Authors: Poetry

Albert Abonado

Albert Abonado is the author of the poetry collection JAW and the Field Guide for Accidents selected by Mahogany Browne for the National Poetry Series. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. His writing has appeared in...

Colin Channer

Colin Channer is a poet and fiction writer born in Jamaica. His awards include the Cullman Fellowship from the New York Public Library and the Henry Merritt Wriston Fellowship from Brown University, where he is an associate professor of literary arts. Channer’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker,...

Tiana Clark

Tiana Clark is the author of two poetry collections, her new book Scorched Earth and I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood, which won the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize; and Equilibrium, which won the 2016 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. Clark’s other honors include a Pushcart...

Chard deNiord

Chard deNiord is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Westminster West, In My Unknowing and Interstate,. He is also the author of two books of interviews with eminent American poets He co-founded the New England College MFA program in 2001 and the Ruth Stone Foundation in 2011....

Marti­n Espada

Martin Espada, known for his powerful and socially conscious writing, has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist, and translator . His new collection of poetry is Jailbreak of Sparrows; his previous book, Floaters, won the National Book Award for Poetry and a Massachusetts Book Award....

Carlene Kucharczyk

Carlene Kucharczyk’s debut collection Strange Hymn, published this spring by the University of Massachusetts Press, is the winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry. She is the recipient of a Creation Grant from the Vermont Arts Council and holds an MFA from North Carolina State University. Her work has...

Dzvinia Orlowsky

Dzvinia Orlowsky is a Ukrainian American poet, translator, editor, and teacher. She was born in Cambridge, Ohio and received her BA from Oberlin College and her MFA from the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. She is a poet, translator, and a founding editor of Four Way Books....

Rachel Trousdale

Rachel Trousdale is a professor of English at Framingham State University. Her poetry collection, Five-Paragraph Essay on the Body-Mind Problem, won the inaugural Cardinal Poetry Prize and will be published by Wesleyan University Press in 2025. Her latest scholarly book is Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry....