We write to probe and traverse the unknown—the poem a soft, pliable device that Mónica de la Torre and Tonya M. Foster explore through swirling semantic permutations, linguistic turns and leaps positioning the apparatus in closer proximity to the heart. The Poetry Project is thrilled to celebrate the release of their new publications, Pause the Document and Thingifications::Mathematics of Chaos.

Join us for a night of readings from Christopher Brunt and Timothy Liu, who will be reading from their latest work! Christopher Brunt’s War at Home (saturnalia, 2024) is a mythic, surreal journey through the chaos of memory, masculinity, and transformation, where fractured selves seek redemption in the face of addiction, loss, and the haunting specter of power. With lyrical […]

About the Poets: Toby Altman is the author of Jewel Box (Essay Press, 2025), Discipline Park (Wendy’s Subway, 2023), and Arcadia, Indiana (Plays Inverse, 2017). He has held fellowships from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in the Fine Arts, MacDowell, and the National Endowment for the Arts, where he was a 2021 Poetry Fellow. He teaches at Michigan State University, where […]

About the Poets: Mónica de la Torre’s seven poetry books include Pause the Document (forthcoming from Nightboat in March 2025), Repetition Nineteen, The Happy End / All Welcome and two collections in Spanish published in her native Mexico City. She co-edited Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–79 and is the recipient of a 2022 Creative Capital grant and the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary […]