March 16

Daniel Tobin is the author of nine books of poems, including From Nothing, winner of the Julia Ward Howe Award, The Stone in the Air, his suite of versions from the German of Paul Celan, and Blood Labors, named one of the Best Poetry Books of the Year for 2018 by the New York Times and The Washington Independent Review of Books. His poetry has won many awards, among them the Massachusetts Book Award, the Merringoff Award from the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers, and fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation. His trilogy of book-length poems, The Mansions, won the National Indie Excellence Award in Poetry and Gold in the Human Relations Indie Book Award in Poetry.

Mary Buchinger, whose recent books include Navigating the Reach (Honors, 2024 Massachusetts Book Award, Salmon Poetry), The Book of Shores, and Virology (Lily Poetry Review Books), is the winner of the 2024 Elyse Wolf/Slate Roof Chapbook Prize. She teaches at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston.