For this article, we interviewed Joan Houlihan, founder and director of the Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference.  Her most recent book of poetry is The Us (Tupelo Press), named as a “must read” book of 2009 by Massachusetts Center for the Book. She is also author of The Mending Worm, winner of the 2005 Green Rose [...]

The Frost Place is a nonprofit educational center for poetry based at Robert Frost’s old homestead in Franconia, New Hampshire. We produce three poetry conferences each summer. The Advanced Seminar has a history of focusing on “poetry ancestors”— you know, the “great shades” and still-living poets in whose footsteps we try to walk as contemporary poets.

  This is the first of a series of articles on New England presses. Our goal is to help serious writers determine the best match for their work by looking at the editorial and publishing criteria of each press. Looking for older poets Off the Grid Press has been around for six years and has [...]