Poet of the Week

Anthony is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at The University of South Florida and a co-editor of Divedapper. Winner of the 2024 Louise Bogan Poetry Award, his debut collection Splice was published in July 2025 by Trio House Press. 

Zoë Ryder White’s full-length collection, The Visible Field was published by River River Books in February, 2026. She authored the chapbooks Via Post (Sixth Finch Press, 2022) and HYPERSPACE (Factory Hollow Press, 2020) and co-authored A Study in Spring (Rabbit Catastrophe Press, 2015) and Elsewhere (Sixth Finch Press, 2020) with Nicole Callihan. 

Lexi Pelle was the winner of the 2022 Jack McCarthy Book Prize. Her work has appeared in Plume, West Branch, Rattle, Ninth Letter, and The Comstock Review. She is the author of the poetry collection Let Go With The Lights On (Write Bloody Publishing, 2023).

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Tatiana is the author of Nocturne in Joy, winner of the Julia Ward Howe Book Prize in Poetry. She was raised in Boston, on the unceded land of the Massachusett people, and is an educator, artist, and mother. She’s received fellowships and awards from Tin House, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, The MacDowell Residency, among others. 

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Alina Kalontarov is an educator, poet, and amateur photographer based in New York City. She collaborates on the editorial teams of various publications and serves as a reader for Gather literary magazine. She is a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee with work that can be found in Sky Island Journal, Gather, Wildscape, Thimble, Sand Hills and elsewhere. 

Brennan Sprague is a poet from Rochester, NY. His poems have appeared in Vallum Magazine, Schlag Magazine, Jet Fuel Review, The Adroit Journal, Glass, The Shore, Afternoon Visitor, and elsewhere. He was a finalist for The Adroit Prize and a Best of the Net nominee. He is currently pursuing his MFA in Poetry at Syracuse University.

Stephanie Chang (she/they) is a Hong Kong-Taiwanese Canadian writer and contemporary art historian based in New York City. A 2025 Lambda Literary Fellow in Young Adult Fiction, her work appears in Sixth Finch, The Adroit Journal, Waxwing, The Rumpus, and Tinderbox Poetry Journal, among others. She holds a B.A. in English and Art History from Kenyon College.

Christian Butterfield is an undergraduate writer from Bowling Green, Kentucky. His work is featured in North American Review, The Kenyon Review, and The Adroit Journal. He attends Western Kentucky University, where he competes on WKU's national championship Speech & Debate Team. He absolutely adores you! Yes, you in particular!