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Poet Talk on WMUABrad CrenshawBrad Crenshaw has published four collections of poetry. His most recent book, Chased by Lunacies and Wonders, has won the 2023 Catamaran Poetry Prize. His other books include My Gargantuan Desire, Genealogies, and Memphis Shoals. His work has appeared in a wide range of journals including Catamaran, Shenandoah, Chicago Review, Massachusetts Review, and recent poems appear in Salt, Hawaii Pacific Review, Pacifica Literary Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Phren-Z. His poems have also been anthologized in Bear Flag Republic, The Hard Work of Hope, and California Fire and Water. He can be found at https://wordpress.com/view/bradcrenshaw.me.
2025-11-2259 minPoet Talk on WMUACarolyn ZaikowskiCarolyn Zaikowski is a fiction writer, poet, essayist, and death doula. She is the current Poet Laureate of Easthampton, Massachusetts.Carolyn is the author of two prose poetry/experimental novels: A Child Is Being Killed (Aqueous Books, 2013), which poet Eileen Myles called a "saint of a little book", and In a Dream, I Dance by Myself, and I Collapse, which won the Mainline Contest at Civil Coping Mechanisms and was released in 2016.Her fiction, poetry, and essays have been published widely, in such publications as Washington Post, Alaska Quarterly Review, West Branch, Denver Quarterly, The Rumpus, PANK, Sixth Fin...
2025-11-1447 minPoet Talk on WMUAEllen Miller-MackEllen Miller-Mack is a nurse practitioner (retired/rewired) with an MFA in Poetry from Drew University. Her book reviews have appeared in Rattle, Valparaiso, Bookslut, the Rumpus, the Poetry Cafe, and the Poetry Foundation. Her poems have appeared in Lavender Review ( journal and anthology January 2025), Lily Poetry Review, Antiphon, 5 A.M., Redheaded Stepchild, Affilia, and The Lake Rises: poems to and for our bodies of water. Ellen co-wrote The Real Cost of Prisons Comix ( PM Press) and the comic books are downloadable from the Real Cost of Prisons website.
2025-11-0754 minPoet Talk on WMUAPoet Talk with Joan Tate 1/23/25 ( encore!)Joan Tate is a southern poet living in Western Massachusetts. She acts as a Writing Instructor at the Jacobson Center where she offers one on one tutoring sessions with students. She holds an M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and serves as a docent at the Emily Dickinson Museum where she gives tours regarding origins of the American Lyric. Recent writing of hers appears in places such as Prairie Schooner, b l u s h, Little Mirror, and more.
2025-11-031h 02Poet Talk on WMUADeMisty BellingerDeMisty D. Bellinger lives with her family in Central Massachusetts, where she teaches creative writing. She has a BA in English from University of Wisconsin-Platteville, an MFA from Southampton College, and a PhD from the University of Nebraska. She is an alum of Bread Loaf and Marge Piercy’s Intensive Writing Workshop. Also, she was a resident at the Vermont Studio Center on a fellowship and at Gullkistan in Iceland with support from friends and family.
2025-10-3152 minPoet Talk on WMUAJuPong LinI am the daughter of Lie Chenn Lin and Yin Chou Lin, born in Taiwan into a big extended farming family from which I was taken away when we immigrated to Canada for my father’s graduate education. I’m an interdisciplinary artist, writer/poet and educator in love with the forests of cedar as they burn up in fires stoked by colonialism. Through storytelling and ceremonial activism, I am co-becoming a world of kincentric justice. I pray for the water beings slipping through our fingers. I live in Nonotuck/Nipmuc Land, Western Massachusetts in a town named after a ge...
2025-10-2455 minPoet Talk on WMUAC.D. FinleyC. Desirée Finley is a writer and artist now living in western Mass. Her poetry is published in Straw Dog Writers Pandemic Poetry, Silkworm Journal (print), Cape Cod Times & Willawaw Journal [Pushcart nomination] Meat For Tea and some local anthologies, and soon to be in The Brussels Review. Finley says, "I've lived on both coasts, in cities and ocean adjacent, but what has influenced my writing most of all is having a mountain in my backyard. In addition to poetry, I write quirky short stories and have experimented with hybrid forms. It all begins, as Ocean Vuong would say, with c...
2025-10-1757 minPoet Talk on WMUAJovonna Van PeltJovonna Van Pelt is a writer, a lover of animals and trees, a reader of history, and an enthusiastic volunteer at the LAVA Center (Local Access to Valley Arts) in her home town of Greenfield. She has an M.A. in Ethics and can play the spoons. Her favorite job was running a puppet theater. All of this has helped Jo become a multiple finalist for the Poet's Seat prize and author of Unrelated Questions, from Human Error Publishing; a second collection is in process. She is a frequent participant at area open mics, most recently on the Word...
2025-10-1056 minPoet Talk on WMUAIvy Schweitzer Born in Brooklyn, NY, Ivy Schweitzer has lived for manyyears in Vermont and taught English and Women’s, Gender,and Sexuality Studies at Dartmouth College. Her poetry hasappeared, most recently, in Passager, Ritualwell, Tikkun,New Croton Review, Mississippi Review, Spoon River PoetryReview, Mid-Atlantic Review and The New England PoetryClub’s Prize Winners’ Anthology 2024. Dividing Rivers isher debut solo collection. For her extensive work, visit herauthor page at https://sites.dartmouth.edu/ivyschweitzer/
2025-10-0456 minPoet Talk on WMUASusan MiddletonSusan Middleton edits science books and writes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Her work has been published in regional and national literary publications, including most recently Raven's Perch, Silkworm, and WordPeace. Susan is a co-founder of the Northfield-based Slate Roof Press (slateroofpress.com), which in 2007 published her chapbook "Seed Case of the Heart." In 2018 she won 1st prize in the Beals Prize for Poetry. She has a poem in the spring issue of Plum, the literary journal of Greenfield Community College.
2025-09-2754 minPoet Talk on WMUACameron Awkward-RichCameron Awkward-Rich is the author of two collections of poetry: Sympathetic Little Monster (Ricochet Editions, 2016) and Dispatch (Persea Books, 2019). His third collection, An Optimism, is forthcoming in October 2025 from Persea Books. Cameron’s creative work can be found in POETRY, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere, and has been supported by fellowships from Cave Canem, The Watering Hole, and the Lannan Foundation.Cameron’s critical/scholarly writing can be found, among other places, in Signs, Trans Studies Quarterly, and American Quarterly. His book The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment (Duke University Press, 2022) was awarded the Sylvia R...
2025-09-1956 minPoet Talk on WMUABeth FilsonBeth Filson is a writer, poet and self-taught artist. She earned the MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop of the University of Iowa in poetry but works in multiple genres including playwrighting. Most recently Beth was awarded a writing fellowship from Hawthornden Foundation in Scotland where she gets to spend a month in a Scottish castle roaming its halls and libraries, meeting other fellows, getting to know the landscape and of course, writing. Beth has been a long time co-host of Writers Night Out with Jacqueline Sheehan and Rick Paar, a program of Straw Dog Writers Guild. She was...
