Summer 2004
Feature Poets
Feature Poet:
Maggie Anderson
Feature Poet:
Ursula K. Le Guin
Feature Poet: Jim Natal
Feature Poet: Howard Schwartz
Classic
Poet:
Wallace
Stevens Rediscovered
by Doug Tanoury |
|
|
Cornelius Eady
Cornelius Eady was born
in Rochester, New York, in 1954. He is the author of
Brutal Imagination (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2001); You
Don't Miss Your Water (1995); The Gathering of My
Name (1991), a Pulitzer Prize nominee; BOOM BOOM
BOOM (1988); Victims of the Latest Dance Craze
(1985), which was the Lamont Poetry Selection of The
Academy of American Poets; and Kartunes (1980). His
honors include the Prairie Schooner Strousse Award
and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the
National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller
Foundation, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest
Foundation. He is Associate Professor of English and
Director of the Poetry Center at the State University of
New York at Stony Brook. He lives in New York City.
In April 1999,
Running Man, a
music-theatre piece co-written with jazz musican Diedre
Murray was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama and
awarded a 1999 Obie for best musical score and lead actor
in a musical. He has taught poetry at SUNY Stony Brook,
where he directed its Poetry Center, Sarah Lawrence
College, New York University, The Writer’s Voice, The 92nd
St Y, The College of William and Mary, and Sweet Briar
College. With poet Toi Derricote, he is co-founder of Cave
Canem, a summer workshop/retreat for African American
poets. In January 2001,
Brutal Imagination,
his sixth book of poetry, was published by G. P. Putnam &
Sons. In October 2000, a workshop production of
Brutal Imagination
was performed with Diedre Murray at The Kitchen, in New
York City
These programs are distributed via NPR satellite, Producer/Host
Grace Cavalieri and
The Poet and The Poem
From The Library of Congress
To Listen
Click here
Photo courtesy of
Goodman/Van Ripper Photography
Linda Pastan
(b. 1932). Raised in New York City,
Pastan now lives in Potomac, Maryland. She has published
many books of poetry, including The Five Stages of
Grief (1981), Waiting for My Life (1981), and
PM/AM: New and Selected Poems (1982). Much of
Pastan's poetry deals with her own family life.
Increasingly, she has been concerned as well with issues
of aging and mortality. Among her many awards and honors
are a Pushcart Prize, a Dylan Thomas Award, the Di
Castagnola Award, and the Charity Randall Citation. From
1991 to 1994, she served as the Poet Laureate of Maryland.
Linda Pastan lives in Potomac, Maryland
"The Poet and the Poem"
originally broadcast via NPR satellite
is made possible by Producer Grace Cavalieri.
To listen click
here
An Interview with
11th US Poet Laureate:
Billy Collins
"The Poet and the Poem"
originally broadcast via NPR satellite
is made possible by Producer Grace Cavalieri.
An Interview With
Former US Poet Laureate
Robert Pinsky
courtesy of Producer/Host
Grace Cavalieri,
the programs are distributed via NPR satellite, and
The Poet and The Poem
From The Library of Congress
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.
|
|
Louise Glück
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.
"The Poet and the Poem"
originally broadcast via NPR satellite
is made possible by Producer Grace Cavalieri..
Part 1
Part 2
An Interview:
Tory
Dent
courtesy of Producer/Host
Grace Cavalieri,
the programs are distributed via NPR satellite, and
The Poet and The Poem
From The Library of Congress.
Grace Cavalieri:
Stanley Kunitz
has called your work,
"Passionate, painful, harrowing,
exulted."
|
