Artist Discipline: Poetry

Tobi Kassim was born in Ibadan, Nigeria, and has lived in the United States since 2003. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in Volta, The Brooklyn Review, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, The Kenyon Review, Zócalo Public Square, Four Way Review, Chicago Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. His chapbook, Dear Sly Stone, was…

Sally Wen Mao’s debut short story collection, Ninetails, (Penguin Books, May 2024) was named one of the Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Books of 2024 from The Washington Post and Elle magazine, and one of the Best Short Story Collections of 2024 from Electric Literature. She is the author of three previous poetry collections: The Kingdom of Surfaces (Graywolf Press,…

Lupita Eyde-Tucker is a poet and literary translator from New Jersey and Guayaquil, Ecuador. Lupita holds an MFA in Creative Writing–Poetry from the University of Florida, and has received fellowships and institutional support from Vermont Studio Center, Poesiæuropa, Bread Loaf Writers Conferences, the Kentucky Women Writers Conference, and the New York State Summer Writing Institute.…

Katie Berta is the author of the poetry collection retribution forthcoming, from Ohio University Press, which won the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, The Kenyon Review, Verse Daily, The Cincinnati Review, Prairie Schooner, Denver Quarterly, The Iowa Review, Black Warrior Review, The Yale Review, Blackbird, The…

Diana Arterian is the author of the poetry collection Agrippina the Younger (Northwestern University Press, 2025). Her first book, Playing Monster :: Seiche, received a starred review in Publishers Weekly and was a Poetry Foundation Staff Pick. She edited and, with Marina Omar, co-translated Nadia Anjuman’s poetry in a volume entitled Smoke Drifts (World Poetry…

Kay Ulandday Barrett is a poet, essayist, cultural strategist, A+ napper, and a 2024 Disability Futures Fellow awarded by The Ford Foundation, Mellon Foundation, and United States Artists. They are the winner of the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly Award for Poetry, a winner of the 2022 Next Book Residency with Tin House,…

Rebecca Lehmann is a novelist and poet. Her books include the poetry collections The Sweating Sickness (University of Pittsburgh Press, forthcoming January, 2025), Ringer (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), winner of the 2018 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry through the AWP, and Between the Crackups (Salt Publishing, 2011). Her writing has been featured in The…

Madeleine Mori is a Japanese American writer from the San Francisco Bay Area. Recent poems, essays, and articles can be found in The Common, American Chordata, Best New Poets 2022, and Condé Nast Traveler. She was a 2021 Margins Fellow through the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, where she guest-edited a special folio on wine for…

Ayesha Raees عائشہ رئیس is a poet and artist identifying as a hybrid creating hybrid poetry through hybrid forms. Her interdisciplinary work places poetry at its center and delves into paint, film, sound, theater, performance, and collaboration with the intention of breaking conventional ideas of linear language, form, and genre to materialize a space of…