Current Guest Editor
Hanif Abdurraqib (Theme: Pop Culture and Response)
Executive Editor
Emily Holland
Translations Editor
Pat Davis
Editorial Team
Sarah Brockhaus ● Adam Chiles ● Ben Cooper ● Magpie Hershberg ● Fiona Jin ● Hannah Kosak ● Donald Pasmore ● Shannon Ryan ● Rebekah Rykiel ● Ember Schiffries ● Harrison Wein
Art Director
Emily Fussner
Marketing Director
Zach Powers
Logo Design
Alyssa Holland
Publisher
Poet Lore is published by The Writer’s Center, a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization. For more than 40 years, The Writer’s Center has been a home for writers from all over the Washington metropolitan area. The Writer’s Center cultivates the creation, publication, presentation, and dissemination of literary work.
Past Guest Editors
Kenzie Allen (“The More-Than-Human World”) ● jason b. crawford (Ekphrastic Poems) ● Luther Hughes (Love Poems by Queer Poets) ● Ruben Quesada (Traditional Poetic Forms) ● Chet’la Sebree (Home & Hiraeth) ● Taylor Byas (Folio for Black Writers) ● Benjamin Garcia (Punctuation) ● Tarfia Faizullah (Surrealism and Strangeness)
Past Editors
B.J. Love, Jody Bolz, E. Ethelbert Miller, Rick Cannon, DeeDee Clendenning, Geraldine Connolly, Caitlin Cushman, Jason DeYoung, Sunil Freeman, Martin Galvin, Barbara Goldberg, Philip K. Jason, Elizabeth Poliner, Gary Stein, and Bruce Weigl.