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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Chris Barton is the author of the poetry chapbook A Finely Calibrated Apocalypse, published by Bottlecap Press in 2024. His writing has appeared in Epiphany, Peach Magazine, The Plenitudes, Hotel, and elsewhere. From 2016 to 2019, he co-hosted the Electric Pheasant Poetry in Knoxville, TN.

Peter Gizzi grew up in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. His many books of poetry include Artificial Heart, Threshold Songs, In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems, 1987–2011 and Archeophonics, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. His book Fierce Elegy, published in 2023, won the T. S. Eliot Prize. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

“In Defense of Nothing” from In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems, 1987–2011 © 2015 by Peter Gizzi. Published by Wesleyan University Press. Used by permission.

Links:

Read "our free trial lives," "last supper," and "the bafflement" by Chris Barton

Read "In Defense of Nothing" by Peter Gizzi

Chris Barton

A Finely Calibrated Apocalypse by Chris Barton (Bottlecap Press)

"2 Poems by Chris Barton" in Peach Magazine

"Ouroboros as a Treat" in The Plentitudes

"Three Poems" in Potluck Magazine

Peter Gizzi

Bio and poems at The Poetry Foundation

Bio and poems at Poets.org

"Peter Gizzi Talks About His Work" (YouTube Video--T.S. Eliot Prize)

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Charles Douthat is a poet, retired litigator, and visual artist. Born and educated in California, he practiced law for many years in New Haven and began writing poems during a long mid-life illness. His first collection, Blue for Oceans, received the PEN New England Award, as the best book of poetry published in 2010 by a New England writer. Concerning Douthat’s newest book, Again, the poet Alan Shapiro writes, “This book is impossible not to love.” Douthat lives in Weston, Connecticut, with his wife, the artist Julie Leff.

Robert Frost was born in 1874 in San Francisco. When he was just ten years old, his father died, and Frost’s family moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts to live with his paternal grandparents. Though Frost attended Dartmouth College and Harvard University, he never earned a formal degree. He spent much of his twenties and thirties farming and teaching. In 1912, he moved, with his wife and children, to England where publishers were more receptive to his work. But he moved back to the States in 1915 after the start of the First World War. He lived for the rest of his life mostly in Massachusetts and Vermont. Robert Frost won four Pulitzer Prizes and the Congressional Medal of Honor. He died in Boston in 1963.

Links:

Read "Polk Street" and "Mercy" by Charles Douthat

Read "After Apple-Picking" by Robert Frost

Charles Douthat

Charles Douthat's website

"Charles Douthat Unbound," Authors Unbound podcast

"A Few Minutes After Nine" in The Los Angeles Review

"The Planting" in The Nature of Our Times

"Grounds" in Leon Literary Review

Robert Frost

Bio and poems at Poets.org

Bio and Poems at The Poetry Foundation's website

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Matthew Minicucci is an award-winning author of four collections of poems including his most recent, Dual, published in 2023 by Acre Books. His poetry and essays have appeared widely in various publications, including American Poetry Review, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, the Kenyon Review, Poetry, and The Southern Review. His work has garnered numerous awards including the Stafford/Hall Oregon Book Award and the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, along with fellowships from organizations including the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the National Parks Service, and the James Merrill House, among others. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Blount Scholars Program at the University of Alabama.

Brigit Pegeen Kelly was born in 1951 in Palo Alto, California. Her first book, To the Place of Trumpets, won the Yale Younger Poets Prize and was published in 1987. Her poems appeared in Best American Poetry, The Nation, The Yale Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, and others. She won awards and fellowships from the Poetry Society of America, the Whiting Foundation, and the Academy of American Poets. Her third book, The Orchard, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Kelly taught at the University of California-Irvine, Purdue University, Warren Wilson College, and the University of Illinois. She died in October of 2016, in Urbana, Illinois.

Special thanks to Boa Editions, Ltd, for permission to record Brigit Pegeen Kelly's poem "Song," which appeared in her book Song, and "Brightness from the North," which was published in The Orchard.

Links:

Matthew Minicucci

Matthew Minicucci's website

Bio and poems at The Poetry Foundation

"Nostalgia" at poets.org

Two poems in Poetry Northwest

Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Bio and poems at The Poetry Foundation

Bio and poems at poets.org

"Dead Doe" in The Kenyon Review

Reading at Breadloaf Writers' Conference

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Recorded live, April 14, 2025. In celebration of National Poetry Month, Denton Loving joined us for Lawson McGhee Library's monthly book discussion group, All Over the Page.

Denton Loving is the author of the poetry collections Crimes Against Birds and Tamp, recipient of the inaugural Tennessee Book Award for Poetry. He is a co-founder and editor at EastOver Press and its literary journal Cutleaf. His fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous publications including The Kenyon Review, Iron Horse Literary Review and Ecotone. His third collection of poems, Feller, is forthcoming in 2025 from Mercer University Press.

Links:

Denton Loving's website

"Loving Wins Tennessee Book Award," Lincoln Memorial University"

"The Secret Signal to Wake," an interview and poems at Salvation South

"Two Poems by Denton Loving" at The Museum of Americana: A Literary Review

"Tamp--Denton Loving" at Griffinpoetry.com

Video: WANA (Writers Association of Northern Appalachia) Live! Reading Series featuring Denton Loving