2026
Kelsay Books is excited to publish collections by our 2026 poets:
Christine L. Adams
Sharisa Aidukaitis
Elaine Alarcon
Heather Allen
Dave Altman
Natalli Amato
Bob Ambrose, Jr.
Christine Andersen
Ina Anderson
Maria J. Andrade
Kelly White Arnold
Lana Ayers
Caroline Bassett
Mark Belair
Carolyn L. Bell
Jim Bellanca
Alba Di Bello
David W. Berner
Jean Biegun
Jon Bishop
Amrita Skye Blaine
Susan F. Blair
F.S. Blake
Jane Blanchard
Laura Blatt
Rose Mary Boehm
N.S. Boone
Andrew Brenza
Joyce Brinkman
Cindy Buchanan
Jacob Butlett
Laura Buxbaum
Paulette Calasibetta
Joan Canby
William T. Carey
Sarah Carleton
Cathy Carlisi
Joseph A. Carosella
Michael Carrino
Cara Losier Chanoine
Perry Cheng
Ann Chinnis
Lee Chottiner
Loralee Clark
Elizabeth Cohen
Rosetta Marantz Cohen
Diana Cohn
Robert Cooperman
Jordan Corley
Matthew Cory
Anne Cowie
Kathy Craig
Jill Crainshaw
Terence Culleton
Marc Darnell
Thomas DeFreitas
Mary Magoon DeLara
Miranda Dennis
Frank Desiderio
Lee Desrosiers
Jean Kiernan Detjen
Michelle DiSarno
Roxanne Doty
Denise T. Drapeau
Sandra Brodkin Dreis
M.F. Drummy
Barbara Eckroad
Katherine Edgren
Nicole Farmer
Arvilla Fee
Cathy Socarras Ferrell
Frank William Finney
Eileen Valentino Flaxman
Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda
Cindy Frenkel
Linda Freudenberger
Matthew Friday
Devon E. Fulford
Jenna K. Funkhouser
Marianne Gambaro
Davidson Garrett
Arlene Geller
D. Walsh Gilbert
Daniel Ginsburg
Kathie Giorgio
Terri Glass
Jessica Upshaw Glass
Bill Glose
Kathleen Granchelli
Jennifer Grant
Julie Taylor Green
Elissa Greenwald
William Greenwood
Mia Schilling Grogan
Pat Hale
Patty Hamilton
Elaine Handley
Connie Hanstedt
Robert Harlow
Cindy Bousquet Harris
Penny Harter
William Heath
Peggy Heitmann
R.J. Hejna
Ronnie Hess
Jonathan Howard
Marsha Howland
D. Scott Humphries
Clarissa Jakobsons
Mark Jarmon
Lorraine Jeffery
R. Johnson
D.B. Jonas
Kasey Jones
Kate Kadleck
Jennifer B. Kahnweiler
Elizabeth Kandall
Beth Kanell
Mark Katrinak
Gavin Kayner
Nicole F. Kimball
Hazel Kitts
Margaret Koger
Cedar Koons
Steven W. Kupferschmid
Andrea A. Lacey
David Anson Lee
Edward Lense (Ed. Deborah Fleming)
Mark Lilley
Cynthia Linkas
Jennie Linthorst
Dale A. Lombardi
Daniel Lusk
Kim Malinowski
Joanne Mallari
Jeanette Marcotte
Kathleen McCann
Maureen McDole
Theodore McDowell
Nancy Anne Miller
David Milley
Alex Missall
Rita Moe
Harry Moore
Marjorie Moorhead
Mimi Moriarty
Catherine Cobb Morocco
Cecil C. Morris
Carol Louise Munn
Sally Nacker
Mary Ann Noe
Robert Nordstrom
Debra J. Nordyke
Camille Norvaisas
Jen OConnor
Katherine Pebley O'Neal
Elizabeth O'Rourke
Brian Palmer
Michael Parker
Kate Parlin
Kaveri Patel
Jonathan Clark Patrick
Karen Petersen
Cory M. Pfarr
d. ellis phelps
Naomi Pliskow
John Raffetto
Mark Rhoads
Monique Rardin Richardson
Bethany J. Riddle
Cindy Rinne
Michael Roberts
Jennifer McKeen Rodrigues
Ron Roth
Ellen Rowland
Carol Rucks
Marcie Ruderman
Stacy Russo
Merryn Rutledge
Ed Ryterband
Mark Saba
Lucy Sage
Abel Saldaña
Shei Sanchez
Evangeline Sanders
Peter Schireson
Joyce Schmid
Jan Zlotnik Schmidt
Leslie Contreras Schwartz
Hannah Seelman
Michael Shoemaker
Trisha Leigh Shufelt
Kevin Shyne
Jefferson Singer
Pamela Sinicrope
Barbara Kreader Skalinder
Gerry Sloan
Anna Egan Smucker
Daphne Solá
Christianna Soumakis
Ken Soyow
Rebecca A. Spears
Beth Spencer
Gregory Stapp
Julie Cadwallader Staub
Mark Stein
Henry Stimpson
Stephanie Sugioka
Rowan Taw
Iris Teague
Alice Teeter
Matt Thomas
Don Thompson
Allison Thorpe
Eleni Traganas
Veronica Tucker
Gene Twaronite
Rimas Uzgiris
Lee Varon
Anastasia Vassos
Shirley Russak Wachtel
Christine Waldeyer
Peter Waldor
Linda Wallin
Mid Walsh
Richard Waring
Sterling Warner
Walter Weinschenk
Rachel Weintraub
Antonia Wilde
Mark M. Williams
Joyce Wilson
Mike Wilson
Jan Worth
Cynthia Robinson Young