Twain Dooley
Interviewed
by Grace Cavalieri
Terrance Hayes
2014-2015 Poet Laureate of The United States
Listen to Audio Podcast [January 2015]
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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minutes)
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.
Interview by Grace Cavalieri
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
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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.. |
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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
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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. |
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DELORES KENDRICK
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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.
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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
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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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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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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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Donald
Hall was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in
1928.
He received his bachelor's degree from
Harvard College
in 1951, and in 1953 his
bachelor's in literature from
Oxford
University. For the past thirty years he has
lived
on Eagle Pond Farm in rural New
Hampshire, in the
house where his
grandmother and mother were born.
Hall was
married for 23 years to the poet Jane
Kenyon,who died in 1995.
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