The Deerfield Public Library Podcast

Aerik Francis is a Queer Black & Latinx poet based in Denver, Colorado, USA. Aerik is the author of the recently published chapbook BODYELECTRONIC (Trouble Department 2022). Selected by Dorothy Chan as the winner of the 2022 chapbook contest, Aerik's second chapbook MISEDUCATION is forthcoming from New Delta Review in 2023. Aerik is the recipient of poetry fellowships from Canto Mundo and The Wate...

Madeleine Cravens is a 2022-2024 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She received her M.F.A from Columbia University, where she was a recipient of the Max Ritvo Poetry Fellowship. She was the first-place winner of Narrative Magazine's 2021 Poetry Contest and 2020 30 Below Contest, a semifinalist for the 92 Street Y's 2021 Discovery Prize, and a finalist for the 2022 James Hearst Poetry Prize. C...

Julian Gewirtz is the author of YOUR FACE MY FLAG (Copper Canyon Press, forthcoming October 2022 (https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/your-face-my-flag-by-julian-gewirtz). His poems have appeared in the Best American Poetry, Boston Review, Lambda Literary, The Nation, The New Republic, PEN America, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. He is also the author of two books on the history...

Jim Whiteside is the author of a chapbook, Writing Your Name on the Glass (Bull City Press, 2019) and is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His poems have appeared in The New York Times, POETRY, Ploughshares, Boston Review, and Best New Poets 2020. The recipient of scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and Sewanee Writers' Conference, he earned his MFA from The...

Emily Martin is a writer and teacher from Brooklyn. Her most recent work is in Tagvverk and Blazing Stadium, and the rest of her work is here: myemilymartin.com. Copyright © 2022 by Emily Martin. Originally published on Queer Poem-a-Day. Text of today's poem and more details about our program can be found at: deerfieldlibrary.org/queerpoemaday/ Find books from participating poets in our library's...

Stephen Ira is a writer and performer. Favorite appearances, in various roles, include  Poetry  (Chicago),  Fence,   tagvverk , the  Poetry Project Newsletter ,  La Mama Etc , the Sundance Film Festival, and the Philly Trans Wellness Conference. Copyright © 2022 by Stephen Ira. Originally published in  Chasers  (New Michigan Press, 2022). Text of today's poem and more details about our program can...

Richard Blanco is the fifth presidential inaugural poet in U.S. history—the youngest, first Latino, immigrant, and gay person to serve in such a role. Born in Madrid to Cuban exile parents and raised in Miami, the negotiation of cultural identity and place characterize his body of work. He is the author of the poetry collections  Looking for the Gulf Motel ,  Directions to the Beach of the Dead ,...

Aurielle Marie is an award-winning poet, essayist, and cultural strategist. They are a Black queer storyteller, a political organizer, and child of the Deep South by way of Atlanta. Their poetry debut, Gumbo Ya Ya, won the 2020 Cave Canem prize and is a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Copyright © Aurielle Marie 2020 .  A version was originally published in their collection Gumbo Ya Ya (University...

Ari Banias is the author of  A SYMMETRY  (2021), winner of the 2021 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans & Gender Variant Literature, and  ANYBODY  (2016), both from W.W. Norton. His poems have appeared in  Bæst ,  Hyperallergic ,  The Nation ,  The New Republic ,  Triple Canopy ,  The Yale Review , and elsewhere. He lives in Chicago. Copyright © Ari Banias.  Published in BathHouse Journal, and the...

Emilia Phillips is the author of four books of poetry, including Embouchure (University of Akron Press, 2021). They teach in the MFA in Writing Program at UNC Greensboro. Copyright © 2021 by Emilia Phillips . Originally published in Copper Nickel , Fall 2021. Text of today's poem and more details about our program can be found at: deerfieldlibrary.org/queerpoemaday/ Find books from participating p...

Noa/h Fields is a Chicago-based writer and curator. She works at the Poetry Foundation and is a 2022 fellow at Zoeglossia and Disability Lead. Her writing has appeared in  Anomaly ,  Tripwire ,  Zoeglossia , and  Sixty Inches from Center . Copyright © 2018 by Noa/h Fields. Originally published in  With , a micro-chapbook (Ghost City Press, 2018).  Text of today's poem and more details about our pr...

Cameron Awkward-Rich is the author of two collections of poetry— Sympathetic Little Monster  (Ricochet Editions, 2016) and  Dispatch  (Persea Books, 2019)—as well as  The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment , forthcoming from Duke University Press. His writing has appeared, in various forms, in  Poetry ,  American Poetry Review ,  Transgender Studies Quarterly ,  Signs , and elsewhere,...

