Featured Poets
Most past issues of a fine line featured poetry from a certain writer. Now, every issue of a fine line magazine includes a seasonal Featured Poet. Here is our index of writers that have previously been featured in the magazine.
The Featured Student Poet was launched in 2019, and we continue to feature a student poet for every Winter edition of a fine line.
2021
Winter – Tessa Keenan
Autumn – Sophia Wilson
2020
Summer – Michael Giacon
Spring – Andrea Ewing
Winter – Cadence Chung
Autumn – Piet Nieuwland
2019
Autumn – Iona Winter
Winter – Xiaole Zhan
Spring – Susan Wardell
Summer – Jeni Curtis
2018
Winter – Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
Spring – Wanda Barker
Summer – Art Nahill
2017
February – Adrienne Jansen
May – Violeta Ionescu, with Romanian translations by Valentina Teclici
August – Liz Breslin
December – Bernadette Hall
2016
April – Christopher Palmer
September – Kerrin P. Sharpe
November – Helen Tau’au Filisi
2015
April – David Taylor
2014
January – Rose Lilian
March – Susan Howard
May – Vaughan Rapatahana
July – John O’Connor
December – Paula Harris
2013
March – Deborah Norrie-Jones
July – Keith Westwater
November – Kristina Jensen
2012
January – The Academy
March – Rowan Taigel
May – Janis Freegard
September – Marion Moxham
November – Alexandra Fraser
2011
March – Nalini Singh
May – Gill Ward
July – Charmaine Thomson
September – Jenny Dobson
November – Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle
2010
November – Maris O’Rourke