Our Poets

Over the years, The Palm Beach Poetry Festival has featured over one hundred of the most important and engaging poets writing in America today. Poet Laureates, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle, The Griffin Prize, The Witter Bynner Award, the Kingsley-Tufts Award for Poetry, among others. The best of the best that poetry has to offer us. Join us in exploring the archive.

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  • David Blair 1967-2011
    The Festival was pleased to welcome David Blair who performed at the Coffee House at the 7th Annual Festival in 2011. His performance was masterful and mesmerizing and his poems at home anywhere … stage ... Read more >
    Elizabeth Acevedo
    ELIZABETH ACEVEDO’s poetry is infused with her Dominican parents’ bolero and her beloved city’s tough grit. She holds a BA in Performing Arts from The George Washington University and a MFA in Creative Writing from ... Read more >
    Kim Addonizio
    Kim Addonizio is the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose. Her most recent poetry collection is Now We’re Getting Somewhere (W.W. Norton). Her memoir-in-essays, Bukowski in a Sundress, was published by Penguin. She has received NEA ... Read more >
    David Baker
    DAVID BAKER is the author of  Swift: New & Selected Poems (Norton 2019),  Scavenger Loop (Norton 2015) and Never-Ending Birds, which won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize. His five books of prose include Show ... Read more >
    Coleman Barks
    COLEMAN BARKS, born and raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee, went to school at the University of North Carolina and the University of California, Berkeley. He taught poetry and creative writing at the University of Georgia for thirty ... Read more >
    Ellen Bass
    ELLEN BASS is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Her most recent book, Like A Beggar (Copper Canyon Press, 2014), was a finalist for The Paterson Poetry Prize, The Publishers Triangle Award, The Milt Kessler Poetry ... Read more >
    Lorna Knowles Blake
    Lorna Knowles Blake is author of Green Hill, her most recent book of poetry and recipient of the 2017 Able Muse Award. She serves on the editorial board at the journal Barrow Street and on the advisory committee for WCAI’s Poetry ... Read more >
    Sally Bliumis-Dunn
    Sally Bliumis-Dunn’s poems have appeared the New York Times, Paris Review, PBS NewsHour, Plume, Poetry London, Prairie Schooner, RATTLE, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day and Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry. In 2002, she was a finalist ... Read more >
    Laure-Anne Bosselaar
    Laure-Anne Bosselaar is the author of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, Small Gods of Grief, winner of the Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry for 2001, and of A New Hunger, an ALA Notable Book. Four Way ... Read more >
    Traci Brimhall
    TRACI BRIMHALL is the author of four poetry collections: Come the Slumberless from the Land of Nod (Copper Canyon); Saudade (Copper Canyon); Our Lady of the Ruins (W.W. Norton), winner of the Barnard Women Poets ... Read more >
    Nickole Brown
    Nickole Brown is the author of Sister and Fanny Says. She teaches as part of the Sewanee School of Letters Program and lives in Asheville, North Carolina, where she volunteers at several different animal sanctuaries. Since 2016, she’s been writing about ... Read more >
    Kurt Brown
    KURT BROWN (1944-2013) authored several volumes of poetry including I’ve Come This Far to Say Hello  (Tiger Bark Press, 2014), Time-Bound (Tiger Bark Press, 2012),  No Other Paradise (Red Hen Press, 2010),  Future Ship (Red Hen Press, 2008), Fables from ... Read more >
    Gabrielle Calvocoressi
    GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart and Apocalyptic Swing, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She is an Editor at Large at Los ... Read more >
    Tina Chang
    TINA CHANG was raised in New York City. She is the first female to be named Poet Laureate of Brooklyn and is the author of the collections of poetry Of Gods & Strangers (2011) and Half-Lit Houses (2004). She ... Read more >
    Dominique Christina
    DOMINIQUE CHRISTINA is an award-winning writer, performer, educator, and activist. She holds five national poetry slam titles, including the 2014 & 2012 Women of the World Slam Champion and 2011 National Poetry Slam Champion. She has performed ... Read more >
    Billy Collins
    BILLY COLLINS is an American phenomenon. No poet since Robert Frost has managed to combine high critical acclaim with such broad popular appeal. His work has appeared in a variety of periodicals including The New ... Read more >
