Nuar Alsadir

Award-winning Poet, Essayist
Psychoanalyst

Julian Talamantez Brolaski

Native American Poet
Its Pronoun is It

Jericho Brown

Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet
The Tradition

Stephanie Burt

Critic, Poet & Essayist
NBCC Award Finalist

Kwame Dawes

Ghana-born Jamaican Poet
Novelist and Essayist
Windham Campbell Prize Winner

Camille Dungy

Award-winning Poet
Acclaimed Essayist & Critic

Adam Gopnik

Int'l Bestselling Author
New Yorker Staff Writer

Terrance Hayes

MacArthur "Genius" Award
National Book Award

Keetje Kuipers

Award-winning Poet
Culture, Identity, Motherhood

Dawn Lundy Martin

Poet, Critic, Memoirist
Kingsley Tufts Award

Heather McHugh

MacArthur "Genius" Award
Distinguished Poet

Meghan O’Rourke

Award-winning Memoirist
Acclaimed Poet

Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Award-winning Poet
Literary & Visual Art Critic

Katha Pollitt

Poet, Essayist, Writer
PRO: Abortion Rights

Claudia Rankine

NYT Bestselling Author
NBCCA & Forward Prize

Aisha Sabatini Sloan

Writer, Curator, Artist
Lambda Literary Award

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Award-winning Novelist & Critic
Black Queer Feminism

Anne Waldman

Writer, Editor, Teacher
Award-winning Poet
Co-Founder of The Poetry Project

Frank B. Wilderson III

Award-winning Author
Poet, Scholar, Activist