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A Conversation with U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera

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U.S. Poet Laureate JUAN FELIPE HERRERA was born in Fowler, California, in 1948. The son of migrant farmers, Herrera moved often, living in trailers or tents along the roads of the San Joaquin Valley in Southern California.

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Five More Poets

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    Poetry from Miami reflects the diversity of the city itself. We don’t just mean writers’ nations of origin, ethnicity,...

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Five Poets

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    Poetry from Miami reflects the diversity of the city itself. We don’t just mean writers’ nations of origin, ethnicity,...

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From the Desert to the Sea: A Video Conversation with Mark Doty – Poet, Essayist, Memoirist

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MARK DOTY is a poet, essayist, and memoirist. He received the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008.

Doty is the author of nine books of poetry and four books of prose.  In 2015, W.W. Norton published Deep Lane, “which the publisher calls a book of descents: into the earth beneath the garden, into the dark substrata of a life.”  His volumes of poetry include Sweet Machine (HarperCollins, 1998), Source, (HarperCollins, 2002), School of the Arts (HarperCollins, 2005) and Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins, 2008), which received the National Book Award.

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Cherry Pickman

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        On Cognitive Dissonance   You go to the art show, which is in memoriam of the dead artists the one whose...

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