Tessa Rumsey (1970) [1] is an American poet based in San Francisco. [2]
Her poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, The New Republic. She is a graduate in 1992 in Philosophy from Sarah Lawrence College. [3] [4] Later studying at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she received an MFA and in 2002 she received an MA in Visual and Critical Studies at California College of the Arts. [4] [5] [6]
Jeffrey McDaniel is an American poet. He has published five books of poetry, most recently Chapel of Inadvertent Joy. He is the recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His writing has been included in Ploughshares, The Best American Poetry 1994, The Best American Poetry 2010, and The New Young American Poets, as well as on the National Endowment for the Arts website. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Molly Peacock is an American-Canadian poet, essayist, biographer and speaker, whose multi-genre literary life also includes memoir, short fiction, and a one-woman show.
Stanley Plumly was an American poet and the director of University of Maryland, College Park's creative writing program.
Thomas Sayers Ellis is a poet, photographer and band leader. He previously taught as an associate professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Bennington College in Vermont, and also at Sarah Lawrence College until 2012.
Ellen Bryant Voigt is an American poet. She served as the Poet Laureate of Vermont.
Laura Mullen, is a contemporary American poet working in hybrid genres and traditions.
Stuart Dischell is an American poet and Professor in English Creative Writing in the Master of Fine Arts Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Donna Masini is a poet and novelist who was born in Brooklyn and lives in New York City.
Cathy Park Hong is a Korean American poet, writer, and professor who has published three volumes of poetry. Much of her work includes mixed language and serialized narrative. She was named on the 2021 Time 100 list for her writings and advocacy for Asian American women.
Liz Waldner is an American poet.
Phillis Levin is an American poet.
Caroline Finkelstein was an American poet.
Joel Brouwer is an American poet, professor and critic. His most recent poetry collection is And So.
Greg Glazner is an American poet.
April Bernard is an American poet. She was born and raised in New England, and graduated from Harvard University. She has worked as a senior editor at Vanity Fair, Premiere, and Manhattan, inc. In the early 1990s, she taught at Amherst College. In Fall 2003, she was Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College. She currently teaches at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, the Boston Review, AGNI, Ploughshares, Parnassus, and The New York Review of Books.
Sharan Strange is an African-American poet, activist, and professor.
Julie Sheehan is an American poet.
A. Van Jordan is an American poet. He is college professor in the Department of English Language & Literature at the University of Michigan and distinguished visiting professor at Ithaca College. He previously served as the first Henry Rutgers Presidential Professor at the Rutgers University-Newark. He is the author of four collections: Rise (2001), M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A (2005), Quantum Lyrics (2007), and The Cineaste (2013). Jordan's awards include a Whiting Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Michael Paul Burkard is an American poet.
Traci Brimhall is a poet and professor in the United States. She teaches creative writing at Kansas State University.