Poet of the Week

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!

Emily Lawson is a Vancouver-based poet and PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Her poems and lyric essays have appeared in Sixth Finch, Adroit, Indiana Review, Thrush, Muzzle, Waxwing, and elsewhere, and have been awarded a Palette Poetry Love & Eros Prize, an Indiana Review 1/2 K prize, and a Witness Literary Award. 

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Nin Andrews is the author of sixteen collections of poetry. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Ploughshares, Agni, The Paris Review, Best American Poetry, Great American Prose Poems, The Best American Erotic Poems. Her poetry has been translated into Turkish, performed in Prague, and anthologized in England, Australia, and Mongolia. Her collection, Son of a Bird, a Memoir in Prose Poems, was published in 2025.

David Duchovny is an award-winning actor, director, New York Times best-selling author, and singer-songwriter. With an acting career spanning more than three decades, Duchovny is a two-time Golden Globe winner and four-time Emmy nominee. His novels include Truly Like Lightning, Holy Cow, The Reservoir (novella), and Bucky F*cking Dent, which Duchovny adapted into the film Reverse the Curse. The film, directed by Duchovny, premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival. As a musician, he has released three studio albums: Hell or Highwater, Every Third Thought, and Gestureland. He is the host of the podcast Fail Better.

Henry Israeli‘s most recent poetry collections are Our Age of Anxiety (White Pine Poetry Prize), and god’s breath hovering across the waters, (Four Way). His poetry has appeared in journals including APR, Boston Review, and The Harvard Review, as well as anthologies including Best American Poetry. He is also the founder of Saturnalia Books.

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Basman Aldirawi (also published under Basman Derawi) is a Palestinian physiotherapist, writer and poet from Gaza. He has contributed dozens of stories/poems to the online platform We Are Not Numbers and other platforms including ArabLit, Mondoweiss and Vivamost. He also co-authored Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire, 2022 and the Arabic poetry anthology, Gaza, the land of poetry, 2021.

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Raphael prefers to go by Ralph, he feels it suits him better and he’s heard every Ninja Turtle joke ever uttered. He is the author of the debut poetry collection Paper Pistol (University of Arkansas Press, 2026), selected by Patricia Smith as a finalist for the 2026 Miller Williams poetry prize.