Poet of the Week

Narisma is a multimodal creator from the Philippines who is fascinated with cultural memory, queer erotics, and spiritual restitution. His work has appeared or is forthcoming from Tinderbox Poetry Journal, The Margins, Gordon Square Review, and Pollux Journal, among others. He flits from Manila to New York to everywhere in between.

Arumandhira is a Blasian queer writer born and raised in Indonesia (now surviving in Los Angeles). She has received support from Kundiman and Storyknife Writers Retreat as a poetry fellow. Her works have appeared in Honey Literary, The Boiler, The Offing, Asian American's Writer's Workshop, Split This Rock, BRUISER Mag, and SWWIM.

Elizabeth Torres is a poet and essayist in southern Minnesota with work in AGNI, Ecotone, Ninth Letter, Tin House, and elsewhere. Her writing has been supported by the Loft Literary Center, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council, and elsewhere.

Gray Davidson Carroll is a white, transfemme writer, dancer, singer, cold water plunger and (self-proclaimed) hot chocolate alchemist hailing from Brooklyn by way of western Massachusetts and other strange and forgotten places. They are the author of the poetry chapbook Waterfall of Thanks (Bottlecap Press, 2023), and their work has further appeared or is forthcoming in Rattle, The Common, Frontiers in Medicine, and elsewhere. They have received fellowships from Brooklyn Poets, and Columbia University, and are currently pursuing an MFA in poetry at NYU.

Brionne Janae is a poet living in Brooklyn with their two dogs. They’ve published three books of poetry, Because You Were Mine (2023), Blessed are the Peacemakers (2021) which won the 2020 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize, and After Jubilee (2017). Off the page they go by Breezy.

Sheila Dong (they/them) is a writer and movement artist living in the desert. They are the author of two chapbooks, Swan as a Verb (dancing girl press, 2023) and Moon Crumbs (Bottlecap Press, 2019), as well as a micro-chap, The Clarissa Blueprints (Ghost City Press, 2023).

Seth Peterson is an emerging writer, researcher, and physical therapist in Tucson, Arizona. His poems are in Cincinnati Review, New Ohio Review, Ninth Letter, RHINO, and elsewhere. He was recently a finalist for the Ploughshares Emerging Writer Contest, among others, and his work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Shivani Mehta’s second poetry collection, The Required Assembly, is forthcoming from Press53 in March 2025. She is also the author of Useful Information for the Soon-to-be Beheaded. A former attorney, Shivani lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children where she co-owns and manages a business.