Since 2016, Literary Matters has published U.S. Poets Laureate along with winners of the Pulitzer Prize, The National Book Award, The National Book Critics Circle Award, The Bollingen Prize, The MacArthur “Genius” Grant, The Ruth Lilly Prize, The Poets’ Prize, and other premier national prizes, as well as promising writers early in their career and prominent writers at mid-career.
Selected contributors since 2016 include: Betty Adcock, Kim Addonizio, Bruce Bond, David Bottoms, David Bromwich, Kelly Cherry, George David Clark, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Alfred Corn, Erica Dawson, Carl Dennis, Stephen Dunn, David Ferry, Amy Gerstler, Derrick Harriell, Leslie Harrison, Rachel Hadas, Andrew Hudgins, David Kirby, Karl Kirchwey, Ted Kooser, Brad Leithauser, Timothy Liu, Jill McDonough, Ashley Anna McHugh, Amit Majmudar, Maurice Manning, David Mason, Linda Pastan, Marjorie Perloff, D.A. Powell, J. Allyn Rosser, Alan Shapiro, Charles Simic, Dave Smith, Lisa Russ Spaar, A.E. Stallings, Ernest Suarez, Catherine Tufariello, Jean Valentine, Deborah Warren, Rosanna Warren, David Yezzi, and C. Dale Young.