2025-09-1256 minPoet Talk on WMUAIan Fishman and Press Brake PressIan Fishman is a poet from Northampton, MA. Recent poems and writings can be found in b l u s h and BOMB. He edits and operates the poetry engine, Press Brake. His new chapbook Calm Down ! was published by Factory Hollow Press. www.factoryhollowpress.com
2025-09-0656 minPoet Talk on WMUAMary Warren FoulkA graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts, Mary Warren Foulk (she/her) has been published in The Hollins Critic, Palette Poetry, Fjords Review, Silkworm, The Gay & Lesbian Review, and North American Review, among other publications. Her work also has appeared in Who's Your Mama? The Unsung Voices of Women and Mothers (Soft Skull Press), (M)othering Anthology (Inanna Publications), and My Loves: A Digital Anthology of Queer Love Poems (Ghost City Press). She has two award-winning chapbooks, If I Could Write You a Happier Ending (dancing girl press) and Erasures of My Coming Out (Letter) (The Poetry Box...
2025-08-2958 minPoet Talk on WMUACandace CurranCandace R. Curran was raised alongside Wachusett Mountain in rural Princeton by a Coyote and Ford mechanic doing the best they could. Curran is the founder and organizer of INTERFACE, exhibitions that included the work of twenty or more artists and poets over ten years of presentations throughout Western Massachusetts. Candace was also a co-founder of Exploded View, a five woman traveling collaborative art and poetry performance group. Her publications include the anthology, Bone Cages, with Doug Anderson and John Hodgen and others, Haley’s Press, 1996, and her book Playing in Wrecks, Haley’s Press, 2011. Candace’s poetry has also ap...
2025-08-2359 minPoet Talk on WMUAJanet AalfsJanet E. Aalfs is the author of 3 full-length books of poems and several small press and self-published chapbooks. Her writing is widely published in journals, anthologies, and online, most recently in Soundings East (Pushcart Prize nomination), How to Write a Form Poem, Words to Live By, Compass Roads, and Emulate. Former poet laureate of Northampton, MA (2003-2005), 8th degree black belt, master Tai Chi instructor, and founder/director of Lotus Peace Arts at Heron’s Bridge, Janet is the recipient of a Leadership and Advocacy in the Arts Award from the University of Massachusetts. She received an MFA in poetry...
2025-08-091h 00Poet Talk on WMUADennis James SweeneyDennis James Sweeney is the author of How to Submit: Getting Your Writing Published with Literary Magazines and Small Presses, a guide for writers. His first book, In the Antarctic Circle, won the Autumn House Rising Writer Prize and was a Debut Poetry Book of 2021 in Poets & Writers. You’re the Woods Too, his second book, was a Small Press Distribution bestseller and a finalist for the Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Prize. Most recently, The Rolodex Happenings won the Stillhouse Press Novella Prize.His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in Ecotone, Ninth Letter, The New York Ti...
2025-07-251h 00Poet Talk on WMUASuzanne MercuryIn addition to her book Hive (Lily Poetry Review and Press), Suzanne Mercury is the author of two chapbooks, Sassafracas (Xerolage 69), a collection of photographs of visual poems that she made out of scraps of dichroic glass (2018, Xexoxial Editions) and Hand to Earth (2019, Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs). Her work has appeared in a variety of publications including SpoKe, Truck, Summer Stock, Bombay Gin, Sonora Review, Arts & Letters, and Hayden’s Ferry Review, as well as in the anthologies Let the Bucket Down and The Wisdoms of the Universes in a Single String of Letters. A graduate of Smith Coll...
2025-07-1959 minPoet Talk on WMUALibby MaxeyLibby Maxey is a senior editor and poetry editor at the online journal Literary Mama, where she has been a member of the staff for over a decade. Her poems have appeared in Crannóg, Stoneboat, Whale Road Review, Blue Unicorn, and elsewhere. She is among the winners of the Princemere Poetry Prize, the Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest, and the Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest, and her chapbook, Kairos (2019), won the Finishing Line Press New Women's Voices Contest. Her full-length collection, Indwelling (Resource Publications), was released last year. Her nonliterary activities include singing classical repertoire, ringing bells at Smith, and admin...
2025-07-111h 00Poet Talk on WMUAZoe Tuck Zoe Tuck was born in Texas, became a person in California, and now lives in Massachusetts. She is the author Bedroom Vowel (Bunny Presse), Terror Matrix (Timeless, Infinite Light) and the chapbooks Vape Cloud of Unknowing (Belladonna*), and The Book of Bella (DoubleCross Press), the latter of which is bound in a dos-a-dos edition with Emily Hunerwadel's "Peach Woman”. In addition to teaching creative writing and literature classes, Zoe is the co-editor of Hot Pink Magazine with Emily Bark Brown.
2025-07-1058 minPoet Talk on WMUAEliot Cardinaux & The Bodily PressEliot Cardinaux is a neuroqueer poet, pianist, composer, translator, and publisher working at the intersection of the lyric and improvised music. The author of seven poetry collections, including On the Long Blue Night (Dos Madres, 2023), Eliot has produced and appeared on over a dozen albums of original music, including, most recently, Imminence, with percussionist Gary Fieldman. Eliot’s poems and translations have appeared in journals such as California Quarterly, Tupelo Quarterly, Meridian, Jacket2, Solstice, and Spoon River Poetry Review. Eliot is also the founding editor of The Bodily Press. You can find Eliot as @eliotcardinaux and @thebodilypress on Instagram....
2025-06-2857 minPoet Talk on WMUAJames HaugJames Haug’s most recent collections are Riverain (Oberlin College Press), Three Poems (Factory Hollow Press), and My Team Hates Friday (Press Brake). He publishes Scram Press in Northampton, Massachusetts, and drives a van for Riverside Industries.
2025-06-211h 00Poet Talk on WMUAIan FishmanIan Fishman is a poet from the Connecticut River Valley. He runs Press Brake (@brake.press), a publishing arm of western Massachusetts. He divides time b/w Brooklyn and Northampton, and he holds an MFA from NYU.
2025-06-1358 minPoet Talk on WMUAJayson KeeryJayson Keery is the author of The Choice is Real (Metatron Press, 2023) and the chapbooks Sleepover Nervous (Midnight Mass, 2024) and Astroturf (o•blēk editions, 2022). They have been anthologized in Mundus Press’s Nocturnal Properties, Nightboat Books' We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, and Pilot Press London's A Queer Anthology of Rage. They received the 2022 Metatron Press Prize for Rising Authors, selected by Fariha Róisín, and the 2021 Daniel and Merrily Glosband MFA Fellowship, selected by Wendy Xu. They live in Western Massachusetts where they spend their time writing and running a little sh...
