June 6 - Host: Lonely Christopher

Kyle Dacuyan writes poetry and monologues. He has received the Cy Twombly Award in Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, a Fellowship in Creative Writing from the National Endowment for the Arts, and an Open Call Fellowship from The Shed. From 2018-2024, he served as Executive Director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s. He lives and works in NYC.

Tobi Kassim’s writing has been published in The Volta, Chicago Review, The Rumpus, The Kenyon Review, Best New Poets, Four Way Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. His work has been supported by Undocupoets, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and Cave Canem. His chapbook Dear Sly Stone was published by Spiral Editions.

Whitney Mallett is the founding editor of The Whitney Review of New Writing. She has presented work at MoMA PS1, Performance Space New York, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. She's currently researching about perfume and fascism.

Andriniki Mattis is a poet and fiction writer. He is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and has received fellowships from Poets House and The Poetry Project. He received his M.A. in Creative Writing and Education from Goldsmiths University of London and a B.A. in Political and Poetic Resistance from Brooklyn College. His writing has appeared in wildness, Indiana Review, Wasifiri, Montez Press, and elsewhere. He is the author of Quiet Fires, and the belladonna* chaplet Living Btwn the Lines. andriniki is the founder of Quantum Archives: An Alt. Writing School, dedicated to archival and ancestral storytelling of inter-genre identities. He is currently at work on his debut novel, Zero-Hours. Andriniki is from Brooklyn, NY and currently resides in London, UK.

Allyson Paty is the author of Jalousie (Tupelo Press, 2025), winner of the 2023 Berkshire Prize, and several chapbooks, most recently Five O’Clock on the Shore (above/ground press, 2019). Her poems appear in publications including Denver Quarterly, Fence, Poetry, The Recluse, and The Yale Review, and she's written nonfiction for The Baffler. She works and teaches at NYU Gallatin and with NYU's Prison Education Program.

June 13 - Host: Jay Gaunt

James Barickman is the author of four seasonal chapbooks—Helluva Season, Down Bad, Blinds Before the Orbital Window, and World W/out End. He has worked in various capacities, primarily as a sound tech, at the Poetry Project since 2016. In the fall he will begin pursuing a Master of Social Work from Hunter College.

Thomas Delahaye is the author of several books of poems and runs Intrinsic Coat press out of his apartment in Philadelphia. He also runs an even smaller press called Each Books with Mark Francis Johnson and is on the editorial board of Narrow Margin

Cori Hutchinson is a librarian and poet living in Bay Ridge with their cat, James. Past writing can be read online in Works & Days and more, and in print in Poet Tree.

Geoffrey Olsen is the author of Nerves Between Song (Beautiful Days Press 2024) and many chapbooks, most recently In Sleep the Searing (New Mundo Press 2025) and Neck Field (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs 2025). He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Lori-May Cruz Orillo is a Filipino-American poet, born and raised in Waukegan, Illinois. She moved from Chicago five years ago, and presently works in New York City as a gardener and florist. She is a poet, painter, and potter.

June 20 - Host: Aristilde Kirby

Garrett Phelps was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1990. His work has been published by various outlets on- and offline, including Blush, The Brooklyn Rail, The Poetry Project Newsletter, and Fence. He lives in New York City.

Michael Cavuto is a poet living in Ridgewood, Queens. His latest book is Pyre (Spiral Editions, 2025), and he is the founding editor of the Slow Poetry in America Newsletter and auric press.

Amalia Tenuta is a poet, labor, and anti-war organizer based in the Twin Cities. She is the author of the chapbook The Primitive Accumulation of Realness (Dead Mall Press 2023)

Lev Xue lives with the dog Poopy Xue and is trying to do a lot of sports -- climbing, fishing, jujitsu, skateboarding, ping pong, basketball, dancing -- and is trying to build a vocabulary of movement, and thinking and feeling while moving.

Rebecca Teich is a writer, curator, and PhD student in English at the CUNY Graduate Center. Teich is the recipient of the 2023 Graduate Student Paper Award from the CLAGS and is a 2023 and 2024 archival research fellow through the Lost & Found Archival Research Grant. Currently the co-curator of Desperate Living Reading Series with Ry Dunn, Teich curated the Fall 2018 and 2019 Segue Reading Series, and was Artists Space's teaching-poet-in-residence 2019–2021. Teich's writing has been featured in Women’s Studies Quarterly, The Kitchen Magazine; Peach Magazine's Invitation to Form: Epic Mix; BOMB Magazine, The LA Review of Books, The Poetry Project Newsletter,  and elsewhere. Teich is the author of the chapbook Caffeine Chronicles (Portable Press @ YoYo Labs 2021), Vessels for Water (Belladonna* 2026), and co-author of Shared Discernments (1080 Press 2025) with Kimberly Alidio.

June 27 - Host: Lonely Christopher

Ellen Alt is a queer writer, chef, and future clinical social worker based in Brooklyn. They founded Circle, a magazine, and their work has previously been published by Parcel Magazine, AWOL.page, and Antiphony. They are inspired by their friends, the body, and making a personal archive of things you see on the street.

Daniel Kuriakose lives in Brooklyn and is the poetry editor for A Common Well Journal. He has work forthcoming with Lana Turner and Works & Days magazine.

Reid Kurkerewicz is a writer from Wisconsin who lives in Brooklyn. His work appears in the Brooklyn Rail, Blue Bag Press, the Adroit Journal and elsewhere. His chapbook Man of the Law was published by SLAB.

Alexandra Naughton is a writer, publisher, and literary events producer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is the founder of Be About It Press, established in 2010, and the co-host of the Bring A Blanket reading series. She is the author of a memoir and several poetry collections including most recently Sick of Being Inside Myself via House of Vlad Press.

Marc Solomon: I’ve run a spotty work history, dropping in and out of employment, education and relationships. By forty-five, I had served in the Navy and worked a string of masonry jobs, or in restaurants. I also picked up a string of degrees, but the school that’s stayed with me has been the Studio School, here in New York, where I have participated in the last four Alumni Exhibitions. I have also organized exhibitions, sold a few paintings, worked for the Board (later, Department) of Education and have participated in a fellowship at the Poetry Project.

The Poetry Hell limited summer reading series was created by Lonely Christopher for Segue Foundation in 2025. The concept was to expand Segue’s programming calendar into the summer for those who are around and active during the off-season of the Segue Reading Series at Artists Space. The first year of Poetry Hell was hosted at Enoch’s Cafe in Hell’s Kitchen (hence the name). The curators were Sol Cabrini, Lonely Christopher, Jay Gaunt, Jennifer Nelson, and Cecilia Stelzer.