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Award-winning poetry by established and emerging poets throughout the summer.
Nicole Cooley grew up in New Orleans and is the author of seven books of poems, most recently Mother Water Ash (Louisiana State University Press 2024). Other books include Of Marriage (Alice James Books 2018), Girl after Girl after Girl (Louisiana State University Press 2017), and Breach (Louisiana State University Press 2010). She is also the author of two chapbooks and a novel. She teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College, City University of New York.
Joan Kwon Glass is a diasporic Korean poet, author of Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms, winner of the 2024 Perugia Press Poetry Prize, the 2025 Paterson Poetry Prize & a 2025 Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize Finalist. Her first book, Night Swim, won the 2021 Diode Book Prize. Joan's poems have been featured in Poetry, The Slowdown, Passages North, Poetry Daily, Terrain, Poetry Northwest, Tahoma Literary Review, Prairie Schooner & elsewhere. She is a 2025 SWWIM Writer in Residence & has been a guest lecturer or visiting writer at Amherst College, The New School, Smith College & Wesleyan University. She teaches workshops for Brooklyn Poets, the Hudson Valley Writers Center & elsewhere & lives in Milford, CT.
erica lewis lives in San Francisco. Her books include the precipice of jupiter and camera obscura (both with artist Mark Stephen Finein); murmur in the inventory; and the box set trilogy: daryl hall is my boyfriend, mary wants to be a superwoman, mahogany. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
April Ossmann is the author of We (Red Hen Press, 2025) and Event Boundaries, a Vermont Book Award finalist, and Anxious Music (both from Four Way Books) and has published poetry widely in journals and anthologies. Her poetry awards include a Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant, and a Prairie Schooner Readers’ Choice Award. She has published essays including Thinking Like an Editor: How to Order Your Poetry Manuscript (Poets & Writers, March/April 2011), and a biography/critical study of poet Lynda Hull in American Writers Supplement XXI (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2011). Former executive director of Alice James Books (2000 – 2008), she owns a consulting business, offering manuscript editing and publishing advice. She has taught at the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at Sierra Nevada College, and teaches private tutorials and poetry workshops. She lives in White River Junction, Vermont.