2025-06-061h 01Poet Talk on WMUADaniel HalesDaniel Hales is a writer, musician, artist, teacher, and salsa junkie living in western MA. He’s the author of ¿Cómo Hacer Preguntas? or, How To Make Questions: 69 Instructional Poems (Frayed Edge Press), the hybrid novel Run Story (Shape&Nature), and three poetry chapbooks: Tempo Maps, which comes with the companion CD: Miner Street Symphony (ixnay), Blind Drive (White Knuckle), and Shake My Ashes (Beard of Bees). His poems, flash fictions, and hybrid writings have been published in many print & online journals, including Verse Daily, Conduit, The Massachusetts Review, Quarter After Eight, Booth, and Bateau. In March 2017, Spork Press released Pr...
2025-05-2958 minPoet Talk on WMUAPoet Talk with Adam Munsey TobinAdam Munsey Tobin is a bookseller and poet of Ashfield, MA. He owns and operates Unnameable Books, a new and used bookstore with locations in Brooklyn NY and Unnameable Falls MA. With Catherine/Corbett Bresner he edits a magazine called Spirit Duplicator, produced on machine of same name. His poems have appeared in Fence, EOAGH, 6x6, Antiphony, Spirit Duplicator, The Weekly Weakling and elsewhere, various pamphlets and chapbooks -- including, most recently, Animatronic Head Trophy (just out from Press Brake).
2025-05-2358 minPoet Talk on WMUARobbie GambleRobbie Gamble (he/him) received an MFA in Poetry from Lesley University. His poems and essays have appeared in Poet Lore, Post Road, Pangyrus, Salamander, The Sun, and Tahoma Literary Review. His chapbook A Can of Pinto Beans, published by Lily Poetry Review Press, was a finalist for the 2022 Jean Pedrick Award. Robbie was the winner of the 2017 Carve Poetry Prize, and he was a 2019 Robert Taylor fellow at the Kenyon Summer Writers Workshop. His essay “Exit Wound” was cited as a notable essay in Best American Essays 2020. Robbie worked for many years as a nurse practition...
2025-05-1154 minPoet Talk on WMUAJulie HowdJulie Howd is the author of Threshold (Host Publications, 2020), winner of the Host Publications 2019 Chapbook Prize, and Talking from the Knees Up (dancing girl press, 2018). Her work has been published in Deluge, The Spectacle, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. If she's not on Phish tour, you can find her in Northampton, painting and making jewelry.
2025-05-0557 minPoet Talk on WMUACatherine Corbett Bresnercatherine corbett bresner (they/she) is a nonbinary artist living in Western MA. They are the author of the chapbooks The Merriam Webster Series (2012) and Some Break A / Others Say Do (Press Brake, 2025), and the full-length poetry collections Can We Anything We See (Spuyten Duyvil, 2025), the empty season (Diode Editions, 2018), award winner of the 2017 Diode Book Contest, and the artist book Everyday Eros (Mount Analogue, 2017). Their poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in FENCE, the VOLT, b.l.u.s.h, Denver Quarterly, Sixth Finch, Fonograf and elsewhere. Currently, she is the publicist for Wave Books and co-edits Spirit Duplicator, a bi...
2025-04-2657 minPoet Talk on WMUAAbby ChabitnoyABIGAIL CHABITNOY is the author of In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful (Wesleyan 2022), How to Dress a Fish (Wesleyan 2019), winner of the 2020 Colorado Book Award for Poetry and shortlisted in the international category of the 2020 Griffin Prize for Poetry, and the lino-cut illustrated chapbook Converging Lines of Light (Flower Press 2020). Abigail is a mentor for the Institute of American Indian Arts MFA in Creative Writing and an assistant professor at UMass Amherst. She is a Koniag descendant and member of the Tangirnaq Native Village in Kodiak.
2025-04-1856 minPoet Talk on WMUAZoe TuckZoe Tuck was born in Texas, became a person in California, and now lives in Massachusetts. She is the author Bedroom Vowel (Bunny Presse), Terror Matrix (Timeless, Infinite Light) and the chapbooks Vape Cloud of Unknowing (Belladonna*), and The Book of Bella (DoubleCross Press), the latter of which is bound in a dos-a-dos edition with Emily Hunerwadel's "Peach Woman”. In addition to teaching creative writing and literature classes, Zoe is the co-editor of Hot Pink Magazine with Emily Bark Brown.
2025-04-1256 minPoet Talk on WMUAFrom Walt Whitman to Queer Poetics : Poet Talk Special EditionWhat do you do when your poet cancels at the last minute? Go for a bracing dip into Queer Poetics with L Scully & a sweet reading of Walt Whitman by Zahara Vanderpuge. Poems read this evening are by Maggie Von Sacher, Sholto Buck, Max Gregg & Mayah Monet Lovell. For a deep dive into Queer Poetics: www.transreads.org
2025-04-0750 minPoet Talk on WMUAYona HarveyYona Harvey is the author of You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love, which received the 2020 Award in Poetry from The Believer magazine. Hemming the Water, her first book of poems, was the winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award from Claremont Graduate University and a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Award. She received the Inaugural Lucille Clifton Legacy Award in Poetry from St. Mary’s College of Maryland and has served as Poet In Residence for the Queensland Poetry Festival in Brisbane, Australia. Between the publication of her two poetry books, Harvey co-wrote Marvel Comics...
2025-03-2857 minPoet Talk on WMUAPatrick DonnellyPATRICK DONNELLY is the author of five books of poetry, Willow Hammer (Four Way Books, spring 2025), Little-Known Operas (Four Way Books, 2019), Jesus Said (a chapbook from Orison Books, 2017), Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin (Four Way Books, 2012, a Lambda Literary Award finalist), and The Charge (Ausable Press, 2003, since 2009 part of Copper Canyon Press). Donnelly is program director of The Frost Place (Robert Frost’s old homestead in Franconia, NH, now a center for poetry and the arts), as well as director of the Poetry Seminar, an annual online poetry conference sponsored by TFP. He has taught at Smith College, Colby College...
2025-03-2648 minPoet Talk on WMUAKat Good-SchiffKathryn (Kat) Good-Schiff was raised by a feminist Episcopal priest and a conscientious objector nurse anesthetist. A former gardener, ice cream maker, and editor, she now works as a librarian. She grew up in the Northeastern United States and traveled far and wide before rooting in Western Massachusetts, where she lives with her wife and their animals in the shadow of an old mountain.
2025-03-1555 minPoet Talk on WMUACAConradCAConrad has worked with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. Their latest book is Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return ( Wave Books/UK Penguin. 2024).They received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a PEN JOsephine Miles Award, a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, and a Lambda Award. The Book of Frank is nw available in 9 diffent languages, and they coedited SUPPLICATION: Selected Poems of John Wieners ( Wave Books). they exhibit poems as art objects with recent solo shows in Tucson, Arizona, as well as in spain and Portugal. They teach at the Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam...
