THE 2023 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
December 31
Bob Hicok is the author of Water Look Away (Copper Canyon Press, 2023). He has received a Guggenheim, two NEA Fellowships, the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress, nine Pushcart Prizes, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His poems have appeared in nine volumes of the Best American Poetry.
December 24
Tim Seibles was the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2016 to 2018. He is a former NEA fellow and Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center fellow. His seven books of poetry include Fast Animal, a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award and winner of the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize. This was followed by One Turn Around The Sun in 2017. His latest collection, Voodoo Libretto: New & Selected Poems was released by Etruscan Press in 2022.
December 17
Hillary Smith-Maddern is a proud cat mom and collector of dilapidated plants. Her favorite things include cats, coffee, cobblestone streets, and the crisp, blank pages of a writing notebook. She resides in Greenfield, MA and enjoys exploring the world. When she’s not writing, you can find her coaching, hiking a mountain, or yelling about the patriarchy.
December 10
Reuben Gelley Newman is the author of Feedback Harmonies (Seven Kitchens Press), a chapbook on Arthur Russell. His poems are available or forthcoming in Salamander, The Fairy Tale Review, South Dakota Review, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. A Co-Editor at Couplet Poetry, you can find him on social media @joustingsnail and in real life in New York City.
December 3
Robert Okaji holds a BA in history, and was recently diagnosed with stage four metastatic lung cancer. He thanks the editors of the following presses/journals for supporting his work in recent years: Threepenny Review, Evergreen Review, Slipstream, Shō Poetry Journal, Vox Populi, One Art, and Panoply.
November 26
Rae Armantrout is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and The National Book Critics Circle Award (for Versed, Wesleyan 2010). Her most recent book is Finalists (Wesleyan 2022). Her 2018 book, Wobble, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her other books with Wesleyan include Partly: New and Selected Poems, Just Saying, and Money Shot. A new book, Go Figure, and a chapbook, Notice, are forthcoming in 2024.
November 19
Chiwenite Onyekwelu’s debut poetry chapbook, EXILED, will be published in 2024 by Red Bird Chapbooks. His poems appear in Adroit Journal, Frontier, Cincinnati Review, Palette, Hudson Review, Lolwe, Chestnut Review, Mizna, and elsewhere. He won the Hudson Review Inaugural Frederick Morgan Poetry Prize, 2020 Jack Grapes Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Prize 2023.
November 12
Rosebud Ben-Oni is the author of several collections of poetry, including If This Is the Age We End Discovery (March 2021), which won the Alice James Award and was a Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. She has received fellowships and grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and others. Her work appears in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets, Tin House, Guernica, Electric Literature, among others.
November 5
Leigh Chadwick's most recent collection is Sophomore Slump (Malarkey Books, 2023).
October 29
M. Cynthia Cheung is a physician whose poems can be found in The Baltimore Review, Four Way Review, Pleiades, RHINO, swamp pink, Tupelo Quarterly and others, and she is a prior Idyllwild Arts Writers Week fellow. She reads for Bear Review and serves as a judge for Baylor College of Medicine’s annual Michael E. DeBakey Medical Student Poetry Awards.
October 22
Matthew Nienow is the author of two collections with Alice James Books: House of Water (2016) and If Nothing (Forthcoming, 2025). His work has appeared in Gulf Coast, New England Review, Ploughshares, and POETRY, and has been recognized with fellowships from the Poetry Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is currently pursuing a degree in Mental Health Counseling.
October 15
Amit Majmudar’s new books in 2023 published in the United States are Black Avatar and Other Essays (Acre Books) and Twin A: A Memoir (Slant Books). The same year, Penguin India will publish The Book of Vows, the first of three volumes in a Mahabharata retelling, as well as an original mythological story cycle, The Later Adventures of Hanuman.
October 8
Arah Ko is a writer from Hawai'i. Her work is published or forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Frontier Poetry, Ninth Letter, Threepenny Review, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. She received her MFA in creative writing from the Ohio State University where she edited for The Journal. Arah is a current Poetry Editor at Surging Tide Magazine.
October 1
Jane Zwart teaches at Calvin University, where she also co-directs the Calvin Center for Faith & Writing. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Southern Review, Threepenny Review, HAD, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. In addition, she is the co-editor of book reviews for Plume; her own reviews have been published there and in The Los Angeles Review of Books.
September 24
Major Jackson is the award-winning author of six poetry collections including Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems (2023). His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. He is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review.