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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.

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Sep 25, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 25, 2026

    Yona Harvey (opens the original)

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    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 collectio

  2. Episode · Sep 18, 2026

    Eileen Cleary (opens the original)

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    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".

  3. Episode · Sep 12, 2026

    Sara Eddy (opens the original)

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    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, R

  4. Episode · Sep 4, 2026

    Marissa Quintero (opens the original)

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    Poet, public speaker, and long-distance runner dedicated to mental health advocacy, domestic violence awareness, and personal empowerment. A resilient storyteller who uses poetry, performance, and athletics as vehicles for healing and community impact. Experienced in public readings, published anthology work, and culturally rooted creative expression incorporating bilingual elements (English/Spanish).

  5. Episode · Aug 21, 2026

    Robin Becker (opens the original)

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    Robin Becker was born in Philadelphia and earned a BA and MA at Boston University. She taught for many years at the MIT before returning to Pennsylvania in 1994, where she is Liberal Arts Research Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Penn State. Becker’s many collections of poetry include Personal Effects (1977); Backtalk (1982); Giacometti’s Dog (1990); All-American Girl (1996), which won a Lambda Literary Award; The Horse Fair (2000); Domain of Perfect Affection (2006); Tiger Heron (201

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