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Purchase: The Grief Committee Minutes by Sarah Carey (Saint Julian Press, 2024)Read: "What We Read About Ukraine Makes Us Dream of Burning" by Sarah Carey (Gulf Coast)
Sarah Carey is an award-winning veterinary public relations specialist, science writer and Pushcart-nominated poet. She holds a masterâs degree in English with a creative writing concentration from Florida State University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous literary journals, including Gulf Coast, Sugar House Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Grist, Five Points and Redivider, among many others. Her debut full-length collection of poems, The Grief Committee Minutes, from Saint Julian Press, was published in September 2024. Her next collection, Bloodstream, will be published by Mercer University Press in 2026. She received the Concrete Wolf Chapbook Award for her last chapbook of poems, Accommodations, (2019). She also is the author of another poetry chapbook, The Heart Contracts (2016).
Recommended Reading:
"The End and the Beginning" by WisĆawa Szymborska
Cynthia Barnett
Jen Karetnick
Erica Wright
Chelsea Dingman
Alice Friman
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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).
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Purchase: Your Mother's Bear Gun (River River Books, 2025)Read: "You're Hoarding Guns, I'm Growing Herbs" (Kenyon Review)
Corrie Williamson was born on a small farm in southwestern Virginia. She is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Your Motherâs Bear Gun, which is newly out from River River Books. Her other books are The River Where You Forgot My Name, in the Crab Orchard Series, which was named a 2019 Montana Book Award Honor Book by the Montana Library Association; and Sweet Husk, which won the 2014 Perugia Press Prize, and was a finalist for the 2015 Library of Virginia Poetry Award. She is also co-editor, with poets Anne Haven McDonnell and Kamella Cruz, of the in-progress eco-poetry anthology A Literary Field Guide to the Rocky Mountains.
She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia, with a BA in Poetry and Anthropology, and her MFA in Poetry from the University of Arkansas, where she was a recipient of the Walton Fellowship, and a Director of the Writers in the Schools Program. She has taught writing at the University of Arkansas, Helena College, and Carroll College, and worked as an educator in Yellowstone National Park. She was the recipient of the 2020 PEN Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency, spending seven and a half months writing and living off-grid in a remote section of the Rogue River in southwest Oregon. Her poems have appeared in journals such as The Southern Review, Ecotone, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, AGNI, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and many others. You can also find her work in anthologies such as Cascadia Field Guide; Environmental and Nature Writing Volume II: A Writerâs Guide and Anthology; The Ecopoetry Anthology: Volume II; and Bright Bones: An Anthology of Contemporary Montana Writing. She lives in Lewistown, Montana.
Recommended Reading:
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and The Abundance
Elizabeth Bradfield
The Poemâs Country: Place & Poetic Practice
Charles Wright
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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).
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Purchase: Pastoral, 1994 (River River Books, 2025)Read: "Limp" at The Missouri Review
Joe Wilkins was born and raised on the Big Dry of eastern Montana and now lives with his family in the foothills of the Coast Range of Oregon. He is the author of the novels Fall Back Down When I Die (2019) and The Entire Sky (2024), both published by Little, Brown and Company. A finalist for the First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, Fall Back Down When I Die won the High Plains Book Award. Wilkins is also the author of a memoir, The Mountain and The Fathers, and four previous collections of poetry. Wilkins directs the creative writing program at Linfield University and is a member of the low-residency MFA faculty at Eastern Oregon University.
Reading Recommendations:
James Dickey, Deliverance
Maurice Manning
Louise Erdrich
James Wright
Gary Soto
Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology
Maya Jewell Zeller
Atsuro Riley
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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).
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Purchase: Certain Shelter (June Road Press, 2024)Read: "A BRIEF HISTORY OF YANKEE THRIFT, YANKEE INGENUITY, AND YANKEE WORK ETHIC" in Sixth Finch
Abbie Kieferis the author of Certain Shelter (June Road Press, 2024) and the chapbook Brief Histories (Whittle Micro-Press, 2024). Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in Copper Nickel, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, and other places. She lives in New Hampshire. Find her online at abbiekieferpoet.com.
