Alumni News - Poets

J. David Cummings has a new collection of poems, Handling the Bones, published in December, 2022 from Broadstone Books.

Her new full-length poetry collection, By Light and Hidden Matter, is now out and available online.

She has been awarded the 2021-2022 Five Points James Dickey Prize for Poetry. Her work will be published in the 23.1 issue of Five Points, and she will receive $1,000.

Her 19th book, Even When We Sleep, was recently published by Commonwealth Books, Black Widow Press. It is her 8th book of lyric poetry.

His first collection of poetry, My Little Book of Exiles, comes out March 1, 2022 from Eyewear Press, London.

They were recently named the associate editor of The Offing, an online literary magazine that publishes creative writing in all genres and art in all media. “The Offing publishes work that challenges, experiments, provokes — work that pushes literary and artistic forms and conventions.”

Elder Gideon’s debut poetry collection Aegis of Waves  was published by Atmosphere Press, with a book launch at the Sacramento Poetry Center in August.

A short play by Deborah Dashow Ruth is a winner in the Chameleon Theatre Circle’s 22nd Annual New Play Contest. The play is titled “The Previous Incident Versus a Recent Development,” and will be streamed sometime in the fall. Also, one of her poems was accepted for the debut issue of the Thuya Poetry Review, a new journal.

Two of Stella Santamaria’s poems were published in The Acentos Review, September 2021 issue after attending Community of Writers, Poetry Program in the Summer of 2021 in the Virtual Valley.

Cathy Park Hong has been included in Time Magazine’s 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE OF 2021!

He has two new poems in the current issue of The Literary Review.

Her first book, The Moons of August (2014), was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the Autumn House Press Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the Milt Kessler Book Award. Some of her work has been published in: The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, Orion, The American Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner. Her second book, Bonfire Opera, (Pitt Poetry Series), was a finalist for the 2021 Paterson Poetry Award, and was the winner of the Northern California Book Award in Poetry. She was the 2018-2020 Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, California, and is currently on the faculty of Pacific University’s low-residency MFA program.

Her manuscript The Second Split Between was selected by Dorianne Laux to be the winner of the 2021 Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets. The collection will be published by Catamaran in the fall of 2021.

In February 2021, she was appointed Poet Laureate for the city of Los Angeles by Mayor Eric Garcetti.

A finalist for the Crab Orchard Review and Richard Snyder Memorial Prize, his third collection, Boneyarn, came out in April 2021 from Ashland University Press. It is the first book of poems about slavery in New York City where the oldest and largest slave cemetery in the United States is located.

Her chapbook, Gertrude Sitting: Portraits of Women, was awarded the Heartland Review Chapbook Award for Poetry 2020, and recently published. The chapbook was also a Main Street Rag Finalist.

Her poetry book, Secondary Cicatrices, won a Distinguished Favorite in the 2021 Independent Press Awards.

She will be reading on May 16th with Ellen Bass, Jane Hirshfield, Marie Howe, and Naomi Shihab Nye. Donations to this event will benefit the S.H.E. students, young women from the Maasai tribe who have escaped Female Genital Mutilation and early childhood marriage.

Her first work of fiction, XISLE, a novel, has been published by fmsbw press.

Her poetry book, Secondary Cicatrices, won Book Excellence Finalist Award.

She had the honor of reading alongside Patricia Spears Jones, Ali Black, A. Van Jordan, Janice Lowe, Peter Covino, and Michael Broder this year. You can check out the recording here.

Her poem “New Moon” appears in Juxtaprose Magazine, Vol. 25, Fall, 2020.

Her poems have recently appeared in New World Writing, The Inflectionist Review, Catamaran, and the anthology California Fire & Water.

Her poem, “As Company,” was recently published in the Southern Humanities Review.

His interview with Robert Hass in the Paris Review appeared in the Summer 2020 issue. It is #108 in their “Art of Poetry” series.

Her long poem, “from the Covid Notebooks,” appears in the 2020 Summer/Fall issue of the American Journal of Poetry.

His work, 4 poems and a short personal essay, appeared in the September 8 Litbreak.

Their documentary film, The Time We Have, is an Official Selection in five festivals and will screen online November 13-14 as part of the UK Film Review Festival.

Her poem, “Against Temporality,” won the 2020 Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest and will appear in the Winter 2020-2021 issue.

Lynne Goldsmith’s poetry book, Secondary Cicatrices, won a Finalist Award in the International Book Awards.

Her poem “A Mirror of Leaves” appears in the Winter 2020 volume of Hotel Amerika. 

She recently won second place in the 2019–2020 Rougarou Poetry Contest, judged by CAConrad, for her poem, “How a lake flash-froze a herd of horses.”