    Mary Cornish
    MARY CORNISH is the author of the poetry collection, Red Studio  (Oberlin College Press, 2006), winner of the 2006 FIELD Poetry Prize. A graduate of the Sarah Lawrence MFA program, and a former Wallace Stegner fellow, ... Read more >
    Eduardo C. Corral
    EDUARDO C. CORRAL  is the author of two books. Slow Lightning, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. Graywolf Press will publish his second book, Guillotine, in 2020. He’s the recipient of a ... Read more >
    Kwame Dawes
    Born in Ghana in 1962, Kwame Dawes spent most of his childhood and early adult life in Jamaica. As a poet, he is profoundly influenced by the rhythms and textures of Ghana, citing in an ... Read more >
    Chard Deniord
    Chard deNiord is the author of seven books of poetry, In My Unknowing (University of Pittsburgh Press 2020), Interstate (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), The Double Truth (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), Speaking In Turn ... Read more >
    Carl Dennis
    CARL DENNIS is the author of twelve poetry collections. The most recent is Another Reason (2014), as well as a collection of essays, Poetry as Persuasion. In 2000 he received the Ruth Lilly Prize for ... Read more >
    Stuart Dischell
    STUART DISCHELL is the author of Good Hope Road, a National Poetry Series Selection (Viking 1993), Evenings & Avenues (Penguin 1996) Dig Safe (Penguin 2003) Backwards Days (Penguin 2007) and most recently, Children With Enemies ... Read more >
    Stephen Dobyns
    STEPHEN DOBYNS has published many books of poems and 20 novels. He has earned a Melville Cane Award, the National Poetry Series, and the Lamont Poetry Prize of The Academy of American Poets. His renowned book ... Read more >
    Mark Doty
    MARK DOTY is the author of the nine collections of poetry, most recently Deep Lane (W.W. Norton, 2015) and Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins, 2008), which received the National Book Award. His collection, My ... Read more >
    Denise Duhamel
    DENISE DUHAMEL’s most recent book of poetry Blowout (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other books include Ka-Ching! (Pittsburgh, 2009), Two and Two (Pittsburgh, 2005), ... Read more >
    Stephen Dunn
    STEPHEN DUNN (1938-2021), is the author of fifteen collections of poetry. His 2001 collection, Different Hours, won the Pulitzer Prize and an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His other ... Read more >
    Cornelius Eady
    CORNELIUS EADY has published seven volumes of poetry, including, most recently,  Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems (Penguin, 2008),  as well as  Brutal Imagination (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2001), which was a National Book Award finalist. His collection, Victims of the ... Read more >
    Lynn Emanuel
    LYNN EMANUEL is the author of five books of poetry: Hotel Fiesta, The Dig, Then, Suddenly—, Noose and Hook, and most recently, The Nerve of It:  New and Selected Poems.   Her work has been featured in the Pushcart Prize Anthology, ... Read more >
    Claudia Emerson
    CLAUDIA EMERSON (1957-2014) won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for her poetry collection, Late Wife (LSU Press, 2005). She also published the poetry collections:    Secure the Shadow (LSU Press, 2012),  Figure Studies (LSU, 2008),  Pinion: An Elegy (LSU Press, ... Read more >
    Martin Espada
    MARTÍN ESPADA is a prolific poet, essayist, and editor. Some titles among his many poetry collections include: Rebellion is the Circle of a Lover’s Hands (Curbstone Press, 1990), Alabanza (W.W. Norton, 2003), Crucifixion in the Plaza de ... Read more >
    B. H. Fairchild
    B.H. FAIRCHILD’s most recent book is The Blue Buick (W.W. Norton, 2014), and his poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Paris Review, Southern Review, Poetry, Sewanee Review, and many other journals and anthologies, including Best ... Read more >
    Beth Ann Fennelly
    BETH ANN FENNELLY, Poet Laureate of Mississippi, teaches poetry and nonfiction writing at the University of Mississippi. Her first book of poetry, Open House, won the 2001 Kenyon Review Prize and the Great Lakes College ... Read more >
    Nick Flynn
    NICK FLYNN is the author of Some Ether‚ winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, Blind Huber, and The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands (Graywolf, 2011). He has written three memoirs, his most recent ... Read more >
    Carolyn Forché
    CAROLYN FORCHÉ is a poet, translator, essayist and human rights activist. She is the author of four books of poetry: Gathering The Tribes, winner of the Yale Younger Poets Award, The Country Between Us, The ... Read more >
