Mar 08 Weekly Poem: ‘bound isaac’ By Tom LeGro D.A. Powell is the author of "Chronic" (Graywolf Press), which won the 2010 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. The award, which comes with a $100,000 prize, is given annually by Claremont Graduate University to honor work by a mid-career poet. Continue reading
Mar 01 Weekly Poem: ‘scenes from the trip we didn’t take to the antarctic’ By Tom LeGro D.A. Powell is the author of "Chronic" (Graywolf Press), which won the 2010 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. The award, which comes with a $100,000 prize, is given annually by Claremont Graduate University to honor work by a mid-career poet. Continue reading
Feb 22 Weekly Poem: ‘Hole’ By Tom LeGro "Hole" is from Naomi Ayala's "This Side of Early" (Curbstone Press, 2008). Her first collection, "Wild Animals on the Moon," was published in 1997, and a third is forthcoming. She lives in Washington, D.C., and works as an education consultant,… Continue reading
Feb 15 Poet Lucille Clifton Dies at Age 73 Lucille Clifton, a National Book Award-winning poet and Pulitzer Prize finalist, died Saturday after a long fight with cancer. She was 73. Continue reading
Feb 08 Weekly Poem: ‘Those Winter Sundays’ By Tom LeGro Robert Hayden was the first black poet to be chosen as consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress. Continue reading
Feb 05 Friday on the NewsHour: ‘A Rift in the Land’ By Tom LeGro Michele Voltaire Marcelin, an artist, poet, spoken word performer and teacher, was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Since the earthquake struck that country last month, she has been struggling to make sense of the destruction. Continue reading
Feb 01 Weekly Poem: ‘Centuries of Ashes’ By Tom LeGro Patrick Sylvain is a Haitian-American writer, essayist and poet, and instructor of Haitian language and culture at Brown University's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Continue reading
Jan 25 Weekly Poem: ‘Ports of Sorrow’ By Tom LeGro Patrick Sylvain is a Haitian-American writer, essayist and poet, and instructor of Haitian language and culture at Brown University's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Continue reading
Jan 11 Weekly Poem: ‘Our Valley’ By Tom LeGro Philip Levine is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently "News of the World" (2009). The poem above, "Our Valley," originally appeared in the November 2008 issue of Poetry. Continue reading