May 24, 2025
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. Her website is Racheltrousdale.com, and you can find her on social media at X and on Bluesky.
May 19, 2025
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. Dzvinia is the author of six poetry collections published by Carnegie Mellon University Press, including Bad Harvest. Her newest collection is Those Absences Now Closest, poems that reflect on the current tragedy in Ukraine.
May 19, 2025
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 been published in journals such as Mid-American Review, Green Mountains Review, Poetry Northwest, Tupelo Quarterly, and Conduit, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
May 19, 2025
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. A former tenant lawyer with Su Clinica Legal in Greater Boston, Espada is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
