Poet of the Week

Philip Schaefer’s collection Bad Summon (University of Utah Press, 2017) won the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize, while individual poems have won contests from The Puritan, Meridian, & Passages North. His work has been featured on Poem-A-Day, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and in The Poetry Society of America. He runs a modern Mexican restaurant called The Camino in Missoula, MT.

Andrea Jurjević is the author of In Another Country (2022 Saturnalia Prize), Small Crimes (2015 Philip Levine Prize) and Nightcall. Her translations from Croatian include Olja Savičević’s Mamasafari and Marko Pogačar’s Dead Letter Office, which was shortlisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry. She’s a native of Croatia.

Micaela Camacho-Tenreiro is a Venezuelan-American poet, dancer, and translator. Her work appears in the American Poetry Review and has been featured by Brooklyn Poets. She received a 2023 Finalist award from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and holds a B.A. in Hispanic Studies from Brown University.

Zachary Forrest y Salazar is a software engineer, amateur photographer, and American poet. You can find him on Instagram @zdfs.poet and his photography @zd.fs. He grew up in the Midwest, where he studied poetry at Missouri State University under Marcus Cafagña and the late Michael Burns. He calls Santa Barbara, California, home.

Andrea Cohen is the author of eight books of poetry, including The Sorrow Apartments (Four Way Books, 2024). Other collections include Everything, Nightshade, Unfathoming, Furs Not Mine, Kentucky Derby, Long Division, and The Cartographer's Vacation. Her poems  have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Threepenny Review, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, and elsewhere. Awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and several fellowships at MacDowell. She directs the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, MA, and is currently teaching at Boston University.

Kaylee Young-Eun Jeong is from Oregon and lives in New York. Her work appears in Shenandoah, The Columbia Review, and Diode Poetry Journal, among others. She loves her parents, her brother, Anne Carson, and her platform shoes.

Francis de Lima is a Finnish-Brazilian poet and translator, currently living in the UK. They are completing their undergrad at Royal Holloway, focusing on the intersections between class, ecology, and poetry. They’ve collaborated extensively, mainly with Finnish underground artists, on projects like art books, albums, and performances at venues ranging from concert halls to backyards.

Leigh Sugar is a Michigan-based artist. Poetry and other work appears in POETRY, Split This Rock, jubilat, and more. A disabled and chronically ill writer, Leigh holds an MFA in poetry from NYU and an MPA in Criminal Justice Policy from John Jay College, and has taught writing at CUNY's Institute for Justice and Opportunity, NYU, various prisons in Michigan, and other settings. Leigh edited the anthology That's a Pretty Thing to Call It: Prose and poetry by artists teaching in carceral institutions (New Village Press, 2023), and her debut poetry collection, FREELAND, is forthcoming (Alice James Books, 2025).