The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

Eileen Cleary (she/her) is the author of Wild Pack of the Living (Nixes Mate, 2024), 2 a.m. with Keats (Nixes Mate, 2021) and Child Ward of the Commonwealth (Main Street Rag Press, 2019), which received an honorable mention for the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize. She co-edited... Read More →

Cheryl Clark Vermeulen authored the poetry book They Can Take It Out (Word Works, 2022) and chapbooks Dead-Eye Spring and This Paper Lantern. An M.F.A. graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she has published poems, translations, and poetry reviews in Caketrain, The Drunken Boat... Read More →

Gloria Mindock is editor of Červená Barva Press, an award-winning author of six poetry collections, two book translations in Romanian and Serbian, and three chapbooks. Her poems have been published and translated into twelve languages. Her recent book, Grief Touched the Sky at Night... Read More →

Robbie Gamble (he/him) received an MFA in Poetry from Lesley University. His poems and essays have appeared in DIALOGIST, Post Road, Pangyrus, Salamander, The Sun, and Tahoma Literary Review. His chapbook A Can of Pinto Beans, published by Lily Poetry Review Press, was a finalist... Read More →