Dennis Barone is a Professor of English at the University of Saint Joseph (formerly Saint Joseph College) in West Hartford, Connecticut. He is currently editing two poetry anthologies: New Hungers for Old: One-Hundred Years of...

Laurel S. Peterson is a Professor of English at Norwalk Community College. Her poetry has been published in many small literary journals. She has two poetry chapbooks: That’s the Way the Music Sounds, from Finishing Line Press (2009) and...

Caridad Moro is the author of TORTILLERA, the winner of the TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Prize for Florida which will be published by Texas Review Press in the Spring of 2021, as well as the chapbook Visionware, published by...

Wayétu Moore reads "A Song" by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Traci Brimhall reads her poem, “Fledgling”.

Sam Sax (he/they) reads his poem, “Everyone's an Expert at Something

Ruth Awad (she/her/hers) reads the poem, "Once All the Hounds Had Been Called Home" by Meg Day.

Phil Kaye (he/him/his) reads his poem, "Two Bills

Niki Hua, Ours Poetica's rights manager, reads a poem by Christian Milne titled “Sent with a Flower-Pot Begging a Slip of Geranium”.

Nate Marshall (he/him/his) reads his poem, "aubade for the whole hood

Nando the Cat reads Heather Christle's “People Are a Living Structure Like a Coral Reef” (with a little bit of assistance from Paige Lewis).

Mary-Kim Arnold (she/her/hers) reads her poem, “Fin De Siècle

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha reads "Geranium" by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by A. Poulin, Jr. Turn captions on for the English translation.

Kenji C. Liu reads and untitled poem written by Rocío Carlos.

Kenji C. Liu reads his poem “Drowsiness through my kiss”.

Virginia Kane (she/her/hers) reads her poem, “I’m Still Not Sure if I Wanted to Be Those Girls or if I Wanted to Be in Love with Them

Dana Levin (she/her/hers) reads her poem, "How to Hold the Heavy Weight of Now

Brought to you by Complexly, The Poetry Foundation, and poet Paige Lewis.

Chase Berggrun reads Chapter XXI from her book R E D.

Frederick-Douglass Knowles II is a poet, educator and activist involved in community education. He is the inaugural Poet Laureate for the City of Hartford. His collection of poetry, BlackRoseCity was featured at the 2018 Association of...

A Plague of Wasps | Part 4 | STORY | NASTY<br/>
Michael Rosen keeps bumping into a chatty old lady who tells him wildly unlikely stories - like there being man eating fleas on the Lo<br/>ndon tube.

Novels like Passing by Nella Larsen, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, and the poetry of Langston Hughes were all written during this period and have become important pieces of the American literary canon. Still, when...

Theresa Lola (she/her/hers) reads her poem, "Sing with Me and Do Not Die of Thirst

Tay Zonday reads Robin Beth Schaer's poem, "Fathom