Archive for October, 2009
Whose Words These Are (9): Sarah Kay
Before she could write, spoken word poet Sarah Kay began dictating poems to her mother. Today, at 21, Sarah has become a successful, artful practitioner of spoken word. …
Whose Words These Are (8): Rosanna Warren
In our series on poets, Rosanna Warren describes how she works the "agonies and confusions of today" into the poetic architecture handed up to her by Sappho, Horace and Catullus.
Whose Words These Are (7): Vendler’s Stevens
Wallace Stevens explained: critic Helen Vendler calls him the poet of Modernity and American-ness, and still the great example to American poets today.
Whose Words These Are (6): Ron Slate
Ron Slate in our poets' series is the literary man who flies business class -- after the Wallace Stevens example of a New England burgher who writes, gorgeously.
Tracy Kidder: "…faith that looks through death"
Tracy Kidder sketches the prescription for foreign aid that he comes to understand in writing his new book, Strength in What Remains.
