May 19, 2025
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. He served as poet laureate of Vermont from 2015 to 2019 and taught English and Creative Writing for twenty-two years at Providence College, where is now a Professor Emeritus. He lives in Westminster West, Vt. with his wife, the painter, Liz Hawkes deNiord
May 19, 2025
Colin Channer was born in Jamaica and educated there, and in New York. His most recent collection is Console, published in 2023 by Farrar Straus and Giroux. Console was listed for the for the PEN/Voelcker Award and named a New Yorker Best Book of the Year. A recipient of a Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers and a Cullman Fellowship from the New York Public Library, Colin teaches at Brown and was appointed Poet Laureate of Rhode Island in 2024 for a five-year term. His poems have appeared in The Atlantic,, The Poetry Review, Conjunctions and other venues.
May 19, 2025
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 the Bennington Review, Colorado Review, Poetry Northwest, Zone 3, and others. He spends his summers on his family’s blueberry farm in the Finger Lakes. (more…)
