Kai Coggin

Kai Coggin is the inaugural poet laureate of Hot Springs, Arkansas, and a recipient of a 2024 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship. She has authored five collections, most recently Mother of Other Kingdoms (Harbor Editions, 2024). Her work has appeared in TIME Magazine, Poetry, poets.org, American Poetry Review, Best of the Net, and elsewhere. Coggin hosts the longest-running consecutive weekly open mic series in the country—Wednesday Night Poetry.