Summer J. Hart, Nick Twemlow, & Robyn Schiff

Summer J. Hart is an interdisciplinary artist and writer from Maine living in the Hudson Valley, New York. She is the author of two books of poetry: Boomhouse (2023, The 3rd Thing Press), which won the 2024 Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize, and What Came Down in the Smoke (forthcoming in 2026 from JackLeg Press). She is a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Poetry and the 2022 Hellen Ingram Plummer Fellow at MacDowell. Her creative work has been supported by Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and Vermont Studio Center. She has work in the permanent collections of The University of Hartford and the University of Southern Maine. Summer is an enrolled member of the Listuguj Mi’gmaq First Nation.

Nick Twemlow is the author of two books of poetry, Palm Trees, awarded the Norma Farber First Book Prize from the Poetry Society of America, and Attributed to the Harrow Painter. His short films have played Slamdance, SXSW, Tribeca, and…