Poet of the Week

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!

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.