Jan 03 Weekly Poem: ‘Boy in Blue’ By Tom LeGro Recently, Kwame Dawes teamed up with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to examine the earthquake in Haiti through poetry. Look for a report on the NewsHour about that project in the coming days. Continue reading
Dec 27 Weekly Poem: ‘Burning the Christmas Greens’ By Tom LeGro Born in Rutherford, N.J., in 1883, William Carlos Williams was as a revolutionary figure in American poetry, an experimenter, an innovator and one of the principal poets of the Imagist movement. Continue reading
Dec 20 Weekly Poem: ‘The New Intelligence’ By Tom LeGro Timothy Donnelly is the author of "Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit" and "The Cloud Corporation," is a poetry editor for "Boston Review" and a full-time faculty member of the Writing Program at Columbia University's School of the… Continue reading
Dec 17 Conversation: Patti Smith By Tom LeGro Jeffrey Brown talks to rock legend Patti Smith, whose memoir, "Just Kids," won the National Book Award for nonfiction. Continue reading
Dec 09 Translator Brings Poetry of Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo to U.S. Ahead of the Friday ceremony awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the absent (and imprisoned) Liu Xiaobo, Graywolf Press announces the future publication of a collection of his works, translated into English by Jeffrey Yang. Continue reading
Dec 06 Weekly Poem: ‘The Nomad Flute’ By Tom LeGro U.S. Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin reads "The Nomad Flute."… Continue reading
Nov 29 Weekly Poem: ‘Hammer Is the Prayer’ Christian Wiman is the editor of Poetry magazine and the author of three collections of poems: "Every Riven Thing" (2010), "Hard Night" (2005) and "The Long Home" (1998). Continue reading
Nov 23 Conversation: Poet Nikki Giovanni By Tom LeGro Nikki Giovanni is the author of several books of poetry, including most recently, "Bicycles: Love Poems." She is a professor at Virginia Tech, where she teaches writing and literature. "The 100 Best African American Poems" was edited by Giovanni and… Continue reading
Nov 22 Weekly Poem: ‘Fish Head for Katrina’ By Tom LeGro Terrance Hayes, a poet and professor at Carnegie Mellon University, won the 2010 National Book Award. Here, he reads a poem from his award-winning volume, "Lighthead."… Continue reading
Nov 19 Watch National Book Award-Winning Poet Hayes Reads From ‘Lighthead’ Terrance Hayes, a poet and professor at Carnegie Mellon University, won the National Book Award earlier this week. Here, he reads a poem from his award-winning volume called "Lighthead."… Continue watching