Reading Recommendations:
Edwin Arlington Robinson Wikipedia
"Richard Cory" by E.A. Robinson
Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
"The Truth the Dead Know" by Anne Sexton
"Ars Poetica" by Aracelis Girmay
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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).
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Read: "Space Age" in Menagerie MagazinePurchase: The Alcestis Machine (Acre Books, 2024)
Carolyn Oliver is the author of The Alcestis Machine (Acre Books, 2024), Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble (University of Utah Press, 2022; selected for the Agha Shahid Ali Prize), and three chapbooks. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in TriQuarterly, Image, Copper Nickel, Poetry Daily, Moist Poetry Journal, Consequence, and elsewhere. Born in Buffalo and raised in Ohio, she now lives in Massachusetts.
Recommended Reading:
The Naomi Letters by Rachel Mennies
frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
Metropolis (1927) film, Directed Fritz Lang
"Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint" by John Milton
Order and Disorder by Lucy Hutchinson
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
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Preorder Corrie Williamson's Your Mother's Bear Gun and Joe Wilkins' Pastoral, 1994
River River Bookswas founded by Amorak Huey and Han VanderHart in March 2022. Inspired by the idea that you cannot step in the same river twice, at River River Books, two poetry editors join together to publish (at least) two exceptional poetry titles a year. By limiting our press catalog, we commit to supporting our authors and their books with focused attention and joy. Submissions (fee optional) open to full-length poetry manuscripts May 1-June 30.Amorak Huey (uh-MOR-ack) is author of four books of poems including Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress Publications, 2021). Co-founder with Han VanderHart of River River Books, Huey teaches in the BFA and MFA programs at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He also is co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writerâs Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2nd ed., 2024) and Slash/Slash (2021), winner of the Diode Editions Chapbook Prize. Huey is a recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts, and his poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, the Academy of American Poetsâ Poem-A-Day series, and many other print and online journals.
Han VanderHart is a queer writer living in Durham, North Carolina. Their second poetry collection Larks, winner of the 2024 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, is forthcoming in April 2025 from Ohio University Press. Han is also the author of What Pecan Light (Bull City Press, 2021) and has work published in Kenyon Review, The American Poetry Review, The Rumpus, AGNI, and elsewhere. Han hosts Of Poetry Podcast and alongside Amorak Huey co-edits the poetry press River River Books.
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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).
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Read: "Midwinter" in The DodgePurchase: Songs for the Land-Bound (June Road Press, 2024)
Violeta Garcia-Mendoza is a Spanish-American poet, teacher, and suburban wildlife photographer. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals, and in 2022, she received a grant from the Sustainable Arts Foundation. She is a member of the Madwomen in the Attic Writing Workshops at Carlow University. Violeta lives with her husband, children, and pack of rescue dogs on a small certified wildlife habitat in western Pennsylvania. Songs for the Land-Bound (June Road Press, 2024) is her debut collection.
Recommended Reading
"In the Bleak Midwinter" by Christina Rossetti
June Road Press
Madwomen in the Attic
Episode 57: SebastiĂĄn H. PĂĄramo (Of Apocalypse Literature, Writing Semi-Autobiography, and Hunting Pixelated Ducks) -
Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).
