Mar 01 Conversation: Libyan Poet Khaled Mattawa By Tom LeGro Khaled Mattawa was born in Benghazi, Libya, which is now much in the news, and came to the United States as a teenager in 1979. Jeffrey Brown spoke to Mattawa about the uprising in Libya, and about the history of… Continue reading
Feb 21 Weekly Poem: 'Meditation at the County Landfill' Eric Gudas":http://www.ericgudas.com/ was born in Annapolis, Md. His poems, book reviews and interviews with American poets have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, the Iowa Review, Poetry Flash, the Southern Review and other journals. His book, "Best Western and… Continue reading
Feb 17 Conversation: Elizabeth Bishop's 'Prose' By Tom LeGro Although publishing relatively little, roughly 100 poems, Elizabeth Bishop wrote volumes, and over the last decade nearly all of her unpublished work has been made public. Last week, two new books were added to the Bishop's canon, titled simply "Poetry"… Continue reading
Jan 31 Weekly Poem: 'Ex Libris' By Tom LeGro Megan Harlan's first book of poems, "Mapmaking," won the 2009 John Ciardi Prize. Her poems have appeared in several journals, including American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, AGNI Online and elsewhere. Continue reading
Jan 26 Watch In Chaos of Post-Earthquake Haiti, Artists Create Poetry Amid Rubble On his recent reporting trip to Haiti, Jeffrey Brown explored the story of Haitian poets and artists surviving -- and creating -- amid the rubble of last year's earthquake. Continue watching
Jan 26 Wednesday: Poetry Amid the Rubble By Molly Finnegan More from Jeffrey Brown's last report from his recent trip to Haiti, one year after the earthquake. Continue reading
Jan 24 Weekly Poem: 'Together' By Tom LeGro Charles Wright was born in Pickwick Dam, Tenn., in 1935 and was educated at Davidson College and the University of Iowa. He has written several books of poems, including most recently, "Outtakes" (2010); "Sestets: Poems" (2010); and the forthcoming "Bye-and-Bye:… Continue reading
Jan 17 Weekly Poem: From 'Fugue' By Tom LeGro Elizabeth Alexander was born in Harlem, raised in Washington, D.C., and attended Yale University, where she now teaches African American Studies. She is the author of six books of poems, including most recently, "Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010."… Continue reading
Jan 10 Weekly Poem: 'The Winter's Wife' By Tom LeGro Jennifer Chang is the author of "The History of Anonymity" (Georgia, 2008). A Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Virginia, she co-chairs the advisory board of Kundiman, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the support and promotion of Asian… Continue reading
Jan 04 In Haiti, Writer Kwame Dawes Tells of Quake Aftermath Through Poetry Writer Kwame Dawes has traveled to Haiti over the past year to report on and write poems about people's experiences after the earthquake. Jeffrey Brown's conversation with Dawes continues a series of reports in partnership with USA Today and the… Continue reading