Fruitlands. Jhonny Victor, Marie Gauthier, Len Krisak

Marie Gauthier is the author of Leave No Wake (Pine Row Press, 2022) and Hunger All Inside (Finishing Line Press, 2009). Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Sugar House Review, The West Review, Mom Egg Review, and elsewhere. She works for Pioneer Valley Books, runs the Collected Poets Series in Shelburne Falls, Mass., where she lives with her family, and serves as Co-President of the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts.

Len Krisak’s most recent books are Say What You Will (original verse) and a complete verse translation of Virgil’s Aeneid. His work has appeared in the Hudson, Sewanee, Antioch, and Southwest Reviews, among many others, and he is the recipient of the Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wilbur and Robert Frost Prizes. Len is also a four-time champion on Jeopardy!

Jhonny Victor is an Haitian American Poet and Author. He uses his native language, Haitian Creole, French and English as tools to express his emotions, his understanding and his philosophy of life through poetry, lyrics, essays, guitar playing, singing and public speaking. He has published his first poetry collection, The Working-class and Its Burden, describing it as inspirational and a call for action.

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