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In this 2024 LanguageBack Retreat Reading hosted by Indigenous Nations Poets, Kalehua Kim reads her poem “Mystique.” Kim, author of Mele (Trio House Press, 2025), is featured in “New Ways of Seeing: Our Twenty-First Annual Look at Debut Poets” in the January/February 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Watch Poets & Writers Magazine features editor India Lena González host this two-part event celebrating the ten debut poets featured in “New Ways of Seeing: Our Twenty-First Annual Look at Debut Poets” from our January/February 2026 issue. The virtual event includes readings from the poets, as well as conversations about their debut books, their influences and inspirations, and their individual paths to publication.
In this video, fourteen Black poets from ten different countries read in multiple languages and in translation for this 2024 Furious Flower Poetry Center virtual event hosted by Gbenga Adesina, who is featured in “New Ways of Seeing: Our Twenty-First Annual Look at Debut Poets” in the January/February 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Lena Moses-Schmitt reads from her debut collection, True Mistakes (University of Arkansas Press, 2025), and talks about how a constant sense of awe continuously inspires her life and poetics in this Green Apple Books event with Leigh Lucas. Moses-Schmitt is featured in “New Ways of Seeing: Our Twenty-First Annual Look at Debut Poets” in the January/February 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Nadia Alexis reads from her debut collection, Beyond the Watershed (CavanKerry Books, 2025), and talks about her process of writing poetry and compiling photography around the Haitian American experience with Melissa Ginsburg in this event at Square Books. Alexis is featured in “New Ways of Seeing: Our Twenty-First Annual Look at Debut Poets” in the January/February 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
