In conjunction with Poetry Reading with Wyn Cooper and Martha Collins,

Beginning with an oblique nod toward memory, this chapbook moves quickly into a territory where personal loss and global violence merge, allowing the poet to explore—through highly nuanced language and insight—the psychological roots and social manifestations of war.

Martha Collins’ eleventh book of poetry, Casualty Reports, was published in the Pitt Poetry Series in October 2022. Her tenth book, Because What Else Could I Do (Pittsburgh, 2019), won the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award. Her previous poetry books include two volumes of linked sequences, Night Unto Night and Day Unto Day (Milkweed, 2018 & 2014), and three works that focus on race and racism: Admit One: An American Scrapbook (Pittsburgh, 2016), White Papers (Pittsburgh, 2012), and Blue Front (Graywolf, 2006). 

Please join us for Poetry Reading with Wyn Cooper and Martha Collins at 7:30 on Thursday, July 30. More information available here: https://www.brattleboromuseum.org/2026/06/16/poetry-reading-wyn-cooper-martha-collins/