THE 2025 ARCHIVE
POET OF THE WEEK
“Poets are, and always have been, plunderers of other poets: the true patron of poetry is Hermes, the god of thieves.”
~ J.G. Nichols
June 22
Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He is the author of the poetry collections Far District, winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, House of Lords and Commons, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and School of Instructions: a Poem, a finalist for the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry and the Griffin Poetry Prize. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize in Literature, the Whiting Award, and a Donald Windham–Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize, Hutchinson is the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University.
June 15
Sarah Mills’s poems have appeared in RHINO, trampset, Jet Fuel Review, HAD, Up the Staircase, The Shore, Pithead Chapel, Beaver Mag, and elsewhere. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. Find her on Bluesky @sarahmillswrites.
June 8
Kevin Chesser lives in a town of 600 people in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Hobart, elsewhere, Pithead Chapel, drDOCTOR, Empty House Press, and others. He earned his MFA in poetry from West Virginia Wesleyan University, and is the author of numerous handmade zines and chapbooks, plus one full length collection of poetry, Relief of My Symptoms (Ghost Palace Press, 2023). He also occasionally writes and records music under the name Wizard Clipp.
June 1
Elise Powers is a poet whose work explores the complexities of womanhood, relationships, and the quiet intersections of joy and sorrow. Her debut collection, The Size of Your Joy, is forthcoming next spring. She lives in Seattle with her husband and daughter where she writes, collects sea glass, and savors life’s tender joys.
May 25
Maya Salameh is the author of Mermaid Theory (Haymarket Books, 2026) and How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave (University of Arkansas Press, 2022), winner of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in The Offing, Poetry, The Rumpus, AGNI, and Mizna, among others. She can be found @mayaslmh.
May 18
Jeremy Radin is a writer and actor. His poems have appeared (or are forthcoming) in Poem-a-Day, Ploughshares, The Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, The Sun, and elsewhere. He is the author of three collections of poetry: Belly God (Orison Books, forthcoming 2026, selected by Ellen Bass), Dear Sal (Not A Cult, 2022), and Slow Dance with Sasquatch (Write Bloody Publishing, 2012). He has worked as an actor in film, television, and theater. He is the founder and operator of Lanternist Creative Consulting, through which he coaches writers and performers. He likes to point at birds and try to remember their names. Follow him @germyradin.
May 11
Anastasia K. Gates is a writer, editor, and artist from the Great Appalachian Valley of Pennsylvania. She was awarded the shortlist for the inaugural Oxford Poetry Prize and her work has been published in Tupelo Quarterly, Oxford Poetry, Some Kind of Opening, Counterclock Journal and elsewhere. She earned her Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from Columbia University in the City of New York.
May 4
Nina C. Peláez is a poet, educator, and cultural producer based in Maui, Hawaiʻi whose work explores themes of adoption, dislocation, diasporic identity, mythology, and ecology. A Best New Poets nominee, her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Narrative, Electric Literature, Rattle, Willow Springs, Pleiades and swamp pink, among others. She was awarded the Coniston Prize by Radar Poetry and has been supported by Tin House, Yaddo, AWP’s Writer to Writer Program, and the Key West Literary Seminars. She holds an MFA from Bennington College and is a mentor for The Adroit Journal. Follow her on Instagram @ninacpelaez.
April 27
Merilyn Chang is a writer and journalist based between New York and Berlin. Her poetry and fiction have been featured in InkFish, Literary Shanghai, Eunoia Review, Singapore Unbound, and more. She studied comparative literature and creative writing at NYU and has since been working on her first novel.
April 20
Bobby Elliott's debut collection of poems, The Same Man, was selected by Nate Marshall as the winner of the 2025 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press on September 9, 2025. Raised in New York City, he earned his BA from Sarah Lawrence College and his MFA from the University of Virginia, where he was a Poe/Faulkner Fellow and won the Kahn Prize for Teaching. Recent work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Cortland Review, Diode, North American Review, Poet Lore, Poetry Northwest and elsewhere. You can follow him on Instagram at @bobbyelliottpoet and pre-order The Same Man here.
April 13
Tarn Wilson is the author of the memoir The Slow Farm, the memoir-in-essays In Praise of Inadequate Gifts (winner of the Wandering Aengus Book Award), and a craft book 5-Minute Daily Writing Prompts. She is currently taking a break from her long-term relationship with prose and has been shamelessly flirting with poetry.
