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Award-winning poetry by established and emerging poets throughout the summer.
Is There Room for Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch? (Four Way Books: March 2024) is Cyrus Cassells's ninth volume. Everything in Life is Resurrection: Selected Poems, 1982-2022 (TCU Press) and Lorca to the Umpteenth Power (3: A Taos Press) are forthcoming in 2025 and 2026. Among his honors: a Guggenheim fellowship and a Lambda Literary Award. The World That the Shooter Left Us was a Houstonic Book Award finalist and The Gospel according to Wild Indigo, a finalist for the NAACP Image Award. His two books of Catalan translations, Still Life with Children: Selected Poems of Francesc Parcerisas and To The Cypress Again and Again: Tribute to Salvador Espriu, both received the Texas Institute of Letters’ biennial Soeurette Diehl Fraser Award for Best Translated Book. The 2021 Poet Laureate of Texas, Cassells is a Regents’ and University Distinguished Professor of English at Texas State University.
Carlie Hoffman is the author of three collections of poetry, One More World Like This World (Four Way Books / Forthcoming Spring 2025), When There Was Light (Four Way Books, Spring 2023), winner of the National Jewish Book Award and This Alaska (Four Way Books, 2021), winner of the Northern California Publishers and Authors Gold Award in Poetry and a finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award. Carlie’s honors include a “Discovery” / Boston Review prize from the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center and a Poets & Writers Amy Award. She is the translator from German of Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger’s Blütenlese (World Poetry Books / Forthcoming) and is the translator of the monograph artbook Weiße Schatten / White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph (Edited by Lynette Roth, Atelier Éditions, Fall 2024). Carlie’s poetry, translations, fiction, reviews and critical writing have been published or are forthcoming in Poetry, Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, Kenyon Review, The Slowdown, Poetry Daily, Los Angeles Review of Books, Columbia Journal, Jewish Currents, Boston Review, New England Review, and many other publications. Carlie is the Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief of Small Orange Journal, where she curates and edits the interview series Small Orange Conversations with Poets. She has taught at Columbia University and NYU, and is currently a Lecturer of Creative Writing at the State University of New York at Purchase. She lives in New York City.
Miller Wolf Oberman is the author of The Unstill Ones, Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, 2017, and Impossible Things, forthcoming October 2024 from Duke UP. He has received a number of awards for his poetry, including a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, a 92Y Discovery Prize, and Poetry Magazine’s John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, London Review of Books, The Nation, Boston Review, Poem-a-Day, The Hopkins Review, Jewish Currents, and Foglifter. Miller is an editor at Broadsided Press, which publishes visual-literary collaborations as free posters for anyone to download and print. He teaches poetry workshops at Brooklyn Poets, and directs the First-Year Writing program at Eugene Lang College at The New School. Miller lives with his family in Queens, New York.
Sasha West is the author of How to Abandon Ship (2024) and Failure and I Bury the Body (2013). Her first book was awarded the National Poetry Series, a Texas Institute of Letters First Book of Poetry Award, and a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Fellowship. Recent poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Ecotone, Agni, Kenyon Review Online, Georgia Review, and the anthology The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. Her collaborative multi-media shows with visual artist Hollis Hammonds have been exhibited at the Columbus College of Art and Design, Texas A&M, ArtPrize 2023 Michigan, and elsewhere. She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at St. Edward’s University, where she runs the Environmental Humanities program.
Host 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.