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
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.
