2024 Qtr 4 Poetry News Archives | Community of Writers

Samiya Bashir

Poetry Workshop Participant, '09

Samiya Bashir’s upcoming book, I Hope This Helps, will be published in May, 2025 by Nightboat Books.

Scot Siegel

Poetry Participant, ‘07

Scot Siegel’s fourth collection of poems, Tender Currencies, won the Sally Albiso Book Award, and will be published by Concrete Wolf-MoonPath Press in January, 2025. More info here.

Jessica Cohn

Poetry Participant, '21

Jessica Cohn launched Gratitude Diary (Main Street Rag, NC), her first poetry collection, in October 2024. Cohn, a long-time nonfiction writer, debuted at age 66. More info here.

Jami Macarty

Poetry Participant, '10, '14, '17

Jami Macarty’s fourth chapbook, The Whole Catastrophe, was published by Vallum Chapbook Series in September 2024. More info here.

Holaday Mason

Poetry Participant, '00, '06, '19

Holaday Mason’s 6th full length collection, As If Scattered, was published by Giant Claw/What Books Press in October of 2024. More info here.

KB Ballentine

Poetry Participant, '15

KB Ballentine’s ninth collection of poetry All the Way Through will be released this November with Sheila-Na-Gig Inc. More info here.

Yuki Tanaka

Poetry Participant, '15

Yuki Tanaka’s co-translation with Mary Jo Bang, A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi, was published by Princeton University Press in November as part of The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation. This is the first time the work of the great Japanese surrealist has been made available in English. More info here.

Attended with the help of A Lucille Clifton Memorial Scholarship

Ananda Lima

Poetry Participant, '17

Ananda Lima’s novel Craft Stories I Wrote for the Devil, published by Macmillan, is a 2025 Long List Selection of the American Library Association’s Carnegie Medal. The short list will be announced in November.

Blas Falconer

Poetry Teaching Staff

Blas Falconer’s newest poetry book, Rara Avis, was published by Four Way Books in September 2024. More info here.

Laura Paul

Poetry Participant, '23

Laura Paul’s new book, Film Elegy, was published by PRROBLEM Press in October, 2024. More info here.

Evie Shockley

Poetry Participant, '99 Staff, '09, '10, '13, '15, '18, '21, '23

Evie Shockley was awarded the $25,000 2024 Academy of American Poets Fellowship for distinguished poetic achievement. More info here.

Stephen Massimilla

Poetry Participant, '04, '06

Stephen Massimilla’s new prizewinning poetry book, Frank Dark, was published by Barrow Street Press and won the 2023 American Book Festival Best Book Award, the North American Book Award, and others, and has been reviewed widely. (Massimilla also did the cover painting.)
And his co-edited anthology, Stronger Than Fear: Poems of Empowerment, Compassion, and Social Justice, won several recent awards, such as the International Book Award, The ABF Best Book Award, and the IPPY Living Now Award. It includes work by many of today’s most accomplished poets, including alumni of and poets who have taught at the Community of Writers: Toi Derricotte, Cornelius Eady, Brenda Hillman, Major Jackson, Patricia Spears Jones, Ada Limón, and several others. More info here.

Alice Jones

Poetry, '88, '89. Staff: Writing the Medical Experience

A section of a psychoanalytic memoir by Alice Jones has just appeared in the literary journal, Revel 2. Unbound Edition bringing out the book in September, 2025.
Excerpts also appear in the January, 2022 issue of the Kenyon Review. More info here and here.

Edith Friedman

Poetry Participant, '24

Edith Friedman’s collection Reconstruction was chosen by Lee Ann Roripaugh as the 2024 Lefty Blondie Press First Chapbook winner, and will be released September 7, 2024. More info here.