Emerging Poets Festival Featuring Kameryn Alexa Carter, Laura Cresté '13, and Matthew Tuckner '19

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Poetry at Bennington presents Kameryn Alexa Carter, Laura Cresté '13, and Matthew Tuckner '19 for the Emerging Poets Festival.

Kameryn Alexa Carter is the author of the poetry collection Antediluvian (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2026) and also the music criticism monograph New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh (Bloomsbury, 2025). She is a founding co-editor of Emergent Literary, a journal of work by Black and brown artists. She has been a Visiting Teaching Artist at the Poetry Foundation, creating and conducting a class titled “Standing Outside Myself: The Black Ecstatic,”  and her work has been published in Bat City Review, Bennington Review, Berfrois, Puerto del Sol, Torch Literary Arts, The Best American Poetry 2023, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. She attended Bennington College from 2014 to 2018, and is an MFA student in the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan.

Laura Cresté ’13 is the author of the poetry collection In the Good Years (Four Way Books, 2025) and the chapbook You Should Feel Bad, winner of a 2019 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. She holds an MFA from New York University and was a 2021-2022 Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, The Cortland Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry Northwest, and The Yale Review. She lives in western Massachusetts.

Matthew Tuckner ’19 is the author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Four Way Books, 2025) and the chapbook Extinction Studies, winner of the 2023 Sixth Finch Chapbook Prize. His poems have appeared in Adroit, AGNI, American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, Kenyon Review, The Nation, and Best New Poets. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at New York University and is currently a PhD student in English/Creative Writing at University of Utah.

Photo credits: Rebecca Bernstein (Kameryn Alexa Carter), Michael Sarinsky (Laura Cresté '13), and Esar Aadil (Matthew Tuckner '19).