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Poet of the Week
Poets are, and always have been, plunderers of other poets: the true patron of poetry is Hermes, the god of thieves.
Nick Lantz is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The End of Everything and Everything That Comes After That (University of Wisconsin Press, 2024). He lives in Huntsville, Texas, with his wife and cats.
July Westhale was born in the American Southwest. Their books include moon moon, Trailer Trash, and Via Negativa. Along with Mathew Weitman and Felipe Acevedo Riquelme, they are a co-editor and translator for the Unsung Masters series collection Rolando Cárdenas: The Life and Work of a Chilean Master.
Kazim Ali coined the term "genre-queer" to refer to literature that blurs the line between poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He wrote a master's thesis on Euripides in translation. He once danced on stage with Yoko Ono. His forthcoming book of poetry is The Man in 119.
Andrew Hemmert is the author of No Longer at This Address (University of Pittsburgh Press), Blessing the Exoskeleton (University of Pittsburgh Press), and Sawgrass Sky (Texas Review Press). His poems have appeared in various magazines including Copper Nickel, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, New Ohio Review, and The Southern Review. He lives in Thornton, Colorado.
Matthew Olzmann is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Constellation Route. His next book An Oral History of the Flat Earth is forthcoming from Alice James Books in 2027. He teaches at Dartmouth College.
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).