2025-03-0800 minPoet Talk on WMUAHowie FaersteinHowie Faerstein is the author of 5 books: Play a Song on the Drums he said, Out of Order, (Main Street Press) & two full-length collections: Dreaming of the Rain in Brooklyn and Googootz and Other Poems, published by Press 53. STAY, a recent collection (Human Error Publishing) was published in February 2023. His poetry & reviews can be found in numerous journals including Great River Review, Nimrod, Off the Coast, Rattle, Cutthroat, upstreet, Banyan Review, Nine Mile, Verse Daily, Nixes Mate, On the Seawall, Hole in the Head Review, Gyroscope, Peacock Journal, & Connotation. He’s read at venues throughout New England, the Mid-Atlantic & the Southwest...
2025-02-2859 minPoet Talk on WMUAMartha McColloughMartha McCollough lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. She has an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute. Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in Radar, QWERTY, Tampa Review, Tammy, Barrelhouse, and Salamander, among others. Her chapbook, Grandmother Mountain, was published by Blue Lyra Press in October 2019. Her videopoems have appeared in Triquarterly, Datableed, and Atticus Review. Her two full length collections, Trash Witch andWolf Hat Iron Shoes are available from Lily Poetry Review Books.
2025-02-2256 minPoet Talk on WMUASebastian MerrillSebastian Merrill’s debut collection GHOST :: SEEDS explores a dialogue between a trans-masculine speaker and his former self, incorporating myth and magical realism in a journey that takes us from the Maine coast to the underworld and back. GHOST :: SEEDS has received multiple awards including:
Winner of the 2024 Stonewall Honor Book - Barbara Gittings Literature Award from the American Library AssociationSelected for the Poetry Longlist for the 2024 Mass Book Awards from Massachusetts Center for the Book 2024 Boston Authors Club Julia Ward Howe Awards Notable BookSelected by Kimiko Hahn as the winner of the 2022 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize...
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WMUA UMass MBB ShowMike Corey Episode: The State of UMass' Past Present and FutureSam Kinches and Andrew Samaha interview ESPN Broadcaster and WMUA Alum Mike Corey to discuss his documentary on the 1995 Final Four team, UMass's departure from the A-10, the state of the team, and more.
2025-02-0431 minPoet Talk on WMUAJessica FisherJessica Fisher is the author of three books of poetry: Frail-Craft, which won the 2006 Yale Younger Poets Prize, Inmost, which was awarded the 2011 Nightboat Poetry Prize, and Daywork, forthcoming from Milkwood Editions. Her poems appear in such journals as The American Poetry Review, The Believer, The Bennington Review, The Colorado Review, McSweeney’s, The New Yorker, The Threepenny Review, Tin House, and TriQuarterly, and her translations have been published in The New York Review of Books and The Paris Review. She is co-editor, with Robert Hass, of The Addison Street Anthology. Her honors include the 2012 Rome Prize, a Holloway Postdocto...
2025-01-3159 minPoet Talk on WMUAAndrea LawlorAndrea Lawlor is the author of a chapbook, Position Papers (Factory Hollow Press, 2016), and a novel, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl (Rescue Press, 2017; Vintage, 2019; Picador UK, 2019). Their stories, essays, and poems have appeared in publications such as Ploughshares, The Brooklyn Rail, jubilat, and The New York Times. They are the recipient of a Whiting Award for Fiction, as well as fellowships from Lambda Literary, Radar Labs, the Ucross Foundation, and Macdowell Colony. They are an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Mount Holyoke College, and live in Western Massachusetts.
2025-01-1356 minPoet Talk on WMUAAmelia Van DonselAmelia Sage Van Donsel was selected by Danez Smith as the winner of the Nassau Literary Festival Poetry Prize, has been awarded by the Academy of American Poets, and has published poems in FENCE, Conjunctions, Bennington Review, and elsewhere. She is finishing her MFA in poetry at UMass Amherst, where she currently teaches and works with the UMass Jail Education Initiative. She is a 2025 Juniper Working Fellow, and her poems are forthcoming in Scaffold Magazine.
2025-01-0359 minPoet Talk on WMUAEliot CardinauxEliot Cardinaux is a poet, pianist, composer and translator working at the intersection of the lyric poem and improvised music.
2024-12-3058 minPoet Talk on WMUAJanet MacFadyenJanet MacFadyen's third full-length collection, State of Grass, was released February 2024 by Salmon Poetry. Earlier books include the photo-poetry collaboration Adrift in the House of Rocks (New Feral Press, 2019), and Waiting to Be Born (Dos Madres Press, 2017). Both of these draw heavily on a love of landscape, rocks, and journeys, both actual and metaphorical. Honors include a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant, a 7-month Fine Arts Work Center fellowship in Provincetown, and a Cill Rialaig residency in Ireland, along with prizes for the Naugatuck River Review and Common Ground Review annual contests.
She has been nominated for the...
2024-12-1959 minPoet Talk on WMUADorsia Smith SilvaDorsía Smith Silva is the author of In Inheritance of Drowning (CavanKerry, 2024), an eight-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Best of the Net finalist, Best New Poets nominee, Cave Canem Poetry Prize Semifinalist, Obsidian Fellow, Poetry Editor at The Hopper, and Full Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Her poetry has been shortlisted for the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize and is forthcoming in The Offing, The Ecopoetry Anthology: Volume II, The Cimarron Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and on Poets.org. She has attended the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Workshop, Bread Loaf Writers’ Worksh...
2024-12-1059 minPoet Talk on WMUALucas de LimaLucas de Lima is a Brazilian-born poet, artist, scholar, and educator. They are the author of Tropical Sacrifice (Birds LLC 2022) and Wet Land (Action Books 2014) as well as multiple chapbooks. A recipient of grants and fellowships from the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Canada Council for the Arts, de Lima holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. They live in New York City and teach at Mount Holyoke College.
2024-12-0555 minPoet Talk on WMUATiana ClarkTiana Clark is the author of the poetry collection, I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), winner of the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and Equilibrium (Bull City Press, 2016), selected by Afaa Michael Weaver for the 2016 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. Clark is a winner for the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award (Claremont Graduate University), a 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, and the 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize. She is a recipient of the 2021-2022 Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship and 2019 Pushcart Prize. Clark is the 2017-2018 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at th...
2024-11-2057 minPoet Talk on WMUAKirun KapurKirun Kapur is the winner of the Arts & Letters Rumi Prize in Poetry and the Antivenom Poetry Award for her first book, Visiting Indira Gandhi’s Palmist (Elixir Press, 2015). Her second collection, Women in the Waiting Room (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and was included in the Best Books of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews. Named an “Asian-American poet to watch” by NBC News, her work has appeared in AGNI, Poetry International, Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares and many other journals.
She has been granted fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Vermont Studio...
2024-11-1557 minPoet Talk on WMUADesiree C. BaileyEducated at Georgetown University, BA English Literature, 2011; Brown University, MFA Fiction, 2015; New York University, MFA Poetry, 2021.
