Poetry
| Chris Tysh, Editor
Poet, critic, and
visual artist Marjorie Welish is the author of several books including A
Complex Sentence (Coffee
House Press, 2021) and So
What So That (Coffee House Press, 2016). As a visual artist, she has
exhibited most recently in New York, Paris, Vienna, and Cambridge. The February 2024 issue of Artforum published
a 10-page portfolio of her art represented by Emanuel von Baeyer (London). A conference
on her arts practices at the University of Pennsylvania in 2002 became a book
of essays: Of the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish (Slought
Foundation, 2003).
Poet Sean Thomas Dougherty is the author or editor of
twenty books, including Death Prefers the Minor Keys (BOA
Editions, 2023) and The Dead Are Everywhere Telling Us Things (Jacar
Press, 2022), and winner of the 2021 Jacar Press Full Length Poetry
Prize. His collection The Second O of Sorrow (BOA
Editions, 2018) received both the Paterson Poetry Prize and the
Housatonic Book Award. His other awards include the Established Artist
Fellowship for Northwest Pennsylvania, two Pennsylvania Arts Council Fellowships, a Fulbright
Fellowship, and the James Hearst Poetry Prize from North American
Review. Based in Erie, Pennsylvania, he works as a Med Tech and caregiver.
Native Detroiter, poet, editor, and scholar Melba Joyce Boyd is an award-winning author of nine books of poetry, three documenary films, two biographies, editor of two poetry anthologies, and over 100 essays (1972–2024). Death Dance of a Butterfly (Past Tents Press, 2012) received the 2013 Library of Michigan Notable Book Award for Poetry. Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press (Columbia UP, 2004), received the 2004 Honor for Nonfiction from The Black Caucus of the American Library Association. She has been named Michigan Poet Laureate 2025-26. She is currently the editor of the African American Life Series at Wayne State University Press.
Susan Wheeler is the author of one novel, Record
Palace (Graywolf, 2005), and six books of poetry, including Meme (University
of Iowa Press, 2012), which was shortlisted for the National Book Award, Assorted
Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010), and Ledger (University
of Iowa Press, 2005). She lives in Philadelphia.
Poet, editor and educator, Anselm Berrigan is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Don’t Forget to Love Me (Wave Books, 2024), Pregrets (Black Square Editions, 2021), Something for Everybody (Wave Books, 2018), Come in Alone (Wave Books, 2016), Notes from Irrelevance (Wave Books, 2011), and Free Cell (City Lights Books, 2009). With Alice Notley and his brother, Edmund Berrigan, he coedited The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan (University of California, 2005) and The Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan (University of California, 2011). Former poetry editor of The Brooklyn Rail, he lives in New York City.