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Purchase: Sweet Hunter: The Complete Poems of St. Teresa of Ăvila (Monkfish Book Publishing, 2024) trans. Dana Delibovi and The Widow's Crayon Box (Penguin, 2024) by Molly PeacockDana Delibovi is a poet, essayist, and translator. She began translating the poetry of St. Teresa of Ăvila in 2019, after retiring from a hybrid career as an advertising copywriter and adjunct instructor of philosophy. Her translations of Teresa's poetry and her essays on Teresaâs legacy have appeared in Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, The Catholic Poetry Review, U.S. Catholic, After the Art, and Confluence, with a translation forthcoming in a new anthology from Word on Fire. Delibovi's writing has also appeared in Apple Valley Review, Bluestem, Ezra Translations, Moria, Noon, Psaltery & Lyre, Salamander, Slippery Elm and many other journals. She is a 2020 Pushcart Prize nominee, a 2020 Best American Essays notable essayist, and 2023 co-winner of the Hueston Woods Poetry Contest. Delibovi is Consulting Poetry Editor at the literary e-zine Cable Street. She received her BA from Barnard College, Columbia University, and holds MA degrees from New York University (philosophy) and Bank Street College of Education (early childhood education). She lives in Lake Saint Louis, Missouri.
Molly Peacock is a poet and a biographer whose multi-genre literary life has taken her from New York City to Toronto, from poetry to prose, from lyric self-examination to curiosity about the lives of others. Her latest poetry collection is The Widowâs Crayon Box (W.W. Norton), a A book-length sequence of poems that dares to affirm the vast variety of emotional colors in loss and rejuvenation. Peacock is the author of eight books of poetry, including The Analyst: Poems and Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems, as well as A Friend Sails in on a Poem, about a 47-year friendship in poetry. Peacock is the co-founder of Poetry in Motion on New Yorkâs subways and buses, the founder of The Best Canadian Poetry series and, most recently, creator of The Secret Poetry Room at Binghamton University. Awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Canada Council, and the Leon Levy Center for Biography, Peacock is also a memoirist and biographer, author of two books about creativity in the lives of women artists Flower Diary and The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Lifeâs Work at 72, named a Book of the Year by Booklist, The Economist, The Globe and Mail, The Irish Times, The Kansas City Star, The London Evening Standard, MacLeanâs, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette and The Sunday Telegraph. A dual citizen of Canada and the United States, she lives in Toronto and teaches at 92NY.
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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).
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Read: "Inheritance" and "Homecoming, Rich Square, NC" (Fourway Review)Purchase: Composition (Button Poetry, 2023)
Junious 'Jay' Ward is a poet and teaching artist from Charlotte, NC. He is a National Slam champion (2018), an Individual World Poetry Slam champion (2019), author of Sing Me A Lesser Wound (Bull City Press 2020) and Composition (Button Poetry 2023). Jay currently serves as Charlotte's inaugural Poet Laureate and is a 2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Ward has attended Breadloaf Writers Conference, Callaloo, The Watering Hole and Tin House Winter Workshop. His work can be found in Columbia Journal, Four Way Review, DIAGRAM, Diode Poetry Journal and elsewhere.
Recommended Reading and Listening:
Year of the Dog by Deborah Paredez (Boa Editions)
Look by Solmaz Sharif (Graywolf Press)
Zong! by M. nourbeSe philip (Graywolf Press)
Defacing the Monument by Susan Briante (Noemi Press)
Whereas by Layli Long Soldier (Graywolf)
Catherine Rockwood's Episode 44: Of Pirates, the Event of the Image, and Angelic Sex
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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).
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Read: "I Pull My Leaf Leg Stockings Off My Body" (The Boiler Journal)Purchase: The Girl Who Became a Rabbit (HCP, 2024)
Emilie Menzel, writer and librarian of hybridities, is the author of the book-length lyric The Girl Who Became a Rabbit (Hub City Press, 2024). Their gently haunted writing features in Copper Nickel, Bennington Review, and The Offing, amongst others, and has garnered such honors as the New Southern Voices Poetry Prize, the Deborah Slosberg Memorial Award in Poetry, and the Cara Parravani Memorial Award in Fiction. Menzel holds an MFA from UMass Amherst and serves as a collections librarian at Duke University and creative resources librarian for Seventh Wave. Raised on Georgia summers, they live in Durham, North Carolina.