C. Russell Price is originally from Glade Spring, Virginia, but now lives in Chicago. They are a Lambda Fellow in Poetry, a Ragdale Fellow, a Windy City Times 30 Under 30 honoree, an essayist, and a poet. They are the author of a chapbook, Tonight, We Fuck the Trailer Park Out of Each Other . Their work has appeared in the Boston Review , Court Green , DIAGRAM , Iron Horse Literary Review , Lambda...

Megan Fernandes is a poet living in NYC. Copyright © 2015 by Megan Fernandes . This poem received commendation by Don Paterson in the annual Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition and was published in Fernandes' first collection The Kingdom and After (2015, Tightrope Books). Text of today's poem and more details about our program can be found at: deerfieldlibrary.org/queerpoemaday/ Find boo...

Spencer Reece is the author of The Clerk's Tale and The Road to Emmaus , long-listed for the National Book Award. In 2017 he edited, Counting Time Like People Count Stars: Poetry by the Girls of Our Little Roses . The Secret Gospel of Mark: A Poet's Memoir and All The Beauty Still Left: A Poet's Painted Book of Hours arrived in 2021. He has worked as an Episcopal priest in Honduras, Spain, and New...

Christian Gullette is a National Poetry Series finalist and his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review , The Yale Review , Kenyon Review , New England Review , Northwest Review , Los Angeles Review , and other journals. He is a 2022 Discovery / 92Y Contest semi-finalist. He serves as the editor-in-chief of The Cortland Review . His website is christiangullette.com . C...

Jenny George is the author of The Dream of Reason (Copper Canyon Press, 2018). She is also a winner of the "Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Prize and a recipient of fellowships from The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Lannan Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. Her poems have appeared in The New York Times , Ploughshares , Kenyon Review , Narrative , Granta , Iowa Review , FIELD , Los Ange...

Makshya Tolbert is a poet, cook, and potter who just found her way back to Virginia. Her recent poems and essays have been published in Interim , Narrative Magazine , Emergence Magazine , Tupelo Quarterly , Art Papers , The Night Heron Barks , For the Culture , Earth in Color , Odd Apples , and with poetry forthcoming in RHINO . Makshya is currently based in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she is...

K. Iver is a nonbinary trans poet from Mississippi. Their work has appeared in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, The Adroit, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. They are the 2021-2022 Ronald Wallace Poetry Fellow for the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. They have a Ph. D. in Poetry at Florida State University. Copyright © 2022 by K. Iver . Originally published in The Adroit Journal, April 2022.  Text o...

Tory Adkisson is the author of The Flesh Between Us (SIU Press, 2021), winner of the Crab Orchard Series Open Book Competition. His poems have appeared widely in journals such as Third Coast, Crazyhorse, Adroit Journal, Boston Review, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. He lives in Oakland and teaches writing at UC Berkeley. Copyright © 2021 by Tory Adkisson. Originally published in the New Orleans Rev...

Shangyang Fang grew up in Chengdu, China, and writes both in English and Chinese. A graduate from Michener Center for Writers, he is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His works appeared in The Nation , Ploughshares , The Yale Review , Forward Book of Poetry Anthology , The Best American Poetry , and Pushcart Prize Anthology . He is the author of the poetry collection, Burying the Mo...

Ellen Bass's most recent collection, Indigo, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2020. Her other poetry books include Like a Beggar, The Human Line, and Mules of Love. Her poems appear  frequently in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and many other journals. Among her awards are Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The NEA, and The California Arts Council, The Lambda Literary Awar...

Jacques J. Rancourt is the author of two poetry collections, Brocken Spectre (Alice James Books, 2021) and Novena (Pleiades Press, 2017), as well as a chapbook, In the Time of PrEP (Beloit Poetry Journal, 2018). Raised in Maine, he lives in San Francisco. www.jacquesrancourt.com Twitter @jj_rancourt   Instagram: @jj_rancourt "Love in the Time of PrEP" originally appeared in Brocken Spectre (Alice...

Stefania Gomez is a queer writer, teacher, and audio artist from Chicago's South Side who received her MFA in poetry at Washington University in St. Louis in 2022. Currently teaching at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago, she has received fellowships from the Dirt Palace, Sewanee Writers Workshop, and the International Quilt Museum. Her work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day s...

CM Burroughs is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago and author of The Vital System (Tupelo, 2012) and Master Suffering (Tupelo, 2021,) which was longlisted for the National Book Award, Lambda Book Award, and the LA Times Book Award. Burroughs' poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies including Poetry, Ploughshares, Cave Canem's Gathering Ground, and Best Amer...