July 4 - Host: Lonely Christopher

Samuel Lang Budin was co-editor of their high school lit mag. Their most recent chapbook, Storage, was released this past Tuesday through Tiny Cutlery Press.

Mel Elberg is a poet, artist and collaborator living in Brooklyn. Their chaplet Some Rays Absorbed is just out from Belladonna Press.

Jared Daniel Fagen is the author of The Animal of Existence (Black Square Editions, 2022). His poems, prose, and conversations have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Fence, Lana Turner, and Asymptote, among other publications. He is an adjunct assistant professor of poetry in the Writing MFA program at Columbia University, an adjunct lecturer in English at the City College of New York, a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center, and the editor and publisher of Black Sun Lit. Born in Jeollanam-do, South Korea, he lives in Brooklyn and the western Catskills.

Sean Glatch is a queer poet and educator in New York City. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Rumpus, Foglifter, Ninth Letter, Strange Horizons, in his ex's Grindr bio, and elsewhere. Sean runs the creative writing school Writers.com, and he is the cofounder of the poetry card game Poemancer. When he's not writing, which is often, he thinks he should be writing.

Chariot Wish is a poet living in New York. They are an associate editor at Wonder Press and online editor of Amygdala Journal. Their debut full length collection P.E.A.C.E. is now available from Changes Press.

July 11 - Host: Cecilia Stelzer

Marie Buck is the author of several poetry collections, including Spoilers, a collaboration with Matthew Walker (Golias Books, 2024), Unsolved Mysteries (Roof Books, 2020), and Portrait of Doom (Krupskaya, 2015).

Jessica Rae Elsaesser approaches language as a living system, shaped by iteration, division, and remnant. Her work engages archives and the life sciences, exploring memory, human and nonhuman worlds, and biological processes of growth, change, and decay. She has been published in literary and interdisciplinary venues, collaborating on independent publishing while working across poetry and prose.

sadé powell is a concrete poet based in Staten Island, NY. Using a Royal typewriter, her poems explore black vernacularity, concealment, and the tensions between witnessing and withholding. Shaped by growing up across all five boroughs of New York City, powell’s work attends to the grammars and nongrammars of black life. She is the author of wordtomydead (Ugly Duckling Presse), periodluv (Belladonna Collaborative), and dontbeabitterbtch (selva oscura press), with goodmuddy forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse.

Serena Solin lives in Queens, NY. Her first collection, A Barer Sky, is out from Winter Editions. Previous chapbooks include Solar Inverter (Bottlecap) and The Stay Behind (Beautiful Days Press). She is a member of the Ugly Duckling Presse editorial collective and a PhD candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Milo Wippermann is the author of Joan of Arkansas, which was a finalist for a Lambda Award and won a Whiting Award in poetry and drama. He's an editor at Ugly Duckling Presse, has an MFA from Brown University, and lives in Brooklyn.

July 18 - Host: Lonely Christopher

Chase Berggrun is a trans woman poet and educator. She is the author of R E D (Birds LLC, 2018), and the chapbook Somewhere a seagull (After Hours Editions, 2023). Her poems and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry Magazine, Poem-A-Day, The Nation, and elsewhere. She lives with her many houseplants in New York City.

Sandra Doller is the author of several books of poetry, prose, translation, and the in-between from the most valiant and precarious small presses. Her newest book, Not Now Now, is newly out from Rescue Press. Doller is the founder of 1913 a journal of forms & 1913 Press, where she remains l’éditrice-in-chief. She has recently always been Canadian and lives in the USA, for now.

Aiden Heung is a recent immigrant to the United States, originally from a Tibetan autonomous town in China. A finalist in the Disquiet Literary International Contest, he is also the winner of the Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize and the Levis Prize in Poetry. His debut collection, All There Is to Lose, selected by Ilya Kaminsky, was published in March 2026 by Four Way Books. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Washington University. He lives in Philadelphia.

Chanice Hughes-Greenberg is a poet, Capricorn, & wine enthusiast hailing from a valley in the Catskill Mountains by way of Long Island. Her work has appeared in Studio Magazine, No, Dear Magazine, The Recluse, The Believer & other publications. She has participated in readings with The Poetry Project, Cave Canem, Brooklyn Museum, Poets & Writers, Montez Press Radio, & The Freya Project. Chanice received a BFA in Writing from Pratt Institute, was the recipient of a 2019 Brooklyn Poets Fellowship, & was a 2020 Best of the Net nominee. She resides in Bed-Stuy with her cat Huxley & is working on a collection of poems about memory, family, Blackness, & music.

Brenda Iijima is a poet, novelist, playwright, choreographer, and visual artist. She is the author of nine books of poetry. Her involvements occur at the intersections and mutations of genre, mode, receptivity, and field of study. A play, Daily Life in China was published by elis press in 2024 and a novel, Presence was published by the University of Georgia, also in 2024. Her forthcoming novel, Shelter is Necessary for Existence is coming out in October, 2026 from Two Dollar Radio. Iijima is the founding editor-publisher of Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs. She lives in Brooklyn.

July 25 - Host: Ryan Skrabalak

Emily Bark Brown is a poet from Mobile, Alabama and Brooklyn, New York. They serve as Managing Editor at Nightboat Books. Their debut chapbook, Welcome to August, came out last summer from The Year.

Cassandra Gillig is a writer, editor, and curator based between Chicago and Kansas City. She is working on a history of the publication of Stone Butch Blues, an oral history of the Poetry Project ghost, and a book about gay policing as represented in the cultural artifacts of the 70s and 80s. With Mara Mills, she is co-editing a reissue and new iteration of Bernadette Mayer and Anne Waldman's The Basketball Article.

Mark He is an artist, poet, and researcher who lives in Queens, NY. His debut book, Dealey Plaza, came out this year.

Emmett Lewis is a writer based in Queens, NY. His work has appeared in Coma, Chicago Review, Blackbox Manifold, Tagvverk, and elsewhere. His first book, Ambulance, is forthcoming from Roof Books in early 2027.

Mahid Rose is a poet living in Philadelphia, PA.

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.