Recommended Reading:
The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley
"The War of Vaslav Ninjinsky" by Frank Bidart
My Life in the Nineties by Lyn Hejinian
Max Porter
Annie Dillard
Toni Morrison
Maggie Nelson
Bernadette Meyer
Sabrina Ora Mark
Lydia Davis
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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).
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Read: "Men Working Above: demolition" and "Parable of Baiting" (UCity Review)Purchase: Altars of Spine and Fraction (Northwestern University Press, 2024)
Nicholas Molbert Born and raised on Louisianaâs Gulf Coast, Nicholas lives in Los Angeles. He is the author of Altars of Spine and Fraction(Northwestern University Press, 2024) and two poetry chapbooks from Foundlings Press: Goodness Gracious (2019) and Cocodrie Elegy (2024). You can find his work in places like The Cincinnati Review, The Greensboro Review, Mississippi Review, and Missouri Review among others. He holds a PhD from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign."
Recommended Reading:
Martha Serpas
Dear Memphis by Rachel Edelman
Night Angler by Geoffrey Davis
Lures by Adam Vibes
Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith
Beyond Katrina by Natasha Trethewey
The Room Where I Was Born by Brian Teare
Larry Levis
Phillip Levine
Wanda Coleman
Unmanly Grief by Jess Williard
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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).
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Read: "Everyone Said Nature Was Healing" (Poetry Northwest)Purchase: Portrait of Us Burning(Curbstone Books, 2023)
SebastiĂĄn H. PĂĄramo is the author of Portrait of Us Burning (Curbstone Books, 2023) and was named a finalist for the 2023 Best First Book of Poetry by the Texas Institute of Letters. His poems have recently appeared or will appear in AGNI, Poetry Northwest, The Arkansas International, Prairie Schooner, New England Review, and elsewhere. His work has received fellowships and support from the Dobie Paisano Fellowship Program at UT-Austin, CantoMundo, among others. He is the founding editor of The Boiler and lives in Texas.
Recommended Reading:
Apocalypse and Disaster Communities Reading List on Bookshop
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabriel Zevin
Meltwater by Claire Wahmanholm
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
The World Keeps Ending, the World Goes On by Franny Choi
The Murderbot Diariesby Martha Wells
Stanley Kunitz
Larry Levis
Thomas Lux
Nicola Davison-Reed
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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).
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Read: Emily's poem "The Meat of the Plum" in Moist Poetry JournalEmily Kramer is a poet and editor living in Boston, MA. She received her BA in English from Barnard College, and her PhD from Boston Universityâs Editorial Institute. Her critical edition of Arthur Henry Hallamâs collected poems is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
Recommended Reading:
Saskia Hamilton
Arthur Henry Hallam
Alfred, Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam
Robert Lowell
Words in Air: the complete correspondence of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, edited by Thomas Travisano and Saskia Hamilton
The Dolphin by Robert Lowell, edited Saskia Hamilton
Virginia Woolf's Letters with Vita Sackville-West (Paris Review)
John Keats' Letters
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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).
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Read: "Invitatory" at Poetry DailyPurchase: Invitatory (Parlor Press, 2024)
Molly Spencer is a poet, critic, editor, and writing instructor. Her debut collection, If the House (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019) won the 2019 Brittingham Prize judged by Carl Phillips. A second collection, Hingeâ (SIU Press, 2020), a finalist for the National Poetry Series, won the 2019 Crab Orchard Open Competition judged by Allison Joseph. Invitatory, her forthcoming third collection, won the 2022 New Measure Poetry Prize and will be published in 2024 by Free Verse Editions / Parlor Press. Mollyâs poetry has appeared in Blackbird, Copper Nickel, FIELD, The Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner. Her critical writing and essays have appeared at Colorado Review, The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review online, Literary Hub, The Writer's Chronicle, and The Rumpus, where she is a senior poetry editor. Molly's work has won a Lucile Medwick Award from the Poetry Society of America, a Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner, a Writers@Work Fellowship Award, and a faculty fellowship from the University of Michigan's Institute for the Humanities. She holds an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop and an MPA from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and teaches writing at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. â
Further Reading:
Carl Phillips
Jorie Graham
"Home Burial" by Robert Frost
Wordsworth's Prelude, Book 1 ("Fair seedtime had my soul...")
