Since the 1600s, poetry has turned inward towards the poets' own experiences. Katherine Philips is considered a pioneer of poetry of...

Kristina Marie Darling is the author of three full-length poetry collections: Night Songs (2010), Compendium (2011), and The Body is a...

The poetry of Diane Wakoski has affinities with that of Beat poets like Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg: it alternates long and...

Sarah Blake is the author of the poetry collection Mr. West, an unauthorized biography of Kanye West. She earned a BA from the College of...

Joanna C. Valente is sometimes a mermaid and sometimes a human. She is the author of Sirs & Madams and received her MFA at Sarah Lawrence...

Carolyn Hembree was born in Bristol, Tennessee. Her debut poetry collection, Skinny, came out from Kore Press in 2012. In 2016, Trio...

Cecilia Woloch was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up there and in rural Kentucky, one of seven children of a homemaker and an...

Montana Ray is a feminist poet, translator, and scholar. She is the author of five chapbooks and bookworks. Her first full-length poetry...

Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers is the author of Chord Box, finalist for both the Miller Williams Prize and the Lambda Literary Award. She...

Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet is the author of The Greenhouse, selected by David Baker for the Frost Place Poetry Chapbook Prize. Tulips,...