    Vievee Francis
    Vievee Francis is the author of three books of poetry: Blue-Tail Fly; Horse in the Dark, winner of the Cave Canem Northwestern University Poetry Prize for a second collection; and Forest Primeval, winner of the Hurston Wright Legacy Award ... Read more >
    Daisy Fried
    DAISY FRIED is the author of three books of poetry: Women’s Poetry: Poems and Advice (University of Pittsburgh, 2013), named by Library Journal one of the five best poetry books of 2013, My Brother is Getting Arrested Again (University of ... Read more >
    Carol Frost
    CAROL FROST’s books include Pure, Love and Scorn, Honeycomb, winner of the Florida Book Awards Gold Medal, and Entwined: Three Lyric Sequences (2014). She has received awards and honors from The National Endowment for the ... Read more >
    Ross Gay
    ROSS GAY was born on August 1, 1974 in Youngstown, Ohio. He received a BA in English/Art from Lafayette College, an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, and a PhD in English from Temple University. ... Read more >
    Reginald Gibbons
    Born and raised in Houston, Reginald Gibbons earned his BA in Spanish and Portuguese from Princeton University, and both his MA in English and creative writing and his PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University. ... Read more >
    Stephen Gibson
    STEPHEN GIBSON is the author of seven poetry collections, most recently Self-Portrait in a Door-Length Mirror (2017 Miller Williams Prize winner, selected by Billy Collins, University of Arkansas Press), The Garden of Earthly Delights Book ... Read more >
    Andrea Gibson
    ANDREA GIBSON is a poet and activist, currently residing in Colorado. They are the author of four poetry collections and seven full-length albums of spoken word performances. Their most recent album, Hey Galaxy (Tender Loving Empire, 2018) ... Read more >
    Dana Gioia
    DANA GIOIA is the current Poet Laureate of California and author of five full-length collections of poetry, most recently 99 Poems: New & Selected (Graywolf Press, 2016). Former Chairman of the National Endowment for the ... Read more >
    Aracelis Girmay
    ARACELIS GIRMAY is the author of three books of poems: The Black Maria (BOA, 2016), Teeth (Curbstone Press, 2007) and Kingdom Animalia (BOA, 2011), the winner of the Isabella Gardner Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle ... Read more >
    Mason Granger
    Originally from Philly, raised in Willingboro, and currently living in Queens NYC, MASON GRANGER has been a full-time member of the performance poetry trio The Mayhem Poets since 2005.  With a style that’s equal parts smart ... Read more >
    Linda Gregerson
    LINDA GREGERSON grew up in Illinois and received a BA from Oberlin College.  She went on to earn an MA from Northwestern University, an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, and her PhD from ... Read more >
    Linda Gregg
    LINDA GREGG has published eight collections of poetry, including Too Bright to See (1981); Alma (1985); Things and Flesh (1999), a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry; and All of It Singing: New ... Read more >
    Kelle Groom
    KELLE GROOM is the author of four poetry collections and the memoir, I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl  (Simon & Schuster, 2012),  a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, New York Times ... Read more >
    Kimiko Hahn
    KIMIKO HAHN is the author of nine collections of poetry, including Brain Fever (W.W. Norton, 2014); The Unbearable Heart (Kaya, 1996); and Earshot (Hanging Loose Press, 1992), awarded the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and an Association of ... Read more >
    Barbara Hamby
    BARBARA HAMBY is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Bird Odyssey (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018). Her poetry collection, Delirium (University of North Texas Press, 1995) won the Vassar Miller Prize, the Norma Farber First ... Read more >
    Joy Harjo
    Joy Harjo’s eight books of poetry include Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems, and She Had Some Horses. Harjo’s memoir Crazy Brave won several awards, including the PEN ... Read more >
    Yona Harvey
    Yona Harvey is the author of the poetry collections You Don’t Have To Go To Mars for Love (Four Way Books), winner of the BelieverBook Award, and Hemming the Water (Four Way Books), winner of the Kate ... Read more >
    Lola Haskins
    LOLA HASKINS is an American poet and two-time National Endowment for the Arts fellow.  She is author of How Small, Confronting Morning (Jacar, 2016), Desire Lines (BOA Editions, 2004) and The Rim Benders (Anhiga Press, 2001), among ... Read more >
