Authors: Poetry

Sarah Audsley

Sarah Audsley is the author of a poetry collection Landlock X. A Korean American adoptee, a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and a member of The Starlings Collective, Audsley lives and works in northern Vermont.  

Chen Chen

Chen Chen is the author of two books of poetry, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency  and When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. His work appears in many...

Franny Choi

Franny Choi is a queer, Korean American writer who works at the intersections of race, gender, technology, history, and the speculative imagination. They are the author of three books: The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On, Soft Science, and Floating, Brilliant, Gone. Her writing has appeared in...

Ewa Chrusciel

Ewa Chrusciel is a poet, translator, and educator. She has four books of poems in English: Yours, Purple Gallinule, Of Annunciations, Contraband of Hoopoe, and Strata, as well as three books in Polish.  She also translated selected books by Jack London, Joseph Conrad, I.B. Singer as well as the book of selected poems...

Charles Coe

Charles Coe is the author of four poetry collections: Picnic on the Moon, All Sins Forgiven: Poems for My Parents, Memento Mori, and his new collection, Purgatory Road . His poetry and prose have appeared in numerous newspapers and literary reviews and magazines, and his poems have been set...

Martha Collins

Martha Collins is the co-translator of Dreaming the Mountain and Black Stars. She has also published eleven volumes of poetry, most recently Casualty Reports and Because What Else Could I Do, which won the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award. Her previous books of poetry include the...

Denise Duhamel

Denise Duhamel is a distinguished university professor in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami. She is the author of Second Story and her previous books include Scald, Blowout, Ka-Ching!, Two and Two, Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems, The Star-Spangled Banner, and Kinky. She...

Jeff Friedman

Jeff Friedman’s poems, mini stories and translations have appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, New England Review, Poetry International, Hotel Amerika, Cast-Iron Aeroplanes That Can Actually Fly: Commentaries from 80 American Poets on their Prose Poetry, Flash Fiction Funny, Flash Nonfiction Funny, Fiction International, The New Republic and numerous other literary magazines and...

Madeleine May Kunin

Madeleine May Kunin, the first woman to be elected governor of Vermont (three terms), was also the U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland and U.S. deputy secretary of education. She is the author of two books of poetry, Red Kite, Blue Sky and her new collection Walk With Me. Her previous...

Cate Marvin

Cate Marvin was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Potomac, Maryland. She received her B.A. from Marlboro College in Vermont in 1993. She holds two M.F.A.s, one from the University of Houston in Poetry (1997), the other from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in Fiction (1999). She went on to complete her...

Richard Michelson

Richard Michelson's poetry collections include More Money than God, Battles and Lullabies, and Tap Dancing for the Relatives. His new collection, Sleeping as Fast as I Can, was released this year in April.  He wrote the libretto for the off-Broadway musical theater piece Dear Edvard, and his children's books have been...

Oliver de la Paz

Oliver de la Paz is the Poet Laureate of Worcester, MA for 2023-2025. He is the author and editor of seven books: Names Above Houses, Furious Lullaby, Requiem for the Orchard, Post Subject: A Fable, and The Boy in the Labyrinth, a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award in...

Enzo Silon Surin

Enzo Silon Surin is an award-winning Haitian-born poet, educator, publisher, and social advocate. He is the author of three previous collections of poetry, including When My Body Was A Clinched Fist, winner of the 21st Annual Massachusetts Book Award for Poetry. He is co-editor of Where We Stand: Poems of Black Resilience, and...

Henry Walters

Henry Walters is the author of two books of poetry: Field Guide A Tempo, a finalist for the 2016 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and The Nature Thief, a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, to be published in the fall of 2022 by The Waywiser Press. He is...

Diana Whitney

Diana Whitney writes across the genres in Vermont with a focus on feminism, motherhood, and sexuality. Her first book, Wanting It, became an indie bestseller and won the Rubery Book Award in poetry. She was the longtime poetry critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, where she featured women poets and LGBTQ+ voices...

Baron Wormser

Baron Wormser was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He went to Johns Hopkins University and did graduate studies at the University of California, Irvine and the University of Maine. In 1970 he moved to Maine with his wife Janet. From 1975 to 1998 he lived with his family in Mercer,...