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