Aug 08 Watch Priscila Uppal Reads 'Obsessive Compulsive Cycling Disorder' Poet Priscila Uppal of Canadian Athletes Now reads "Obsessive Compulsive Cycling Disorder"… Continue watching
Aug 08 Wednesday on the NewsHour: Olympic Poetry By Tom LeGro Poet Priscila Uppal of Canadian Athletes Now reads "Obsessive Compulsive Cycling Disorder."… Continue reading
Aug 08 Priscila Uppal Reads 'Obsessive Compulsive Cycling Disorder' By Tom LeGro Writer and professor Priscila Uppal is serving as "Poet in Residence" for Canadian Athletes Now, a non-profit group supporting Canada's athletes at the 2012 London Olympics. Continue reading
Aug 08 Finding Poetry in the Athleticism and Lingo of the Olympics By Margaret Myers Writer and professor Priscila Uppal is serving as "Poet in Residence" for Canadian Athletes Now, a non-profit group supporting Canada's athletes at the 2012 London Olympics. Uppal talks to Jeffrey Brown about her residency and where she's found inspiration, as… Continue reading
Aug 06 Weekly Poem: 'How to Make Fatherhood Lyrical' Gibson Fay-LeBlanc is a writer and teacher. His first collection of poems, "Death of a Ventriloquist," won the Vassar Miller Prize and was published by the University of North Texas Press in 2012. He lives in Portland, Maine, with his… Continue reading
Jul 30 Weekly Poem: 'Tavern. Tavern. Church. Shuttered Tavern,' Patricia Smith is the author of five volumes of poetry, including "Blood Dazzler," a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, "Teahouse of the Almighty," a National Poetry Series selection, and most recently "Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah." She is a… Continue reading
Jul 16 Weekly Poem: 'Quarantine' By Tom LeGro Eavan Boland is one of Ireland's most prominent poets. Her poems often examine the lives of women, looking at larger cultural issues through the lens of the details of everyday life. She's published more than 10 books of verse, most… Continue reading
Jul 09 Watch Weekly Poem: Tracy K. Smith Reads From 'The Speed of Belief' Tracy K. Smith reads from her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "Life on Mars."… Continue watching
Jul 09 Weekly Poem: From 'The Speed of Belief' By Tom LeGro Tracy K. Smith's poem is from her book "Life on Mars" (2011, Graywolf Press), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry earlier this year. She is the author of two other collections of poetry: "Duende" (Graywolf, 2007), winner of the… Continue reading