Featured Poet
in collaboration with
Poets for Peace:
Robert Pinksy,
 United States Poet Laureate 1997-2000, continues his work on the Favorite Poem Project, creating an audio and video archive featuring Americans from all walks of life reading aloud a beloved poem. He is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Jersey Rain, five books of criticism, and numerous translations. Pinsky is the poetry editor of Slate magazine and a regular contributor to "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" on PBS. He teaches in the graduate writing program at Boston University.

Featured Poet:
Aliki Barnstone
is the author of four books of poems, Wild With It (Sheep Meadow, 2002), Madly in Love (Carnegie-Mellon, 1997), Windows in Providence (Curbstone, 1981), and The Real Tin Flower. She is the editor of two anthologies of
women's poetry, Voices of Light: Spiritual and Visionary Poems by Women from Around the World (Shambhala, 1999) and A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now (Schocken, 1992).

Featured Poet:
Lucille Lang Day's poetry collections are INFINITIES (Cedar Hill Publications), WILD ONE (Scarlet Tanager), FIRE IN THE GARDEN (Mother's Hen), and SELF-PORTRAIT WITH HAND MICROSCOPE (Berkeley Poets' Workshop and Press), which was selected by Robert Pinsky for the Joseph Henry Jackson Award,

ENID SHOMER ON THE TRIUMPH OF HER LATEST BOOK reviewed by Ruth Daigon

"Infinities" by
Lucille Lang Day
reviewed by Mary Barnet

Ruth Daigon's
"Payday at the Triangle"
reviewed by Mary Barnet
 

Interview and
translation by
Ward Kelley:
Israeli Poet Elisha Porat says of his poems
"there is indeed an anti-war message within these poems."

Read a review of
"Where We Grew Up"
a book
by Jennifer Lagier