Grace Cavalieri

Grace Cavalieri
"The Poet and the Poem"
originally broadcast via Public Radio satellite
is made possible by Producer Grace Cavalieri.

DELORES KENDRICKS

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. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

INTERVIEWED by Grace Cavalieri

JOSEPH STROUD
Joseph Stroud was born in Glendale, California, 1943, and educated at the University of San Francisco, California State University at Los Angeles, and San Francisco State University. His work earned a Pushcart Prize in 2000. He was a finalist for the Northern California Book Critics Award in 2005. In 2006 he was selected by the Poet Laureate of the United States for a Witter Bynner Fellowship in poetry from the Library of Congress. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

Charles Simic, US Poet Laureate
Interviewed by Grace Cavalieri

Jane Hirshfield interviewed
by Grace Cavalieri

Patricia Gray
of The Library of Congress
Interviewed by Grace Cavalieri

Grace Interviews
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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Grace Interviews
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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Grace Interviews 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 Newly Appointed 14th
Current Poet Laureate Donald Hall 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.

Philip Nikolayev Lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife, the poet Katia Kapovich, and their daughter Sophia. He co-edits Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics.

Ted Kooser
FIRST Part 1 Part 2
2nd Ted Kooser Interview
Part 1 Part 2

Herbert Woodward Martin

Part One Part Two Part Three

Len Roberts
Part 1 Part 2
Dr. Len Roberts, who has been teaching in the
English Department at Northampton
Community College for thirty years.

COMPLETE ARCHIVE OF PAST INTERVIEWS