Franz Wright and his father, the poet James Wright, are the only father-child combination to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His father won in 1972 and Franz in 2004 with his collection, Walking to Martha's Vineyard....
Born in India, Sudeep Sen received a master's degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, New York. He was an international poet-in-residence at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh, and...
We watched Remains of the Day again the other night. It’s a film that’s commendable in its own
right, for its own reasons and successes within the medium, but one of the
things I really appreciated about it, after...
In 2009, Carol Ann Duffy accepted the post of Scotland's Poet Laureate, making her the first female Poet Laureate in the role's 400 year history. Information about her writing and life can be found here. She...
Delmore Schwartz lived a tumultuous life marked by a challenging childhood, addictions, and mental illness; he also possessed a dazzling intellect and was much admired by his contemporaries, including T.S. Eliot, Ezra...
Author of five books of poetry and the recipient of an NEA fellowship, Jeffrey McDaniel teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. His poems have appeared widely in journals and anthologies, and sometimes, he performs them...
"As soon as we express something, we devalue it strangely. We believe ourselves to have dived down into the depths of the abyss, and when we once again reach the surface, the drops of water on our pale fingertips no longer resemble the ocean from which they came...Nevertheless, the treasure shimmers in the darkness unchanged." ---Franz Kafka
