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
Oct 01 Watch Poet finds solace in elegy of departed son’s wild energy By PBS News Hour When Edward Hirsch lost his son to a drug-related cardiac arrest, the poet began collecting his memories. Overwhelmed with grief, Hirsch turned his reflections into a book-length elegy, now published as “Gabriel.” Jeffrey Brown spoke with Hirsch near his home… Continue watching
Oct 01 Poet Edward Hirsch grieves his late son with an elegy for ‘Gabriel’ By Frank Carlson In 2011, Gabriel Hirsch, the 22-year-old son of acclaimed poet Edward Hirsch, died from a drug overdose. His father was beside himself with grief, and for a long time could not bring himself to work (since 2003 Hirsch has been… Continue reading
Oct 01 Watch Edward Hirsch reads another excerpt from “Gabriel: A Poem” By PBS News Hour Continue watching