Grace Cavalieri
"The Poet and the Poem"
originally broadcast via Public Radio satellite 
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Twain Dooley
Interviewed by Grace Cavalieri



Terrance Hayes
2014-2015 Poet Laureate of The United States
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Hayes’s poetry collections include Lighthead (2010), which won a National Book Award, was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and was nominated for a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; Wind in a Box (2006); Hip Logic (2002), which was chosen for the National Poetry Series and also a finalist for an LA Times Book Award and an Academy of American Poets James Laughlin Award; and Muscular Music(1999), which won a Kate Tufts Discovery Award. His poems have also been featured in several editions of Best American Poetry and have won multiple Pushcart Prizes. Hayes’s additional honors include a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation



Philip Levine (1928 - 2015)
Former Poet Laureate 2011-2012
Interviewed by Grace Cavalieri


Charles Wright

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On June 12th, 2014, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced the appointment of Charles Wright as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. Charles Wright was born in Pickwick Dam, Tennessee on August 25, 1935. He is the author of 24 poetry collections, two books of essays, and three books of translation. His many honors include the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Bollingen Prize, the Ruth Lilly Prize from the Poetry Foundation, and the International Griffin Poetry Prize, as well as the 2008 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize in Poetry from the Library of Congress.


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Belle Waring:
Poet, Nurse, Scientist, Writer
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Belle Waring's first collection, Refuge (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990), won the Associated Writing Programs’ Award for Poetry in 1989, the Washington Prize in 1991, and was cited by Publishers Weekly as one of the best books of 1990. Dark Blonde (Sarabande Books, 1997) won the the 1997 Poetry Center Book Award (San Francisco State University) and the First Annual Larry Levis Reading Prize in 1998. She has received fellowships from the NEA, the Washington, D.C. Commission on the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Waring has a background in both nursing and teaching. She is currently a science writer in federal service.




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Sibbie O'Sullivan's poems have appeared in many publications, among them West Branch; The Laurel Review; Nimrod; Gargoyle; Dreamworks; South Florida Poetry Review; New Delta Review; Poet and Critic; Calapooya Collage; Westminster Review; Poets On; Apalachee Quarterly; Sou'Wester; Hubbub; Zone 3, and WordWrights. Her awards in poetry include the Mademoiselle College Poetry Prize; the Judith Siegal Pearson Poetry Prize, and the Billee Murray Denny Poetry Prize.

Kathi Wolfe is a poet and writer. Her poetry has appeared in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Gargoyle and other publications. She has read at many poetry series, including the Library of Congress Poetry at Noon series. In 2006, Wolfe received a Puffin Foundation grant for her chapbook of poems on Helen Keller. (Puddinghouse Press.) She is a critic and commentator for Scene4 Magazine..     


Barbara Goldberg is the author of six books of poetry. She recently received the Felix Pollak Poetry Prize for The Royal Baker's Daughter, forthcoming from University of Wisconsin Press in 2008. She is the translator, along with Israeli poet Moshe Dor, of The Fire Stays in Red: Poems by Ronny Someck (University of Wisconsin/Dryad Press) and After the First Rain: Israeli Poems on War and Peace (University of Syracuse Press).  

Myong-Hee Kim Born in Seoul, Korea,studied philosophy at Korea University. After moving to the United States, she studied creative writing and psychology at George Washington University. Her poems, in English and Korean, have been published various places, including the Christian Science Monitor and Korean language newspapers. In 2002 her translation of the Korean poet Lee Sang, Crow's Eye View, was published by The Word Works. She writes a weekly column for DC's Korean newspaper Joongang Daily.     

DELORES KENDRICK

Delores Kendrick, is the author of the award-winning poetry book The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women, published in 1989. In 1996, a CD of music inspired by The Women of Plums was released, and Kendrick adapted the book for theatrical performance in Cleveland, and at the Kennedy Center. The adaptation won the New York New Playwrights Award in 1997. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

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Charles Simic, US Poet Laureate
Interviewed by Grace Cavalieri


Watch a Film based on one of Jane's Poems


Patricia Gray
of The Library of Congress
Interviewed by Grace Cavalieri


Grace Interviews
  Fleda Brown

Fleda Brown, a professor of English at University of  Delaware, is poet laureate for the state of Delaware. Reunion, is Brown's sixth book of poetry, published in March by the University of Wisconsin Press, as a result of Brown's winning the 2007 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry.
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Grace Interviews
  David Wagoner

David Wagoner has published 17 books of poems, most recently GOOD MORNING AND GOOD NIGHT (U. of  Illinois Press, 2005) and ten novels, one of which, THE ESCAPE ARTIST, was made into a movie by Francis Ford Coppola.  He won the Lilly Prize in 1991 and has won six yearly prizes from POETRY (Chicago).  He was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets for 23 years.  He has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and twice for the National Book Award.  He edited POETRY NORTHWEST from 1966 to its end in 2002.  He is professor emeritus of English at the U. of Washington.
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Grace Interviews W.D. Snodgrass

W.D.S. published his first book of poems, HEART'S NEEDLE, in 1959.  Since then he has published over twenty books of poetry, translation, memoir, and criticism.  His many awards include the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1960 as well as grants from the Rockefeller, Ford, and Ingram Merrill Foundations. His SELECTED TRANSLATIONS (1998) was awarded the Academy of American Poets' Harold Morton Landon Translation Award.  Three of his books have been finalists for  National Book Critics Circle awards, including his most recent book, NOT FOR SPECIALISTS: NEW AND
SELECTED POEMS (2006).

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Grace Cavalieri Interviews 14th
Poet Laureate of the United States, Donald Hall
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Philip Nikolayev Lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife, the poet Katia Kapovich, and their daughter Sophia.  He co-edits Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics.

Ted Kooser
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2nd Ted Kooser Interview

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Herbert Woodward Martin

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Len Roberts
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Dr. Len Roberts, who has been teaching in the
English Department at Northampton
Community College for thirty years.

Lucille Clifton
Interview by Grace Cavalieri
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