Jason O’Toole is Poet Laureate Emeritus of North Andover, MA and co-founder of the Anne Bradstreet Poetry Contest. He serves on the advisory board of the New England Poetry Club. He is the recipient of the 2025 Amy Lowell Prize and will judge this contest for 2026. He also judges the Tom Nattell Peace Poetry Prize and the Capital District Slam Poetry Festival. His third collection is The Strange Misgivings of the Sadly Gifted (Dead Man’s Press Ink). Recent writing has appeared in Love is for All of Us (Storey Publishing), as well as Wednesday Magazine and The Somerville Times.