Jumpstart Poetry

Teresa Cader’s fourth poetry collection, AT RISK, was selected by Mark Doty for the 2023 Richard Snyder Memorial Book Prize and published by Ashland Poetry Press in October 2024. Her other books include: History of Hurricanes (Northwestern), selected as a “Must Read” book by the Massachusetts Book Awards and a finalist for the Sheila Margaret Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club; The Paper Wasp (Northwestern); and Guests (1990), winner of The Journal/Charles B. Wheeler Prize Poetry Prize and the Norma Farber First Book Award, selected by Mary Oliver. She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Bunting Institute-Radcliffe/Harvard, the MacDowell Colony, and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Her poems have appeared in such places as The Atlantic, Slate, Plume, Poetry, Harvard Review, On the Seawall, AGNI, Ploughshares, Harvard Magazine, and FRAZA and have been translated into Icelandic and Polish. She has taught at MIT, UMass-Boston, Emerson College, and Lesley University in the MFA Program. She serves as the fifth Poet Laureate of Arlington, MA.