97 Minutes With Frederick Seidel, the ‘Darth Vader of American Poetry’
Over a career that’s now in its seventh decade, Frederick Seidel has published nearly 20 notable collections of poetry—work ...
Poetry from Daily Life: A poem is your friend when you need one, Constance Levy writes
Children's poet Constance Levy, a former educator who lives in St. Louis, encourages readers of all ages to tell their own ...
Poetry for difficult times
We are not actually here, and it is not 2024. It’s 2020, and we are in Paris," observed Nilanjana S. Roy, flipping through A ...
Turning a new leaf: Poet laureate resigns
Ready to give new voices a chance to fill the role she’s held for a decade, Minnesota Poet Laureate Joyce Sutphen is resigning. Sutphen, 71, is the state’s second poet laureate, ...
Brown professor Kwame Dawes to serve as poet laureate of Jamaica
Dawes, who was born in Ghana, said he plans to work in schools to help revive an interest in reading and teaching poetry.