    Robert Hass
    ROBERT HASS is a poet of great eloquence, clarity, and force, whose work is rooted in the landscapes of his native Northern California. He brings the kind of energy in his poetry to his work ... Read more >
    Terrance Hayes
    TERRANCE HAYES is a 2014 MacArthur Fellow.  Hayes’s poetry collections include American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (2018), a finalist for the National Book Award, How To Be Drawn (Penguin 2015), a finalist for the 2015 ... Read more >
    Michael Hettich
    MICHAEL HETTICH’s collection, Systems of Vanishing (University of Tampa Press, 2014) won the 2013 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry. His collection The Measured Breathing (Swan Scythe Press, 2011) won the 2011 Swan Scythe Press Award. Hettich is also the ... Read more >
    Vanessa Hidary
    VANESSA HIDARY is an internationally acclaimed Spoken Word Artist, solo performer, author, actress, writer, director. Her nationally toured solo show, “Culture Bandit” chronicles Vanessa’s coming of age during the golden age of Hip-Hop. In 2011, Hidary ... Read more >
    Jane Hirshfield
    JANE HIRSHFIELD is an award-winning poet, essayist, and translator. She is the author of several collections of verse, including The Beauty (2015), a finalist for the National Book Award, and Come, Thief (Knopf, 2011), as well as ... Read more >
    Tony Hoagland
    Born on November 19, 1953, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, TONY HOAGLAND authored witty, poingnant poems that comment on contemporary American life and culture. His books of poetry include Unincorporated Personas in the Late Honda ... Read more >
    Jay Hopler
    JAY HOPLER is an American poet, born in Puerto Rico. He holds an M.F.A. in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a Ph.D. from Purdue University in American Studies. His work has appeared in American Poetry ... Read more >
    Marie Howe
    Born in Rochester, New York, Marie Howe attended Sacred Heart Convent School and the University of Windsor. She earned an MFA from Columbia University, where she studied with Stanley Kunitz, whom she refers to as ... Read more >
    Major Jackson
    Major Jackson is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently The Absurd Man (Norton: 2020) and Roll Deep (Norton: 2015), winner of the 2016 Vermont Book Award and hailed in the New York ... Read more >
    Jessica Jacobs
    Jessica Jacobs is the author of Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going (Four Way Books), winner of the Devil’s Kitchen and Goldie Awards, and Pelvis with Distance (White Pine Press), a biography-in-poems of Georgia O’Keeffe, winner of the New Mexico Book Award. ... Read more >
    Tyehimba Jess
    TYEHIMBA JESS is the author of two books of poetry,  Leadbelly and Olio, winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, The Midland Society Author’s Award in Poetry, and an Outstanding Contribution to Publishing ... Read more >
    Rodney Jones
    RODNEY JONES’s most recent book of poetry is Imaginary Logic (2011).  Salvation Blue, his eighth book of poetry, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, 2007. Previous collections include Kingdom of the Instant: Poems (2004); Elegy for the ... Read more >
    Ilya Kaminsky
    Ilya Kaminsky (born April 18, 1977 in Odessa, Soviet Union, now Ukraine) is a Russian-American poet, critic, translator and professor. He began to write poetry seriously as a teenager in Odessa, publishing a chapbook in ... Read more >
    Mary Karr
    MARY KARR has received numerous honors and awards for her work, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Bunting Fellowship from Radcliffe College. She has received a Pushcart ... Read more >
    Laura Kasischke
    LAURA KASISCHKE has published ten poetry collections, ten novels, and one short story collection.  Her most recent book of poetry, Where Now – New and Selected Poems (2017) and was published by Copper Canyon Press. Her ... Read more >
    Galway Kinnell
    We were pleased to host Galway Kinnell at the 2nd Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. An archive of his Festival Reading is available at: https://youtu.be/zWDKQ4qrp8c More biographical and publication information is available at https://poets.org/poet/galway-kinnell   ... Read more >
    David Kirby
    David Kirby’s collection The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007. Kirby is the author of Little Richard: The Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll, ... Read more >
    Yusef Komunyakaa
    Yusef Komunyakaa’s latest collection, Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, will be published in June, 2021, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (Note: The following bio is from poets.org) On April 29, 1947, Yusef Komunyakaa ... Read more >
