Poet of the Week

Ramsey Tawfick is a British-Egyptian Coptic poet and filmmaker based in London. His work has appeared in places like Palette Poetry, Pamenar Press, Kahf magazine and engine(idling. He is a finalist for the Rising Poet Prize (Palette Poetry) and was longlisted for the Leonard Cohen Prize (ONLY POEMS).

Kathy Fagan’s seventh collection, The Unbecoming, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton in Autumn 2026. Her 2022 collection, winner of PSA’s William Carlos Williams Poetry Prize, is Bad Hobby (Milkweed), available in print and audio. Sycamore (Milkweed, 2017) was a finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Award. A 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, she is Professor Emerita of The Ohio State University, where she co-founded and directed the MFA Program in Creative Writing and co-edited The Journal/OSU PressWheeler Poetry Prize Series.

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Jason Bredle is a linguist and intellectual property specialist serving the life sciences community. His most recent poetry collection, I Love You But I Don’t Speak Your Language, was awarded the 2025 Juniper Prize for Poetry and is forthcoming from the University of Massachusetts Press.

Richard Siken is a poet and painter. His book Crush won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, selected by Louise Glück, a Lambda Literary Award, a Thom Gunn Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books are War of the Foxes (Copper Canyon Press, 2015) and I Do Know Some Things (Copper Canyon Press, 2025). Siken is a recipient of fellowships from Lannan Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Regina Avendaño is a Mexican writer, artist, and activist, based in South East London. Working through collaborative practices, Regina explores themes of intimacy, capital realities, and the absurd. She is also the co-founder of the political-artstic collective The Elegists. Regina would like you to read her poems and join your local trade union.

Nur Turkmani is a writer from Beirut. Her work has appeared in Poetry, New England Review, Copper Nickel, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Her debut poetry collection is forthcoming from Hajar Press in spring 2026. She is at work on a short story collection and was awarded the Anthony Veasna So Scholarship for fiction by The Adroit Journal. Nur studied creative writing at the University of Oxford, and politics at the London School of Economics and the American University of Beirut.

Kim Addonizio has authored a dozen books of poetry and prose, most recently the poetry collection Exit Opera (W.W. Norton). Her collection Tell Me was a National Book Award finalist. Her honors include NEA and Guggenheim Fellowships, and her work has been widely translated and anthologized.

Michael Robins is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently The Bright Invisible (Saturnalia Books, 2022). He lives in Lake Charles, Louisiana, where he teaches in the MFA program at McNeese State University and serves as Editor of The McNeese Review.