Poem of the Week

This week’s Poem of the Week is “The Horse That Threw Me” by Alexandra Teague. Alexandra Teague is the author of three books of poetry—Or What We’ll Call Desire (Persea,…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is excerpted from “Epistle” by Robert Laidler. Robert Laidler, Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Wayne State Department of English, is the author of…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Stone Fruit” by Rebecca Foust. Rebecca Foust’s fourth full-length book ONLY (Four Way Books 2022) received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly. Recognitions…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Of the Country I Left” by Kyoko Uchida. Kyoko Uchida was born in Hiroshima, Japan and raised there and in the United States…    read more

D.S. Waldman is a 2022-2024 Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University. His work has appeared in Kenyon Review, LitHub, Narrative, and other publications. Waldman has received additional fellowships, support and…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Lucie” by JSA Lowe. JSA Lowe’s first book of poetry, Internet Girls, will be published in June 2023 by Finishing Line Press. Her…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “New Year’s Day” by Olivia Muenz. Olivia Muenz is a disabled writer from New York. She is the author of chapbook Where Was…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Look This Way” by Darius Atefat-Peckham. Darius Atefat-Peckham is an Iranian-American poet and essayist. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Infusions” by Jen Karetnick. Jen Karetnick’s fourth full-length book is the 2021 CIPA EVVY Gold Medal winner The Burning Where Breath Used to…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “For my nephew counting to zero” by Jane Zwart. Jane Zwart teaches at Calvin University, where she also co-directs the Calvin Center for…    read more