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Award-winning poetry by established and emerging poets throughout the summer.
Lynnell Edwards’ most recent collection of poetry is The Bearable Slant of Light (Red Hen Press, 2024). This full-length collection chronicles the lengthening shadows that mental illness casts on a family, and the burdens and brilliance of individuals that struggle with it. Three additional full-length poetry collections, Covet, The Highwayman’s Wife, and The Farmer’s Daughter, are also from Red Hen Press. Her two chapbooks are This Great Green Valley (Broadstone Books, 2020), a collection documentary poetry based on revisionist narratives of Kentucky’s pioneer founding in the 18th century, and Kings of the Rock and Roll Hot Shop (Accents, 2014), which chronicles the work and art of a glass-blowing studio. She is faculty in poetry, Associate Programs Director for the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University, and book reviews editor for Good River Review in Louisville, Kentucky where she lives.
Jessica Greenbaum’s third book, Spilled and Gone, was a Boston Globe Best Book of Poetry for 2021, and her poem “Each Other Moment” will appear in Best American Poetry 2024 and the Pushcart Prize 2024. She co-edited, with Jennifer Barber and Fred Marchant, Tree Lines: 21st century American Poems, and with Rabbi Hara Person the first-ever poetry haggadah, Mishkan HaSeder. A recipient of awards from the NEA and the Poetry Society of America, she teaches inside and outside academia, including through synagogues where she pairs the teaching of traditional Jewish text with contemporary poems.
Born in South Korea and raised in Peru, Ae Hee Lee is the author of ASTERISM, selected by John Murillo for the 2022 Dorset Prize, and the poetry chapbooks Bedtime || Riverbed, Dear bear, and Connotary, the last of which was selected as the winner for the 2021 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. Ae Hee is a Just Buffalo Literary Center Fellow, Adroit Journal Gregory Djanikian Scholar, and a recipient of the James Olney Award by The Southern Review. She has received scholarships and honors from the Academy of American Poets, AWP, Bread Loaf, and Sewanee Writers’ Conference, among others.
Aaron Poochigian earned a PhD in Classics from the University of Minnesota and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. His latest poetry collection, American Divine, the winner of the Richard Wilbur Award, came out in 2021. Mr. Either/Or: All the Rage the sequel to his verse novel, Mr. Either/Or, came out in 2023. He has published numerous translations with Penguin Classics and W.W. Norton and is currently translating Marcus Aurelius’ “Meditations” for Liveright Press. His work has appeared in such publications as Best American Poetry, The Paris Review, The Times Literary Supplement and POETRY.
Jason Schneiderman is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Hold Me Tight (Red Hen, 2020), and including the forthcoming Self Portrait of Icarus as a Country on Fire (Red Hen, 2024). He edited the anthology Queer: A Reader for Writers (Oxford UP 2016). His poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. His awards include the Emily Dickinson Award, the Shestack Award and a Fulbright Fellowship. He is longtime co-host of the podcast Painted Bride Quarterly Slush Pile and a guest host for The Slowdown. He is Professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College and teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.