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Louise Glück
was born in New York City in 1943 and grew up on Long
Island. Author of numerous books of poetry, including
The Seven Ages (Ecco Press, 2001); Vita Nova
(1999), winner of Boston Book Review's Bingham
Poetry Prize; Meadowlands (1996); The Wild Iris
(1992), which received the Pulitzer Prize and the Poetry
Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award;
Ararat (1990), for which she received the Rebekah
Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry; and The
Triumph of Achilles (1985), which received the
National Book Critics Circle Award, the Boston Globe
Literary Press Award, and the Poetry Society of America's
Melville Kane Award. She has also published a collection
of essays, Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry
(1994), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for
Nonfiction. Her other honors include the Bollingen Prize
in Poetry, the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, and
fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller
foundations, and from the National Endowment for the Arts.
In 1999 she was elected a Chancellor of The Academy of
American Poets. In the fall of 2003, Glück assumed her
duties as the Library of Congress's twelfth Poet Laureate
Consultant in Poetry.
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George Bilgere,
author of The Good Kiss and Witter Bynner fellow
in 2001, was selected for the fellowship by last year's
Poet Laureate Billy Collins.
Mr. Bilgere writes about having grown up in a one-parent,
Midwestern family, learning to ride a bicycle on his own,
and dealing with the difficulties of fragmented family
life, both then and now. He is also author of The
Going: Poems (1994).
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Spring 2004
Feature Poets
Special Featured Poet:
Grace Cavalieri
Grace Cavalieri's
interviews and book reviews have appeared in various journals
including The American Poetry Review. Ms. Cavalieri created
the original "Poet and the Poem" series on public radio in 1977, and
in 1997, "The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress" became
an outgrowth of that show. Approximately seven episodes from the
Library of Congress series are produced each year, and a number of
these are being added to this site. The programs are also available
for distribution to community and college stations through the
Pacifica Program Service. Ms. Cavalieri also has 13 books of poetry
and several plays to her credit
Featured Poet:
James Cervantes
Featured Poet:
Ann Fisher-Wirth
Featured Poet:
Aurora Levins Morales
Featured Poet:
Pattiann Rogers,
Maggie Anderson
WINDFALL:
New and Selected Poems Reviewed by Andrena Zawinski
An Interview with
A Past US Poet Laureate:
the Library of Congress's 10th Poet Laureate
Consultant
in Poetry (2000-2001)
Photo by
Stanley Kunitz
"The Poet and the Poem"
originally broadcast via NPR satellite
is made possible by Producer Grace Cavalieri.
An Interview:
Tory
Dent
courtesy of Producer/Host
Grace Cavalieri,
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The Poet and The Poem
From The Library of Congress.
Grace Cavalieri:
Stanley Kunitz
has called your work,
"Passionate, painful, harrowing,
exulted."
An Interview with
11th US Poet Laureate:
Billy Collins
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Listen To Former Poet Laureate
Billy Collins
Interviewed by Grace Cavalieri
An Interview With
Former US Poet Laureate
Robert Pinsky
courtesy of Producer/Host
Grace Cavalieri,
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The Poet and The Poem
From The Library of Congress
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Robert Pinsky
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