Poet Talk on WMUA

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Join Ellen Miller-Mack and her co-host Kevin Carberry every week as a poet from the fertile fields of Western Massachusetts joins us in our WMUA studio. They share a beloved poem by another poet and some of their own poems, followed by  a deep discussion about their work and life as a poet.

  1. 4d ago

    Chaya Grossberg

    Life long poet, fiction and non fiction writer Chaya has been writing and sharing poetry for 3 decades. She recently published poetry books, "Reborn: Poetic Codes For Psychiatric Survivors" and “Daylilies Wild as Night”.

  2. Oct 23

    Amy Dryansky

    Amy Dryansky’s third poetry collection, Ambergris, is out now from Pine Row Press. Her first, How I Got Lost So Close to Home, won the Kinereth Gensler Award from Alice James Books, the second, Grass Whistle (Salmon Poetry) received the Massachusetts Book Award. Poems appear in Adroit Journal, Harvard Review, New England Review, Orion, The Sun, Tin House, Waxwing and other journals, as well as several anthologies. A former poet laureate of Northampton, MA, she also received honors from the Poetry Society of America, MacDowell, Massachusetts Cultural Council and Bread Loaf. She lives and works in rural western Massachusetts on Pocumtuck ancestral lands, parents two children and occasionally teaches creative writing.

  3. Oct 17

    M.A. Scott

    M.A. Scott is the author of the Hunger, little sister (Ghost City Press, 2024). Her work has received nominations for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and has recently appeared or is forthcoming in A-Minor Magazine, Harbor Review, Crab Creek Review, Birdcoat Quarterly, and New Ohio Review. M.A. also works in analog collage to create visual poetry, and is a classically trained clarinetist. Currently living in New York's Hudson Valley, M.A. grew up in Rhode Island, and remains haunted by the landscapes and lore of New England.

  4. Oct 9

    Clay Ventre

    Clay Ventre's book, It's Not Love Till Someone Loses an Eye, was a finalist for the Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize. His second book, Excellent Wildlife Photos (2025,lilypoetryreview.blog) collects 13 years of poetry. He has work published in Iterant, Jubilat, Lily Poetry Review, Soundings East, The Arts Fuse, and others.

  5. Oct 2

    Corwin Ericson

    Corwin Ericson is the author of Swell, a novel, the collection Checked Out OK, and the forthcoming chapbook Proctors of Hush. Recent work of his appears in Posit, Sortes, Trampoline, Volt, and Tough Poets Review. He lives in a small, rural town north of Amherst where he is a trustee of the town library. This semester he’s teaching Writing in Engineering at UMass and has previously taught writing in the School of Management and at Smith College.  He has an MFA in writing from UMass and spent five years as the managing editor of the Massachusetts Review, a literary journal.

  6. Sep 25

    Yona Harvey

    Yona Harvey is the author of You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love, winner of The Believer Book Award in Poetry, and Hemming the Water, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award from Claremont Graduate University and finalist for the Hurston/Wright Award.  Between the publication of her first two poetry books, Harvey co-wrote Marvel Comics’ World of Wakanda, which earned an Eisner Award for best limited series, and co-wrote the comic book series Black Panther & the Crew. Her third poetry collection is the recently released Leap & Grow Feathers.Her writing has appeared in numerous publications including Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, The Best American Poetry, Letters to the Future: Black Women/Radical Writing and A Poet’s Craft: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry.She’s the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Japan Creative Artists Fellowship, the Heinz Foundation’s Carol Brown Award, and the inaugural Lucille Clifton Legacy Award from Saint Mary’s College of Maryland.

  7. Sep 18

    Eileen Cleary

    Eileen Cleary (she/her/hers) is the author of Child ward of the Commonwealth (2019) which won honorable mention for the Sheila Margaret Motton Award,  2 a.m. with Keats (Nixes Mate, 2021) and Wild Pack of the Living (Nixes Mate, 2024), long listed for the Massachusetts Book Award. She founded and is editor in chief of Lily Poetry Review Books and the  "Lily Poetry Review".

  8. Sep 12

    Sara Eddy

    Sara Eddy’s second full-length collection, How to Wash a Rabbit is forthcoming from Cornerstone press. Her third chapbook, Jewelweed: Poems about Plants, is also forthcoming, that one from Finishing Line press. She is author of Ordinary Fissures (Kelsay Books, 2024), Tell the Bees: Poem About Bees & Beekeeping (A3 Press, 2019), and Full Mouth: Poems about Food (Finishing Line Press, 2020).  Her poems have appeared in many literary journals, including Threepenny Review, Baltimore Review, SWWIM, Raleigh Review, and Spank the Carp, among others.  Sara grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she attended the public schools. She went on to get a BA in English from Connecticut College and an MA/PhD in American Literature from Tufts University. At Connecticut, she studied poetry writing with Charles Hartman; at Tufts she worked with Deborah Digges. After stints in Washington D.C., Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Somerville, Cambridge, Medford, Watertown, and Arlington, Massachusetts, Sara finally returned to Amherst in 2005. She is now Assistant Director of the Jacobson Center for Writing, Teaching, and Learning at Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts, and lives in a house built by Emily Dickinson’s cousin with a white dog named Sully and a black cat named Luna.

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Join Ellen Miller-Mack and her co-host Kevin Carberry every week as a poet from the fertile fields of Western Massachusetts joins us in our WMUA studio. They share a beloved poem by another poet and some of their own poems, followed by  a deep discussion about their work and life as a poet.

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  • Creator
    WMUA Podcasts
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    116
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