When I studied in the graduate writing program at Columbia (the Fall of 1992), J.D. (Sandy) McClatchy was my prosody teacher and—at times—my workshop leader . [...]
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This short piece is slightly adapted from an opening comment I once composed for a family record. "There are epochs . . . when mankind, not [...]
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As South Carolina’s Poet Laureate, I have written quite a few occasional poems for a wide variety events—from the opening of a bridge to the closing [...]
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I sometimes find writing about the asanas (poses or postures) perplexing because there’s an ineffable quality in the practice, one that feels pre-linguistic. The feeling takes me back [...]
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The performance of poetry is something we tend to let fall to the wayside during the writing process. In my experience, reading a poem out loud [...]
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Coinciding with Natasha Trethewey’s appointment as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States is the launch of her fourth collection of poetry, Thrall (Houghton Mifflin [...]
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