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Langston Hughes and His Poetry
June 5, 2010
David Kresh discusses Langston Hughes and his poetry.
David Kresh was Reference Specialist in Poetry in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division. He served as poet in residence at Capitol Hill Day School. Mr. Kresh passed away on September 26, 2006.
Duration : 0:19:45
Kay Ryan – National Book Festival 2008
April 12, 2010
Kay Ryan, the Library of Congress’ 16th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2008-2009, has written six books of poetry, plus a limited-edition artists book, along with a number of essays. Her books include Say Uncle (2000) and The Niagara River (Grove Press, 2005). She is the recipient of several awards, including the Gold Medal for poetry (2005) from the San Francisco Commonwealth Club, the Poetry Foundations Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2004) and four Pushcart Prizes. She has been selected in four different years for inclusion in the annual volumes of the Best American Poetry and has been a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets since 2006. She lives in Fairfax, California.
Duration : 1:3:29
Jane Hirshfield – 2009 National Book Festival
February 8, 2010
Jane Hirshfield, author of six collections of poetry appears at the National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: Jane Hirshfield is the author of six collections of poetry, including “After” (which was chosen as one of the best books of 2006 by The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle and the London Financial Times). Hirshfield’s other honors include the Poetry Center Book Award and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Academy of American Poets. Her work has appeared in The Nation, The New Yorker, The Atlantic and “The (London) Times Literary Supplement.” She has been featured many times on Garrison Keillor’s “Writers Almanac” radio program. In 2004 Jane Hirshfield was awarded the 70th Academy Fellowship for distinguished poetic achievement by the Academy of American Poets, an honor formerly held by such poets as Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams and Elizabeth Bishop.
Duration : 0:14:17
Patricia Smith – 2009 National Book Festival
January 24, 2010
Poet Patricia Smith appears at the National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: Patricia Smith’s fifth book of poetry, “Blood Dazzler” chronicles the human, physical and emotional toll exacted by Hurricane Katrina, a catastrophic natural event with lasting spiritual and political impact. It was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award. This volume is also the focal point of a new dance-theater collaboration between Smith and Urban Bush Women dancer Paloma McGregor. Smith is also the author of “Teahouse of the Almighty” (2006), a National poetry Series winner, the Best Poetry Book of 2006 on About.com and a 2007 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and Paterson Poetry Prize winner; “Close to Death” (1998), “Big Towns, Big Talk” (2002) and “Life According to Motown” (1991). Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, poemmemoirstory, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, the Chautauqua Literary Journal, TriQuarterly and other journals, and in many anthologies, most recently Gathering Ground, The Spoken Word Revolution, The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry and Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry. Her poem “The Way Pilots Walk” received a Pushcart Prize, and is featured in Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best of the Small Presses.
Duration : 0:27:13
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