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Poet of the Week
Poets are, and always have been, plunderers of other poets: the true patron of poetry is Hermes, the god of thieves.
Richie Hofmann is the author of three books of poems—The Bronze Arms (2026), A Hundred Lovers (2022), and Second Empire (2015). He is the recipient of a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2025 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Irène P. Mathieu (she/her/hers) is a pediatrician and poet. She is author of the poetry collections milk tongue (Deep Vellum Press), Grand Marronage (Switchback Books), orogeny (Trembling Pillow Press), and the galaxy of origins (dancing girl press).
Danez Smith is the author of four collections including Bluff, a finalist for the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Their prose has been featured in The New Yorker, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, and elsewhere. Their fifth collection – Love, Time – will be published Fall 2027. They live in Minneapolis with their people.
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Dante Fuoco is the author of breeding season (C&R Press, 2026). His writing appears (or will appear) in Split Lip Magazine, The Offing, Foglifter, DIAGRAM, Poets.org, and other places. A recent fellow at the Edward F. Albee Foundation, Dante is also an educator, restorative justice facilitator, performer, avid swimmer, and girl about town.
Adele Elise Williams is the author of WAGER, selected by Patricia Smith for the Miller Williams Poetry Series, and Sacrosanct, forthcoming from the Wisconsin Poetry Series. She is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at UNC-Chapel Hill as well as an Assistant Editor at Conjunctions and Texas Review Press.
Jonathan Chan is a writer, editor, and translator of poems and essays. His first collection of poems, going home (Landmark, 2022), was a finalist for the Singapore Literature Prize in 2024. His second collection is bright sorrow (Landmark, 2025). He serves as Managing Editor of the poetry archive poetry.sg.
Laura Kasischke’s most recent collection of poetry, I WAS BONNIE & CLYDE, will be published in May of 2026 by Copper Canyon Press. She lives in Chelsea, Michigan.
Isabelle Correa is a poet from Washington state now living in Mexico City. She’s the author of Good Girl and Other Yearnings (Write Bloody Publishing). Her next collection, Portrait of a Person Who Pushes Loves Away in Fear of Losing It (Arcana Press, September 2026) is available now for preorder. Her work has appeared in Pank, Hobart, and more. Find her on Instagram: @isabellecorreawrites and on Substack: A Poem Is A Place.