    Dorianne Laux
    DORIANNE LAUX is the author of Only as the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems (W.W. Norton, 2019), a finalist of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, The Book of Men, (2012) winner of ... Read more >
    Dana Levin
    Dana Levin’s most recent book of poetry is the remarkable Banana Palace (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). Her first book, In the Surgical Theatre, won the 1999 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize and went on to receive nearly every award ... Read more >
    Thomas Lux
    THOMAS LUX 1946-2017 Acclaimed poet and teacher, born in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1946 to working class parents, Thomas Lux attended Emerson College and the University of Iowa. He began publishing haunted, ironic poems that owed ... Read more >
    Anne Marie Macari
    We were pleased to host Anne Marie Macari at the 5th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. More biographical and publication information is available at https://annemariemacari.com Read more >
    Taylor Mali
    TAYLOR MALI is one of the few people in the world to have no job other than that of “poet.” Articulate, accessible, passionate, and downright funny, Mali studied drama in Oxford with members of The ... Read more >
    Maurice Manning
    MAURICE MANNING‘s first book of poems, Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions (Yale University Press, 2001) was chosen by W.S. Merwin for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Subsequent books include A Companion for Owls: ... Read more >
    Adrian Matejka
    Adrian Matejka was born in Nuremberg, Germany and grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is a graduate of Indiana University and the MFA program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is the author of The Devil’s ... Read more >
    Jamaal May
    We were pleased to host Jamaal May at the 8th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. More biographical and publication information is available at https://poets.org/poet/jamaal-may   Read more >
    Marty Mcconnell
    MARTY McCONNELL is the author of two poetry collections: winner of the 2017 Michael Waters Poetry Prize,  when they say you can’t go home again, what they mean is you were never there (Southern Indiana University Press, ... Read more >
    Jeff Mcdaniel
    We were pleased to host Jeff McDaniel at the 3rd Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. More biographical and publication information is available at https://poets.org/poet/jeffrey-mcdaniel Read more >
    Campbell Mcgrath
    CAMPBELL McGRATH is the author of ten books of poetry, including XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century (Ecco Press, 2016), In The Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys (Ecco Press, 2012), Shannon (Ecco Press, 2009), and Seven Notebooks (Ecco Press, 2007). His third ... Read more >
    Heather Mchugh
    We were pleased to host Heather McHugh at the 3rd and 7th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. More biographical and publication information is available at https://poets.org/poet/heather-mchugh Read more >
    Rachel Mckibbens
    RACHEL McKIBBENS is a Chicana poet, essayist, activist, and two-time New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellow. Her most recent collection of poetry is  Blud (Copper Canyon Press, 2017). Her previous works include: Pink Elephant (Cypher Books, ... Read more >
    Susan Mitchell
    We were pleased to host Susan Mitchell at the 2nd Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. An archive of her Festival Reading is available at: https://youtu.be/hD7_2PGMnvg More biographical and publication information is available at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/susan-mitchell Read more >
    Anis Mojgani
    We were pleased to host Anis Mojgani at the 6th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. More biographical and publication information is available at https://poets.org/poet/anis-mojgani Read more >
    Aja Monet
    Harry Belafonte has called AJA MONET “The true definition of an artist.” An internationally established poet of Cuban-Jamaican descent, Monet’s craft is an in-depth reflection of emotional wisdom, skill, and activism. The youngest individual to win the legendary ... Read more >
    Malena Mörling
    We were pleased to host Malena Mörling at the 4th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. More biographical and publication information is available at https://poets.org/poet/malena-morling Read more >
    Ginger Murchison
