Purchase: Antibody (River River Books) by Elane Kim

Read: The Body As Archive, a review of Antibody by Leah Choi (Harvard Crimson) and Kim's poem "Respite" (Poetry Foundation)

Elane Kim is a Korean American writer from California. The editor-in-chief of Gaia Lit, she is the recipient of the 2024 Roger Conant Hatch Prize for Lyric Poetry, the winner of the 2021 Columbia Journal Winter Poetry Contest, and a Davidson Fellow in Literature. Her writing can be found in Poetry, Narrative Magazine, One Teen Story, and more. She is the author of Postcards (Bull City Press, 2022) and a student at Harvard College.

Recommended Reading:

Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Kimberly Grey

Volta (wikipedia)

Shakespeare's Sonnets (with free, downloadable text, at Folger Library)

Jericho Brown

Diane Seuss

Naruto

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).
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Read: "Alcestis as the Dead Woman’s Auto-Roman à Clef" and "Alcestis as Peripheral | Swift | Ominous Movement in the House" in Arcturus Magazine

Purchase: House of Myth and Necessity(River River Books, 2026)

Jennifer A Sutherlandis a poet, essayist, and attorney in Baltimore. She is the author of House of Myth and Necessity (River Riverbooks, 2026) and the lyric-hybrid, book-length poem Bullet Points, also from River River Books (2023). Her work has appeared in Birmingham Poetry Review, Hopkins Review, Best New Poets, Denver Quarterly, Cagibi, EPOCH, and elsewhere.

Recommended Reading

Robin Robertson

Anne Carson

Claire Millikin’s TELEVISION (Unicorn Books, 2016)

Monica Youn’s Blackacre

Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House

Tron (film, 1982)

Jameela F. Dallis

Diane Seuss's essay "Restless Herd: Some Thoughts on Order—in Poetry, in Life" (Poets & Writers, on building a bearable myth)

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).
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Read: Four excerpts from There Is News Along the Ohio River at Heavy Feather Review

Purchase: There Is News Along the Ohio River(River River Books, 2026)

Beth Gilstrap (she/her) is a multi-genre author, copywriter, editor, and educator. Her debut hybrid/flash CNF collection, There Is News Along the Ohio River, was released February 2026 from River River Books. She is also the author of two story collections including: Deadheading & Other Stories (2021), winner of the Red Hen Press Women’s Prose Prize, shortlisted for the Stanford Libraries William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and finalist for the Foreword 2021 Foreword Reviews Awards in Short Fiction; I Am Barbarella: Stories from Twelve Winters Press (2015), and the chapbook No Man’s Wild Laura (2016) from Hyacinth Girl Press. A true southern goth/punk gal at heart, she is the Publisher & Editor-in-chief of the goth/punk zine, Black Lily (find them on Instagram @blacklilyzine). Her essays, stories, and hybrids have appeared in Poets & Writers, Wigleaf, Craft, Bending Genres, and The Cincinnati Review, among others. She lives with her husband and a bunch of cuddly fur muppets in Charlotte, North Carolina. As a neurodivergent human who lives with c-PTSD, she is open about her struggles and fearlessly vocal about ending the stigma surrounding mental illness.

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Kathy Fish

Ross Gay

Maggie Nelson

Lydia Davis

Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know

Pete Walker - Complex PTSD: from Surviving to Thriving

Tara Westover, Educated

Jen Soriano, Nervous

Rebecca Olander, Singing From the Deep End