Poetry: Anne Marie Macari, Francisco Aragon, Maggie Dietz, and Yanyi

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

Enjoy an evening of poetry hosted by Jason Schneiderman with readings by Anne Marie Macari, Francisco Aragon, Maggie Dietz, and Yanyi.

Anne Marie Macari is the author of six books of poetry, including the forthcoming Amerigun, (Persea, ‘26), and most recently Red Deer and Heaven Beneath. Macari’s first book, Ivory Cradle won the Honickman/APR First Book Prize in 2000, chosen by Robert Creeley. With Carey Salerno she edited Lit From Inside: 40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books. Her poetry and essays have been widely published in magazines such as The Iowa Review, Field, and American Poetry Review.

Francisco Aragón is the son of Nicaraguan immigrants. His books include, After Rubén (2020), Glow of Our Sweat (2010), and Puerta de Sol (2005).  He’s also the editor of The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (2007). His work has appeared in over twenty anthologies, most recently in Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology (2024). His most recent book is a book of translations, Handbook of Foams, by Spanish poet Gerardo Diego, published in 2026 by Shearsman Books in England. A native of San Francisco, California, he is on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, where he teaches courses in Latinx poetry and creative writing, and directs their literary initiative, Letras Latinas. He has read his work widely, including at universities, bookstores, art galleries, and the Dodge Poetry Festival.

Maggie Dietz's new book is If You Would Let Me (Four Way, 2026). Her previous collections are That Kind of Happy and Perennial Fall, which won New Hampshire’s Jane Kenyon Award. Dietz was founding director of the Favorite Poem Project, created by former U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky, and is co-editor of three anthologies related to the project. Her awards include a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Phillips Exeter Academy, the NH State Council on the Arts, and Jentel Arts. Her work has appeared in AGNI, The Adroit Journal, Bennington Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Salmagundi, The Threepenny Review and elsewhere. She teaches at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and lives in New Hampshire.

Yanyi is the author of Dream of the Divided Field (One World 2022) and The Year of Blue Water (Yale 2019), winner of the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. His work has been featured in or at NPR’s All Things Considered, New York Public Library, Tin House, Granta, and A Public Space. He is the recipient of a 2023 Vermont Arts Council Grant and a 2022 Tanne Foundation Award. He gives creative writing advice at his newsletter, The Reading, and teaches poetry at the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. He has been directing the Asian American Literary Archive since 2023.

Jason Schneiderman is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Self Portrait of Icarus as a Country on Fire (Red Hen, 2024), as well as a book of essays Nothingism: Poetry at the End of Print Culture (University of Michigan Poets on Poetry, 2025), and the craft book Teaching Writing Through Poetry: Teaching Writing Through Poetry: Understanding Poetic Form and Its Power to Unleash Creative Expression (Bloomsbury, 2025). He is Professor of English at CUNY’s BMCC and teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.