Poet Talk on WMUA

James Haug ’s most recent collections are  Riverain  (Oberlin College Press),  Three Poems  (Factory Hollow Press), and  My Team Hates Friday  (Press Brake). He publishes Scram Press in Northampton, Massachusetts, and drives a van for Riverside Industries.

Ian Fishman is a poet from the Connecticut River Valley. He runs Press Brake (@brake.press), a publishing arm of western Massachusetts. He divides time b/w Brooklyn and Northampton, and he holds an MFA from NYU.

Jayson Keery is the author of  The Choice is Real  (Metatron Press, 2023) and the chapbooks  Sleepover Nervous  (Midnight Mass, 2024) and  Astroturf  (o•blēk editions, 2022). They have been anthologized in Mundus Press’s  Nocturnal Properties , Nightboat Books'  We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics , and Pilot Press London's  A Queer Anthology of Rage . They received the 2...

Daniel Hales is a writer, musician, artist, teacher, and salsa junkie living in western MA. He’s the author of  ¿Cómo Hacer Preguntas?  or,  How To Make Questions: 69 Instructional Poems  (Frayed Edge Press), the hybrid novel  Run Story  (Shape&Nature), and three poetry chapbooks:  Tempo Maps , which comes with the companion CD:  Miner Street Symphony  (ixnay),  Blind Drive  (White Knuckle), a...

Adam Munsey Tobin is a bookseller and poet of Ashfield, MA. He owns and operates Unnameable Books, a new and used bookstore with locations in Brooklyn NY and Unnameable Falls MA.  With Catherine/Corbett Bresner he edits a magazine called Spirit Duplicator, produced on machine of same name. His poems have appeared in Fence, EOAGH, 6x6, Antiphony, Spirit Duplicator, The Weekly Weakling and elsewhere...

Robbie Gamble (he/him) received an MFA in Poetry from Lesley University. His poems and essays have appeared in Poet Lore , Post Road, Pangyrus, Salamander, The Sun , and  Tahoma Literary Review.  His chapbook  A Can of Pinto Beans , published by Lily Poetry Review Press, was a finalist for the 2022 Jean Pedrick Award. Robbie was the winner of the 2017  Carve  Poetry Prize, and he was a 2019 Robert...

Julie Howd is the author of Threshold (Host Publications, 2020), winner of the Host Publications 2019 Chapbook Prize, and  Talking from the Knees Up  (dancing girl press, 2018). Her work has been published in  Deluge ,  The Spectacle ,  Sixth Finch , and elsewhere. If she's not on Phish tour, you can find her in Northampton, painting and making jewelry. 

catherine corbett bresner  (they/she) is a nonbinary artist living in Western MA. They are  the author of the chapbooks  The Merriam Webster Series  (2012) and  Some Break A / Others Say Do  (Press Brake, 2025), and the full-length poetry collections  Can We Anything We See  (Spuyten Duyvil, 2025),  the empty season  (Diode Editions, 2018), award winner of the 2017 Diode Book Contest,  and the art...

ABIGAIL CHABITNOY is the author of  In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful  (Wesleyan 2022),  How to Dress a Fish  (Wesleyan 2019), winner of the 2020 Colorado Book Award for Poetry and shortlisted in the international category of the 2020 Griffin Prize for Poetry, and the lino-cut illustrated chapbook  Converging Lines of Light  (Flower Press 2020). Abigail is a mentor for the Institute of Am...

Zoe Tuck was born in Texas, became a person in California, and now lives in Massachusetts. She is the author Bedroom Vowel (Bunny Presse), Terror Matrix (Timeless, Infinite Light) and the chapbooks Vape Cloud of Unknowing (Belladonna*), and The Book of Bella (DoubleCross Press), the latter of which is bound in a dos-a-dos edition with Emily Hunerwadel's "Peach Woman”. In addition to teach...

What do you do when your poet cancels at the last minute? Go for a bracing dip into Queer Poetics with L Scully & a sweet reading of Walt Whitman by Zahara Vanderpuge. Poems read this evening are by Maggie Von Sacher, Sholto Buck, Max Gregg & Mayah Monet Lovell. For a deep dive into Queer Poetics: www.transreads.org

Yona Harvey is the author of  You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love,  which received the 2020 Award in Poetry from  The Believer  magazine.   Hemming the Water,  her first book of poems, was the winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award from Claremont Graduate University and a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Award.  She received the Inaugural Lucille Clifton Legacy Award in Poetry from St. Mary’s C...

