Poetry: Adrian Matejka and Elizabeth Scanlon

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

Adrian Matejka is the author of eight books, most recently Be Easy: New & Selected Poems, published by Liveright in May. His previous works include The Big Smoke (Penguin, 2013), which was awarded the 2014 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and Somebody Else Sold the World (Penguin, 2021), a finalist for the UNT Rilke Prize and the Indiana Authors Award. His first graphic novel Last On His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century (Liveright, 2023) by was selected by the New York Public Library as one of the ten best books of 2023 and was a finalist for the 2024 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work. He lives in Chicago and is editor-in-chief of Poetry magazine.

Elizabeth Scanlon is the Editor-in-Chief of The American Poetry Review. She is the author of Whosoever Whole (forthcoming, Omnidawn), Lonesome Gnosis (Horsethief Books, 2017), The Brain Is Not the United States/The Brain Is the Ocean (The Head & The Hand Press, 2016) and Odd Regard (ixnay press, 2013). She is a Pushcart Prize winner, and her poems have appeared in many magazines, including Boston Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Ireland, Poetry London, and others. She lives in Philadelphia.