Poetry: Amy Dryansky, Dan Tobin, Ethel Rackin, and Steven Kleinman

Award-winning poetry by established and emerging poets throughout the summer.

Amy Dryansky’s (she/her) third poetry collection, Ambergris, is forthcoming in 2026 from Pine Row Press. Her first, How I Got Lost So Close to Home, won the New England/New York Award from Alice James, the second, Grass Whistle (Salmon Poetry) received the Massachusetts Book Award. A former poet laureate of Northampton, MA, she has also received honors from the Poetry Society of America, MacDowell, Massachusetts Cultural Council and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Individual poems appear in Adroit, Harvard Review, New England Review, Orion, The Sun, Tin House, Waxwing and other journals, as well as several anthologies. Amy parents two children and is currently developing community-based workshops for caregivers and grievers. She lives in rural western Massachusetts on Pocumtuck ancestral lands.

Daniel Tobin is the author of ten books of poems, including Blood Labors, named one of the Best Poetry Books of the Year for 2018 by The New York Times and The Washington Independent Review of Books and The Mansions, winner of the National Indie Excellence Award in Poetry. Other prizes for his work include the Massachusetts Book Award, the Julia Ward Howe Award, and fellowships from the NEA and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. The Odeon: Essays on Poetry appeared in 2025 along with Gloss Arias I: From the Distances of Sleep, a chapbook. Dusk, Empire: New and Selected Poems 1987-2024 is newly out from Four Way Books.

Ethel Rackin is the author of four poetry books: The Forever Notes (Parlor Press, 2013); Go On (Parlor Press, 2016); Evening (Furniture Press, 2017); and In Time (Word Works Books, 2025). In addition, she is the author of the text Crafting Poems and Stories: A Guide to Creative Writing (Broadview Press, 2022). Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Colorado Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Poetry Daily, and other journals. A MacDowell fellow, she has taught at Penn State, Haverford College, and Bucks County Community College, where she is a professor of English.

Steven Kleinman is the author of Life Cycle of a Bear, winner of the 2019 Philip Levine Prize. His poems appear in Poet Lore, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Iowa Review, The Georgia Review, Copper Nickel, and the anthologies Best American Poetry 2020 and Ensnaring the Moment: on the Intersection of Poetry and Photography. He teaches in the Warren Wilson Low-Residency MFA program and serves as a Contributing Editor at The American Poetry Review. He lives in Philadelphia where he is pursuing a master's in clinical psychology and co-chairs the Philadelphia Chapter of Yetzirah.