    GINGER MURCHISON together with Thomas Lux, founded POETRY at TECH, where she served as associate director five years and has been one of its McEver Visiting Chairs in Poetry since 2009. A three-time Pushcart nominee, she ... Read more >
    John Murillo
    John Murillo is the author of the poetry collections, Up Jump the Boogie (Cypher, 2010 & Four Way Books, 2020), finalist for both the Kate Tufts Discovery  and the Pen Open Book Awards, and Kontemporary American ... Read more >
    Marilyn Nelson
    We were pleased to host Marilyn Nelson at the 2nd Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. An archive of her Festival Reading is available at: https://youtu.be/lroJ6Bl1woI More biographical and publication information is available at https://marilyn-nelson.com/   Read more >
    Aimee Nezhukumatathil
    AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL (pronounced neh-ZOO / koo-mah / tah-TILL)  is the author of four poetry collections: Oceanic (Copper Canyon 2018), Lucky Fish (2011), winner of the gold medal in Poetry from the Independent Publisher Book Awards and the ... Read more >
    Sharon Olds
    SHARON OLDS is the author of eleven volumes of poetry. Her poetry, says Michael Ondaatje, is “pure fire in the hands,” and David Leavitt in the Voice Literary Supplement describes her work as “remarkable for ... Read more >
    Matthew Olzmann
    Matthew Olzmann is the author of two collections of poems, Mezzanines, which was selected for the 2011 Kundiman Prize, and Contradictions in the Design. His third book, Constellation Route, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in January 2022. A recipient of fellowships from ... Read more >
    Gregory Orr
    GREGORY ORR is the author of more than 10 collections of poetry and several volumes of essays, criticism, and memoir, Gregory Orr is a master of the short, personal lyric. His poetry has been widely ... Read more >
    Gregory Pardlo
    GREGORY PARDLO’s collection Digest (Four Way Books) won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His other honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts; his ... Read more >
    Molly Peacock
    MOLLY PEACOCK‘s collections of poetry include The Second Blush: Poems (W. W. Norton & Co., 2008); Cornucopia (W. W. Norton & Co., 2002); Original Love (W. W. Norton & Co., 1995); Take Heart (Random House, 1989); Raw Heaven (Random House, 1984); and And Live Apart (The University ... Read more >
    Carl Phillips
    CARL PHILLIPS is the author of thirteen books of poems, most recently Reconnaissance (FSG, 2015) and Silverchest (FSG, 2013).  Phillips has also published two books of prose, The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination, and ... Read more >
    Robert Pinsky
    Robert Pinsky is one of America’s foremost poet-critics. Often called the last of the “civic” or public poets, Pinsky’s criticism and verse reflect his concern for a contemporary poetic diction that nonetheless speaks of a ... Read more >
    Lynne Procope
    We were pleased to Lynne Procope at the 5th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. More biographical and publication information is available at https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/lynne_procope Read more >
    Kevin Prufer
    KEVIN PRUFER is the author of seven books of poetry and the editor of numerous anthologies, the most recent of which are How He Loved Them (Four Way Books, 2018), Churches (Four Way Books, 2014), In a Beautiful ... Read more >
    Scott Raven
    A graduate of Rutgers University with a double degree in Acting and Journalism, SCOTT RAVEN co-founded The Mayhem Poets. His performance work has been featured by Fiat, Purina, CNN, and The Today Show.  His written work ... Read more >
    Glenis Redmond
    GLENIS REDMOND is a poet, educator, performer, and counselor. She presents her poetry in performances that cause the printed word to spring from the page and dance, sing, weep, and laugh. Glenis tells stories with ... Read more >
    Spencer Reece
    Spencer Reece is a poet and priest. His first collection, The Clerk’s Tale, won the Bakeless Prize in 2003, and he followed it with the collection The Road to Emmaus (2014). He has received an NEA ... Read more >
    Martha Rhodes
    Martha Rhodes holds a BA from the New School and an MFA from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College (1991), and has taught in the program since 2002. She is also on ... Read more >
    Rives
    RIVES is an author of children’s books and spoken word performer. He is the co-host of TEDActive as well as a frequent TED speaker. A regular on HBO’s  Def Poetry Jam, Rives also starred alongside model ... Read more >
    Mary Ruefle
