Online Poetry Reading

Rachel Richardson is the author of Smother (W. W. Norton, 2025) and two earlier poetry collections, Copperhead and Hundred-Year Wave. She is a former Wallace Stegner and NEA Fellow, and she serves on the Board of The Frost Place. Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Yale Review, APR, and elsewhere. She is co-founder of the community writing center Left Margin LIT in Berkeley, California. In 2024 she was named an inaugural Artists-in-Fire Resident through the Confluence Lab, and is now trained as an FFT2 wildland firefighter. 

Yuki Tanaka was born and raised in Yamaguchi, Japan. He is the author of the debut poetry collection, Chronicle of Drifting (Copper Canyon Press, 2025). His poems have appeared in The New Republic, The Paris Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. He has also co-translated, with Mary Jo Bang, A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi, published by Princeton University Press. A 2018 Frost Place Chapbook Fellow, he lives in Tokyo and teaches at Hosei University.

Patrick Donnelly is the author of five books of poetry, most recently WILLOW HAMMER (Four Way Books, 2025). Former poet laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts, his poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Slate, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Yale Review, and many other journals. Donnelly is Program Director of The Frost Place, Robert Frost’s old homestead in Franconia, NH, now a center for poetry and the arts.  Donnelly’s translations with Stephen D. Miller of classical Japanese poetry were awarded the 2015-2016 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. More at: patrickdonnellypoetry.com