Annelyse Gelman is an American poet. Her second poetry collection, Vexations, won the 2022 James Laughlin Award and has been longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award for Poetry.
Gelman studied psychology during her undergraduate degree. [1] In 2020, [1] she received a Master of Fine Arts from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. [2]
In addition to writing, Gelman founded and directs Midst, "a digital publishing platform focused on capturing, sharing, and exploring the drafting and editing processes of contemporary poets." [3] She also teaches writing with the Fir Acres Writing Workshop at Lewis & Clark College. [2]
In 2016, Gelman studied in Berlin as part of a Fulbright Program grant. [1]
Vexations won the 2022 James Laughlin Award [3] and has been longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award for Poetry. [4]
The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's poetry award. It was founded in 2000 by businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin.
Chen Chen is a Chinese-American poet. His book, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, was longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry. Chen serves on the poetry faculty for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College and Stonecoast. He served as Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence at Brandeis University from 2018-2022.
William Edgar Stafford was an American poet and pacifist. He was the father of poet and essayist Kim Stafford. He was appointed the twentieth Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1970.
James Laughlin was an American poet and literary book publisher who founded New Directions Publishing.
New Directions Publishing Corp. is an independent book publishing company that was founded in 1936 by James Laughlin (1914-1997) and incorporated in 1964. Its offices are located at 80 Eighth Avenue in New York City.
The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry. The nonprofit organization was incorporated in the state of New York in 1934. It fosters the readership of poetry through outreach activities such as National Poetry Month, its website Poets.org, the syndicated series Poem-a-Day, American Poets magazine, readings and events, and poetry resources for K-12 educators. In addition, it sponsors a portfolio of nine major poetry awards, of which the first was a fellowship created in 1946 to support a poet and honor "distinguished achievement," and more than 200 prizes for student poets.
Benjamin S. Lerner is an American poet, novelist, essayist, critic and teacher. The recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Foundations. Lerner has been a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, among many other honors. Lerner teaches at Brooklyn College, where he was named a Distinguished Professor of English in 2016.
Mary Szybist is an American poet. She won the National Book Award for Poetry for her collection Incarnadine.
Tracy K. Smith is an American poet and educator. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019. She has published five collections of poetry, winning the Pulitzer Prize for her 2011 volume Life on Mars. Her memoir, Ordinary Light, was published in 2015.
Barbara Jane Reyes is an American poet whose work "explores the translatable and untranslatable collisions of writing, self and culture."
Toi Derricotte is an American poet. She is the author of six poetry collections and a literary memoir. She has won numerous literary awards, including the 2020 Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry awarded by the Poetry Society of America, and the 2021 Wallace Stevens Award, sponsored by the Academy of American Poets. From 2012–2017, Derricotte served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. She is currently a professor emerita in writing at the University of Pittsburgh.
Terrance Hayes is an American poet and educator who has published seven poetry collections. His 2010 collection, Lighthead, won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2010. In September 2014, he was one of 21 recipients of a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, awarded to individuals who show outstanding creativity in their work.
Jeff Clark is an American poet and book designer.
Monica Youngna Youn is an American poet and lawyer.
Jennifer K. Sweeney is an American poet.
Ian Williams is a Canadian poet and fiction writer. His collection of short stories, Not Anyone's Anything, won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, and his debut novel, Reproduction, was awarded the 2019 Giller Prize. His work has been shortlisted for various awards, as well.
Anna Smaill is a New Zealand poet and novelist, and a former violinist.
Brian Blanchfield is an American poet and essayist.
Sasha Dugdale FRSL is a British poet, playwright, editor and translator. She has written five poetry collections and is a translator of Russian literature.
Charif Shanahan is an American poet and translator. His debut poetry collection Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing was the recipient of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, selected by Allison Joseph, and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award. He is currently an assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at Northwestern University. His second collection, Trace Evidence: poems, is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and was Longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award for Poetry.