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Award-winning poetry by established and emerging poets throughout the summer.
Francisco Delgado is a CHamoru writer of fiction, poetry, and literary scholarship on contemporary Native American and Indigenous literatures. His fiction novella, On Remembering My Friends, My First Job, and My Second-Favorite Weezer CD, won the 2024 Clay Reynold's Novella Prize and is published with Texas Review Press. Other recent work is featured in Mānoa and Poets of Queens, vol. 2. He teaches at BMCC (CUNY) and lives in Forest Hills with his wife and their son.
Didi Jackson is the author of the poetry collections My Infinity (2024) and Moon Jar (2020). Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Bomb, The New Yorker, and World Literature Today. She is the recipient of the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee and teaches creative writing at Vanderbilt University. Most recently she completed her certificate as a Tennessee Naturalist.
Rachel Trousdale is a professor of English at Framingham State University. Her debut poetry book Five-Paragraph Essay on the Body-Mind Problem was selected by Robert Pinsky for the Cardinal Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in The Nation, The Yale Review, Diagram, and in a chapbook, Antiphonal Fugue for Marx Brothers, Elephant, and Slide Trombone. Her latest scholarly book is Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry. She lives with her spouse and children in Massachusetts.
Marion Wrenn is the author of Gladiola Girls (Cooper Dillon Press, 2025). Her poems have appeared in River Heron Review, The Georgia Review, and APR. She is co-editor of Painted Bride Quarterly and co-host of PBQ’s podcast, The Slush Pile. She is Executive Director of Writing at NYU Abu Dhabi.