Desiree C. Bailey is a poet and writer from Trinidad and Tobago, and New York. She is the author of What Noise Against the Cane (Yale University Press) which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry. What Noise Against the Cane was also a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the T.S. Eliot Four Quartets Prize, was longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and the OCM Bocas...
2024-11-0559 minPoet Talk on WMUATzivia GoverTzivia Gover is the author of several books about dreams, sleep, and waking up to a joyful life. Her most recent book, Dreaming on the Page: Tap into Your Midnight Mind to Supercharge Your Writing, combines writing, spirituality, and dreamwork. It won top honors in its category from the Independent Book Publishers Association and was named a finalist in its category by the Foreward Indies prize.
Her poems have been published in dozens of journals and anthologies including Willawaw Journal, The Other Journal, The Mom Egg Review, The Naugatuck River Review, and Lilith Magazine among others.
2024-10-2954 minPoet Talk on WMUAJohn HennessyPoet John Hennessey is our guest this week. His most recent book is "Exit Garden State". He is the poetry editor of "The Common" and he teaches at Umass/Amherst.
2024-10-2452 minPoet Talk on WMUAGri SaexIn this episode of Poet Talk, join Ellen, Jon, and Riley as they host local Springfield poet Gri Saex in discussing her work, and the works that have inspired her in her writing. From her time living in New York City to her upbringing in the Dominican Republic, Gri draws from a wealth of knowledge and experience to inform her poetry, and her activism in the greater Springfield area. To learn more about Gri, go to https://wmuapodcast.wixsite.com/wmua-amherst
2024-10-2356 minPoet Talk on WMUAPaula SaywordPaula Sayword has been writing poetry for fifty years but only began to take herself seriously after she retired from a career in public housing. With her long-time partner, she lives in Western, Massachusetts.
Her poetry has appeared in Sanctuary, the Journal of Massachusetts Audubon Society; the Naugatuck River Review, Cyclamen & Swords, Sinister Wisdom, The Zuni Mountain Poets and Adrienne Rich: A Tribute Anthology. A chapbook, What Sleeps Inside was published by Slate Roof Press in 2010. Canticle of Light and Dark ( 2014 ) and Garden of things Lost (2021) were both published by The Synthesis Center Press.
2024-10-0957 minPoet Talk on WMUASandy YannoneSandra Yannone is the author of The Glass Studio (2024) and Boats for Women (2019), both published by Salmon Poetry in County Clare, Ireland. Her poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, SWWIM Every Day, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Ireland Review, Lavender Review, and Women’s Review of Books. Since March, 2020, she has hosted the weekly reading series Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry on Zoom via Facebook. She resides flexibly in her hometown where she is currently the Poet Laureate of Old Saybrook, CT. Visit her at www.sandrayannone.com.
2024-10-0158 minPoet Talk on WMUAAdam GrabowskiAdam Grabowski is the author of the chapbook Go On Bewilderment (Attack Bear Press, 2020). His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in such journals as Ninth Letter, OVERSOUND, New Ohio Review, Plume, Sixth Finch, jubilat, Off the Coast, DMQ Review, Hobart, Rust + Moth, Exit 7, Bullets into Bells (online), past-ten, Night Coffee, Drunk in a Midnight Choir,The Naugatuck River Review, Radius, and elsewhere. A multiple Pushcart nominee and the recipient of a 2021 Parent-Writer Fellowship from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, Adam holds an MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He lives in We...
2024-09-2459 minPoet Talk on WMUAIde ThompsonIde Amari Thompson (he/they) is a Black and Queer Caribbean writer from Nassau, Bahamas. They are working on an MLS degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champange and have an MFA in poetry from UMass Amherst and are a TinHouse 2024 Winter Alum and a reader at the Massachusetts Review. Their written work has appeared in the PREE online journal, Onyx magazine, exhibitions by the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Stellium Literary Magazine, Maple Tree Literary Supplement and is forthcoming in Juxtaprose Magazine and Jelly Bucket.
2024-09-1756 minPoet Talk on WMUAMichael MercurioA poet, editor, and occasional critic, Michael Mercurio lives and writes in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. His poems, interviews, and reviews have been published or are forthcoming in Palette Poetry, Thrush, The Common, Cream City Review, Sierra (the magazine of the Sierra Club), Sugar House Review, Lily Poetry Review, and elsewhere. (A full list of publications may be found here.) Michael is the founder and curator of What The Universe Is: A (Virtual) Reading Series, where established and emerging poets read together monthly on Zoom. In addition, he posts regular dispatches on his Substack, A Slight Case...
2024-09-1052 minPoet Talk on WMUAAdrie RoseAdrie Rose lives next to an orchard in western MA and is the editor of Nine Syllables Press. Her work has previously appeared in The Baltimore Review, Nimrod International Journal, The Night Heron Barks, and more. Her chapbook I Will Write a Love Poem was released in 2023 with Porkbelly Press, and her chapbook Rupture was released in 2024 with Gold Line Press. She was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2019 and 2023, a finalist for The Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry in 2021, named a Highly Commended Poet for the International Gingko Prize in 2023, and won the 2023 Radar Coniston Prize.
2024-09-0355 minPoet Talk on WMUAAnna Maria HongAnna Maria Hong (she/her) is the author of Age of Glass (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2018), winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s First Book Poetry Competition; the novella H & G (Sidebrow Books, 2018), winner of the A Room of Her Own Foundation’s Clarissa Dalloway Prize; and Fablesque (Tupelo Press, 2020), winner of the Berkshire Prize. She is the editor of Growing Up Asian American (William Morrow/Avon Books, 1993), an anthology of fiction and memoir.
Hong’s poetry, essays, and fiction are published in journ...
2024-08-3159 minPoet Talk on WMUANathan McClainNathan McClain is the author of Scale (Four Way Books, 2017) and Previously Owned (Four Way Books, 2022), a recipient of fellowships from The Frost Place, Sewanee Writers' Conference, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a graduate of the M.F.A. Program for Writers at Warren Wilson. A Cave Canem fellow, his poems and prose have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, Green Mountains Review, Zocalo Public Square, The Critical Flame, and On The Seawall, among others. He teaches at Hampshire College and serves as Poetry Editor for The Massachusetts Review.
2024-08-231h 00Poet Talk on WMUAAmy DryanskyAmy Dryansky (she/her) is the author of the poetry collections Grass Whistle (Salmon Poetry, 2013), winner of the Massachusetts Book Award for poetry, and How I Got Lost So Close to Home (Alice James Books, 1999), winner of the New England/New York Award. Her poems and essays have been published in anthologies and journals including Barrow Street, Harvard Review, New England Review, Orion, Radar, The Sun, Tin House, and the Women’s Review of Books.
Dryansky has received fellowships and awards from the Poetry Society of America, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She is the...