His poem, “Antigone’s Dream,” appears in the Spring 2020 issue of Colorado Review.

Her essay “Return, Investment, Return” appeared in The Paris Review in April 2020 around the debut of her book The More Extravagant Feast (Graywolf Press), selected by Li-Young Lee for the 2019 Walt Whitman Award of The Academy of American Poets.

His poems “…a petrel” & “Leaf on Water” appear in Fence, Issue #36, Winter 2020.

She has joined the editorial staff of the new online poetry journal The Night Heron Barks, and her poem, “Tulip Cuttings,” appears in the Spring 2020 issue of Mid-American Review.

Hew new book of poetry, Catwalk, will be published by Longship Press in June, 2020.

Her chapbook of poetry, The Deaf Island, was published in July, 2019, and was recently named the winner of the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Award.

Her full-length collection of poetry, The Minuses, is forthcoming in the Mountain West Poetry Series by The Center For Literary Publishing at Colorado State University, February 2020.

Her third collection of poetry, The Girl From Yesterday,  will be released in January 2020 from Cherry Grove Collections.

She was recently named runner up for the 2019 Kallisto Gaia Poetry Prize for her poem “Poetry Submission Guidelines,” which will be published in the next issue of the Ocotillo Review. She will be giving a reading together with Lisa Wenzel (Poetry Workshop alum ’19), whom she met while carpooling to the workshop. The reading will be January 6 at 7:30 at Vanne Bistro in Berkeley.

His memoir, Christmas in Georgepatch, was rereleased this December in both paperback and Kindle editions.

Her poetry collection, In the Next Life, was published this year by Poetic Matrix Press. She has poems in recent issues of Blackbird and The Gettysburg Review. Her documentary, The Time We Have, won a nomination for Best Biographical Film at the 2019 New Hope Film Festival. Her film presents an intimate portrait of a teenager facing terminal illness.

She is the recipient of the Lawrence Ferlinghetti Fellowship from the University of San Francisco.

Her poetry collection, Measured Words, was published in December 2019 by Main Street Rag Publishing Company.

Her book, Secondary Cicatrices, which won the Halcyon Poetry Prize, just got picked as a “Finalist” for the American Book Fest Awards.

She has new poems in the current issues of Glintmoon and 2River View. Two were generated at the Community of Writers Poetry workshop. Her poem “Arterials” appears in the Fall 2019 issue of The Bitter Oleander.

Her new book of poetry, Girl, was recently published by 3: A Taos Press.

She has two poems coming out in Pen + Brush In Print No. 4. She will be participating in the launch party and reading on November 6, 2019 at Pen + Brush in New York City.

His chapbook, On A Road, wherein he borrows words and phrases from Kerouac’s On the Road and adapts them for his own purposes, will be published November 22, 2019, by Finishing Line Press. This is Jeff’s first book publication.

His first full book of poetry Extenuating Circumstances has been published by Finishing Line Press and is available through FLP and Amazon Books. Many of its poems were first conceived and written at the 2018 Poetry workshop. This publication follows his published chapbook Breaking Eighty.

Her latest poetry collection This Far was released in October, 2019. Her poems have recently been featured in Antiphon, Smartish Pace and are forthcoming in The MacGuffin and Public Poetry.

Her new book of poetry, Hand on My Heart, will be published by New Wind Publishing on November 1, 2019.

Her new book, Secondary Cicatrices, was recently named winner of 2018 Halcyon Poetry Prize.

Her new book of poetry, Quiet at the Edge, has just been published by Finishing Line Press.

Her poem “Lust Must Have Struck for the First Time” that was written for Sharon’s workshop during the 2018 Poetry program was recently published in the September 2019 issue of The New Yorker. 

Her debut collection, Refugia, winner of the inaugural Test Site Poetry Series Prize, was published in September, 2019, by University of Nevada Press.

Fellow Community of Writers Poetry alum Danny Kraft reviewed Refugia over at Ecotheo Review. Check it out here: http://www.ecotheo.org/2019/08/god-is-the-apple/

Her debut poetry collection A Nail the Evening Hangs On forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in February 2020 is now available for pre-order.

Her novel, Feral, North Carolina, 1965, from Southern Fried Karma Press, hits bookstores on September 17, 2019.

Her newest full-length collection, Learning to Swim, forthcoming from Stephen F. Austin State University Press, is a hybrid of memoir and poems.

Her poem, “Rose Marie Bentley’s Aberrant Vena Cava,” is published in the Autumn 2019 issue of Rust+Moth. The poem was inspired by the real-life Rose Marie Bentley, who lived to be 99 with organs in all the wrong places.

