Poetry
Philip Levine “is a large, iconic Whitman of the industrial heartland” who, according to Edward Hirsch in the New York Times Book Review, should be considered “one of [America's]…quintessentially...
One of America’s most compelling and idiosyncratic poets, C.D. Wright ”belongs to a school of exactly one” (NY Times). Born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, she is a radically restless...
Copper Canyon Press published David Budbill’s newest book of poems, Happy Life, this month. Garrison Keillor reads frequently from David’s poems...
Stephen Sandy is the author of eleven previous poetry collections, most recently Weathers Permitting and Netsuke...
F. D. Reeve graduated from Princeton University (1950) and Columbia University (1958) and in 1961 was one of the first exchangees between the American Council of Learned Societies and the USSR Academy...
Edie Rhoads lives and writes in Burlington. She earned an MFA through NYU’s creative writing fellowship. Her poems have appeared widely in such publications as New Letters, Crazyhorse, Post Road,...
The most frequently translated work in America today is Dante’s Inferno—a seven-hundred-year-old book-length poem. Dante translator Michael Palma considers its enduring appeal and what it has to...
Maxine Kumin's 17th poetry collection is Where I Live: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010. She also has a new essay collection...
Major Jackson is the author of three collections of poetry, Hoops (Norton, 2006), a finalist for an NAACP Image Award for...
Barbara Crooker’s work has appeared in magazines as diverse as Yankee, The Christian Science Monitor, Highlights for Children, and The Journal of American Medicine (JAMA...
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