Poetry | Chris Tysh, Editor

Ron Padgett

New York poet Ron Padgett’s Collected Poems won the LA Times Prize for the best poetry book of 2014 and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. His translations include Zone: Selected Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire and Blaise Cendrars’ Complete Poems. Seven of his poems were used in Jim Jarmusch’s film, Paterson. Padgett’s most recent collection is Big Cabin (Coffee House Press).



Rachel Levitsky

Poet Rachel Levistsky is a founder of Belladonna, a feminist collective dedicated to experimental women’s writing. She is the author of several collections, novels, and plays. The Story of My Accident is Ours, a novel about activism, collectivity, and agency, is available from Futurepoem. Neighbor was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2009 and reissued in 2020.  Levitsky is based in New York City.



Kit Robinson

Kit Robinson is a Bay Area poet, writer, and musician. He is the author of Thought Balloon (Roof, 2019), Leaves of Class (Chax, 2017), Marine Layer (BlazeVOX, 2015), and twenty other books of poetry. His essays on poetics, art, travel, and music may be found online at Open Space and Nowhere.



Michelle Naka Pierce

Born in Japan and based in Boulder, Colorado, Michelle Naka Pierce is the author of nine titles, including TRI/VIA co-authored with Veronica Corpuz; Beloved Integer; She, A Blueprint with art by Sue Hammond West; and Continuous Frieze Border Red, awarded Fordham’s Poets Out Loud Editor’s Prize.



Will Alexander

Based in Los Angeles, poet Will Alexander is the author of numerous collections of poetry and nonfiction, from his first book, Vertical Rainbow Climber published in 1987, to the very latest, The Combustion Cycle (Roof Books, May 2021) and Refractive Africa (New Directions, November 2021). He is the recipient of The Jackson Poetry Prize and many other awards.





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