Nov 17 Weekly Poem: Hoa Nguyen links globalization and goddesses By Victoria Fleischer Many of the poems in “Red Juice” deal with a concern for globalization and sustainability. “You can see that progression in the book, that there is more and more urgency around the concern about financial collapse, concern about environmental collapse,… Continue reading
Nov 10 Weekly Poem: Derrick Brown heals a horse and puts it to verse By Anna Christiansen When poet Derrick Brown moved from the city of Austin to more rural Elgin, Texas, he was searching for “a peaceful plot of land to hunker down.” The pastoral surroundings enabled Brown to slow down and regain his voice, spurring… Continue reading
Nov 03 Weekly Poem: Jericho Brown revists 'The New Testament' By Victoria Fleischer As a child, poet Jericho Brown went to church on Wednesdays and Sundays and “every day in between if we could.” He grew up in an evangelical, fundamentalist family and often sang with the church choir. It’s through that lens… Continue reading
Oct 30 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Galway Kinnell dies at 87 By Joshua Barajas American poet Galway Kinnell, whose work emphasized the ordinary over the fantastical, died from leukemia Tuesday at his home in Sheffield, Vermont. He was 87. Continue reading
Oct 27 Weekly Poem: David Roderick ponders the strangeness of the suburbs By Victoria Fleischer David Roderick spent a year traveling abroad, in search of poetic inspiration. In Japan, he wrote prose poems, a form he hadn’t previously explored. In Ireland, he became “enamored” with composing ballads, and in Italy, he used art as inspiration… Continue reading
Oct 20 Weekly Poem: Laura Kasischke points to the lingering past By Andrew Troast The poetry in “The Infinitesimals” invites the reader to look into their own past and think on what it is to experience loss. Continue reading
Oct 16 Watch Literary festival celebrates African writers as Kenya marks an anxious anniversary By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 13 Weekly Poem: Saskia Hamilton wants you to 'dream over' her work By Victoria Fleischer “The spirit of the book is a lot about passing through or passing by different lives and landscapes,” says Saskia Hamilton of her new collection, "Corridor."… Continue reading
Oct 06 Weekly Poem: Jennifer Michael Hecht reads 'A Marriage of Love and Independence' By artsdesk Listen to Jennifer Michael Hecht read her poem "A Marriage of Love and Independence" from her new collection, "Who Said."… Continue reading
Oct 06 Two poems on what it's like to live with Ebola, climate change By Larisa Epatko The two women live in different parts of the world: one on a tropical island in the Pacific, another in a former war-torn African country now fighting Ebola. Their lives are very different but they chose the same way to… Continue reading