The Woodstock Poetry Festival

Andrea Cohen is the author of eight books of poetry, including, most recently, The Sorrow Apartments, Everything, and Nightshade. 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.

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Laura Foley is a bi/queer poet, author of nine poetry collections. Sledding the Valley of the Shadow (Fernwood Press) is forthcoming in 2024. She has won a Narrative Magazine Poetry Prize, The Common Good Books Poetry Prize, the Bisexual Book Award, an Eric Hoffer Award, Atlanta Review’s Grand Prize and others. Her work has been widely published in journals such as Alaska Quarterly, Valparaiso Poetry Review, American Life in Poetry, Poetry Society London, and included in numerous anthologies such as How to Love the World and Poetry of Presence. She and her wife, Clara Giménez, recently relocated from Pomfret, Vermont, across the river to Lebanon, New Hampshire, with their two romping canines.

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Poet, songwriter, author, workshop facilitator, and educator Regie Gibson has performed, taught, and lectured at schools, universities, theaters and various other venues on two continents and in seven countries including Havana Cuba.

Regie is widely published in anthologies, magazines and journals such as The Iowa Review, Harvard Divinity Magazine, Poetry Magazine, Spoken Word Revolution (Source Books), and several others. His full-length book of poetry Storms Beneath The Skin (EM Press) was published in 2001 and received the Golden Pen Award. In 2005 Regie was a featured on the PBS Arts magazine- Art Close-Up and was subsequently nominated for a Boston Grammy. In Spring of 2008 Regie competed in and won the “Big Boat” international poetry competition held in Monfalcone, Italy.

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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 six books of poetry, most recently Between Lakes (2020), selected as a 2021 Must-Read Book by the Massachusetts Center for the Book, and Into Daylight (2014), winner of the Dorset Prize. His honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Bogliasco Foundation, as well as three appearances in Best American Poetry, and four Pushcart Prizes. He lives in Massachusetts.

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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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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.

Bianca Stone is a poet, teacher, mentor and current poet laureate of Vermont. She is the author of five books, including the poetry collections, What is Otherwise Infinite (Tin House, 2022) winner of the 2022 Vermont Book Award; The Möbius Strip Club of Grief (Tin House, 2018), Someone Else’s Wedding Vows (Octopus Books and Tin House, 2014) and collaborated with Anne Carson on the illuminated version of Antigonick (New Directions, 2012). Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poets and Writers, The Nation and elsewhere. She co-founded the poetry-based nonprofit, Ruth Stone House, where she teaches classes on poetry and poetic study, hosts the Ode & Psyche Podcast and is editor-at-large for ITERANT magazine.

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.

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Host & Program Director

Chard deNiord is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Westminster West (Tupelo Press, 2024), In My Unknowing (University of Pittsburgh Press 2020), Interstate (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), and The Double Truth (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011). He is also the author of two books of interviews with eminent American poets: Sad Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs: Conversations and Reflections on 20th Century Poetry (Marick Press, 2011) and I Would Lie To You If I Could (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018).

deNiord is Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing at Providence College, co-founder of The New England College MFA Program. From 2015 to 2019 he served as poet laureate of Vermont. He serves as a board member of Sundog Poetry and lives in Westminster West, Vermont with his wife, Liz.