Lara Gularte
Lara Gularte is Poet Laureate Emeritus of El Dorado County, California. Her most recent book of poetry, Fourth World Woman, […]
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Mike Jurkovic
American poet Mike Jurkovic is the 2025 Ulster County, NY Poet Laureate. His work has been published internationally, though with
Sharon Mesmer
Sharon Mesmer is a poet, fiction writer and essayist. Her poetry collections are Greetings from My Girlie Leisure Place (Bloof), The Virgin Formica (Hanging
Bengt Berg
Bengt Berg considers the world his home and enjoys living and working in a landscape characterised by silence and wild
Tracy K Smith
Tracy K. Smith is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, memoirist, editor, translator and librettist. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of
Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He now lives in New York. A former radio and television
Yuyutsu Sharma
Yuyutsu Sharma is one of the few poets in the world who make their living with poetry. Named as “The
Sally Breen
Associate Professor in Creative Writing at Griffith University, Australia Sally Breen is the author of the iconic grunge memoir The
Brian Turner
Brian Turner has a memoir, My Life as a Foreign Country (with W.W. Norton in the U.S., and Penguin/Random House
Tina Chang
TINA CHANG is the author of the poetry collections Half-Lit Houses (2004) and Of Gods & Strangers (2011) and Hybrida (2019) and the forthcoming collection, LION (W.W. Norton,