Poem of the Week

Patricia Caspers is the founding editor-in-chief of West Trestle Review. She is the author of three full-length poetry collections, most recently The Most Kissed Woman in the World. She earned an MFA in…    read more

Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers is the author of three poetry collections, including Bad Cell (Acre Books, 2027), The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons (Acre Books, 2020), and Chord Box (University of…    read more

Nick Lantz is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently The End of Everything and Everything That Comes After That (University of Wisconsin Press, 2024). His work has…    read more

Radian Hong is a poet from Northern California. His work appears or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, swamp pink, The Cincinnati Review, Pleiades, and elsewhere. He is the 2025 Thomas Wolfe Scholar in creative…    read more

Tyler Kline is a high school teacher from Pennsylvania. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Believer, Best New Poets, Narrative, POETRY, and Poetry Daily. He earned his MFA at New York University, where…    read more

Jaz Sufi (she/hers) is a queer Iranian American poet and arts educator. Her work has been published or is upcoming in Best New Poets, Best of the Net, AGNI, Black…    read more

Sonya Schneider’s poems can be found or are forthcoming in American Poetry Journal, Chicago Quarterly Review, The Penn Review, Potomac Review, Raleigh Review, Rattle, Salamander, Tar River Poetry, and elsewhere.…    read more

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