Dec 21 Watch Extended Interview: Poet Christian Wiman More of Jeffrey Brown's conversation with Christian Wiman, editor of Poetry magazine. Continue watching
Dec 17 Weekly Poem: 'Messiah: Christmas Portions' By Tom LeGro Poet Mark Doty reflects on one of the great traditions of the holiday season: Handel's "Messiah."… Continue reading
Dec 10 Weekly Poem: 'Providence' Sally Keith is the author of three collections of poetry: "The Fact of the Matter" (2012, Milkweed Editions); "Design," winner of the 2000 Colorado Prize for Poetry; and "Dwelling Song," winner of the University of Georgia's Contemporary Poetry Series competition. Continue reading
Dec 10 Watch Weekly Poem: Sally Keith Reads 'Providence' Sally Keith reads "Providence'," a poem from her recent book, "The Fact of the Matter."… Continue watching
Dec 03 Weekly Poem: 'Swimming Pool' By Tom LeGro James Arthur is the author of "Charms Against Lightning," a debut poetry collection published by Copper Canyon Press in October. He has received the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry, a residency at the Amy… Continue reading
Nov 26 Weekly Poem: 'Rage Sonnet' Hoa Nguyen studied poetics at New College of California in San Francisco. The author of eight books and chapbooks, she teaches poetics in a private workshop and at Ryerson University. Wave Books published her third full-length collection of poems, "As… Continue reading
Nov 23 After Sandy, Poet Describes 'What It Means to Stand in the Rubble of Your Life' Jennifer Fitzgerald's family and friends have been greatly impacted by superstorm Sandy, and though she immediately got involved in relief efforts in her Staten Island community, she felt that her poetry would be another way to reach a much larger… Continue reading
Nov 23 Friday on the NewsHour: The Poetry of Sandy Jennifer Fitzgerald reads two poems about Hurricane Sandy: "I Was Raised on an Island" and "What It Means to Rise."… Continue reading
Nov 23 Jennifer Fitzgerald Reads 'I Was Raised on an Island' and Other Poems Jennifer Fitzgerald captured in poetry the struggle she witnessed in her community to recover after Hurricane Sandy. She also reads "I Was Raised on an Island" and "What It Means to Rise."… Continue reading