Alice Fogel was the NH State Poet Laureate, 2014-2019. Her newest collection (2021) is Nothing But: a series of indirect considerations on art & consciousness. Other collections include A Doubtful House (2017), & Interval: Poems Based Upon Bach’s Goldberg Variations (2015), which won the Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature & the 2016 New Hampshire Literary Award in Poetry. Her third book, Be That Empty, was a national poetry bestseller, & she's also the author of Strange Terrain (on how to appreciate poetry without necessarily “getting” it, for individual readers & writers, reading groups, teachers, & mystified families & friends of poets). Nominated 10 times for the Pushcart, her poems have appeared in many journals & anthologies, including Best American Poetry, Robert Hass’s Poet’s Choice, Spillway, Hotel Amerika, Crazyhorse, & Inflectionist Review, & she has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts & other awards.