Announcing the New POETRY Magazine Podcast Host and Readers for POETRY!

We’re thrilled to announce some new members of the Poetry magazine team!

New Poetry Magazine Podcast Host
Starting in June, listeners will hear Cindy Juyoung Ok speaking with poets from the pages of Poetry magazine about their work, their lives, and what keeps them writing on the Poetry Magazine Podcast. Ok will work closely with our producer, Rachel James, to publish biweekly episodes featuring in-depth interviews, poem readings, archival audio, and more. 

Cindy Juyoung Ok is a writer, editor, and educator who has taught creative writing at Wellesley College, University of California San Diego, and Wichita State University. Ok’s first poetry collection, Ward Toward, is forthcoming from Yale University Press, and poems from the manuscript can be found soon in the Kenyon Review, The Margins, and the Massachusetts Review. 

Ok’s first episode airs on June 6!

New Poetry Magazine Readers
In addition to a new host for the podcast, the team is welcoming five new Poetry readers:

• Hadara Bar-Nadav is an National Endowment for the Arts fellow and award-winning author of several books of poetry, including The New Nudity (Saturnalia Books, 2017), Lullaby (with Exit Sign) (Saturnalia Books, 2013), The Frame Called Ruin (New Issues, 2012), A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (MARGIE/IntuiT House, 2007), and the manuscript-in-progess, “The Animal Is Chemical.” Bar-Nadav is also coauthor with Michelle Boisseau of the best-selling textbook Writing Poems, 8th ed. (Pearson, 2011). She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
• Rob Colgate is a disabled bakla poet from Evanston, Illinois. Colgate holds a degree in psychology from Yale University and an MFA in poetry from the New Writers Project at University of Texas at Austin. Their work appears in Best New Poets, Prairie Schooner, and Adroit, among others; they have received support from MacDowell, Fulbright, and Kenyon Review. They serve as an assistant poetry editor at Foglifter, a poet-in-residence at Tangled Art + Disability, and a visiting scholar at Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Disability Studies.
• Jay Gao is a poet and the author of Imperium (Carcanet, 2022). Gao is a winner of the 2022 Desperate Literature Prize for Short Fiction, the 2021 London Magazine Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2022 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. He is a contributing editor at the White Review. Originally from Edinburgh, Scotland, he currently lives in New York where he is pursuing a PhD in experimental poetics and race at Columbia University. 
• I.S. Jones is an American/Nigerian poet and essayist whose chapbook, Spells of My Name (2021), was selected by Newfound for their Emerging Poets Series. Jones has received support from Hedgebrook, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Callaloo, Brooklyn Poets, and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming in Guernica, LA Review of Books, The Rumpus, and Prairie Schooner, among others. For the last three years, she served as the director of the Watershed Reading Series with Art + Literature Laboratory. Jones is an instructor with Brooklyn Poets and a 2023 Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Scholar.
• Trevor Ketner is the author of The Wild Hunt Divinations: A Grimoire (Wesleyan University Press, 2023) and [WHITE] (University of Georgia Press, 2021), a winner of the National Poetry Series. A former Lambda Literary Fellow, they have also been a Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow, Emerge-Surface-Be Fellow for The Poetry Project, and a Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Fellow. They hold an MFA from the University of Minnesota and live in Manhattan with their husband.

We’re so excited to read and discuss poems with these brilliant poets!

We also want to issue a huge thank you to our current team of incredible readers who are cycling off after two years with the magazine. We are so grateful to Sarah Ahmad, Noah Baldino, Whitney DeVos, Jenna Peng, and Naima Yael Tokunow for all their amazing work!

If you’d like to submit poems, you can do so via Submittable (we will be closed for submissions from June 15-September 15), and as always you can read Poetry magazine in print, online, or in the app.