Poet of the Week

Seth Leeper is a queer poet. His work has appeared in The Journal, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, River Styx, Salamander, and Sycamore Review. He holds an M.S. in Special Education from Pace University and B.A. in Creative Writing and Fashion Journalism from San Francisco State University. He is a candidate in the Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at Randolph College. His work has been nominated for Best New Poets, Best of the Net, and Pushcart awards. He teaches drop in and virtual workshops for Brooklyn Poets. Leeper can be found on Twitter and Instagram: @sethwleeper

Kit Eginton is a trans writer, editor, and organizer in NYC. She writes for Strange Horizons and edits for Hypocrite Reader. You can read her past work and her newsletter, on communist politics and trans aesthetics, here. There is only one solution – intifada revolution!

Shane McCrae’s most recent book of poetry is The Many Hundreds of the Scent. His memoir, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun, was published in 2023. His awards and fellowships include a Lannan Literary Award, a Whiting Writer's Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in New York City. McCrae can be found Twitter and Instagram: @akasomeguy

Matthew Zapruder lives in Northern California. He is editor at large at Wave Books, and teaches in the MFA at Saint Mary’s College of California. His forthcoming collection of poetry, I Love Hearing Your Dreams, will be published by Scribner in Fall, 2024.

Maria Gray is a poet unconditionally supportive of Palestinian resistance and liberation. Originally from Portland, Oregon, her work is published by ONLY POEMS, Best New Poets, SPACE Gallery in Portland, Maine, and others. She is the recipient of the John Tagliabue Prize for Creative Writing from Bates College and a Departmental Poetry Fellowship from New York University’s Creative Writing Program, and was named as a semifinalist for The Adroit Journal’s Djanikian Scholars Program in 2024. The Managing Editor of COUNTERCLOCK Journal, she lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Sydney Mayes is a poet from Denver, Colorado. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Atlantic, Gulf Coast Journal, Denver Quarterly, Poets.org and Prairie Schooner, among other publications. Executive Editor of Nashville Review and a finalist for the 2024 Furious Flower Prize, Mayes can be found on Instagram: @sydney_gabrielle_mayes

xochi quetzali cartland is a queer & latina poet, seamstress, & transformative justice practitioner living in Washington, DC. Her work has appeared in Common Ground Review, Muzzle Magazine, Little Patuxent Review & elsewhere, as well as supported with fellowships from National Arts Strategies & Brooklyn Poets.

Nome Emeka Patrick is a Nigerian, and Cave Canem fellow. His works have been published or are forthcoming in POETRY, AGNI, The Journal, Narrative, TriQuarterly, Waxwing, Hayden's Ferry Review, Poet Lore, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. A Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and Pushcart prize nominee, he emerged third place in the Frontier Poetry Award for New Poets, 2020. His manuscript 'We Need New Moses. Or New Luther King' was a finalist for the 2019 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. His chapbook, Voyaging, was selected for New Generation African Poet—African Poetry Book Fund (2024) by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani. He has an MFA from Brown University and is currently a PhD student at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the poetry editor at Agbowo.