2014 Featured Festival Poet: Yusef Komunyakaa
Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths Listen to Yusef Komunyakaa at the 2004 Dodge Poetry Festival recite his poem about visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. for the first time, “Facing...
View Article2014 Featured Festival Poet: Stephen Kuusisto
Photo courtesy of the Poetry Foundation In his most recent books of poems, Letters to Borges, Stephen Kuusisto presents a speaker who travels around the world and, like an archaeologist, digs around,...
View Article2014 Featured Festival Poet: Rebecca Lindenberg
Rebecca Lindenberg’s fascination with language is apparent and infectious throughout Love, An Index, her first book of poems. Each poem underscores both the power and ineptitude of language in the...
View Article2014 Featured Festival Poet: Shara McCallum
Photo courtesy of Bucknell University “I’m equally interested in myth as much as I’m interested in history, both personal and public. I also have always loved best three things, which explain why I...
View Article2014 Featured Festival Poet: Anis Mojgani
Photo by Jered Scott Anis Mogjani is a contagious poet. His poems make you want to fall in love with the world all over again. To look at the world with fresh eyes, to wonder and to marvel. His...
View Article2014 Featured Festival Poet: Rachel McKibbens
Photo courtesy of rachelmckibbens.com Rachel McKibbens’s poetry feels like a product of dark magic–not meaning it is evil or bad, but rather a miracle arisen from misery. McKibbens is a phoenix, proud...
View Article2014 Featured Festival Poet: Sharon Olds
Photo by Marcus Mam, Vogue, September 2012 Through ten collections of poems, Sharon Olds has turned an unflinching eye toward the ecstasies and sorrows of living in the human body. Every stage of life...
View Article2014 Featured Festival Poet: Alice Oswald
Listen to T.S. Eliot prize-winner Alice Oswald read the final section of her book-length poem, Memorial, which, instead of attempting a direct translation, retells the Illiad as a series of memorials...
View Article2014 Featured Festival Poet: James Richardson
Only the most patient observer could write the kind of poems James Richardson writes. Not patient the way we tend to think of it: “be patient,” the admonition, scold or punishment. Or “waiting...
View Article2014 Featured Festival Poet: Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Much of my work has to do with the self and the conflicts with the external world. I was never just at war with myself—I was at war with the world I live in, and that was my true subject. But it...
View Article2014 Featured Festival Poet: Brenda Shaughnessy
Reading Brenda Shaughnessy’s poetry aloud is a delicious process of tasting alliteration, savoring rhyme, swallowing the beat, feeling your pulse find the poem’s time and your breath naturally catch...
View Article2014 Featured Festival Poet: Gary Snyder
Raised on a small dairy farm that bordered on the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest, from an early age Gary Snyder had a strong sense of our connection to the natural world. Surviving on a...
View Article2014 Featured Festival Poet: Rachel Wiley
Rachel Wiley is tough. A force on the slam scene, she stands at the mic, loudly and proudly delivering her thoughts on body image and the media, race relations in the U.S., gender and sexuality,...
View Article2014 Featured Festival Poet: A. Van Jordan
One stereotypical image of a writer is a mysterious figure, sitting in a room that is darkened but for a desklamp, hunched over a notepad (or typewriter, or laptop…). The particulars of the scene...
View Article2014 Featured Festival Poet: C. Dale Young
Measured and precise. Reflective and kind. The artistry in C. Dale Young’s poems resonate with his “real” job. Young is a physician–an oncology radiologist–and has said that because of the demands of...
View ArticleAsk a Poet: Joy Ladin
Ask a Poet blogs are back! Leading up to the 2018 Dodge Poetry Festival, we will be putting the spotlight on the poets you can see at #DPF18, October 18-21. Learn more about a new Festival Poet every...
View ArticleRemembering Eavan Boland
Eavan Boland was the dream guest for anyone managing a large poetry event. She was gracious and kind with everyone, onstage and backstage, whether signing books, participating in a panel conversation,...
View ArticleHonoring Black History Month with Poetry
Black poets have played a pivotal role in shaping the landscape of American poetry. In honor of Black History Month, we’re sharing a list of just some of the 2020 Dodge Poetry Festival videos to...
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