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Veronica Kornberg is a recipient of the Morton Marcus Poetry Prize and the 2025 Wandering Aengus Book Award in Poetry. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, New Ohio Review, Poet Lore, Catamaran, Rattle, Plume, Rhino Poetry, Calyx, and Beloit Poetry Journal. Veronica co-founded a long-running poetry book club and is a Peer Reviewer for Whale Road Review. A resident of the San Francisco Bay area, Strange Gift is her debut poetry collection. 

Donika Kelly is the author of The Natural Order of Things and The Renunciations. She received the Anisfield-Wolf book award in poetry, the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and a Kate Tufts Discovery Award. A recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, she is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and Pushcart Prize winner. Her poems have been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. She is an associate professor in the English Department at the University of Iowa where she teaches creative writing. 

Upcoming:

• July 14, 2026: Preeti Vangani & Maw Shein Win
• September TBD: Amber Coverdale Sumrall & Julia Levine

Upcoming events organized by the Hive Poetry Collective. This page will be updated with details closer to each event.