Project Poëtica - Southern Methodist University

We are excited to share that Project Poëtica’s social presence will now live solely on the SMU English channels! As a proud initiative of the Department of English, Project Poëtica will engage exclusively through the English platforms so our community has one vibrant place to connect and celebrate. As part of this shift, the current Project Poëtica account will no longer be active. Join us on the SMU English channels for all future Project Poëtica updates.

Please join us in welcoming our 2026 Keynote Scholar, Anahid Nersessian. Anahid’s experience as a groundbreaking scholar and editor promises to bring incredible insight to this year’s symposium. We’re less than a year away, and time is already flying!

📸Photo is via UCLA Institute of the Environment & Sustainability |

We welcome Ada Limón as our Keynote Poet for the 2026 Symposium on Poetic Form!

During the symposium, Limón will be performing a reading and participating in a creative conversation with Jahan Ramazani. We are looking forward to these two incredible events! Stay tuned as we announce more details about the presenters, theme, and schedule ✍️

📸 Photo is via the Poetry Foundation |

Meet our Keynotes & Plenary Speakers 👋This year’s lineup is absolutely incredible. We’re thrilled to be welcoming so many leading poets and scholars!

🔗 You can find all things Symposium through the link in our bio!

We’re excited to announce we have acquired another book for our invited, single-author collection series with Bridwell Press. Look for Conor Bracken’s All-American Dad in the fall of 2026!

Be sure to keep an eye out for new Central Track Poetry releases and Deep Vellum poetry events! We’re so proud of this partnership.

Congratulations to our partners at Deep Vellum for publishing another work in translation in the Central Track Poetry Series! We can’t wait to read the latest from Fiston Mwanza Mujila, The Slaughterhouse of Dreams, translated by J. Bret Maney. Mwanza Mujila’s work draws on a traditional Congolese form of praise poem and blends performance and lyric.

We are excited to announce we acquired another book for our series with Bridwell Press, devoted to poetic collaboration. We can’t wait for fall 2026 to see Ghost Smoke in print!

COVER REVEAL!

projectpoetica is thrilled to share the cover of its forthcoming collection AMID THIS by the talented Allan Peterson. At Project Poetica, we pride ourselves on author collaboration. Peterson, who holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, created this stunning tree print himself, and we are so thrilled with the final cover by our brilliant designer, Alicia Beebe. Be on the lookout for your chance to pre-order your copy of AMID THIS, which will be released in spring 2026.