He wont the 2019 Tupelo Press Broadside Competition for his poem “Night School.”

Her second book-length work, The Sci-Fi Story With the Cat in It – Short Stories, will be published by Balut Press in September 2019.

His newest book of poetry, Blood Stripes, was published by Sundress Publications, which won the publisher’s Fall 2018 first place poetry prize.

Riga Pine, a poem with audio, appears in Interim’s current issue, Carrying Across: Crossing Disciplines as a Form of Translation. 

Her poem “Watching the Olympics on Morphine” was a finalist for the Bellevue Literary Review’s Marica and Jan Vilcek Prize and appeared in BLR‘s Issue 36, Spring/Summer 2019.

A selection of her poems are included in Tough Enough: Poems from the Tough Old Broads Ann Menebroker, Victoria Dalkey, Viola Weinberg, Kathryn Hohlwein, A Lake House Publication, released by Cold River in March 2019.

His poem, “A Posterity Conceived and Born of Conscious Love,” is published on the Poydras Review blog. The title is a quote from early 20th century birth control activist Margaret Sanger, who went on to be a founder of Planned Parenthood.

His recent book, Wild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island, was awarded the 2019 Northern California Book Award for translation in poetry.

His memoir, Children of the Land, will be released in January, 2020 from HarperCollins.

He recently became the poetry editor for Rosebud Magazine. 

Her second book, Bonfire Opera, will be released by the University of Pittsburgh Press in spring 2020. She has also recently been named the 2020 recipient of the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award.

She has recently been awarded the 2019 Orison Poetry Prize for her manuscript Post-Mortem. She will receive a cash prize and publication of her manuscript by Orison Books.

Her second poetry book, Cheer for Freedom, with illustrations of her paintings of her Armenian and Russian family in Iran has been published this year.

His new book of poetry, Dark Square, was recently published by Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press.

Her newest book of poems, Limberlost, was released by Future Cycle Press, 2019. Her chapbook of poems, Citadels, is soon to be released by Folded Word Press.

She published her second collection of poems, Honeyfish, in April with New Issues Press (US), and in July, with Peepal Tree Press (UK).

Her new book of poetry, the sun a blazing zero, is one of SPD’s May Handpicks.

Two poems first drafted at the Poetry Workshop are included in a group of poems in the 2019 issue of Volt (#25).

Her essay “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” appeared in the collection, Playing Shakespeare’s Characters, Book 1. Playing Shakespeare’s Lovers examines Shakespeare’s romantic characters from multiple perspectives. Contributing actors, directors, educators and scholars bring diverse and wide-ranging insights into the motives, context, history and challenges of performing Shakespeare’s “infinite variety” of lovers. The volume begins with an introductory essay, followed by brief essays and interviews, on various characters within the world of Shakespeare’s lovers.

She is the recipient of one of 13 Inaugural American Poet Laureate Fellowships. With the $75,000 she receives, she plans to launch “California Fire & Water,” a statewide teaching, anthology, and public reading project addressing the state’s recent devastating fires.

Her first children’s book, Choose Your Own Adventure SPIES: Mata Hari, is forthcoming from Choose CO on May 1, 2019. An interactive game novel, this title stars YOU as a real-life historical spy in an interactive, multiple-ending book with historically accurate events and characters.

His newest book of poetry, The Chasers, will be published by Duke University Press.

Her third collection of poems, All Its Charms, was published this spring by BOA Editions. It contains poems that appeared in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry Anthologies, as well as Narrative, Tin House, The Believer, New England Review, and Orion.

His book, Wild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island, was published by Calypso Editions in 2018, and is the first new translation in almost 40 years of the iconic immigrant wall poems found carved on the walls of this detention center. His new poetry chapbook, Writ, published by Eastwind Books in March 2019, converses with the translations in WGS, interrogating the interrogators and seeking redemption in his father’s story.

Her newest book of poetry, The Weaver’s Body, is forthcoming from Tebat Bach Books.

His adaptation of a Montale poem recently received a Der-Hovanessian prize citation from The New England Poetry Club.

His multi-genre Cooking with the Muse (Tupelo), recently won new awards, including the Living Now Award, the IAN Book of the Year Award in Nonfiction, the Apple Award in Cross-Genre, and others. The latest reviews of the book have appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Poetry International, Colorado Review, Five Points, The US Review of Books, USA Today, The Northwest Indiana Times, The Food Poet, Gluten-Free Magazine, Catering Magazine, Green Living, Vital Nutrition, and elsewhere.

Her debut collection of poetry, Careen, was published by Noemi Press in April 2019.

His second book of poems, Downburst, was published by Cinnamon Press in March. The second edition of his first collection, By Way of Dust and Rain, was also recently published by Cinnamon Press.

