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Pattie McCarthy is the author of seven books of poetry and a dozen chapbooks, most recently extraordinary tides (Omnidawn Publishing, 2023), and Wifthing (Apogee Press, 2021). A 2011 Pew Fellow in the Arts, she is a non-tenure track professor at Temple University where she teaches literature and creative writing.
Ada Limón is the author of The Carrying (Milkweed Editions, 2018) and Bright Dead Things (Milkweed Editions, 2015), which was a finalist for the National Book Award.
The first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman is the author of The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough (Penmanship Books, 2015).
The founder of the literary journal Fence, Rebecca Wolff's collection Manderley was selected for the 2000 National Poetry Series.
A poet, literary critic, and English professor at Harvard University, Stephanie Burt is the author of two poetry collections and a number of critical works.
Pat Mora, a leading figure in contemporary Hispanic poetry, was born in 1942 in El Paso, Texas