Poetry

My Ríastrad, Kevin Hogan's first collection of poetry, is a riveting autobiography told in the poet's unmistakable Boston-Irish voice.

In Passerby, her first book of poems, Emily H. Axelrod sees clearly the grime, the grief and danger of the world around her, but her vision is essentially a redemptive, celebratory one. Her poems are informed by moments of reunion and by memories of childhood: her cheek against a horse’s warm neck; racing to a waterfall, her body “young and lithe / as flexible as the silver birches…” 

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Wendy Mnookin’s most recent book of poems is Dinner with Emerson. Her previous books are The Moon Makes Its Own Plea, What He Took, and To Get Here, from BOA Editions, and Guenever Speaks, a book of persona poems.

Rebecca Okrent graduated from Bennington College, worked in publishing in New York, and later as a landscape designer, graphic artist, food columnist, and editor of an online magazine. She and her husband, writer/editor Daniel Okrent, live in New York and Cape Cod.

Deborah Gorlin, co-director of the writing program at Hampshire College, has published both poetry and nonfiction and has extensive editorial experience. Her book of poems, Bodily Course, won the 1996 White Pine Press Poetry Prize. She is also poetry editor of the Massachusetts Review.

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