George Elliott Clarke is a Canadian poet,playwright and literary critic who served as the Poet Laureate of Toronto from 2012 to 2015,and as the 2016–2017 Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. Clarke's work addresses the experiences and history of the Black Canadian communities of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick,creating a cultural geography coined "Africadia."
Edward M. Hirsch is an American poet and critic who wrote a national bestseller about reading poetry. He has published nine books of poems,including The Living Fire:New and Selected Poems (2010),which brings together thirty-five years of work,and Gabriel:A Poem (2014),a book-length elegy for his son that The New Yorker called "a masterpiece of sorrow." He has also published five prose books about poetry. He is president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in New York City.
Russell Edson was an American poet,novelist,writer,and illustrator. He was the son of the cartoonist-screenwriter Gus Edson and Gladys Cedar Edson.
Albert James Young was an American poet,novelist,essayist,screenwriter,and professor. He was named Poet Laureate of California by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger from 2005 to 2008. Young's many books included novels,collections of poetry,essays,and memoirs. His work appeared in literary journals and magazines including Paris Review,Ploughshares,Essence,The New York Times,Chicago Review,Seattle Review,Brilliant Corners:A Journal of Jazz &Literature,Chelsea,Rolling Stone,Gathering of the Tribes, and in anthologies including the Norton Anthology of African American Literature, and the Oxford Anthology of African American Literature.
Gjertrud Schnackenberg is an American poet.
Lia Purpura is an American poet,writer and educator. She is the author of four collections of poems,four collections of essays and one collection of translations. Her poems and essays appear in AGNI,The Antioch Review,DoubleTake,FIELD,The Georgia Review,The Iowa Review,Orion Magazine,The New Republic,The New Yorker,The Paris Review,Parnassus:Poetry in Review,Ploughshares. Southern Review,and many other magazines.
Mark F. Jarman is an American poet and critic often identified with the New Narrative branch of the New Formalism;he was co-editor with Robert McDowell of The Reaper throughout the 1980s. Centennial Professor of English,Emeritus,at Vanderbilt University,he is the author of eleven books of poetry,three books of essays,and a book of essays co-authored with Robert McDowell. He co-edited the anthology Rebel Angels:25 Poets of the New Formalism with David Mason.
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.
Debora Greger is an American poet as well as a visual artist.
Heather McHugh is an American poet. She is notable for Dangers,To the Quick and Eyeshot. McHugh was awarded the MacArthur Fellows Program and Griffin Poetry Prize.
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.
Khaled Mattawa is a Libyan poet,and a renowned Arab-American writer,he is also a leading literary translator,focusing on translating Arabic poetry into English. He works as an Assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Michigan,Ann Arbor,Michigan,United States,where he currently lives and writes.
Major Jackson is an American poet and professor at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of six collections of poetry:Razzle Dazzle:New &Selected Poems 2002-2022,The Absurd Man,Roll Deep,Holding Company,Hoops,finalist for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry,and Leaving Saturn,winner of the 2000 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Award Circle. His edited volumes include:Best American Poetry 2019,Renga for Obama,and Library of America's Countee Cullen:Collected Poems. His prose is published in A Beat Beyond:Selected Prose of Major Jackson. He is host of the podcast The Slowdown.
Kate Daniels is an American poet.
Joshua Weiner is an American poet.
Camille T. Dungy is an American poet and professor.
Larissa Szporluk is an American poet and professor. Her most recent book is Embryos &Idiots. Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including Daedalus,Faultline,Meridian,American Poetry Review,and Black Warrior Review. Her honors include two The Best American Poetry awards,a Pushcart Prize,and fellowships from Guggenheim,the National Endowment for the Arts,and the Ohio Arts Council.
Joan Naviyuk Kane is an Inupiaq American poet. In 2014,Kane was the Indigenous Writer-in-Residence at the School for Advanced Research. She was also a judge for the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize. Kane was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018. She has faculty appointments in the English departments of Harvard College,Tufts University,University of Massachusetts,Boston,and most recently,Reed College.
Gregory Pardlo is an American poet,writer,and professor. His book Digest won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His poems,reviews,and translations have appeared in The American Poetry Review,Callaloo,Poet Lore,Harvard Review,Ploughshares,and on National Public Radio. His work has been praised for its “language simultaneously urban and highbrow…snapshots of a life that is so specific it becomes universal.”
Srikanth Reddy is an Indian American writer,scholar,and author of three full-length volumes of poetry. His awards include a 2013 NEA fellowship,a 2013 Creative Capital Award,and a 2018 Guggenheim fellowship. Reddy delivered the Bagley Wright Lectures in Poetry in fall 2015,and served as a judge for the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize.