April 6
Narisma is a multimodal creator from the Philippines who is fascinated with cultural memory, queer erotics, and spiritual restitution. His work has appeared or is forthcoming from Tinderbox Poetry Journal, The Margins, Gordon Square Review, and Pollux Journal, among others. He flits between Manila, New York, and everywhere in between.
March 30
Arumandhira is a Blasian queer writer born and raised in Indonesia (now surviving in Los Angeles). She has received support from Kundiman and Storyknife Writers Retreat as a poetry fellow. Her works have appeared in Honey Literary, The Boiler, The Offing, Asian American's Writer's Workshop, Split This Rock, BRUISER Mag, and SWWIM.
March 23
Elizabeth Torres is a poet and essayist in southern Minnesota with work in AGNI, Ecotone, Ninth Letter, Tin House, and elsewhere. Her writing has been supported by the Loft Literary Center, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council, and elsewhere.
March 17
Gray Davidson Carroll is a white, transfemme writer, dancer, singer, cold water plunger and (self-proclaimed) hot chocolate alchemist hailing from Brooklyn by way of western Massachusetts and other strange and forgotten places. They are the author of the poetry chapbook Waterfall of Thanks (Bottlecap Press, 2023), and their work has further appeared or is forthcoming in Rattle, The Common, Frontiers in Medicine, and elsewhere. They have received fellowships from Brooklyn Poets, and Columbia University, and are currently pursuing an MFA in poetry at NYU.
March 9
Brionne Janae is a poet living in Brooklyn with their two dogs. They’ve published three books of poetry, Because You Were Mine (2023), Blessed are the Peacemakers (2021) which won the 2020 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize, and After Jubilee (2017). Off the page they go by Breezy.
March 2
Sheila Dong (they/them) is a writer and movement artist living in the desert. They are the author of two chapbooks, Swan as a Verb (dancing girl press, 2023) and Moon Crumbs (Bottlecap Press, 2019), as well as a micro-chap, The Clarissa Blueprints (Ghost City Press, 2023).
February 23
Seth Peterson is an emerging writer, researcher, and physical therapist in Tucson, Arizona. His poems are in Cincinnati Review, New Ohio Review, Ninth Letter, RHINO, and elsewhere. He was recently a finalist for the Ploughshares Emerging Writer Contest, among others, and his work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
February 16
Shivani Mehta was born in Mumbai and raised in Singapore. She moved to New York to attend Hamilton College and then earned a Juris Doctor from Syracuse University College of Law. Her prose poems have appeared in Narrative Magazine, Coachella Review, Cold Mountain Review, Fjord’s Review, Hotel Amerika, The Prose Poem Project, The Normal School, Used Furniture Review, Generations Literary Journal, Midwest Quarterly Review, and Painted Bride Quarterly. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, children, dog, two cats, and several fish.
February 9
Maria Giesbrecht is a Canadian poet whose writings explore her Mexican and Mennonite roots. Her work has previously been published in Queen's Quarterly, Contemporary Verse 2, Talon Review, and is forthcoming in Canadian Literature. She is the runner-up for the 2022 Eden Mills Poetry Contest, a Best of Net nominee, and a graduate of the Creative Writing program at Humber College. Maria is the founder and host of the writing table, Gather, and spends her days nurturing creative folks to write urgently and unafraid.
February 2
Richard Garcia's poetry books include The Other Odyssey, Dream Horse Press, 2014, The Chair, BOA 2015, and Porridge, Press 53, 2016. He has received a Pushcart Prize, and been in Best American Poetry.
January 26
Jarrett Moseley is a bisexual poet living in Miami. He is the author of the chapbook Gratitude List (Bull City Press, 2024). His poetry has earned recognitions from the Academy of American Poets, the Baltimore Review, Miami Book Fair, and the Poetry Society UK. His poems are featured or forthcoming in Ploughshares, POETRY Magazine, AGNI, Poets.org, Waxwing, Baltimore Review, and elsewhere.
January 19
Kimiko Hahn has cast a wide net for subject matter over her ten collections. In the forthcoming The Ghost Forest: new and selected poems, she plays with given forms while creating new ones, and, in doing so, honors past writers. Reflecting her interest in Japanese poetics, her essay on the zuihitsu was published in the American Poetry Review. Hahn is the 2023 recipient of the Ruth Lilly Prize for Lifetime Achievement from The Poetry Foundation. She teaches in the MFA Program for Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College, City University of New York.
January 12
James Richardson is most recently the author of For Now (Copper Canyon, 2020). His other collections of poems, aphorisms and ten-second essays include During, By the Numbers (a finalist for the National Book Award), Interglacial, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Vectors.
