Massachusetts Statewide Poetry Calendar

Susan Donnelly's newest poetry collection is The Maureen Papers and Other Poems, from Every Other Thursday Press. She is also the author of Capture the Flag, Transit, Eve Names the Animals, and six chapbooks. Her poems have been published in the New Yorker, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Agni, and many other journals, anthologies, textbooks, and online. Susan teaches poetry in classes and consultations from her home in Arlington, Massachusetts.

James R. Whitley's poetry has been widely published and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His most recent collection, Songs for Solo Voice, won the 2021 Red Mountain Press Poetry Prize. His prior collections include Immersion (winner of the 2001 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award), This Is the Red Door (winner of the Ironweed Poetry Prize and the Massachusetts Book Award) and The Goddess of Goodbye. Currently, Whitley is a Dean at Post University in Waterbury, Connecticut.