Matt Broaddus is the author of Deeper the Tropics and Temporal Anomalies. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Annulet, Denver Quarterly, and The Paris Review. He lives in Colorado and serves as an Advisory Poetry Editor for The Paris Review.

Links:

Matt Broaddus' website

"'Blue Prints' and Other Poems" at Changes

"The Seal of Approval" at American Poetry Review

"The Sun Is a Disembodied Thought: An Interview with Matt Broaddus" at Poetry Daily

"These Lit Particulars: On Matt Broaddus’ Deeper the Tropics" at Cleveland Review of Books

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Shuly Xóchitl Cawood teaches writing workshops, doodles with Sharpies and acrylic paint, and is raising two poodles and a dwindling number of orchids. Her books include Something So Good It Can Never Be Enough (Press 53, 2023) and Trouble Can Be So Beautiful at the Beginning (Mercer University Press, 2021), winner of the Adrienne Bond Award for Poetry. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Sun, and Rattle.

Links:

Shuly Xóchitl Cawood's website

"Poem in Which I Fail to Teach My Dog How to Fetch" at The Sun

Two Poems at Have Has Had

Interview and four poems at Does It Have Pockets

Video: Cawood reading her poem "You Are Not a Cat"

Arlene Keizer, an Afro-Caribbean American poet and scholar, writes about the literature, lived experience, theory, and visual culture of the African Diaspora. The recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, she later earned an MA in English and Creative Writing (Poetry) at Stanford University and a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Black Subjects: Identity Formation in the Contemporary Narrative of Slavery (Cornell UP), and her poems and articles have appeared in African American Review, American Literature, The Kenyon Review, Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora, PMLA, Poem-a-Day, TriQuarterly, and other venues. Fraternal Light: On Painting While Black, her collection of poems about the African American painter Beauford Delaney, won the 2022 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize and was published in 2023 by the Kent State University Press. She is a professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.

Links:

Arlene Keizer

Arlene Keizer’s page at Pratt Institute

Interview with Arlene Keizer at Speaking of Marvels

“Canopy” in Poem-A-Day

Fraternal Light: On Painting While Black at Kent State University Press

Beauford Delaney

Bio and artwork at Knoxville Museum of Art

Bio and Artwork at the Smithsonian

Bio and artwork at Studio Museum in Harlem

Artwork at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery

“Beauford Delaney in Knoxville” at Knoxville History Project

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