Celebrating Our 2026 Summer Fellows

This past June, the Poetry Society of America hosted its inaugural class of Summer Fellows. At the PSA storefront in Brooklyn, fellows engaged in a week-long intensive workshop led by poet Lynn Melnick, as well as field trips and class visits from literary professionals. 

Read a poem by each of our Fellows:

“At Trader Joe's in South Pasadena” by S. Erin Batiste
“Buck” by Adriana Beltrano
“No Persimmons in This Life” by Mitchell Bradford III
“Notes from the Mezzanine” by Cynthia Clifford
“Monica #43 [...the land has capitulated to avatars of tenants...]” by Andres Cordoba
“Pep Talk for Medusa” by Isabella DeSendi
“Have You Seen Precious” by Cicely Grace
“I Will Live and Die in This Walgreens” by Eve Kenneally
“Twilight Parable” by Miguel Martin Perez
“Asian Cowgirl Gets Big!” by Kimberly Ramos
“Pops Be Scraping Snow” by Timothy Ree
“Summer Solstice, Ranch for Troubled Girls” by Lina Stoyanovich