Books
Member Helena Minton published, Paris Paint Box: New and Selected Poems, at Loom Press. Helena Minton’s previous collections include The Canal Bed with Alice James Books, The Gardener and the Bees with March Street Press, and The Raincoat Colors with Finishing Line Press. Her poems have appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies, including The Beloit Poetry Journal, Ibbetson Street, The Listening Eye, Sou’wester, Poetry, West Branch, Nasty Women Poets, An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse, and Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace. She worked for many years as the director of a public library and has also taught English Composition and Creative Writing. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst and serves on the Board of the Robert Frost Foundation, in Lawrence, Massachusetts. She lives north of Boston.
Board Member Mary Buchinger new book Virology was published by Lily Poetry Review Books. Mary Buchinger, author of Virology, /klaʊdz/, e i n f ü h l u n g/in feeling, Aerialist, Roomful of Sparrows, and Navigating the Reach (forthcoming, 2023), has received awards from the New England Poetry Club and the Virginia Poetry Society, a Norton Island Residency, and over a dozen Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations. Her poetry appears in AGNI, Hollins Critic, Nimrod, Plume, Salt Hill, Seneca Review, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, and elsewhere. Buchinger serves on the board of the New England Poetry Club and teaches at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston.
Member Ralph Culver’s book, A Passable Man, was recently reviewed by Carla Scarano D’Antonio in the High Window
Journals
Member Trapper Markelz published his poem, “Negative Land,” in the Wild Roof Journal. He had three poems published in Banyan Review. Trapper Markelz (he/him) writes from Arlington, Massachusetts. His work has appeared in the journals Baltimore Review, Stillwater Review, Bangalore Review, Greensboro Review, Passengers Journal, High Shelf Press, Dillydoun Review, and others.
Two of member Tom Driscoll‘s poems appear in this annual monograph of art and ekphrastic poems. The 2022 Art on the Trails takes place on Beals Perserve in Southborough, MA.
Awards
Eccentric Days of Hope & Sorrow, poems by Natalka Bilotserkivets, co-translated by Ali Kinsella and member Dzvinia Orlowsky is shortlisted for National Translation Award in Poetry.
Readings
Member Dolores Hayden read with Marilyn Nelson and Terry Blackhawk as part of the Phosphorescence Poetry Series presented by the Emily Dickinson Museum in July 2022.