David Trinidad is the author of numerous poetry collections, most recently Swinging on a Star. He teaches poetry and creative writing at Columbia College and lives in Chicago.

Alice Notley is the author of over 40 books of poetry. She lives in Paris.

Cathy Park Hong’s latest book is Minor Feelings. She is poetry editor of the New Republic and is a professor at Rutgers-Newark University.

John Murillo is the author of Up Jump the Boogie and Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry. He is an assistant professor of English at Wesleyan University and also teaches in the low residency MFA program at Sierra Nevada College.

Tina Chang is a poet, teacher, and editor. In 2010, she was named Poet Laureate of Brooklyn (the first woman to hold this title).

Ada Limón is the author of five books of poetry. She serves on the faculty of Queens University of Charlotte Low Residency M.F.A program, and the online and summer programs for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.

M. NourbeSe Philip is a poet and writer and lawyer who lives in the City of Toronto. She was born in Tobago and now lives in Canada.

New Books Written by and Author/Texts Recommended by David Trinidad

Punk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World: Poems of Ed Smith [Editor] (Turtle Point Press, 2019)

Eula Biss

Robyn Schiff

Emily Dickinson

Alice Notley

William Carlos Williams

Walt Whitman

Sylvia Plath

New Books Written by and Recommended by Tina Chang

Cathy Park Hong’s Minor Feelings (One World, 2020)

Monica Sok's A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon, 2020)

Kimiko Hahn’s Foreign Bodies (W.W. Norton, 2020)

“The Slur I Never Expected to Hear in 2020,” by Cathy Park Hong for the New York Times

New Books Written by and Recommended by John Murillo

Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry (Four Way Books, 2020)

New Books Written by and Recommended by Alice Notley

For the Ride (Penguin, 2020)

The New York Times review of For the Ride

The New Yorker review of For the Ride

New Books Written by and Recommended by Ada Limón

The Carrying (Milkweed, 2018)

Loving Kindness by Sharon Salzberg (Shambhala, 2002)

Sharon Salzberg

New Books Written by and Recommended by M. NourbeSe Philip

Zong! (Wesleyan 2011)

New Books Written by and Author/Texts Recommended by Cathy Park Hong

Minor Feelings (One World, 2020)

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