Sep 07 Weekly Poem: ‘First Thing’ Paul Hunter is a poet, musician and teacher. He produces letterpress books and broadsides under the imprint of Wood Works Press, his poems have appeared many journals, and he's the author of several chapbooks and four books of poetry. Continue reading
Aug 31 Weekly Poem: ‘Erasers’ Mary Jo Salter is a poet, lyricist, playwright and essayist, whose latest collection of poems, "A Phone Call to the Future: New and Selected Poems," was published in March 2008. Continue reading
Aug 27 Jessye Norman, the Roots Team Up for Langston Hughes’ ‘Ask Your Mama’ Five years ago, Emmy Award-winning composer Laura Karpman stumbled across a copy of Hughes"Ask Your Mama." She was instantly struck by the power and potential of the piece, believing it cried out to be realized as a 21st century multimedia… Continue reading
Aug 24 Weekly Poem: ‘Physical Portrait / Retrato fisico’ Cecilia Vicuna's visual work has been exihibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the Whitney Museum of American Art and MoMA. She is also co-editor of the Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry, which was published this month. Continue reading
Aug 17 Monday on the NewsHour: Albert Goldbarth Albert Goldbarth is the only poet to win the National Book Critics Circle Award twice and last year received the "Mark Twain Prize for humor from the Poetry Foundation. His latest book, "To Be Read in 500 Years," was published… Continue reading
Aug 17 Junk Man: Poet and Professor Albert Goldbarth Poet and toy collector Albert Goldbarth is a two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as the Mark Twain Prize for Humor. In an interview with Jeffrey Brown, Goldbarth discusses his writing, and his latest book… Continue reading
Aug 17 Albert Goldbarth Reads ‘How Simile Works’ and Other Poems Poet Albert Goldbarth reads "How Simile Works," as well as a poem that looks back on his youthful attempts at writing verse. Continue reading
Aug 17 Watch Junk Man: Poet and Professor Albert Goldbarth Poet and toy collector Albert Goldbarth is a two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as the Mark Twain Prize for Humor. In an interview with Jeffrey Brown, Goldbarth discusses his writing, and his latest book… Continue watching
Aug 10 Weekly Poem: ‘Too Here’ Albert Goldbarth is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and has won numerous awards, including two National Book Critics Circle Awards. He is a professor of humanities at Wichita State University, where he has taught since 1987. Continue reading