Her fourth book, the sun a blazing zero, is now out from Lavender Ink/Diálogos.

Excerpts of her map-poem appear in Lana Turner 11. Poems and recordings are forthcoming in The Santa Fe Telepoem Project.

His book of poetry, Cenzontle, was awarded the Northern California Book Award and the NCIBA Golden Poppy Book Award, and was recently named a finalist for the Thom Gunn award for poetry and the Lambda Literary Award.

His newest book of poetry, Monsters I Have Been, will be released from Alice James Books in April, 2019.

She was awarded the 2018 Bea Gonzalez Prize for Poetry for a group of three poems published in Stone Canoe: A Journal of Art, Literature and Social Commentary, published by the Downtown Writers Center, a program of the YMCA of Greater Syracuse, NY.

Her debut poetry collection, Dendrochronology, is available for preorder through Finishing Line Press February 11 – April 12, 2019.

Her new chapbook Made and Unmade, a limited edition, hand bound, letterpress, tragi-comic exploration of growing up female in a patriarchy, is now available from Madhouse Press.

She has new work in the Beloit Poetry Journal 69.1 (Spring 2019).

Her new book of poetry, Flat Water: Nebraska Poems, was recently released from Finishing Line Press.

She was recently featured on Blue Flower Arts, A Literary Speakers Agency. To check out the profile, click here.

Her book of poems, How to Disappear, was recently published by Blue Light Press.

Her second poetry collection Will There Be Music? was published by Cherry Grove Collections in February 2019.

His poetry manuscript, Beyond that Hill I Gather, won the Eyelands Book Award (Greece) for best unpublished poetry book. The poems in the collection are mostly portraits of notable women.

Her third poetry collection, Still Life with Mother and Knife, was published by LSU Press in February.

His book of poetry, After Party, will be published on February 15th by the University of New Mexico Press.

His poems have appeared in the last year in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Harvard Review, The Southern Review, Poetry Northwest, Greensboro Review, and The Southampton Review. His review of Christopher Merrill’s Self Portrait in Dogwood was featured in the Los Angeles Review of Books. He was one of one hundred poets selected by the Harvard Review to contribute lines to Renga for Obama, a book length Renga for and presented to President Barack Obama. Most recently he was an AIR fellow with the National Park Service, teaching poetry to homeless youth in the Santa Monica Mountains.

Cynthia Arrieu-King’s project, Futureless Languages, is available now from Radiator Press. In it she wrestles with what is happening to the planet and to its nations. It is elegy on language as a home, whiteness, and what matters most to us in life.

A poem first written at the Community of Writers Poetry session entitled “The Aspen” was awarded second place in San Antonio Writers’ Guild’s annual contest in 2018. The poems “Anatomy of a Name” and “An Instant” and the creative non-fiction pieces “Rental Property” and “Storm” are forthcoming in the anthology Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose, and Pride, to be published by Minnesota Historical Society Press in May 2019.

Her book Futureless Languages was recently released by Radiator Press

Her poems are currently out, or forthcoming in: The New Ohio Review, The Gettysburg Review, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, and The American Poetry Review. As of September 2018, she has served as the Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, California.

Instinctive Acts, her third chapbook came into the world via Nomados Literary Publishers in October 2018. Her first chapbook, Landscape of the Wait, was reviewed by Michelle Mitchell-Foust in Drizzle Review. And, sixteen additional poems appeared in the Canadian, American, and Australian journals: EVENT, Contemporary Verse 2, The Paddock Review, Light: A Journal of Photography & Poetry, Otoliths, and descant.

Her sixth book of poems, The Bones of Winter Birds, was chosen from several hundred submissions and will be published by Terrapin Books in February 2019. Ann’s fifth book, Mississippi, is a poetry/photography collaboration with Maude Schuyler Clay (Wings Press 2018). From May 11-18, 2019, Ann will lead the poetry workshop at Longleaf Writers Conference, in Seaside, Florida.

Her third poetry collection, Sweet Herbaceous Miracle, winner of the 2017 John Ciardi Poetry Prize, has been released by BkMk Press.

Her fourth book of radio commentary, Naming Your Teeth: Even More Observations from a Working Poet, came out in November, 2018, containing 50 three-minute essays that originally aired on KVMR-FM Nevada City, CA.

Her debut poetry collection, Why Can’t It Be Tenderness, won the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil. It was published in November 2018 by University of Wisconsin Press.

His 12th collection of poetry, Sidebend World, was published in October 2018.

Her new novel, Unmanned, was published in November, 2018, by Noemi Press.

Her fourth collection of poetry, The Hotel Eden, was published in September, 2018, by Carcanet Press (UK).

