October & November curated by Nightboat Books: Lina Bergamini, Emily Bark Brown, Morgan Levine, Stephen Motika, Dante Silva

October 4                  

Sophia Dahlin is a poet based in Berkeley. She teaches generative poetry workshops online and in Berkeley, co-edits a small chapbook press called Eyelet, and co-runs the weekly readings at Tamarack, Oakland with seven other poets. Her first book, Natch, was released in 2020 by City Lights.

Bianca Rae Messinger is a poet and translator living in New York State. Her most recent chapbooks include The Love of God (2016) and parallel bars (2021). She has published translations of mauricio gatti/comunidad del sur, Juana Isola, and Ariel Schettini. Her first full-length book of poems, pleasureis amiracle, was published by Nightboat.

October 11    

Mónica de la Torre was born and raised in Mexico City. Her books include Pause the Document (2025), Repetition Nineteen (2020), Public Domain (2008), and Talk Shows (2007). De la Torre has edited BOMB Magazine and the Brooklyn Rail. She teaches poetry and translation at Brooklyn College.

Rodrigo Toscano is the author of twelve poetry books, most recently WHITMAN. CANNONBALL. PUEBLA (Omnidawn), a National Poetry Series finalist. His Collapsible Poetics Theater (Fence Books) was a National Poetry Series selection. His poetry has appeared in over twenty anthologies. He is a board member of the New Orleans Poetry Festival.

October 18         

Laura Moriarty was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and grew up in Northern California. She has been publishing poetry and fiction for 50 years. Her recent titles include Which Walks (2025), Personal Volcano (2019), Who That Divines (2014), all from Nightboat Books. She lives in Richmond, CA.

Kevin Holden is a poet, translator, and essayist. His books include Pink Noise (2023), Solar (2015), which won the Fence Modern Poets Prize, and Birch (2015), which won the Ahsahta Press Chapbook Award. He is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.

October 25    

Wo Chan is the author of Togetherness (2022) and performs in drag as The Illustrious Pearl. Wo has received fellowships from MacDowell, New York Foundation of the Arts, Kundiman, The Asian American Writers Workshop, Poets House, and Lambda Literary. Their poems appear in POETRY, WUSSY, Mass Review, No Tokens, The Margins, and elsewhere. Find them at @theillustriouspearl.    

Kay Gabriel is a writer and organizer. She’s the author of Perverts (2025), Kissing Other People or the House of Fame (2023), and A Queen in Bucks County (2022). She’s the Editorial Director at the Poetry Project in New York City.

November 1  

Jzl Jmz (pronounced juh-zell jaym-s) fka [jayy dodd] is a Black Los Angelena & Transsexual based in Portland, OR. She’s the author of Mannish Tongues (Platypus Press, 2017), the 2021 Poetry Center Book Prize-winning The Black Condition ft. Narcissus (2019) & Local Woman (2025). She was a Lambda Literary Fellow, & Precipice Art Grant Recipient through Portland’s Institute of Contemporary Art.

Edward Salem is the author of Monk Fruit (2025) and Intifadas (2026). He was selected for the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. He is the co-founder of City of Asylum/Detroit, a nonprofit that provides safe-haven fellowships to writers and artists in exile who have been persecuted for their work.

November 8  

Samiya Bashir is the author of I Hope This Helps (2025) and Field Theories (2017), winner of the 2018 Oregon Book Awards Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry. Her other books are Gospel (2009), and Where the Apple Falls (2005). Samiya’s honors include the Rome Prize in Literature, the Pushcart Prize, Oregon’s Arts & Culture Council Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature. She lives in Harlem.

Nora Treatbaby is a writer and artist based in New York State. She is the author of Our Air (2024), as well as two chapbooks, I <3 2 Swim (2022) and Hope Is Weird (2020). 

November 15

Lauren Cook is the author of Sex Goblin (2024) and I Love Shopping (2025). He is a transsexual naturalist from upstate New York.

Funto Omojola is a poet, performer, and visual artist. They have received fellowships from MacDowell, Cave Canem, and the Poetry Project, and their work has been published in the Boston Review, Pigeon Pages, and Ghost Proposal, among others. If I Gather Here and Shout (2024) is Omojola’s first book.

November 22     

Rosamond S. King is the author of the chapbook, At My Belly and My Back and the critical book Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination, which won the 2015 Caribbean Studies Association Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Prize. She is the author of Rock | Salt | Stone (2017), which won the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry, and All the Rage (2021).

Noa Micaela Fields is an echodeviant (trans poet with hearing aids). Her poems have been published in Tripwire, Jacket2, Poem-A-Day, and elsewhere. E is her first book. She lives in Chicago.

December & January curated by Roof Books: Lonely Christopher & James Sherry

December 6    

Nada Gordon is the author of nine books: foriegnn bodie, Are Not Our Lowing Heifers Sleeker than Night-Swollen Mushrooms?, V. Imp., Swoon, Folly, Scented Rushes, Vile Lilt, Selected Poems: The Sound Princess, and Emotional Support Peacock. She is a founding member of the Flarf Collective. Her work has been translated into French, Japanese, Dutch, Romanian, Chinese, Hebrew, and Burmese.

