Poem of the Week

Luisa A. Igloria was a 2025 poetry finalist for The Missouri Review’s Editors’ Prize Contest. She is the author of Caulbearer (Immigrant Writing Series Prize, Black Lawrence Press, 2024), Maps for Migrants…    read more

“The Kidnapped Child” by Nicholas Samaras is our Poem of the Week. *** The Kidnapped Child What do you really want to know? I came from a dark place called…    read more

Leila Farjami was a 2025 poetry finalist for The Missouri Review Editors’ Prize. She is an Iranian American poet and psychotherapist. Her debut poetry collection, Daughter of Salt, an Editor’s Selection at Trio…    read more

Kirun Kapur was a 2025 finalist for The Missouri Review’s Editors’ Prize in poetry. She grew up in Hawaii and now lives along the banks of the Merrimack River. She is the…    read more

Arlene DeMaris was a finalist for poetry in The Missouri Review’s 2025 Editors’ Prize Contest. She is a poet and freelance writer. Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, she now lives in Avon, Connecticut, with her husband,…    read more

Jarrett Moseley was a finalist for poetry in The Missouri Review’s 2025 Editors’ Prize. He is a bisexual poet living in Miami and the author of the chapbook Gratitude List (Bull City Press, 2024). His manuscript, Rehumanization Litany, was…    read more

Mallory Rodenberg’s poems have recently appeared in Shō Poetry Journal and The Swannanoa Review. She was the 2025 artist-in-residence for the Robert Lee Blaffer Foundation and the recipient of the…    read more

Zoë Ryder White’s first full-length collection, The Visible Field, was published by River River Books in February 2026. A chapbook, Via Post, was a finalist for Tupelo Press’s Snowbound Chapbook Prize and won the Sixth Finch chapbook contest in 2022. HYPERSPACE was the editors’ choice for…    read more

Stephanie Choi’s poems appear in Beloit Poetry Journal, Blackbird, Copper Nickel, Electric Literature, New Ohio Review, and elsewhere. Her debut collection, The Lengest Neoi, was selected by Brenda Shaughnessy for the 2023 Iowa Poetry Prize and published in 2024.…    read more

Alison Pelegrin is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Louisiana Board of Regents, the Foundation for Louisiana, and the Academy of American…    read more