The Woodstock Poetry Festival

Andrea Cohen’s poems and stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Threepenny Review, The New York Review of Books, and more. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship. She directs the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, MA, and is teaching at Boston University in the spring of 2024.

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Poet and editor Maggie Dietz’s debut collection of poems, Perennial Fall (2006), won a Jane Kenyon Award and a Wisconsin Library Association Literary Award.  She has served as director of the Favorite Poem Project, founded by Robert Pinsky during his terms as US poet laureate. With Pinsky, she coedited the anthologies Americans’ Favorite Poems (1999), Poems to Read (2002), and An Invitation to Poetry (2004). She lives in New Hampshire with her husband, the poet Todd Hearon.

Martín Espada has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator. His new book of poems from Norton is called Floaters, winner of the 2021 National Book Award. He has received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, the Robert Creeley Award, an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, the PEN/Revson Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. The Republic of Poetry was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Alexandria Hall is from Vermont. Her debut poetry collection, Field Music (Ecco, 2020), was selected by Rosanna Warren as a winner of the National Poetry Series.She lives in Los Angeles, but grew up in Vermont.

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Jeffrey Harrison is the author of several collections of poetry, including Into Daylight (2014), chosen by Tom Sleigh for the Dorset Prize and selected by the Massachusetts Center for the Book as a Must-Read Book. Harrison’s honors include the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship, and two Pushcart Prizes.

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Poet, playwright, author, and songwriter Todd Hearon was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and grew up in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. Hearon’s poetry collection Strange Land (2010) was selected by poet Natasha Trethewey as a winner of the Crab Orchard Poetry Series Open Competition Award. He is the recipient of many awards and prizes, including the May Swenson Poetry Award and the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize.

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Sara London is the author of Upkeep (Four Way Books, 2019), winner of the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize, selected by the New England Poetry Club Board. Her previous collection of poetry is The Tyranny of Milk (Four Way Books, 2010). Her poems have appeared in such venues as The Hudson Review, Poetry East, The Iowa Review, the Poetry Daily anthology, AGNI Online and elsewhere. She is also the author of two children’s books, Firehorse Max (HarperCollins) and The Good Luck Glasses (Scholastic).

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Cate Marvin’s poetry collections include World’s Tallest Disaster (2001), which won the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, Fragment of the Head of a Queen (2007), and Oracle (2015). Her many honors include the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize (2002), a Whiting Award (2007), and Guggenheim Fellowship (2015).

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Matt W. Miller was the winner of the 2012 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize, and his book of poems, Club Icarus, was published by the University of North Texas Press in 2013. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University, he has published work in many literary publications.

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Robert Pinsky was the first United States Poet Laureate to serve three terms. Recognized worldwide, Pinsky's work has earned numerous accolades. He is a professor of English and creative writing in the graduate writing program at Boston University. In 2015 the university named him a William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, the highest honor bestowed on senior faculty members who are actively involved in teaching, research, scholarship, and university civic life. His newest collection of poetry Proverbs of Limbo comes out June 11, 2024 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Elizabeth A.I. Powell is the author of the poetry collections The Republic of Self (2001), which won a New Issues Poetry Prize, and Willy Loman’s Reckless Daughter or Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances (2016), winner of an Anhinga-Robert Dana Prize for Poetry and a “Books We Love 2016” pick by the New Yorker. Powell is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize. a grant from the Vermont Arts Council.

Ellen Bryant Voigt’s many poetry collections include Collected Poems (2023), Headwaters (2013), Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976–2006, and Shadow of Heaven (2002). She served as poet laureate of Vermont from 1999-2002 and as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2003 to 2009. She has received grants from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation, and in 2015 she was awarded a MacArthur fellowship. She has lived in Vermont for many years.