Rae Armantrout's poetry often explores the intersection of the public and the private. The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's latest book, "Money Shot," tries to make sense of the financial crisis through our everyday experience.
Rita Dove was given what may have been her biggest honor and challenge: choosing poems from the last 100 years to create "The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry."
Now 72, Seamus Heaney's newest collection, "Human Chain," contains poems that are, as always for Heaney, grounded in the physical world, but also now take a look back.