PATRICK DONNELLY  is the author of five books of poetry,  Willow Hammer  (Four Way Books, spring 2025),  Little-Known Operas  (Four Way Books, 2019),  Jesus Said  (a chapbook from Orison Books, 2017),  Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin  (Four Way Books, 2012, a Lambda Literary Award finalist), and  The Charge  (Ausable Press, 2003, since 2009 part of Copper Canyon Press). Donnelly is program direct...

Kathryn (Kat) Good-Schiff was raised by a feminist Episcopal priest and a conscientious objector nurse anesthetist. A former gardener, ice cream maker, and editor, she now works as a librarian. She grew up in the Northeastern United States and traveled far and wide before rooting in Western Massachusetts, where she lives with her wife and their animals in the shadow of an old mountain. 

CAConrad has worked with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. Their latest book is Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return ( Wave Books/UK Penguin. 2024).They received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a PEN JOsephine Miles Award, a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, and a Lambda Award. The Book of Frank is nw available in 9 diffent languages, and they coedited SUPPLICATION: S...

Howie Faerstein is the author of 5 books:  Play a Song on the Drums he said,   Out of Order , (Main Street Press) & two full-length collections:  Dreaming of the Rain in Brooklyn  and  Googootz and Other Poems , published by Press 53.  STAY , a recent collection (Human Error Publishing) was published in February 2023. His poetry & reviews can be found in numerous journals including  Great...

Martha McCollough lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. She has an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute. Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in  Radar, QWERTY, Tampa Review, Tammy, Barrelhouse,  and  Salamander,  among others.   Her chapbook,  Grandmother Mountain,  was published by Blue Lyra Press in October 2019. Her videopoems have appeared in  Triquarterly, Datableed , and  Atticus Review.  ...

Sebastian Merrill ’s debut collection  GHOST :: SEEDS  explores a dialogue between a trans-masculine speaker and his former self, incorporating myth and magical realism in a journey that takes us from the Maine coast to the underworld and back.  GHOST :: SEEDS  has received multiple awards including: Winner of the 2024 Stonewall Honor Book - Barbara Gittings Literature Award from the American Libr...

Jessica Fisher is the author of three books of poetry: Frail-Craft , which won the 2006 Yale Younger Poets Prize, Inmost , which was awarded the 2011 Nightboat Poetry Prize, and Daywork , forthcoming from Milkwood Editions. Her poems appear in such journals as The American Poetry Review ,  The Believer, The Bennington Review ,  The Colorado Review ,  McSweeney’s, The New Yorker ,  The Threepenny R...

Andrea Lawlor is the author of a chapbook, Position Papers (Factory Hollow Press, 2016), and a novel, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl (Rescue Press, 2017; Vintage, 2019; Picador UK, 2019). Their stories, essays, and poems have appeared in publications such as Ploughshares, The Brooklyn Rail, jubilat, and The New York Times. They are the recipient of a Whiting Award for Fiction, as well as fel...

Amelia Sage Van Donsel was selected by Danez Smith as the winner of the Nassau Literary Festival Poetry Prize, has been awarded by the Academy of American Poets, and has published poems in FENCE, Conjunctions, Bennington Review, and elsewhere. She is finishing her MFA in poetry at UMass Amherst, where she currently teaches and works with the UMass Jail Education Initiative. She is a 2025 Juniper W...

Eliot Cardinaux is a poet, pianist, composer and translator working at the intersection of the lyric poem and improvised music.

Janet MacFadyen's third full-length collection, State of Grass, was released February 2024 by Salmon Poetry. Earlier books include the photo-poetry collaboration Adrift in the House of Rocks (New Feral Press, 2019), and Waiting to Be Born (Dos Madres Press, 2017). Both of these draw heavily on a love of landscape, rocks, and journeys, both actual and metaphorical. Honors include a Massachusetts Cu...

Dorsía Smith Silva is the author of In Inheritance of Drowning (CavanKerry, 2024), an eight-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Best of the Net finalist, Best New Poets nominee, Cave Canem Poetry Prize Semifinalist, Obsidian Fellow, Poetry Editor at The Hopper, and Full Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Her poetry has been shortlisted for the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writ...

Lucas de Lima is a Brazilian-born poet, artist, scholar, and educator. They are the author of Tropical Sacrifice (Birds LLC 2022) and Wet Land (Action Books 2014) as well as multiple chapbooks. A recipient of grants and fellowships from the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Canada Council for the Arts, de Lima holds a PhD from...