    MARY RUEFLE’s latest poetry collections are Dunce (Wave Books 2019), finalist for the 2019 National Book Award and 2020 Pulitzer Prize, My Private Property (Wave Books 2016) and Trances Of The Blast (Wave Books 2013).  Her Selected Poems ... Read more >
    Tim Seibles
    Tim Seibles is the author of several poetry collections including Hurdy-Gurdy, Hammerlock, Buffalo Head Solos, and Fast Animal, which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award and winner of the Theodore Roethke Memorial ... Read more >
    Vijay Seshadri
    VIJAY SESHADRI‘s collections of poems include James Laughlin Award winner The Long Meadow (Graywolf Press, 2005) and Wild Kingdom (1996). His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in AGNI, The American Scholar, Antaeus, Bomb, Boulevard, ... Read more >
    Diane Seuss
    Diane Seuss’s most recent collection is frank: sonnets (Graywolf Press 2021). Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, (Graywolf Press 2018) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles ... Read more >
    Alan Shapiro
    ALAN SHAPIRO is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has published ten books of poetry, most recently, Old War (Houghton Mifflin, 2008). He has been the winner of the Kingsley ... Read more >
    Brenda Shaughnessy
    BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY was born in Okinawa, Japan and grew up in Southern California. She received her BA in Literature and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and she earned an MFA at Columbia ... Read more >
    Charles Simic
    CHARLES SIMIC, the fifteenth Poet Laureate of the United States (2007-2008), was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1938, and immigrated to the United States in 1953 at the age of 15. He has lived in ... Read more >
    The Parkington Sisters
    The Parkington Sisters are from Wellfleet Massachusetts, a town of crashing waves, gnarled pine trees, world famous oysters and the only town clock in the world that still rings ship’s time. The three sisters emerge ... Read more >
    Tom Sleigh
    TOM SLEIGH‘s books include Station Zed, Army Cats, winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters John Updike Award, and Space Walk, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award. Far Side of the Earth won ... Read more >
    Tracy K. Smith
    TRACY K. SMITH is the author of four books of poetry, including Wade in the Water (Graywolf Press, 2018), which is shortlisted for the 2018 T. S. Eliot Prize. and one memoir, Ordinary Light (2015), which was a ... Read more >
    Patricia Smith
    PATRICIA SMITH is the author of eight books of poetry, including Incendiary Art, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the 2018 NAACP Image Award, and finalist ... Read more >
    Marc Kelly Smith
    MARC KELLY SMITH is creator/founder of the international Poetry Slam movement for which he received the nickname Slam Papi. A “strand of new poetry began at Chicago’s Green Mill Tavern in 1987 when Marc Smith ... Read more >
    Maggie Smith
    Maggie Smith is the author of three books of poetry: Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017); The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo Press, 2015); and Lamp of the Body (Red Hen Press, 2005).  Lamp of the Body won the 2003 Benjamin ... Read more >
    Lisa Russ Spaar
    LISA RUSS SPAAR is the author of several poetry collections, including Satin Cash, Blue Venus, and Glass Town, for which she received a Rona Jaffe Award for Emerging Women Writers in 2000, Vanitas, Rough (Persea, 2012), and most recently, Orexia (Persea, 2017). She ... Read more >
    Gerald Stern
    We were pleased to host Gerald Stern at the 5th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. More biographical and publication information is available at https://poets.org/poet/gerald-stern Read more >
    Mary Szybist
    MARY SZYBIST is most recently the author of Incarnadine, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Poetry.  She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the ... Read more >
    Angela Narciso Torres
    Angela Narciso Torres is the author of two full length poetry collections; Blood Orange (Willow Books Poetry Prize) and What Happens is Neither (Four Way Books); her chapbook, To the Bone, was published earlier this year by ... Read more >
    Natasha Trethewey
    NATASHA TRETHEWEY is the 19th United States Poet Laureate (2012-2014). In his citation, Librarian of Congress James Billington wrote “Her poems dig beneath the surface of history—personal or communal, from childhood or from a century ... Read more >
    Quincy Troupe
    We were pleased to host Quincy Troupe at the 3rd Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. More biographical and publication information is available at https://www.quincytroupe.com Read more >
