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 03 Weekly Poem: ‘Boy in Blue’ By Tom LeGro Recently, Kwame Dawes teamed up with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to examine the earthquake in Haiti through poetry. Look for a report on the NewsHour about that project in the coming days. Continue reading
Dec 27 Weekly Poem: ‘Burning the Christmas Greens’ By Tom LeGro Born in Rutherford, N.J., in 1883, William Carlos Williams was as a revolutionary figure in American poetry, an experimenter, an innovator and one of the principal poets of the Imagist movement. Continue reading
Dec 20 Weekly Poem: ‘The New Intelligence’ By Tom LeGro Timothy Donnelly is the author of "Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit" and "The Cloud Corporation," is a poetry editor for "Boston Review" and a full-time faculty member of the Writing Program at Columbia University's School of the… Continue reading
Dec 06 Weekly Poem: ‘The Nomad Flute’ By Tom LeGro U.S. Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin reads "The Nomad Flute."… Continue reading
Nov 29 Weekly Poem: ‘Hammer Is the Prayer’ Christian Wiman is the editor of Poetry magazine and the author of three collections of poems: "Every Riven Thing" (2010), "Hard Night" (2005) and "The Long Home" (1998). Continue reading
Nov 22 Weekly Poem: ‘Fish Head for Katrina’ By Tom LeGro Terrance Hayes, a poet and professor at Carnegie Mellon University, won the 2010 National Book Award. Here, he reads a poem from his award-winning volume, "Lighthead."… Continue reading
Nov 15 Weekly Poem: ‘Nikki-Rosa’ By Tom LeGro Nikki Giovanni is the author of several books of poetry, including most recently "Bicycles: Love Poems." "Nikki-Rosa" is taken from "The 100 Best African American Poems," edited by Giovanni and published in November. Continue reading
Nov 08 Weekly Poem: ‘She Is Awakened by a Hair’ By Tom LeGro Kim Dower taught poetry for two years at Emerson College, her alma mater, before moving to Los Angeles and founding Kim-from-LA, a literary publicity company that specializes in coaching authors and speakers on how to present themselves to the media. Continue reading