Nov 21 Watch Poet Joy Harjo Shares Words of Celebration and Memory for Thanksgiving Poet Joy Harjo Reads a Thanksgiving Poem… Continue watching
Nov 21 Poet Joy Harjo Shares Words of Celebration and Memory for Thanksgiving Joy Harjo, who was born into the Muscogee Creek Nation in Oklahoma, describes herself as a poet, musician, dreamer and questioner. Her poem "Perhaps the World Ends Here" is particularly fitting as people gather around the table to celebrate Thanksgiving. Continue reading
Nov 20 Watch Jennifer Fitzgerald Reads Poems about Hurricane Sandy Fifth generation Staten Islander Jennifer Fitzgerald reads her poems about Hurricane Sandy… Continue watching
Nov 19 Weekly Poem: 'Highlights and Interstices' Prize-winning Jack Gilbert died last week at the age of 87 after suffering for years from Alzheimer's disease. His many honors include the Yale Younger Poets prize for his 1962 debut "Views of Jeopardy" and a National Book Critics Circle… Continue reading
Nov 12 Weekly Poem: 'The Role of Elegy' Mary Jo Bang is the author of several books of poetry, including most recently a translation of Dante's "Inferno" (2012), "The Bride of E" (2009) and "Elegy" (2007), which won the National Book Critics Circle award. Continue reading
Nov 05 Weekly Poem: 'Never Seen' 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
Oct 29 Weekly Poem: 'A.M.' Nick Norwood's third full volume of poems, "Gravel and Hawk," won the Hollis Summers Prize in Poetry and was published by Ohio University Press in April 2012. His other books are "A Palace for the Heart" (2004), "The Soft Blare"… Continue reading
Oct 22 Weekly Poem: 'Redemption Song' Kevin Young is Atticus Haygood Professor of Creative Writing and English and Curator of Literary Collections and the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University. He is the author of seven books of poetry, including "Ardency: A Chronicle of the… Continue reading
Oct 15 Weekly Poem: 'Diagnosis' Sharon Olds is the author of several books of poetry, including "The Dead and the Living," winner of the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award; "The Unswept Room," a finalist for the 2002 National Book Award and the National Book… Continue reading