Authors: Poetry

Doug Anderson

Doug Anderson’s first book of poems, The Moon Reflected Fire, won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and his second, Blues for Unemployed Secret Police, a grant from the Academy of American Poets. His memoir, Keep Your Head Down, was published in 2009. His new book of poems is Undress,...

Andrea Cohen

Andrea Cohen’s poems and stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Threepenny Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, Glimmer Train, The Hudson Review, and more. A new book of poems, Everything, was published in 2021. Other collections include Nightshade, Unfathoming,  Furs Not Mine, Kentucky Derby, Long Division, and The Cartographer's Vacation. Cohen’s awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Glimmer Train's...

Quintin Collins

Quintin Collins is a writer, editor, and assistant director of the Solstice Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program. His work appears in many print and online publications, such as Sidereal Magazine, Superstition Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Solstice Literary Magazine, and others. Winner of a...

Steven Cramer

Steven Cramer is the author of six poetry collections, including The Eye that Desires to Look Upward; The World Book; Dialogue for the Left and Right Hand; Goodbye to the Orchard, which won the 2005 Sheila Motton Prize from the New England Poetry Club, and was named a 2005...

Arlene Distler

Arlene Distler is co-founder of Write Action, an advocacy and networking organization for writers in the Brattleboro area. She is active in helping to organize and promote reading events and bringing about collaborations between the arts in the community. Distler is a journalist who has been writing about the...

Martín Espada

Martín Espada has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator, including Vivas to Those Who Have Failed and Pulitzer finalist The Republic of Poetry. His latest book, Floaters, was the winner of the 2021 National Book Award. His other many honors include the Ruth...

Michael Fleming

Michael Fleming was born in San Francisco, raised in Wyoming, and has lived and learned and worked all around the world, from Thailand, England, and Swaziland to Berkeley, New York City, and now Brattleboro, Vermont. He’s been a teacher, a grad student, a carpenter, and always a writer; for...

Carolyn Forché

Carolyn Forché is an American poet, translator, and memoirist. Her books of poetry are Blue Hour, The Angel of History, The Country Between Us, Gathering the Tribes, and her newest collection, In the Lateness of the World. Her memoir, What You Have Heard Is True, was published by Penguin Press in 2019. In 2013,...

Camille Guthrie

Camille Guthrie is the author of four books of poetry, including her newest collection Diamonds. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Boston Review, The Iowa Review, The New Republic, and Tin House, as well as in several anthologies including the The Best American Poetry 2019 & 2020. She has been awarded fellowships from...

Todd Hearon

Todd Hearon was born in Fort Worth,Texas, and raised in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, Todd Hearon earned a B.A. in English from Baylor University before going on to earn an M.A. in Irish studies from Boston College and a Ph.D. in editorial studies from Boston University....

Meg Kearney

Meg Kearney is the author of All Morning the Crows, winner of the Washington Prize, An Unkindness of Ravens and Home By Now, winner of the 2010 PEN New England L.L. Winship Award, as well as a heroic crown published as a chapbook titled The Ice Storm, a trilogy...

Shanta Lee

Shanta Lee is a prize winning artist who works in different mediums as a photographer, writer across genres and is a public intellectual. She is the author of  GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak in Woke Tongues (Diode Editions, 2021) and Black Metamorphoses (Etruscan Press, 2023). Shanta Lee is a producer and reporter...

Nathan McClain

Nathan McClain is the author two poetry collections, Scale and his new collection, Previously Owned. He is a recipient of fellowships from The Frost Place, Sewanee Writers' Conference, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a graduate of the M.F.A. Program for Writers at Warren Wilson.  A Cave Canem fellow, his poems...

Matt Miller

Matt Miller was born and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts. He is the author of Tender the River, The Wounded for the Water, Club Icarus, selected by Major Jackson as the 2012 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize winner, and Cameo Diner: Poems. He has published work previously in Slate, Harvard Review, Notre...

D Nurkse

D Nurkse is the author of eleven previous books of poetry and a new collection, A Country of Strangers; New and Selected Poems. His many honors include a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His poems have appeared in periodicals such...

Jendi Reiter

Jendi Reiter is an award-winning author whose books include the story collection An Incomplete List of My Wishes, the novel Two Natures and the poetry collection Bullies in Love. Honors include a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant for Poetry and short fiction prizes from the Iowa Review, Literal Latté, Bayou...