow in Poetry, and is Professor of English at the Flagship Campus of Keiser University.
Amy Small-McKinney is a Montgomery County PA Poet Laureate Emeritus. She is the author of six poetry books, including three full-length books and three chapbook & You Think It Ends (Glass Lyre Press), her newest full-length book, was released in March 2025. Her third chapbook, One Day I Am A Field, was written during COVID and her husband’s death (Glass Lyre Press, 2022). For the 2020 virtual AWP, she co-moderated an interactive discussion, Writing Through Grief & Loss: The Intersection of Social and Personal Grief. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including American Poetry Review, Pedestal Magazine, Tahoma Review and Verse Daily, among others. She has contributed to many anthologies, for example, Rumors, Secrets, & Lies: Poems about Pregnancy, Abortion, & Choice (Anhinga Press, 2022) and 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium (Ashland Poetry Press). Her poems have also been translated into Korean and Romanian.