Aracelis Girmay's essay From Woe to Wonder
Jake Skeets' essay Poetry as Field
Louise GlĂŒck
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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).
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Read: "Dawn's Fool" (author's website), also "[your mind that beautiful country]" at Malarkey BooksPurchase: But Then I Thought by Kyla Houbolt (above/ground press, 2023)
Kyla Houbolt writes poems and occasional reviews, and takes care of two goats, 11 chickens, and 8 ducks. Chapbooks But Then I Thought available from above/ground press, Tuned available from CCCP Chapbooks, Surviving Death available from The Broken Spine, and a re-issue of Dawnâs Fool(a micro chap) also available from above/ground press.
Recommended Reading:
Lucille Clifton
Tang Dynasty poets
Gary Snyder
Frank O'Hara
Emily Dickinson
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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).
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Read: "Disambiguation" at Poetry DailyPurchase: Asterism by Ae Hee Lee (Tupelo Press, 2024)
Ae Hee Lee--born in South Korea and raised in Peru--is the author of ASTERISM, which was selected by John Murillo for the 2022 Dorset Prize, and the poetry chapbooks Bedtime || Riverbed (Compound Press 2017), Dear bear, (Platypus Press 2021), and Connotary (Frost Place Chapbook Competition Winner â Bull City Press 2021). Ae Hee is a Just Buffalo Literary Center Fellow, Adroit Journal Gregory Djanikian Scholar, recipient of the James Olney Award by The Southern Review, and Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship Finalist. She has also received scholarships and honors from the Academy of American Poets, AWP, Bread Loaf, Sewanee Writersâ Conference, and the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, among others.
Recommended Reading:
Build Yourself a Boat by Camonghne Felix
The Body: An Essay by Jenny Boully
Ghost by Rachel Whiteread (National Gallery)
The Atomic Sonnets by Rosebud Ben-Oni
Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).
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Read: Excerpt from Beth Gilstrap's There is News Along the Ohio River (Cincinnati Review), and Lee Potts' "A Time of Splinters" (Moist Poetry Journal)Purchase: Deadheading & Other Stories (Red Hen Press, 2021) by Beth Gilstrap and We Will Miss the Stars in the Morningby Lee Potts
Beth Gilstrap is the author of Deadheading & Other Stories (2021), Winner of the Red Hen Press Womenâs Prose Prize, short-listed for the Stanford Libraries William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, Bronze-winner of Reader Views Literary Awards, and a finalist for the 2021 Foreword Reviews Awards in Short Fiction. She is also the author of I Am Barbarella: Stories (2015) from Twelve Winters Press and No Manâs Wild Laura (2016) from Hyacinth Girl Press. Born and raised near Charlotte, she and her house full of critters now call the Charleston-metro area home. She also lives with c-PTSD and is quite vocal about ending the stigma surrounding mental illness. For the â24/â25 academic year, sheâll be in service with Americorps/Reading Partners.
Lee Potts (he/him) is author of two poetry chapbooks: We Will Miss the Stars in the Morning (Bottlecap Press, 2024) and And Drought Will Follow (Frosted Fire, 2021). He was poetry editor at Barren Magazine from 2020 to 2023 and co-editor of the Painted Bride Quarterly back in the late 80s and early 90s. He is a Pushcart Prize and a Best of the Net nominee. His work has appeared in The Night Heron Barks, Rust + Moth, Whale Road Review, UCity Review, Firmament, Moist Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. He lives just outside of Philadelphia with his wife, the last kid still at home, and two cats named Franny and Zooey.
