Poetry

bio: Dawn Lundy Martin

Dawn Lundy Martin is an American poet and essayist. She is the author of five books of poems: Instructions for The Lovers, Good Stock Strange Blood, winner of the 2019 Kingsley […]

bio: David Trinidad

DAVID TRINIDAD is the author of more than a dozen books, including The Late Show (2007), Phoebe 2002: An Essay in Verse (2003), and Plasticville(2000), a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. He has received […]

bio: Tim Dlugos

Born in 1950, TIM DLUGOS was involved in the Mass Transit poetry scene in Washington, D.C., and later, in New York City, in the downtown literary scene. His books include […]

bio: Bern Porter

On February 14, 1911, from a small farmhouse in northeastern Maine, was born a man, BERN PORTER, who would after World War II stretch poetry’s traditions past the frontiers of […]

Leah Stein

bio: Leah Stein

LEAH STEIN is the founder of Leah Stein Dance Company whose site-specific dances have been performed internationally and throughout the United States, in train garages, open fields, corner parking lots, […]

bio: Josey Foo

JOSEY FOO grew up in Malaysia. She received an AB from Vassar College, an MFA from Brown University, and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author […]

bio: Caroline Bergvall

Caroline Bergvall is a writer of French-Norwegian origins based in London. She works across art-forms, media and languages; outputs alternate between books, collaborative performances and lan­guage installations. Award winning poet […]

bio: Kathleen Fraser

KATHLEEN FRASER (1935-2019) published more than 15 books, including mixed-genre collections, a chapbook of collaged wall pieces, and an essay collection. Her published works include What I Want (1973), New Shoes (1978), Each Next: narratives (1980), Notes […]

bio: Brenda Iijima

Brenda Iijima’s involvements occur at the intersections and mutations of poetry, research movement, visual arts, floral and faunal studies and ecological sociology. Her current work focuses submerged and occluded histories, […]

bio: Paula Cisewski

While raising her son and earning her BA from St. Catherine’s University and her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, Paula worked in warehouses, mentored Minneapolis teens in a […]

bio: Edwin Torres

EDWIN TORRES was born in New York City. He has traveled the edge of numerous poetry affairs, performances, educations, sit-ins, sound-outs, web-offs, jams, jumps, and institutions. He is recipient of […]

bio: Laura Moriarty

Laura Moriarty was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and grew up in Cape Cod, Massachusetts and Northern California. She attended the University of California at Berkeley. She was the Director […]