Stephanie Choi describes how her debut collection, The Lengest Neoi (University of Iowa Press), explores the unnerving analogy between “the rhetoric of invasive species and immigration,” including a sonnet corona tracing the narrative of the American chestnut blight. pw.org/TheLuminousLife

To describe, in poetic terms, seeing “U.S. militarization impacting desert landscapes in Arizona,” as well as representations of Black people in the Southwest, Saretta Morgan shares what it felt like to navigate the “physical and affective manifestations” of that violence. at.pw.org/TheLuminousLife

“Live first, write second.” That’s the maxim Darius Atefat-Peckham recalls learning from one of his early writing mentors, Michael Delp. Having tested the advice himself, he recommends “letting life become your writing, not the other way around.” at.pw.org/TheLuminousLife

Matthew Gelman recalls reordering the poems in his debut collection, Beforelight (BOA Editions), dozens of times before it was published. “I wanted a logical development and for the reader to be taken on an emotional journey that felt satisfying at the end.” at.pw.org/TheLuminousLife

Since taking a college political science class that assigned the books of Genesis and Exodus, @sarahali.bsky.social has recognized the agency and political choices of women in scripture—a lesson that informs her new poetry collection, Theophanies (Alice James Books). at.pw.org/TheLuminousLife

Read ten authors’ advice in our 20th annual debut poets spotlight! Gain insights from Kenzie Allen, Jimin Seo, Sarah Ghazal Ali, Diego Báez, Saretta Morgan, Matthew Gellman, Christian J. Collier, Stephanie Choi, Darius Atefat-Peckham, and Yalie Saweda Kamara. http://at.pw.org/TheLuminousLife

“I wanted to write back against stereotypes and misconceptions of Indigenous peoples,” says Kenzie Allen. She adds that her new collection, Cloud Missives (Tin House), afforded her “new vocabularies” and a medium for “reclaim[ing] culture, identity, and survivance.” http://at.pw.org/TheLuminousLife

Christian J. Collier shares that he finds inspiration in disciplines like visual art and music. He recalls watching the artist Mark Bradford at work, an experience that “resulted in a range of permissions” that changed his approach to poetry. at.pw.org/TheLuminousLife

To @yaliesaweda.bsky.social, conversation is a form of writing. She explains: “I am taken by how this type of communing offers the time for exploration, deconstruction, meandering, building, possibility, confession, dreaming, and the allowance for silences.” at.pw.org/TheLuminousLife

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Diego Báez shares how the expansiveness of architecture and landscape—in particular “los campos” outside his father’s hometown of Villarrica—remind him that “poetry, too, exists within a particular time and place” while affording boundless imaginaries. at.pw.org/TheLuminousLife