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Award-winning poetry by established and emerging poets throughout the summer.
Rosanna Warren is a Professor (Emerita) at the University of Chicago. She is the author of seven books of poetry: the new Hindsight, and most recently So Forth (2020) and Ghost in a Red Hat (2011). Her biography of Max Jacob, Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters, appeared in October 2020. She has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, The American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Lila Wallace Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the New England Poetry Club, among others.
National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/America Open Book Award finalist Rajiv Mohabir is the author of five books of poetry including Seabeast (Four Way Books 2025). His memoir and translations received recognition from the Forward Indies, Eric Hoffer Medal Provocateur, and the Guyana Prize for Literature.
Keetje Kuipers’ fourth collection of poetry, Lonely Women Make Good Lovers, was the recipient of the Isabella Gardner Award. Her poetry and prose have appeared in American Poetry Review, New York Times Magazine, and Poetry, and have been honored by publication in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies. Keetje has been a Stegner Fellow, NEA Literature Fellow in Creative Writing, and the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Resident. Previously a VP on the board of the National Book Critics Circle, Keetje is currently Editor of Poetry Northwest, and teaches at the dual-language writers’ gathering Under the Volcano in Tepoztlán, Mexico. She lives with her wife and children in Montana, where she co-directs the Headwaters Reading Series for Health & Well-Being and keeps an eye out for bears in her backyard.
Meg Kearney is author of eight books, including All Morning the Crows, which was winner of the Washington Prize for poetry, a Pushcart Prize nominee, a Silver Medalist in Foreword Review’s Indies Book Awards, and made Small Press Distribution’s poetry bestseller list April through September, 2021. Her heroic crown of sonnets, The Ice Storm (2020) is now in its third printing; and Home By Now (2010) was winner of the PEN New England L.L. Winship Award. Her second heroic crown of sonnets, Cardiac Thrill, will be published in September 2025. Her poetry has been featured on Poetry Daily, Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry” series, and Garrison Keillor’s “A Writer’s Almanac;” it was also included in the 2017 Best American Poetry anthology. A native New Yorker, she lives in New Hampshire and is founding director of the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program at Lasell University in Massachusetts.