Further Reading:
Black Lily Zine
Stone Circle Review
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Circe by Madeline Miller
Andrei Tarkovsky (particularly Stalker)
Aftersun (Dir. by Charlotte Wells)
Aubrey Hirsch
Poor Things (Dir. by Yorgos Lanthimos)
Little Fiction Big Truths
Barren Magazine
Painted Bride Quarterly
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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).
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Read: "I'd Rather Be" by Mitchell Nobis and "After the Last" by Jared Beloff, both published in Moist Poetry JournalPurchase: Who Will Cradle Your Head by Jared Beloff (and be on the lookout for Mitch Nobel's Beginning to Sense, forthcoming from ELJ Editions in 2025)
Jared Beloff is the author of the Who Will Cradle Your Head (ELJ Editions, 2023). Jared is currently a poetry editor at The Weight Journal and Poets of Queens. His poetry can be found in AGNI, Baltimore Review, Rust & Moth, Crab Creek Review and elsewhere. His work has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Queens, NY.
Mitchell Nobis is a writer and K-12 teacher in Metro Detroit. His poetry has been nominated for things by Whale Road Review, Nurture Literary, and Exposition Review. His collection Beginning to Sense is forthcoming from ELJ Editions (2025), and he has two poetry manuscripts making the rounds. He facilitates the Teachers as Poets group for the National Writing Project, hosts the Wednesday Night Sessions reading series, serves as an assistant editor at Bracken Magazine, and co-founded the NAWP reading series. Find him at @MitchNobis (various platforms).
Further Reading:
NAWP
Patricia Smith
UCity Review
rob mclennan
Gabriel Garcia MĂĄrquez's Until August review -
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Read: "What If Pain No Longer Ordered the Narrative" (The Sun)Purchase: No Spare People (Black Lawrence Press, 2023)
Erin Hoover was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She is the author of two poetry collections: Barnburner (Elixir, 2018), which won the Antivenom Poetry Award and a Florida Book Award, and No Spare People (Black Lawrence, 2023). Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry and in journals such as Cincinnati Review, Poetry Northwest, Shenandoah, and The Sun. Hoover lives in Tennessee and teaches creative writing at Tennessee Tech University. She curates and hosts a poetry reading series, Sawmill Poetry, and produces the âNot Abandon, but Abideâ monthly interview series for the Southern Review of Books. Visit her website at erinhooverpoet.com.
Further Reading:
Ever Baldwin
Adrienne Rich
Rachel Zucker
Diane Seuss
Bernadette Mayer
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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).
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Read: "Dream, with an interior" in Moist Poetry JournalPurchase: World's End (ARP Books, 2023) and groundwork: The best of the third decade of above/ground press: 2013â2023 (Invisible Publishing, 2023)
Born in Ottawa, Canadaâs glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa, where he is home full-time with the two wee girls he shares with Christine McNair. The author of more than thirty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, he won the John Newlove Poetry Award in 2010, the Council for the Arts in Ottawa Mid-Career Award in 2014, and was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2012 and 2017. In March, 2016, he was inducted into the VERSe Ottawa Hall of Honour. His most recent titles include the poetry collection Worldâs End, (ARP Books, 2023), a suite of pandemic essays, essays in the face of uncertainties (Mansfield Press, 2022) and the anthology groundworks: the best of the third decade of above/ground press 2013-2023 (Invisible Publishing, 2023). His collection of short stories, On Beauty (University of Alberta Press) will appear in fall 2024. An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics (periodicityjournal.blogspot.com) and Touch the Donkey (touchthedonkey.blogspot.com). He is editor of my (small press) writing day, and an editor/managing editor of many gendered mothers. He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com
Recommended Reading:
Midwinter Day by Bernadette Mayer
Lydia Davis
Russell Edson
Sarah Manguso
Nate Logan
Ben Niespodziany
Rosmarie Waldrop
Cole Swenson
Rachel Zucker
Lisa Robertson
Norma Cole, Writing on Writing in French
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