Mentor: Nicole Sealey

• Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

• Begging for It by Alex Dimitrov

• Mercies: Selected Poems by Anne Sexton

• Nightingale by Paisley Rekdal

• Satan Says by Sharon Olds

• Swoon by Victoria Redel

• Tell Me by Kim Addonizio

• The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón

• Together and by Ourselves by Alex Dimitrov

• Winter Recipes from the Collective by Louise Glück

Mentor: Matthew Rohrer

• Ariel by Sylvia Plath

• Baby, I Don't Care by Chelsey Minnis

• Grotesque Weather and Good People by Lim Solah

• Letters to a Stranger by Thomas James

• Milk by Dorothea Lasky

• Sex Depression Animals by Mag Gabbert

• Slight Return by Rebecca Wolff

• The Court of No Record by Jenny Molberg

• The Last Usable Hour by Deborah Landau

• Welcome to Midland by Logen Cure

Additional Reading

• Army of Giants by Matthew Rohrer

• Fatback Odes by J.D. Reed

• Love and Other Poems by Alex Dimitrov

• Skeletons by Deborah Landau

• Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space by Catherine Barnett

• Texas Blues & Other Poems by Jim Linebarger

• The Devil’s Garden by Adrian Matejka

• Women by Chloe Caldwell

Mentor: Matthew Rohrer

• Dark Things by Novica Tadic (Translated by Charles Simic)

• Extracting the Stone of Madness by Alejandra Pizarnik

• Flies by Michael Dickman

• In The Glittering Maw by Joyce Mansour

• L’Heure Bleue or The Judy Poems by Elisa Gabbert

• More Shadow than Bird by Nuar Alsadir

• Nothing to Declare by Henri Cole

• The Shining by Dorothea Lasky

• The Tiniest Muzzle Sings Songs of Freedom by Magdaalena Zurawski

• Vasko Popa Selected and Translated by Charles Simic

Additional Reading

• Artichoke Season by Susan Antolin

• The Lover by Margeurite Duras

• The Years That Went Missing by Susan Antolin

Mentor: Kevin Young

• Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon

• Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith

• Love Poems by Anne Sexton

• Magic City by Yusef Komunyakaa

• The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson

• The Sonnets by Ted Berrigan