Carlene Kucharczyk’s debut poetry collection, Strange Hymn, won the 2024 Juniper Prize for Poetry, and the 2025 VT Book Award for poetry. She is the recipient of a Creation Grant from the Vermont Arts Council. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Kucharczyk works at Dartmouth.
Tim May’s third full-length collection, Muscles Memories of Love and Disaster, was published in March, 2026. A ten-time Pushcart Prize Nominee, and a two- time finalist for the Paumanok Award, Mayo is also the recipient of three Vermont Writers Week Fellowships.
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