Kit Robinson is a Bay Area poet, writer, and musician. He is the author of 29 books of poetry, including Tunes & Tens (Roof, 2025). He plays Afro-Cuban tres guitar in the charanga band Calle Ocho. For his essays on poetics, art, travel, and music, visit his website: www.kitrobinson.net.

December 13  

Michael Gottlieb’s Collected Memoirs (2023), Collected Essays (2023), Selected Poems (2021) were published by Chax in a uniform edition. He helped edit Roof magazine, one of Language poetry’s foundational publications and co-founded/co-curates the OtherWords reading series in Massachusetts. His next collection, Next! published by Chax, will be launched at this reading.

Sue Landers is the author of four poetry collections. Her latest, What to Carry Into the Future, emerged from riding every NYC subway end to end. Her poems have appeared in Poem-A-Day, The Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. She is a former executive director of Lambda Literary and lives in Brooklyn.

December 20    

Robert Fitterman is the author of 16 poetry books, including Creve Coeur (Winter Editions), No, Wait. Yep. Definitely Still Hate Myself (Ugly Duckling Presse), and Rob the Plagiarist (Roof Books). He is the founding member of the artists-poets collective Collective Task. He lives and works in New York City.

Theodore A. Harris is a Philadelphia-based visual artist. He’s exhibited widely and is in collections such as Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, McGill University Visual Arts Collection. His co-authored books including Our Flesh of Flames with Amiri Baraka, i ran from it and was still in it with Fred Moten.

January 3        

Elaine Equi is the author of many books of poetry including Voice-Over, which won the San Francisco State Poetry Award; Ripple Effect: New & Selected Poems, which was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and most recently, Out of the Blank, all from Coffee House Press.

isaiah a. hines’ debut collection, null landing, won the 2020 Slope Editions Book Prize and was a finalist for the 2023 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation Legacy Award in Poetry. Anything with Spirit was published by Roof Books in 2025. hines is a PhD student in Communication and Rhetoric at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 

January 10      

Erica Hunt is the author of Jump the Clock (2020); Veronica: A Suite in X Parts (2019); Piece Logic (2002); Arcade (1996); and Local History (1993). Hunt is the co-editor with Dawn Lundy Martin of Letters to the Future, Black Women/Radical Writing (2018). Recent work includes collaborations with composers Marty Ehrlich, Ingrid Laubrock and Myra Melford.

Aditi Machado's books include translations of Baptiste Gaillard’s In the Realm of Motes (Roof, 2025) and Farid Tali’s Prosopopoeia (Action, 2016), and three poetry collections from Nightboat, most recently Material Witness (2024). A recipient of the James Laughlin and The Believer Poetry Awards, she serves as an advisory poetry editor for The Paris Review.

January 17        

Cody-Rose Clevidence is the author of This Household of Earthly Nature (Roof, 2025), The Grimace of Eden Now (Fonograph, 2024), Aux Arc / Trypt Ich (Nightboat, 2021), Listen My Friend, This is the Dream I Dreamed Last Night (The Song Cave, 2021), Flung/Throne (Ahsahta, 2018), and BEAST FEAST (Ahsata Press, 2014). They live in the Arkansas Ozarks.

Marcella Durand’s latest book, A Winter Triangle, is the recipient of the 2024 Poetic Justice Institute Prize (Fordham University Press, 2025). She is the co-editor with Jennifer Firestone of Other Influences: The Untold History of Avant-Garde Feminist Poetry (MIT Press, 2024).

January 24      

Carrie Hunter is the author of The Flow of the Poem's Display of Itself (Roof Books, 2025) Vibratory Milieu (Nightboat Books, 2021), and two from Black Radish Books, Orphan Machines and The Incompossible. She was in the Black Radish Books publishing collective and edited the chapbook press, ypolita press. She lives in San Francisco and teaches ESL.

John Yau is a poet and art critic. Diary of Small Discontents: New & Selected Poems 1974-2024 was published by Omnidawn in 2025. He is a Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University and lives in Beacon, NY.

January 31      

Bruce Andrews. Poet (in dozens of books & journals & anthologies). Poetics essays (early collected in Paradise & Method). Former co-editor, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E. Former Political Scientist. Performances & Music & Sound design (for choreographer Sally Silvers). Most recent hybrid prose/poetry ms.—Zombies + Clones + Readymades / Writing Reading Vladimir Sorokin. Current project, HELL—recasting Dante into our current social-political Inferno.

Christopher Knowles

Christopher Knowles' books are Typings and In a Word. His collaborations with Robert Wilson include Einstein on the Beach, A Letter for Queen Victoria, and others. His visual work has been exhibited in many solo and group showings internationally. His poetry has been published in a variety of magazines and journals.