Poets

C.D. Wright was born in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, the daughter of a judge and a court reporter. She published over a dozen books, including ShallCross (2016); The Poet, The...

Gerald Vizenor is of Anishinabe heritage and an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, White Earth Reservation. Vizenor was born in Minnesota, but before he turned two years old...

Referred to as “one of America’s most original, influential, and productive of lyric poets,” Carl Phillips is the author of a dozen books of poetry and two works of criticism. He was...

Poet and multimedia artist Diana Khoi Nguyen was born and raised in Los Angeles. Her debut collection, Ghost Of (2018), was selected by Terrance Hayes for the Omnidawn Open contest...

Born in Columbia, South Carolina, Terrance Hayes earned a BA at Coker College and an MFA at the University of Pittsburgh. In his poems, in which he occasionally invents formal...

Poet and essayist Justin Phillip Reed was born and raised in South Carolina. He earned his BA from Tusculum College and an MFA from Washington University, where he was also...

Jenny Xie is the author of Eye Level (Graywolf Press, 2018), winner of the 2017 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets and a finalist for the National...

Rae Armantrout, one of the founding members of the West Coast group of Language poets, stands apart from other Language poets in her lyrical voice and her commitment to the...

Elizabeth Acevedo is the daughter of Dominican immigrants. She is a National Poetry Slam Champion. Her debut novel, The Poet X (HarperCollins, 2018), won the National Book Award. 

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