Today, a new poem by Gabriella Belfiglio.
Born in Philadelphia, Belfiglio holds a BA in Creative Writing from Antioch University and an MFA in Poetry from American University. Her writing has appeared in several journals and anthologies, including Folio, The Centrifugal Eye, and the award-winning Poetic Voices without Borders. Read More
This week, two poems from Joy Ladin's The Definition of Joy, forthcoming from Sheep Meadow Press.
Ladin, Gottesman Professor of English at Yeshiva University, is the author of five books of poetry, including Lambda LIterary Award finalist Transmigration. Her memoir, Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders, was published in 2012 by University of Wisconsin Press. Read More
For our last Spotlight of National Poetry Month, we're thrilled to bring you three poems from Aaron Smith's forthcoming Appetite. Smith is the author of Blue on Blue Ground, winner of the 2004 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. His chapbooks include What's Required, winner of the 2003 Frank O'Hara Chapbook Award, and Men in Groups. Read More
This week, two new poems by Julia Guez. Guez is a Fulbright Fellow with a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University. Her poetry and prose has appeared or will soon be forthcoming in BOMBLog, The Brooklyn Rail, Coldfront, Court Green, DIAGRAM and Washington Square. Read More
Today, two new poems by Shane Michael Manieri. Manieri was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He received a Bachelor of Arts with honors from The New School University. He is the recipient of fellowships from the New York Summer Writers Institute and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Read More
This week, three poems by Monica Wendel--including one featuring Rick Santorum.
Wendel is the author of the chapbook Call it a Window (Midwest Writing Center, 2012). A graduate of NYU's MFA program, she teaches English at St. Thomas Aquinas College. Read More
This week, we’re pleased to bring you three poems by Anne Marie Rooney. ...
Today, it's our pleasure to bring you four centos by Eduardo C. Corral, all revisiting the work of Tim Dlugos. Corral is a CantoMundo fellow and the recipient of a 2011 Whiting Writers' Award. Slow Lightning, his first book of poems, won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. Read More
This week, a new poem by Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro. Pizarro is the author of Caparazones (2010), the first lesbian fiction novel written in Puerto Rico, published by Editorial Egales in Spain, and the editor of the anthology Cachaperismos, the first Puerto Rican lesbian anthology on the island. Read More
This Valentine's Day, we're pleased to bring you Alex Dimitrov's love poem for fellow poet Dorothea Lasky.
Dimitrov's first book of poems, Begging for It, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in early 2013. He is the recipient of the Stanley Kunitz Prize for younger poets from The American Poetry Review and the founder of Wilde Boys, a queer poetry salon in New York City. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Yale Review, Slate, Tin House, and Boston Review.
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