Aug 27 Jessye Norman, the Roots Team Up for Langston Hughes’ ‘Ask Your Mama’ Five years ago, Emmy Award-winning composer Laura Karpman stumbled across a copy of Hughes"Ask Your Mama." She was instantly struck by the power and potential of the piece, believing it cried out to be realized as a 21st century multimedia… Continue reading
Aug 24 Weekly Poem: ‘Physical Portrait / Retrato fisico’ Cecilia Vicuna's visual work has been exihibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the Whitney Museum of American Art and MoMA. She is also co-editor of the Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry, which was published this month. Continue reading
Aug 17 Monday on the NewsHour: Albert Goldbarth Albert Goldbarth is the only poet to win the National Book Critics Circle Award twice and last year received the "Mark Twain Prize for humor from the Poetry Foundation. His latest book, "To Be Read in 500 Years," was published… Continue reading
Aug 10 Weekly Poem: ‘Too Here’ Albert Goldbarth is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and has won numerous awards, including two National Book Critics Circle Awards. He is a professor of humanities at Wichita State University, where he has taught since 1987. Continue reading
Aug 03 Weekly Poem: ‘Living Room’ By Andrea Hollander Budy In the cave of memory my father crawls now, his small carbide light fixed to his forehead, his kneepads so worn from the journey they’re barely useful, but he adjusts them… Continue reading
Jul 28 Weekly Poem: ‘How Simile Works’ Albert Goldbarth is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and has won numerous awards, including two National Book Critics Circle Awards. He is a professor of humanities at Wichita State University, where he has taught since 1987. Continue reading
Jul 21 Weekly Poem: ‘Barking’ Jim Harrison has published more than 30 collections of poetry and prose. "In Search of Small Gods" is his twelfth book of poems. Continue reading
Jul 13 Weekly Poem: ‘Like Hearing Your Name Called in a Language You Don’t Understand’ "C.D. Wright has published 13 collections of poetry and prose. "Like Hearing Your Name Called in a Language You Don't Understand" is taken from "Rising, Falling, Hovering" (Copper Canyon, 2008), which in June won the Griffin Poetry Prize. Continue reading
Jul 08 Weekly Poem: ‘Re: Happiness, in pursuit thereof’ C.D. Wright has published 13 collections of poetry and prose. "Re: Happiness, in pursuit thereof" is taken from her most recent book, "Rising, Falling, Hovering" (Copper Canyon, 2008), which in June won Canada's Griffin Poetry Prize. Continue reading
Jun 29 Weekly Poem: ‘Myth’ Natasha Trethewey won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2007 for her book, "Native Guard," written about her mother and black Civil War soldiers on the Mississippi coast. Continue reading