Winter 2004 - 2005 Edition of PoetryMagazine.com

Winter
2004 - 2005
Vol. IX No. IV

Photo : B. Earle

A Reading
Two Visions
by Mary Barnet

Editor-in-Chief: Mary Barnet

Daniel Mark Epstein is a celebrated poet and historian. His book Lincoln and Whitman is a fascinating account of how Lincoln’s speeches and rhetoric were affected by reading the poet working at that time, Walt Whitman. This year is the 150^th anniversary of Whitman’s "Leaves of Grass." Epstein talks about his research and process. He reads poems from his own books as well. What is special about this program is the poet as biographer. Epstein shares his biographies of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ray Charles, Aimee Semple McPherson, plus others For this interview, The program is distributed via NPR satellite, Producer/Host Grace Cavalieri and
The Poet and The Poem
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Molly Peacock
President Emeritus
of
the
Poetry Society of America,
Poet-in-Residence
at the
Cathedral
of
St. John the Divine

Special
Returning Feature
Elisha Porat

Interview with a
Special Feature Elisha Porat

In Memory of the poet
Amir Gilbo'a
by Elisha Porat

Jeanne Wagner--
The Zen Piano Mover
Review by Andrena Zawinski

Rita Dove
with Grace Cavalieri
Poet Laureate
(1993-95)
In 1993 Rita Dove was appointed
Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress, making her the youngest person -- and the first African-American -- to receive this highest official honor in American letters
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W.S.Merwin
A Rare Interview
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Special Reading
Feature Poet:

Len
Roberts
Dr. Len Roberts, is the author of ten books of poetry, three books of translations, a Gale Research literary autobiography, and several articles on various authors and the teaching of writing. His poems have been published in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, The Hudson Review, Paris Review, Partisan Review,
and others. Dr. Roberts has received numerous awards , including a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Award, two National Endowment for the Arts Awards, a National Poetry Series Award, six Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Awards, and a Witter Bynner Award, among others. His most recent book, The Silent Singer: New and Selected Poems (2001), was one of five finalists for the Paterson Poetry Prize.
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The Poet and The Poem
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Feature Poets

Andrea Hollander Budy

Wanda Coleman

Susan Gubernat

Joan Swift

Louise Glück
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An Interview with
A Past US Poet Laureate:
the Library of Congress's 10th Poet Laureate Consultant
in Poetry (2000-2001)

Stanley Kunitz
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originally broadcast via NPR satellite
is made possible by Producer Grace Cavalieri.

An Interview with
11^th US Poet Laureate:
Billy Collins
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originally broadcast via NPR satellite
is made possible by Producer Grace Cavalieri.
Listen To Former Poet Laureate
Billy Collins
Interviewed by Grace Cavalieri
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."