Her third collection of poetry, Totem: America, was published by Tiger Bark Press in October 2018.

Her recent work has been published in The Southern Review and Terrain. 

She won the 2018 Mark Fischer Poetry Prize, and her fourth collection, Broken Kingdom, recently won the 2018 Catamaran Prize.

His new book of poetry, Teeth Never Sleep, was published in November, 2018, by University of Arkansas Press.

His new book of poetry, Revelations, will be published in November, 2018, by Sibling Rivalry Press.

His new collection of poetry, Monsters I Have Been, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in April 2019.

She currently serves as final judge of the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Award for poems on the Jewish experience (through Poetica Magazine).

His first chapbook, Breaking Eighty, was accepted by Finishing Line Press and will be published in November.

Her newest book of poems, Secondary Cicatrices, won the Halcyon Poetry Book Contest. It will be published in early 2019 by Middle Creek Publishing.

His recent work appears in A-Minor Magazine, The Cincinnati Review, COAST | noCOAST, The Ekphrastic Review, and E·ratio. He was a 2018 Lambda Poetry Fellow.

Her fourth collection, Broken Kingdom, was recently published. It received the 2018 Catamaran Poetry Prize.

She placed as a semi-finalist for The Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, and her poem “Chantico Swings” will appear in the Nimrod International Journal upcoming award issue, October 2018. Adela entered the contest with the volcano poems she started at the Community of Writers.

His new book, Dwelling: an ecopoem, which received an honorable mention for The Hopper Poetry Prize last year, has just been published by Shanti Arts of Brunswick, Maine. A sequence of poems and prose questions about the nature of our dwelling, place, home and our relationship with the other species with which we share this planet, Dwelling: an ecopoem has been called “a phenomenology of how we live on the Earth,” by Alison Hawthorne Deming.

He was a finalist in Inlandia Institute’s 2018 Hillary Gravendyk Prize poetry book competition.

Her first full-length collection of poetry, A Cruelty Special to Our Species, will be published by Ecco Books in September, 2018.

His new poetry collection, The Difference Between, was published by Pelekinesis in April 2018. A book of Flash Fiction, co-written with the Poet Laureate of Sequoia and Kings Canyon Parks, John Brantingham, is forthcoming in February, 2019.

Her new co-edited book, Arts-based Research in Education: Foundations for Practice, was recently published by Routledge  in 2018.

Her poem “Etymology of a Mood” was selected by Natasha Trethewey for the Georgia Review‘s Loraine Williams Poetry Prize.

His company, Blue Oak Press, is publishing Lisa Dominguez Abraham’s first book of poems Coyote Logic in Fall 2018. Randy is also publishing Karst Mountains Will Bloom: The Collected Poems of Pos Moua during Winter 2018. Moua is considered by many to be the father of Hmong poetry. Blue Oak Press has also begun compiling poems for the anthology They Will Rise Like A Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets which will be released in Spring 2020.

He recently published his second book of poetry, Risking Delight (Aldrich Press, Kelsay Books, 2018).

Her new book of poetry, American Letters: Works on Paper, was recently published by Canarium Books.

Her chapbook manuscript, Preparing the Body, is forthcoming by YesYes Books. Her essay, “Inheritance”, was recently published in The Rumpus as part of the “Mothering Outside the Margins” series.

In June, she was inducted as Poet Laureate of Knoxville, Tennessee. Mayor Madeline Rogero made the proclamation.

Her sixth book of poems, Bright and Hurtless, was recently published by Ahsahta Press.

Her book Red Channel in the Rupture: Poems will be published in August, 2018, by Red Hen Press.

Her third children’s book, A Card for My Father, was published in May, 2018, by Penny Candy Books.

His new book of poetry, Forgive the Body This Failure, will be released late this summer by Four Way Books.

Her poem “My Nothings” was recently featured as the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day.

Her second book of poetry, Leprosarium, was recently published by Tupelo Press.

Chris Wilson Simpkins won a Summer Literary Seminars fellowship through their 2018 poetry contest, and plans to attend the Kenyan seminar in December.

Her first book of poetry, Even Years, was selected by Angie Estes for the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize and published by Kent State University Press in 2017.

Her third full-length book of poems, how do i net thee, was published in April, 2018, from Salmon Poetry. It’s available for purchase now at Salmon Poetry, Amazon, and selected bookstores.

Her second poetry collection, Terrible Blooms, was published in April 2018 by Copper Canyon Press.

Her memoir, The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, on May 1, 2018. Publisher’s Weekly, in a starred review, says: “Fascinating . . . This remarkable, beautifully written memoir explores the depth of mother-daughter love and the courageous acts of overcoming fear and accepting change.” Book Page, the monthly book review publication distributed to over 400,000 readers through bookstores and libraries, just listed her as one of “Eleven Women to Watch in 2018.”

