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It is our distinct pleasure to announce that we have accepted eight new Poetry Readers to join our team! Please give a warm welcome to: Hajjar Baban, Ai Li Feng, Quinton Okoro, Jaz Sufi, Tariq Thompson, Eleanor Colligan, Anoushka Kumar, and Tyler Raso!  Hajjar Baban is a Pakistan-born Afghan Kurdish poet. Ai Li Feng was born in Jiangxi, although she is currently based out of New England. She reads for Split Lip Magazine and loves black locust trees.  Quinton Okoro is a Black, nonbinary poet from Nigeria, with a BA in Creative Writing from UNC-Chapel Hill. They are a 2024 Djanikian Scholar and the winner of a University & College Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, among other awards. Their poetry is featured in The Adroit Journal, Poets.org, Nimrod International Journal, Shō Poetry Journal, Driftwood Press, and elsewhere.  Jaz Sufi (she/hers) is a mixed race Iranian-American poet and arts educator. Her work has been published or is upcoming in the Adroit Journal, AGNI, Black Warrior Review, Colorado Review, Muzzle, and elsewhere. She is a National Poetry Slam finalist and has received fellowships from Kundiman, the Watering Hole, and New York University, where she received her MFA. She lives between the Bay Area and Brooklyn with her dog, Apollo.  Tariq Thompson is a poet and educator from Memphis, Tennessee. He is the author of the chapbook LONE LILY (Sunset Press, 2021). His poetry has appeared in the American Poetry Review, The Adroit Journal, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. Thompson was a finalist for a 2023 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship and was awarded the 2020 Adroit Prize for Poetry. He holds an MFA in poetry from New York University, where he was a Writers in the Public Schools Fellow. Learn more about his work at tariqthompson.com.  Eleanor Colligan is a writer from the Midwest currently based in NYC. She is a 2024 Brooklyn Poets fellow, and a reader for ONLY POEMS and Blue Marble Review. You can find her work in Beaver’s Mag, Rat’s Ass Review, and more. You can find more of her at theestateofeleanorcolligan.hotglue.me.  Anoushka Kumar (she/her) is a student and writer from India, with work forthcoming or published in Poetry Northwest, DIALOGIST, Jet Fuel Review, Ballast Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. She is a poetry reader for Variant Literature and likes wood-panelled flooring and Phoebe Bridgers. Find more of her at anoushkakumar.carrd.co.  Tyler Raso (they/she) is a poet, essayist, and teacher. Their work is featured or forthcoming in Electric Literature, The Offing, Black Warrior Review, DIAGRAM, Salt Hill Journal, Split Lip Magazine, The Journal, and elsewhere. They can be found tweeting @spaghettiutopia. |
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