Oct 10 Weekly Poem: 'Fiat Lux' Traci Brimhall is the author of "Our Lady of the Ruins" (forthcoming from W.W. Norton), winner of the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and "Rookery" (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010), winner of the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First… Continue reading
Oct 10 Watch Weekly Poem: 'Leaf at the End' by Lily Brown Lily Brown reads "Leaf at the End" from her book, "Rust or Go Home."… Continue watching
Oct 06 Transtromer, Swedish Poet With 'Tinge of Modernism, Surrealism,' Wins Nobel By Saskia de Melker The 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature has gone to Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer, the first poet to win the award since 1996. Judges selected Transtromer because, they wrote, "through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality."… Continue reading
Oct 05 Watch Poet Philip Schultz Details Life-Long Struggle in New Memoir 'My Dyslexia' Poet Philip Schultz Recalls a Life-Long Struggle in 'My Dyslexia'… Continue watching
Oct 05 Poet Philip Schultz Shares His Work Philip Schultz is a poet, fiction writer and educator. He has been teaching creative writing for nearly 30 years. In 1987, he founded the Writers Studio in New York. He won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for "Failure."… Continue reading
Oct 05 Poet Donald Hall Reflects on Love, Death and New Hampshire "Love, death and New Hampshire," Donald Hall once said when asked what he writes about. It remains true in the former US Poet Laureate's newly published book of poems, "The Back Chamber."… Continue reading
Oct 05 Poet Donald Hall Reflects on Love, Death and New Hampshire "Love, death and New Hampshire," Donald Hall once said when asked what he writes about. It remains true in the former US Poet Laureate's newly published book of poems, "The Back Chamber."… Continue reading
Oct 03 Weekly Poem: Remembering Taha Muhammad Ali By Saskia de Melker Taha Muhammad Ali was born in 1931 in the Galilee village of Saffuriya. After fleeing to Lebanon during the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, Muhammad Ali and his family settled in Nazareth where they have lived since. He and his sons… Continue reading
Oct 03 Watch Weekly Poem: Taha Muhammad Ali For more on this story go to http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/… Continue watching
Oct 03 Watch Weekly Poem: 'Fiat Lux' by Traci Brimhall Traci Brimhall reads "Fiat Lux" from her book, "Rookery."… Continue watching