He recently completed a one month writing residency at the Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts in Fairhope, AL. He also has poems recently published in Red Wheelbarrow and Southword.

Her full-length collection, A Cruelty Special to Our Species, is available for pre-order from the Harper Collins website and Amazon.  The official release is September 18, 2018.

She was among 17 participants from eight countries to convene as guests of the Faber Residency in Olot, Catalonia, Spain during October and November, 2017 for an interdisciplinary residency focused on Feminisms.

On June 14, 2018, she will be one of the evening’s featured readers at the Ballard Branch of the Seattle Public Library. Among the poems she will share will be several written at The Community of Writers. The reading is sponsored by Seattle’s longest running poetry series, It’s About Time, whose fundamental mission is social justice and inclusion.

Her poem, “Myself As A Playboy Bunny” won the Verve International Poetry Festival Competition, in Birmingham, UK, and was judged by Luke Kennard. It appears in It All Radiates Outwards, the Verve Anthology of City Poems, Verve Poetry Press.

Her book of poetry, The Well: Poems From Twin Pines Farm, is now available.

His new collection of poetry, Monsters I Have Been, will be published by Alice James Books in April, 2019.

Her debut novel, House of McQueen, was published by Four Way Books in March, 2018.

His chapbook, Daughters, Here | Daughters, Gone, will be published by Uttered Chaos Press in March 2018. The publisher writes, “Daughters, Here | Daughters, Gone is not about loss but self-determination. It is a father’s prayer for his daughters, and daughters everywhere, as they remake the world in their vision.”

Her poem “Autopsy” was published by The New York Times Magazine in March 2018.

His upcoming book, Forgive the Body this Failure, will be published in September, 2018. His poem “Apology For My Son Who Stops to Ask About His Mother Once More,” was recently published in the Harvard Review Online. You can read that here.

Her first chapbook, Bright Along the Body, was released by Dancing Girl Press in December 2017. Ashley reckons with and troubles the idea of identity in marriage and the overwhelming project of desire.

His poem “Noel Reeks of Bleach,” was recently published in the winter 2018 issue of Blue Streak, a poetry journal from Military Experience & the Arts. He wrote this poem during his time in Squaw Valley for his session with staff poet Forrest Gander.

Her full-length poetry collection, Invisible Gifts, will be published by Manic D Press in April, 2018. She is currently featured on Poetry International Web. Read the full article is here.

Her first full-length of collection of poetry, Virgin, the inaugural winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, selected by Ross Gay, was recently published by Milkweed Editions in February 2018.

His new collection of poems, Inquisition, will be published by Wesleyan University Press, March 6, 2018.

His second full-length poetry collection, Monsters I Have Been, which frankensteins news articles, legal documents, and other texts to explore a range of masculinities, will be published by Alice Jones Books in Spring 2019. Selections from the new book have recently been published in two literary journals: Apogee and Anomaly.

Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies (ILS), in partnership with Duende District Bookstore, is pleased to welcome award-winning poet, Javier Zamora, who will be in Washington, D.C. from February 26 through March 1. While in Washington, Zamora will give a public reading, take part in a colloquium with university students, spend time with students at a bilingual elementary school, and dialogue with students in a college-level writing workshop.

Ann Fisher-Wirth’s fifth book of poems, Mississippi, has just been released by Wings Press; it is a poetry/photography collaboration with the acclaimed Delta photographer Maude Schuyler Clay. She will be traveling throughout Mississippi to promote the book during the spring of 2018. In May she will be a Research Fellow at Bielefeld University, Germany, giving readings and teaching ecopoetry for their Project Entangled Americas; and will be giving readings for the Environmental Humanities Laboratory at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. She has recently completed Because Here We Are (poems); one chapbook-length section is forthcoming in At Length.

Robert Lipton won the the 2018 Gregory O’Donoghue Poetry Competition at the Munster Literature Center in Cork, Ireland. Author of A Complex Bravery published by Marick Press, the prize is for his poem “Official Story.” He will participate in the Cork International Poetry Festival, Feb. 2018,  and will have his work published in the Munster Literary journal Southword.

Her new book of poems, How Our Bodies Learned, was published by Black Widow Press in January, 2018.

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo’s collection, Dulce, will be published by Northwestern University Press in April, 2018.

She was recently named the inaugural poet laureate of Taos, New Mexico.

Her new book of poetry, Kissing the Bee, was published by The Bitter Oleander Press in January, 2018.