2024-08-1558 minPoet Talk on WMUASarah B. SullivanSarah B. Sullivan (she/her), of Northampton, MA, is a person, poet, physician, teacher, ocean-lover, partner, parent, lesbian, friend, meditator, dog-mom, and searcher. She wrote some poetry back in her 20’s, and started writing again when illness helped her decide to work less as a doctor and more on her passion for poetry. The community of people she interacts with, whether writing together, critiquing, fundraising, or just sharing work and worries, is a source of joy and fulfillment.
Sarah’s poems are published or forthcoming in journals including Alaska Quarterly Review, Calyx, Little Patuxent Review, Cider Press Revi...
2024-08-1059 minPoet Talk on WMUAKim KeoughKim Keough (She/Her) received her BA in English from Mount Holyoke College. Her Poetry and Photography have appeared in Meat for Tea: The Valley Review. She is the former director of Voices from Inside, a writing program for incarcerated and formerly-incarcerated women. She currently lives in Williamsburg.
2024-08-0357 minPoet Talk on WMUACarol PotterCarol Potter’s most recent book of poems, What Happens Next is Anyone’s Guess, was awarded the 2021 Pacific Coast Series Award from Beyond Baroque Books.
Other books include Some Slow Bees, which winner of the 2014 Field Poetry Prize from Oberlin College Press, Otherwise Obedient (Red Hen Press, 2007), a finalist in the Lambda LGBT awards for 2007, and Short History of Pets which won the 1999 Cleveland State Poetry Center Award, and the Balcones Award. Two previous books were published by Alice James Books, Upside Down in The Dark (I995) and Before We Were Born (1990).
Publications include poems in The Massachusetts Revi...
2024-07-2557 minPoet Talk on WMUALee DesrosiersLee (formerly Lori) Desrosiers’ poetry books are The Philosopher’s Daughter (Salmon Poetry, Ireland, 2013), Sometimes I Hear the Clock Speak (Salmon, 2016) and Keeping Planes in the Air (Salmon, 2020). Two chapbooks, Inner Sky and typing with e.e. cummings, are from Glass Lyre Press. Their poems have appeared in Ms. Magazine, The New York Times, New Millennium Review, Split this Rock, Contemporary American Voices, String Poet, Blue Fifth Review, Pirene’s Fountain, New Verse News, Mom Egg Review, Cutthroat and many other journals and anthologies. Desrosiers holds an MFA in Poetry from New England College.
They won Honorable Mention...
2024-07-2057 minPoet Talk on WMUAMichael Favala GoldmanPoet Michael Favala Goldman (b. 1966) is also a Danish literary translator, educator, editor, and jazz clarinetist.
Goldman’s seven books of original poetry include Who has time for this? (2020), Slow Phoenix (2021), Small Sovereign (2021), If you were here you would feel at home (2022), This May Sound Familiar (2022), Someday all of this will be yours (2023), and What Minimal Joy (2023).
Among his seventeen translated books are Dependency (Penguin Classics) by Tove Ditlevsen, The Water Farm Trilogy by Cecil Bødker, and Something To Live Up To, Selected Poems of Benny Andersen.
2024-07-1356 minPoet Talk on WMUARebecca Hart OlanderRebecca Hart Olander holds a bachelor’s degree from Hampshire College, a master of arts in teaching in English from Smith College ’96, and a master of fine arts in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She teaches writing at Westfield State University and is the editor/director of Perugia Press, an independent feminist press that publishes full-length poetry collections by emerging women poets.
Rebecca’s poetry has appeared recently in Bracken Magazine, Crab Creek Review, Jet Fuel Review, The Massachusetts Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and elsewhere, and her collaborative written and visual work has been published in mul...
2024-06-2859 minPoet Talk on WMUAMatt DonovanMatt Donovan is the author most recently of The Dug-Up Gun Museum (forthcoming from BOA Editions in November 2022) and the collection of lyric essays, A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape: Meditations on Ruin and Redemption (Trinity University Press 2016). He is the recipient of a Whiting Award, a Rome Prize in Literature, a Creative Capital Grant, and an NEA Fellowship in Literature.
In addition to his poetry and nonfiction, Donovan frequently collaborates with his wife, the artist Ligia Bouton. Collaborative work includes Inheritance, a chamber opera about America’s gun violence that’s based on the life of S...
2024-06-2158 minPoet Talk on WMUAHeather TreselerHeather Treseler is the author of Auguries & Divinations (Bauhan, 2024), which received the 2023 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize and the 2024 Shelia Margaret Motton Book Award, and Parturition (Southword, 2020), which received the 2019 chapbook award from the Munster Literature Centre in Cork, Ireland, and the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize. Her poems appear in The American Scholar, Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, Cincinnati Review, PN Review, The Irish Times, JAMA, Narrative, The Missouri Review, and The Iowa Review, among other journals.
Treseler's essays appear in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Review, PN Review, and in eight books about contemporary...
2024-06-1358 minPoet Talk on WMUAGail ThomasGail Thomas most recent books of poetry are Trail of Roots, a chapbook which won the A.V. Christie Series (Seven Kitchens Press) and the full-length collection Leaving Paradise (Human Error Publishing). Her other books are Odd Mercy (Headmistress, 2016), Waving Back (Turning Point, 2015), No Simple Wilderness: An Elegy for Swift River Valley (Haleys, 2001) and Finding the Bear (Perugia Press, 1997).
Waving Back was named a Must Read for 2016 by the Massachusetts Center for the Book, and Honorable Mention at the New England Book Festival. Odd Mercy was chosen by Ellen Bass for the 2016 Charlotte Mew Prize of Headmistress Pr...
2024-06-0657 minPoet Talk on WMUAD. Dina FriedmanD. Dina Friedman’s newest books are the poetry collection Here in Sanctuary—Whirling, (Querencia Press) and the short-story collection Immigrants (Creators Press), which was first runner up in the short-story category for the Eric Hoffer Award. Her previous books include two YA novels, Escaping Into the Night (Simon and Schuster), Playing Dad’s Song (Farrar Straus Giroux) and one book of poetry Wolf in the Suitcase (Finishing Line Press).
Dina has published in over a hundred literary journals including Rattle, Salamander, The Sun, Mass Poetry, Lilith, and Rhino. She has received two Best of the Net and fou...
2024-05-3058 minPoet Talk on WMUAJen Jabaily-BlackburnJen Jabaily-Blackburn’s first book of poems, Girl in a Bear Suit, was selected by Christopher Citro as winner of the 2023 Elixir Press Annual Poetry Prize and was released in April 2024. She is the winner of the 2nd annual Louisa Solano Memorial Emerging Poet Award from Salamander, selected by Stephanie Burt. Her work has appeared in or is coming soon from SIR, Arkansas International, Palette Poetry, Salamander, Fugue, Banshee, On the Seawall, Couplet Poetry, Indiana Review, The Common, and Massachusetts Review, among others.
Her poems have twice been selected for Best New Poets. She is at work on...
