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09/14/2026

This week's poet guide is Peggy Robles-Alvarado Peggy Robles-Alvarado.

Peggy Robles-Alvarado is a poet, educator, performer, playwright and producer from Washington Heights, NY.

Peggy Robles-Alvarado is a multifaceted force of Puerto Rican and Dominican descent in the realms of education, poetry, writing, performance, playwriting, production, and entrepreneurship. Known for her magnetic presence and unfiltered authenticity, she captivates audiences with her rhythmic energy and “raw truth style,” delving into themes of identity, sensuality, and spirituality.

Her talents have garnered prestigious recognition, including the Jerome Hill Foundation Fellowship in Literature, multiple Pushcart Prize nominations and she is the recipient of a BRIO award. Peggy’s literary prowess has been further honored with fellowships from esteemed institutions such as CantoMundo, Desert Nights Rising Stars, The Frost Place, VONA, Academy for Teachers, and The Ashbery Home School. As a three-time recipient of the International Latino Book Award, Peggy’s impactful works include “Conversations With My Skin” (2011), “Homage To The Warrior Women” (2012), and anthologies The Abuela Stories Project (2016) and Mujeres, The Magic, The Movement, and The Muse (2017).

Beyond her many literary achievements, she is the visionary founder of Robleswrites Productions Inc., a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to cultivating opportunities for writers of color from the Bronx and beyond. Through numerous literary events and initiatives, Peggy fosters intergenerational communal healing and promotes literacy, leaving an enduring legacy of empowerment and artistic expression.

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09/09/2026

This week's poet guide is Linda Hogan.

Linda Hogan is a Chickasaw poet, novelist, essayist, and environmentalist from Denver, Colorado.

Linda Hogan’s work explores human relationships with the environment, Indigenous science, and traditional knowledge. Intimately connected to her political and spiritual concerns, her poetry deals with issues such as the environment and eco-feminism, the relocation of Native Americans and historical narratives, including oral histories.

Hogan is the author of several poetry collections including: Calling Myself Home (1978); Daughters, I Love You (1981); Eclipse (1983); and many collections of prose, including: Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World (1995), and The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir (2001).

She earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs and an MA in English and creative writing from the University of Colorado-Boulder.

Hogan has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Lannan Fellowship, a Native Arts and Culture Fellowship, a PEN Thoreau Award, and numerous other recognitions.

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08/24/2026

Rahul Mehta RETURNS as this week's poet guide. They will be joining us LIVE on Discord Rahul Mehta

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Rahul Mehta is a poet, writer, and educator from West Virginia.

Rahul Mehta is the author of two books of fiction: No Other World: A Novel (Harper, 2017) and Quarantine: Stories (HarperPerennial, 2011; Random House India, 2010).

Rahul’s work has received a Lambda Literary Award and the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction and has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including the Kenyon Review, the Georgia Review, the Massachusetts Review, the Sun, New Stories from the South, the New York Times Magazine, and the International Herald Tribune.

In 2011, Rahul was selected by Out magazine for its “Out 100” list of inspiring individuals. Born and raised in a Gujarati- American household in West Virginia, they currently live in Philadelphia with their partner and their dog, and teach creative writing at the University of the Arts.

08/19/2026

This week's poet guide is Omotara James Omotara James

Omotara James is a poet, editor, and visual artist from New York City by way of Great Britain.

Omotara James is the daughter of Nigerian and Trinidadian parents, raised in the United States and has lived in England and Scotland.

Omotara is the author of Song of My Softening (Alice James Books, 2024), winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Le***an Poetry, nominated for an NAACP Image Award, and a finalist for both the Audre Lorde Award for Le***an Poetry and the Norma Farber First Book Award; and Daughter Tongue (Akashic Books, 2018), which was selected for the New Generation African Poets Box Set by the African Poetry Book Fund.

She is also the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Poetry Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, and the Cave Canem Foundation. She has won the 92Y/Discovery Poetry Prize, the Nancy P. Schnader Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference’s Katharine Bakeless Nason Award in Poetry, and the 2023 J. Howard and Barbara M. J. Wood Prize.

Omotara James earned a BA in creative writing from Hofstra University and an MFA in poetry from New York University.

Having worked as both an art therapist and a social worker in the field of harm reduction, James has led workshops at New York University, the 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center, the Cave Canem Foundation, Queens Public Library, Brooklyn Poets, and elsewhere. She is currently a teaching artist and editor and lives in New York City. James served as Guest Editor of Poem-a-Day in June 2025.

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08/18/2026

To be a poet is, in some way, to feel outside, other, misunderstood, unique. It is to be Daria Morgendorffer.

Her full name means “one possessing goodness, from the morning village.”

It is our archetype.

We awaken early.

We live in the morning village.

We cultivate goodness and beauty from poison and pain and the dark night of the soul.

Thank you Susie Lewis Susie Lewis for creating a character who teaches, empathizes, pokes fun, and feels.

Make sure this show is shared with the next generation of ne’er do wells and dissidents!

08/14/2026

Typewriter collectors of the world celebrate with us please!!!

1930s it looks like, royal portable in perfect condition with case!!!

No handle on case but!!!

Ahhhhh but guess how much LA MARKS - Typewriter Poet paid???

Blessings to the family who have honored us with this newest member of our typewriter and analog technology family.

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08/12/2026

Signing off to commune with space. Leaving you these points of light as the sky goes dark 🌚🌞💌

What book was given to all attendees at Steve Jobs’ funeral? First right answer gets a free custom poem dedicated to anyone or anything.

08/10/2026

This week's poet guide is Rahul Mehta Rahul Mehta

Rahul Mehta is a poet, writer, and educator from West Virginia.

Rahul Mehta is the author of two books of fiction: No Other World: A Novel (Harper, 2017) and Quarantine: Stories (HarperPerennial, 2011; Random House India, 2010).

Rahul’s work has received a Lambda Literary Award and the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction and has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including the Kenyon Review, the Georgia Review, the Massachusetts Review, the Sun, New Stories from the South, the New York Times Magazine, and the International Herald Tribune.

In 2011, Rahul was selected by Out magazine for its “Out 100” list of inspiring individuals. Born and raised in a Gujarati- American household in West Virginia, they currently live in Philadelphia with their partner and their dog, and teach creative writing at the University of the Arts.

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08/06/2026

Our Smithsonian fall residency schedule is in full swing starting next week with Jayshawn LivesLavish Lee and Nika Renee as your featured poets at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Come experience this national treasure of a museum and cultural cornerstone, and process your experience with empathic, attuned poets who help you honor your feelings through poetic co-creation.

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Note to our friends, clients, and cultural hubs and venues in DC: many of these poets are traveling to the nation’s capital for this residency and are open to additional bookings and engagements outside of their time at the museum. Feel free to DM us or email [email protected] if you’d like to have a special 1:1 session with one of our esteemed poets or invite them into your space while they’re in town. Looking at you Politics and Prose Bookstore Busboys and Poets Washington Studio School American Poetry Museum Planet Word and friends!

Ars Poetica poets are united in our vision to bring poetry to life in every way imaginable. Thank you NMAHC for seeing the power of poetic co-creation!

08/05/2026

Kinda chic to bring poetry to life.

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