Her collection of poems, Blue Watermelon, which represents vivid memories from her childhood in Iran, was published in January and is now available on Amazon.

His book, raveling travel, was published by Open Book Press. The book contains several poems recently published in Sisyphuslitmag.org, the winter issue of Canarylitmag.org, and Red Fez.

Evie Shockley’s new collection, semiautomatic, was published by Wesleyan University Press in September and was featured on Publisher’s Weekly’s best 10 list for Poetry this Fall. “Insisting on the power of art, Shockley traces the various forms of violence that cross racial, ethnic, gender, class, sexual, national, and linguistic boundaries.”  www.publishersweekly.com

Several of her poems begun at the 2017 Community of Writers Poetry Workshop appear in 2 Horatio, an annual Village-based literary journal. She read several poems at the book launch in October at Jefferson Market Library in NYC.

Her most recent book, I Have Nothing to Say About Fire (The Backwaters Press, 2016) won the Nebraska Book Award for poetry. For a video of a reading from the book launch, go to poetmarge.com.

His first poetry collection, The Fire Lit & Nearing, is coming soon from Indolent Books. It includes poems he workshopped at the Community of Writers. The book will be generally available at bookstores and online in April 2018.

She recently received the 2017 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, which is given annually to six women writers who demonstrate excellence and promise in the early stages of their careers.

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo’s new collection of poetry, Cenzontle, will be published by BOA Editions, Ltd., in April of 2018.

His first chapbook, Portraits in G Minor, is out through Folded Word Press. He also has poems soon forthcoming in Huizache and Perigee.

Her third collection of poems, Sweet Herbaceous Miracle, won the 2017 John Ciardi Prize from BkMk Press, University of Missouri-Kansas City. Enid Shomer was the judge.

Garrison Keillor featured a poem, “Defiance,” from her upcoming book Promise on his show The Writer’s Almanac. Promise was published by LSU Press this fall.

Her fifth collection of poetry,  Almost Everything, Almost Nothing, was released in September by Middle Creek Publishing. Several of the poems in this collection were crafted in the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley Poetry Program, including the title poem. www.kbballentine.com.

His translation of Mexican poet Pura López Colomé, Speaking in Song, came out from Shearsman Books (UK) in September 2017. His fourth book of poems, Deep Well, was published by Lavender Ink (New Orleans) in April 2017. His translation of The Song of the Dead by Pierre Reverdy was published by Black Square Editions (New York) in September 2016.

She recently published Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut, her second collection of poetry with the University of Arizona Press, Camino del Sol Series. In 2016, she was selected by Natalie Diaz as the Poetry Center resident at the University of Arizona, Tucson. She continues to write essays on Los Angeles arts and community development for KCET. www.vickievertiz.wordpress.com

She was recently awarded the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Rosenberg Sargent Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Her chapbook, Ordinary Misfortunes, winner of the Sunken Garden Chapbook Poetry Prize, was published by Tupelo Press this July, and her first full-length poetry collection, A Cruelty Special to Our Species, will be published by Ecco Books in September 2018.

Her book The Walmart Book of the Dead won the 2017 Vine Leaves Press Vignette Collection Award and will be published later this year.

His poem “Clarice Lispector” was published in Ursa Minor, Volume 2: Dark Matter, a publication of U.C. Berkeley Extension.

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo recently sold his memoir, Children Of The Land, at auction to Harper Collins Publishers via Mary Evans Agency Inc. and he also won the annual A. Poulin Jr., first book prize from BOA Editions for his poetry manuscript Cenzontle, judged by Brenda Shaughnessy. Furthermore, his first poetry chapbook, Dulce, was chosen by Chris Abani as the winner of the Drinking Gourd prize and will be forthcoming from Northwestern University Press.

Scot Siegel has poems in Coachella Valley Review, Crab Creek Review, Cordite Poetry Review, and Haibun Today. A review of Siegel’s recent collection, The Constellation of Extinct Stars and Other Poems, appears in the 2017 issue of Hiram Poetry Review.

Jeff Walt had a single poem selected as 2nd Place in The Frank O’Hara Prize competition sponsored by the Worcester County Poetry Association with publication in The Worcester Review, 2017. Also, He was hired on as a Regional Editor with the San Diego Poetry Annual earlier this year. Jeff will be in residence this fall at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, NE. Then, in February of 2018, he will be in residence for the entire month at Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts in Fairhope, AL.

She won a Bisexual Book Award in Poetry in June for her book The Body’s Alphabet. Several of the poems in the book were written over the years at Squaw Valley.

Her poem “At the Mariner’s Church Auvillar” won 3rd place in the Image/NY Encounter Poetry contest, 2017. She collaborated on a new collection, “In the Margins: A Conversation in Poetry” with 3 other Maryland poets with whom she’s been writing for twenty-five years, which was released in March 2017 by Cherry Grove Collections.