2024-05-0459 min
91.1 SPORTS PODCASTSSpecial Edition of UMass Hockey Hour: WMUA/WZBC Joint-Podcast
Chris Vogel, Jacob Repper, and John Ruggiero (WMUA, UMass) are joined by Jacob Lassner (WZBC, Boston College) to preview the Hockey East semifinal between Massachusetts foes. #1 Boston College has locked up the number one seed nationally and looks to complete the Hockey East double at TD Garden. #5 UMass are coming off a massive win over #4 Providence and are looking to pull off the upset to secure a bid to the NCAA Tournament. Puck drop Friday at 4 PM; can be heard live on 91.1 WMUA.
2024-03-2141 min91.1 SPORTS PODCASTSReflections and Farewell from WMUA Sports' graduating Class of 2023On the final WMUA Sports live show of the 2022-23 school year, our 4 graduating seniors, Sean Oldread, Scottie Marro, Jacob Munch, and Kyle Miller look back on their WMUA Sports tenure to reminisce on all the good moments, tough times, and lasting memories they had as a member of WMUA. The 4 of them discuss how WMUA Sports has grown since their arrivals as well as their excitement for the future of WMUA Sports. Sean, Scottie, Jacob, and Kyle say their final farewell to WMUA Sports so give it a listen!
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WMUA News: Up to the MinuteReligious Studies at UMass, Part IIIn December of 2022 WMUA News reporter Kelly McMahan spoke with UMass Religious History Professor Susan Ware to discuss the study of religion at a public university and its importance in today’s world.
This is part one of a two part conversation with Professor Ware. Both parts can be found on WMUA News's Up to the Minute podcasts series.
This feature was produced and edited by Kelly McMahan.
2023-05-0115 minWMUA News: Up to the MinuteReligious Studies at UMass, Part IIn December of 2022 WMUA News reporter Kelly McMahan spoke with UMass Religious History Professor Susan Ware to discuss the study of religion at a public university and its importance in today’s world.
This is part one of a two part conversation with Professor Ware. Both parts can be found on WMUA News's Up to the Minute podcasts series.
This feature was produced and edited by Kelly McMahan.
2023-05-0118 min91.1 SPORTS PODCASTSA-10 MBB Tournament Preview with Mike CoreyThe voice of A-10 basketball on ESPN joins and former WMUA Sports Director joins Sean Oldread to discuss this season for the Minutemen, their first round tournament matchup against Richmond, the conference tournament as a whole and Sean and Mike talk about candidates for Player and Coach of the Year! Tune into 91.1 WMUA for all your UMass Basketball Coverage!
2023-03-0620 min91.1 SPORTS PODCASTSWMUA Sports Speaks With Sue Peters - UMass Women's Basketball's All-Time Leading ScorerDuring halftime of the UMass Minutewomen vs Davidson Wildcats basketball game on Sun Feb 19, 2023 from the Mullins Center, WMUA broadcasters Jacob Munch and Pedro Gray Soares were joined live on the Official Radio Network of UMass Women's Basketball by the all-time leading scorer in UMass Women's Basketball history, Sue Peters!
2023-02-2007 min91.1 SPORTS PODCASTSUMass Hockey Hour - Week 11A lot to unpack from a couple one game sets in the WEEK 11 episode of the UMass Hockey Hour!! Join Noah Glickman, Scottie Marro, Jimmy Whelan, and Maddie Poplawski as they discuss the recent shootout loss* for the Minutemen against UML over the weekend, along with a 2-1 loss to Merrimack on Wednesday night. What can UMass do to clean up its recent penalty problem, and where do they stand after two impactful losses to Hockey East opponents? Listen in and find out...
WMUA Sports will have episodes of the Hockey Hour coming out weekly, along with...
2022-12-1228 min91.1 SPORTS PODCASTSUMass Women's Basketball Show Episode 8: What a week for the Minutewomen!! But will there be a letdown when they return home to play Yale on Wednesday?It was a fantastic weekend down in Miami for the UMass Minutewomen as they were victorious in an overtime thriller and then won the FIU Thanksgiving Classic Championship!! On Episode 8 of the UMass Women's Basketball Show, Sam Kinches, Jacob Munch, Josh Schreiber, and Chris Vogel reminisce on a highly successful week for UMass and then begin to turn the page towards the visiting Yale Bulldogs who make the trip to the Mullins Center on Wednesday. Plus, an extremely difficult round of Stump the Senior and so much more on this episode!
The UMass Women's Basketball Show is e...
2022-11-2826 min91.1 SPORTS PODCASTSUMass Women's Basketball Show Episode 7: Maine and Harvard Recaps + A Look Ahead to a Kennedy Cup Clash and a Formidable FoeIt's a short work/school week for people this week but it is the opposite for UMass Women's Basketball! On Episode 7 of the UMass Women's Basketball Show, Sam Kinches and Jacob Munch explain why UMass's wins over Maine and Harvard in the past week were so impressive even though they came in very different ways. Sam and Jacob also share what to expect in Tuesday's game at UMass Lowell before previewing the upcoming FIU Thanksgiving Classic. Drake is UMass's first foe down in Miami and the guys explain how dominant the Bulldogs have been to start the year. Also...
2022-11-2127 min91.1 SPORTS PODCASTSUMass Hockey Hour - Week 8Lots of negativity in the room from the WMUA upperclassmen in the WEEK 8 episode of the UMass Hockey Hour!! Join Scottie Marro, Devin Dobek, Maddie Poplawski, and Andrew Golden as they discuss everything that has been going wrong during a 5-game losing skid for Minutemen, and what they need to do to clean up their mistakes with another Hockey East matchup @ UNH upcoming. Will we see an unseen change of some sort be made, perhaps in net?? Listen in to hear some hot takes from the crew.
WMUA Sports will have episodes of the...
2022-11-1728 min91.1 SPORTS PODCASTSUMass 11/10 Hockey HourListen in as Scottie Marro, Jimmy Whelan, Jacob Repper, and Sam Kinches dive into a rather difficult last couple of weeks for UMass Hockey on this fifth episode of the UMass Hockey Hour. They discuss what went wrong for UMass against Providence last weekend, preview this weekend's series against Boston University, and venture into NHL talk for the first time this season. Plus, another edition of "Stump the Senior!" Will Scottie finally get stumped after going 3-0 last week or will he remain undefeated?! Listen in and find out...
WMUA Sports has Hockey Hour episodes coming out w...
2022-11-1130 min91.1 SPORTS PODCASTS11-3 Hockey HourNEW SEGMENT ALERT!!! Join Scottie Marro, Sam Kinches, Andrew Golden, and Noah Glickman on the most recent episode of the UMass Hockey Hour as they review the series split for the Minutemen against the Merrimack Warriors, along with previewing their upcoming Hockey East rival matchup against Providence, along with the first rendition of a new segment called “Stump the Senior!”. Will Scottie get stumped!? Listen in and find out… WMUA Sports will have The Hockey Hour episodes coming out weekly, along with live radio broadcasts of the games, so make sure to tune in all season long!
