Local poet Susan Snively, who is the director of the Writing Center at Amherst College and teaches courses in writing and women's autobiographies, has published three collections of poems: From This Distance, Voices in the House, and, more recently, The Undertow.

Former Poet Laureate Richard Wilbur described her work as "clean-cut, fluent, witty, direct, fully of personality and surprise. [She] can also be deeply meditative, grave and affecting, uproarious."

Poetry Center Readings:

Fall 1998 (with Agha Shahid Ali)

Fall 2004 (ELM Press event)