Her first full-length book, The Body’s Alphabet, has been named as a finalist for a Bisexual Book Award in poetry. Ann is also a finalist for the Bi Writer of the Year Award. She will be reading at the awards ceremony on June 10 in New York City.

Her manuscript, Half-Hazard, was selected by the Poetry Foundation for the Emily Dickinson First Book Award and will be published by Graywolf Press in October, 2018. She also has poems forthcoming in The Southern Review.

She is currently the Anne Spencer Poet in Residence at Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA. She is a fellow of the Black Earth Institute, and edited the edition “South” of the BEI online journal About Place (online on May 1). In May she will be at CAMAC/Centre d’Art, Marnay, France, on a month-long residency. Her new book, Mississippi, a poetry/photography collaboration with Maude Schuyler Clay, will be published by Wings Press in 2018. Selections from this collaboration exist also as a photography/letterpress broadside museum exhibit and as a theatre performance piece.

She has four poems from her new manuscript, Bonfire Opera, in the May/June issue of the American Poetry Review.

Kathleen O’Toole’s poem “At the mariner’s chapel, Auvillar” won 3rd place in the Image/NY Encounter poetry contest. She collaborated on the collection In the Margins: A Conversation in Poetry, released in March 2017 by Cherry Grove collections.

She is the winner of the Fourth River (Chatham University) Folio Contest. Her entry, “Confluence Itself,” consists of a dozen poems to be published online in the fall of 2017. Natalie Diaz judged the competition. Also, Poems2go has published two additional poems.

Three of Jeffrey Kingman’s poems appear in the Volume 17, Spring 2017 issue of The Offbeat, a journal affiliated with Michigan State University.

Her poem “Dear Jason Robards” appears in The Museum of Americana Issue Twelve.

Molly Fisk was named the inaugural Poet Laureate of Nevada County, CA in April. Her latest book is Houston, We Have a Possum, Further Observations from a Working Poet.

A collection of my essays on poetry, A Million MFAs Are Not Enough, was published in 2016 by Red Hen Press.

Marcelo Castillo is the winner of the sixth annual Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. His manuscript, Dulce, will be published by Northwestern University Press in Fall 2017 with a planned launch party at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago, IL in January 2018.

Shelley Wong’s chapbook, Rare Birds, was released in February 2017 and is available from Diode Editions.

Jami Macarty’s poetry chapbook, Landscape of The Wait, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in May, and is available for pre-order now. The first-drafts of some of these poems were written during the Poetry Workshop of  the Community of Writers in 2010, as Jami and her family dwelt in the profound uncertainty that followed her 19-year-old nephew Will’s car crash and resulting traumatic head injury.

Jenn Givhan’s collection, Protection Spell, is now available from University of Arkansas Press. Publisher’s Weekly writes “In a second collection that beats with multiple hearts, Givhan (Landscape with Headless Mama) addresses complicated familial identity … specifically her own child’s identity and how she can protect him … expos[ing] the enduring animosity and aggression towards biracial families, doing so with candor and sparkling language. Every line is tightly composed, and the sensory details pull the reader towards the poet as she recounts her splintered world—her past as well as the present world she creates and navigates as a woman and a mother of color.”

Now out from Omnidawn Publishing, Compendium: A Collection of Thoughts on Prosody, by Donald Justice, former Squaw Valley Community of Writers faculty, edited by David Koehn, a former Community of Writers Poetry workshop participant. Cover photo credit to Barbara Hall, co-founder Community of Writers at Squaw Valley.

Kenji C. Liu’s newest chapbook, Craters: A Field Guide, is out from Goodmorning Menagerie in a limited edition of 100. Features Godzilla, digital divination, and how to destroy racism and patriarchy, all wrapped in a risographed cover by Tiny Splendor. Soon to be paired with a new, forthcoming chapbook from Bhanu Kapil.

Kendra Tanacea’s debut poetry collection, A Filament Burns in Blue Degrees, is available from Lost Horse Press or Amazon.

Colette Gill’s poetry chapbook, Peregrine Questions, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in March 2017.

Holaday Mason had her first solo Photography Exhibit in 2016 & has published several books over the last few years. Her recent novels include The Red Bowl: A Fable in Poems, and The “She” Series: A Venice Correspondence, with Sarah Maclay.

Erin Adair-Hodges’ first book, Let’s All Die Happy, was named as the winner of the 2016 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press and will be published in the fall of 2017 as part of the Pitt Poetry Series. The title is taken from a poem written while at the Community of Writers, workshopped by Robert Hass.