Fruitlands: Chard deNiord, Robbie Gamble, Pamela Gemme

(Left to right: Pamela Gemme, Chard deNiord, Robbie Gamble)

Chard deNiord is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently In My Unknowing (University of Pittsburgh Press 2020), Interstate (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), and The Double Truth (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011). He is also the author of two books of interviews with eminent American poets: Sad Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs, Conversations and Reflections on 20^th Century Poetry (Marick Press, 2011) and I Would Lie To You If I Could  (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018). deNiord is Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing at Providence College. From 2015 to 2019 he served as poet laureate of Vermont. He lives in Westminster West, Vermont with his wife, Liz.

Robbie Gamble (he/him) received an MFA in Poetry from Lesley University. His poems and essays have appeared in Post Road, Pangyrus, Salamander, The Sun, Tahoma Literary Review, and The Worcester Review. His chapbook A Can of Pinto Beans, published by Lily Poetry Review Press, was a finalist for the 2022 Jean Pedrick Award. His essay “Exit Wound” was cited as a notable essay in Best American Essays 2020. Robbie is the poetry editor for Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices, and he divides his time between Boston and Vermont.

Pamela Gemme was born to working class parents and grew up in Gardner, Massachusetts. She went to state universities, is a poet, artist, political activist, and a child protection social work consultant for Massachusetts’s DCF. Recent or forthcoming publications include The American Journal of Poetry, Pangyrus, Haiku Journal, The Chicago Quarterly Review, Heliotrope Anthology, J Journal, SoFloPoJo, Ibbetson Street Magazine, and many others. Pamela was a Reader for Lily Poetry Review 2019, Art Editor Lily Poetry Review 2018-2019, and won Two Poetry-In-Place Awards for the city of Newton, Massachusetts. Her poem “Working the Child at Risk Hotline” received an Honorable Mention in the Common Ground Review Spring 2021. She was on the poet’s committee for the first National Baseball Poetry Festival, and co-edited Essential Voices: A Covid-19 Anthology (West Virginia University Press, 2023).