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Alice B. Fogel served as the New Hampshire poet laureate from 2104 - 2019. Her latest poetry collection is Nothing But, a series of poems based on abstract expressionist art and its effect on our consciousness. Two of her previous books are A Doubtful House and  Interval: Poems Based on Bach’s “Goldberg Variations,” which won the Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature and the 2016 NH Literary Award in Poetry. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, among other awards, she is also the author of Strange Terrain, on how to appreciate poetry even if you don’t “get” it.  She works one-on-one with students with learning differences at Landmark College in Putney, VT.

Henry Walters, a writer trained in classical languages, fell back in love with his own through contemporary American poetry. Raised in Michigan, he lived as a falconer’s apprentice in Ireland and a beekeeper’s assistant in Sicily before settling in New Hampshire, where he has worked as a seasonal biologist, postal carrier, census-taker, gardener, carpenter, baseball coach, actor, teacher, playwright, and birding guide. He is the author of two books of poetry: Field Guide A Tempo, a finalist for the 2016 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and The Nature Thief, a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, to be published in the spring of 2022. He is also the translator from Italian of Enrico Testa's Ablativo, winner of the 2013 Premio Viareggio, and a collaborator with Peterborough's Firelight Theatre Workshop. His work has appeared in periodicals such as The Threepenny Review, Orion, Literary Imagination, The Yale Review, The American Journal of Poetry, and New Letters. He lives in the town of Hancock with his young family, a hawk, and a hive of bees.

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