2022-11-0327 min91.1 SPORTS PODCASTSUMass Hockey Hour 10/27!Join Scottie Marro, Devin Dobek, Andrew Golden, and Noah Glickman on the fourth episode of the UMass Hockey Hour as they review the two HIGH SCORING AND HIGH CHARACTER wins for the Minutemen against the Union Dutchmen, along with previewing their upcoming Hockey East matchup against Merrimack and the updated NCAA rankings. WMUA Sports will have The Hockey Hour episodes coming out weekly, along with live radio broadcasts of the games, so make sure to tune in all season long!
2022-10-2828 min91.1 SPORTS PODCASTSUMass Football Show 10/26: New Mexico St BreakdownThe Boys are back after the bye week to break down the season for the UMass Minutemen so far! Kyle Miller, Sean Oldread, and Brennan McGrevy discuss everything from the biggest surprise from this team, to this Saturday's matchup against the New Mexico St Aggies. Be sure to tune in this Saturday for Kyle and Sean on the call. Only on 91.1 WMUA Sports!!!
2022-10-2738 min91.1 SPORTS PODCASTSUMass 10/20 Hockey Hour!Join Scottie Marro, Devin Dobek, Jacob Repper, and Noah Glickman on the fourth episode of the UMass Hockey Hour as they review the two ELECTRIC wins for the Minutemen against the reigning national champion Denver Pioneers, along with previewing their upcoming series against Union, the updated NCAA rankings and a little jersey talk sprinkled in. WMUA Sports will have The Hockey Hour episodes coming out weekly, along with live radio broadcasts of the games, so make sure to tune in all season long!
2022-10-2130 min91.1 SPORTS PODCASTSUMass Women's Basketball Show Episode 2: Roster and Schedule BreakdownJacob Munch, Beckett Storey, and Chris Vogel break down the UMass Women's Basketball roster as well as their non-conference schedule. They touch on the Atlantic 10 and where UMass stacks up in the conference.
The UMass Women's Basketball Show is live every Monday on 91.1 WMUA FM Amherst from 1:30-2:00pm EST.
2022-10-1921 min91.1 SPORTS PODCASTSUMass Hockey Hour 10/13!!!Join Scottie Marro, Maddie Poplawski, and Jimmy Whelan on the third episode of the UMass Hockey Hour as they preview the highly anticipated home opener for the Minutemen against the new reigning national champion Denver Pioneers, along with some things we learned from their first game of the season against AIC. WMUA Sports will have The Hockey Hour episodes coming out weekly, along with live radio broadcasts of the games, so make sure to tune in all season long!
2022-10-1728 min91.1 SPORTS PODCASTSUMass Football Show: Liberty Breakdown/Buffalo PreviewThe boys are back this week, as Kyle Miller and Sean Oldread break down the Minutemen's last week's loss against Liberty. They also look ahead to this Saturday's home matchup against Buffalo! Be sure to tune in this Saturday as Kyle Miller and Josh Schreiber will have the call live at McGuirk!!! Only on 91.1 WMUA Sports
2022-10-1330 min91.1 SPORTS PODCASTSUMass Hockey Hour 10/7!!Join Scottie Marro, Maddie Poplawski, and Andrew Golden on the second episode of the UMass Hockey Hour as they preview the first game of the season for the Minutemen against AIC, along with some things we learned from their exhibition game against Sacred Heart. WMUA Sports will have The Hockey Hour episodes coming out weekly, along with live radio broadcasts of the games, so make sure to tune in all season long!
2022-10-0828 min91.1 SPORTS PODCASTSUMass Hockey Hourhe UMass Hockey Hour returns to Spotify for the first show of the 2022-23 season! Join Scottie Marro, Devin Dobek, Maddie Poplawski, and Andrew Golden as they get you ready for the beginning of the hockey season for the reigning Hockey East Champions and 2021 NCAA National Champion UMass Minutemen. WMUA Sports will have The Hockey Hour episodes coming out weekly, along with live radio broadcasts of the games, so make sure to tune in all season long!
2022-10-0729 min91.1 SPORTS PODCASTSUMass Women's Basketball Show Feat. Hailey LeidelOn this edition of the UMass Women's Basketball Show, Jacob Munch and Josh Schreiber catch up with UMass Minutewomen basketball legend Hailey Leidel. They talk about Leidel's time playing professional basketball in Europe and Australia, reminisce on her time at UMass, her connections with the current team, and discuss how the game of women's basketball is different across the globe and growing worldwide. WMUA Sports is proud to be the Official Radio Network of UMass Women's Basketball.
2022-10-0737 min91.1 SPORTS PODCASTSUMass football Show: EMU recap/ Liberty previewThe Boys are back on Spotify with another Episode of the UMass Football Show! Kyle Miller, Sean Oldread, and Andrew Golden break down everything that we saw against EMU, and look forward to this Saturday's tough matchup against the Liberty Flames. WMUA Sports will be live on the call Saturday so make sure to tune in for the best student radio around!!!
2022-10-0631 min91.1 SPORTS PODCASTSUMass Football Show: Toledo Recap/Stony Brook previewThe UMass Football show is back in the studio as we recap the Minutemen's loss to Toledo, and look ahead to the first home opener of the Don Brown era! Kyle Miller and Sean Oldread will be live at McGuirk on Saturday at 3:30, only on 91.1 WMUA Sports!!!!
2022-09-1533 min91.1 SPORTS PODCASTSTulane Vs UMass PreviewKickoff closes out with a bang as WMUA Sports breaks down this Saturday's matchup against Tulane. Kyle Miller and Sean Oldread break down players to watch and the keys to the game if UMass wants to walk out of NOLA with a W. Be sure to follow WMUA sports for all of your UMass Athletics needs
2022-09-0212 min91.1 SPORTS PODCASTSUMASS FOOTBALL SHOW: Preseason Award ShowKickoff week continues with the 2022 WMUA Sports Preseason Award show!!! Kyle Miller and Sean Oldread give their picks on who will be the Offensive Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the year, Game of the year, and MUCH MORE! Be sure to Follow WMUAsports on Twitter for all of your Umass Athletics needs
2022-09-0120 min91.1 SPORTS PODCASTSUMass Football Defensive Breakdown showUMass Football Kickoff Week continues with the Defensive breakdown!! Kyle Miller and Sean Oldread break down the new look Defense, and make their predictions on who will be the breakout player to watch! Follow WMUA Sports on Twitter for all of your UMass Athletics needs.
2022-08-3016 min
91.1 SPORTS PODCASTSBall Banter episode 2Chris Rodriguez, Sean Sears, Devin Dobek, and Luke Campbell hop on for the second episode of Ball Banter where the guys talk about significant injuries to superstars, the potential return of Ben Simmons, and more! Make sure to follow the WMUA podcasts on Spotify to stay up to date with all your Umass athletic need-to-knows!!!!!
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