Poetry | Chris Tysh, Editor


Marjorie Welish

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).



Sean Thomas Dougherty

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.



Melba Joyce Boyd

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

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.





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