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. They share a beloved poem by another poet and some of their own poems, followed by a deep discussion about their work and life as a poet.
M.A. Scott is the author of the Hunger, little sister (Ghost City Press, 2024). Her work has received nominations for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and has recently appeared or is forthcoming in A-Minor Magazine, Harbor Review, Crab Creek Review, Birdcoat Quarterly, and New Ohio Review. M.A. also works in analog collage to create visual poetry, and is a classically trained clarinetist. Currently living in New York's Hudson Valley, M.A. grew up in Rhode Island, and remains haunted by the landscapes and lore of New England.
9 Oct 2026
Clay Ventre
Clay Ventre's book, It's Not Love Till Someone Loses an Eye, was a finalist for the Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize. His second book, Excellent Wildlife Photos (2025,lilypoetryreview.blog) collects 13 years of poetry. He has work published in Iterant, Jubilat, Lily Poetry Review, Soundings East, The Arts Fuse, and others.
2 Oct 2026
Corwin Ericson
Corwin Ericson is the author of Swell, a novel, the collection Checked Out OK, and the forthcoming chapbook Proctors of Hush. Recent work of his appears in Posit, Sortes, Trampoline, Volt, and Tough Poets Review.
He lives in a small, rural town north of Amherst where he is a trustee of the town library. This semester he’s teaching Writing in Engineering at UMass and has previously taught writing in the School of Management and at Smith College.
He has an MFA in writing from UMass and spent five years as the managing editor of the Massachusetts Review, a literary journal.
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