Poem of the week

  James Cagney was born in Oakland, California, 1968. He was named after his father, a retired forklift mechanic. His mother, Juanita, worked as a beautician and teaching...

Emma Lazarus was born in New York City to a wealthy family and educated by private tutors. She began writing and translating poetry as a teenager and was...

  Claude McKay, born Festus Claudius McKay, was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, a prominent literary movement of the 1920s. His work ranged from vernacular verse celebrating...

  Sophie Klahr is the author of Meet Me Here At Dawn (YesYes Books, 2016). Her work appears in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, AGNI...

Bradley Paul’s poetry has appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Smartish Pace, Fence, and numerous other journals. Plasma, his third book of poetry, will be published in...

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is the author of four books of poetry, most recently, The Glory Gets (2015). A native southerner, she’s lived on the prairie now for fifteen...

  Dominick Duda is a 2015 recipient of the A.W. "Bud" Collins, Jr. Prize in Creative Writing. His work has appeared in Black Market Lit, The Mill, and...

Beth Bachmann is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow in poetry and the author of two books from the Pitt Poetry Series: Temper, winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize and...

  Conner Habib is an author, host of the podcast Against Everyone with Conner Habib, and activist. He lives in Los Angeles. Twitter: @ConnerHabib