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Featured Poet Angelique Zobitz

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Featured Poet Angelique Zobitz

Angelique Zobitz is a poet, raised on the South Side of Chicago. She’s a recent transplant to the intersection of agriculture and academia in West Lafayette, Indiana. Born to a dope-ass, teen mom, word nerd, punk rock singer in the early 80's, she was raised at the knee of farm folks from Louisiana who'd joined the military and moved North during the Great Migration to work in factories. Read her poems and find out about her forthcoming book in her poet feature.

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Featured Poet Esteban Rodriguez→

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Featured Poet Esteban Rodriguez

Esteban Rodríguez was raised in the Rio Grande Valley along the Texas/Mexican border. After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin, he worked as a barista and a writing tutor before becoming a high school teacher. A graduate of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley’s MFA program, his writing seeks to explore they ways in which cultural traditions and expectations shape our understanding of identity, family relationships, and our everyday interactions with the world at large. Read Esteban’s poems on our Featured Poet page.

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Featured Poet Chloe Martinez

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Featured Poet Chloe Martinez

Chloe Martinez is a poet and a scholar of South Asian religions. She grew up in New Bedford, MA and attended Barnard College, where she was a Mellon Mays Fellow. She did her graduate work at UC Santa Barbara, Boston University, and the MFA for Writers at Warren Wilson College, where she was a Holden Scholar. Her scholarly articles appear in South Asia and The Medieval History Journal and she is at work on a monograph about religion and autobiography in pre-modern-to-modern South Asia. Her poetry has been nominated for Best New Poets and the Pushcart Prize and has appeared or is forthcoming in many publications, including Waxwing, The Common, Prairie Schooner and Shenandoah.

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Featured Poet Jen Karetnick

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Featured Poet Jen Karetnick

Jen Karetnick is the author of five full-length poetry collections, including Hunger Until It's Pain (Salmon Poetry, forthcoming spring 2023); The Burning Where Breath Used to Be (David Robert Books, forthcoming August 2020); and The Treasures That Prevail (Whitepoint Press, September 2016), finalist for the 2017 Poetry Society of Virginia Book Prize. She is also the author of five poetry chapbooks,

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Featured Poet Karla Linn Merrifield

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Featured Poet Karla Linn Merrifield

arla Linn Merrifield is a nine-time Pushcart-Prize nominee and National Park Artist-in-Residence. She has had over 500 poems appear in dozens of journals and anthologies and has eleven books to her credit, the newest of which is Bunchberries, More Poems of Canada, a sequel to Godwit: Poems of Canada (FootHills Publishing), which received the Eiseman Award for Poetry…

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