    Brian Turner
    BRIAN TURNER was born in Visalia, California. He received a BA from Fresno State in 1994 and an MFA from the University of Oregon in 1996. He is the author of the poetry collections Phantom ... Read more >
    Chase Twichell
    CHASE TWICHELL has published eight books of poetry, most recently Things as It Is (Copper Canyon, 2018). Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been: New & Selected Poems (Copper Canyon, 2010) won both the 2011 Kingsley Tufts Poetry ... Read more >
    Ellen Bryant Voigt
    ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT has published seven volumes of poetry—Claiming Kin (1976), The Forces of Plenty (1983), The Lotus Flowers (1987), Two Trees (1992), Kyrie (1995), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Shadow ... Read more >
    Sidney Wade
    We were pleased to host Sidney Wade at the 6th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. More biographical and publication information is available at http://www.sidneywade.com Read more >
    Karin De Weille
    Karin de Weille  has taught literature at the University of Toronto, the New School, and John Jay College, where she was assistant professor, and creative writing at various venues: the Hugo House in Seattle, family ... Read more >
    Dara Wier
    We were pleased to host Dara Wier at the 5th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. More biographical and publication information is available at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/dara-wier Read more >
    C. K. Williams
    We were pleased to host C.K. Williams at the 4th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. More biographical and publication information is available at https://poets.org/poet/c-k-williams Read more >
    Eleanor Wilner
    ELEANOR WILNER has published seven books of poems, most recently Tourist in Hell (2010, University of Chicago Press); The Girl with Bees in Her Hair and Reversing the Spell; New & Collected Poems (Copper Canyon). ... Read more >
    David Wojahn
    We were pleased to host David Wojahn at the 6th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. More biographical and publication information is available at https://poets.org/poet/david-wojahn Read more >
    C. D. Wright
    C.D. Wright (1949–2016 ) Arkansan, author of upwards of 20 books, professor for over three decades at Brown University, social activist, publisher, recipient of a Guggenheim, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Griffin Poetry Prize, ... Read more >
    Charles Wright
    We were pleased to host Charles Wright at the 8th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. More biographical and publication information is available at https://poets.org/poet/charles-wright Read more >
    Robert Wrigley
    ROBERT WRIGLEY  grew up in Collinsville, Illinois, a coal mining town. He earned his BA (with honors) in English Language and Literature at Southern Illinois University and his MFA in Poetry from the University of ... Read more >
    Kevin Young
    KEVIN YOUNG is the author of ten books of poetry and prose. His most recent poetry collections are Book of Hours, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels; ... Read more >
  • 2022
    Lorna Knowles Blake
    Lorna Knowles Blake is author of Green Hill, her most recent book of poetry and recipient of the 2017 Able Muse Award. She serves on the editorial board at the journal Barrow Street and on the advisory committee for WCAI’s Poetry ... Read more >
    Sally Bliumis-Dunn
    Sally Bliumis-Dunn’s poems have appeared the New York Times, Paris Review, PBS NewsHour, Plume, Poetry London, Prairie Schooner, RATTLE, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day and Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry. In 2002, she was a finalist ... Read more >
    Kim Addonizio
    Kim Addonizio is the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose. Her most recent poetry collection is Now We’re Getting Somewhere (W.W. Norton). Her memoir-in-essays, Bukowski in a Sundress, was published by Penguin. She has received NEA ... Read more >
    Laure-Anne Bosselaar
    Laure-Anne Bosselaar is the author of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, Small Gods of Grief, winner of the Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry for 2001, and of A New Hunger, an ALA Notable Book. Four Way ... Read more >
    Chard Deniord
    Chard deNiord is the author of seven books of poetry, In My Unknowing (University of Pittsburgh Press 2020), Interstate (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), The Double Truth (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), Speaking In Turn ... Read more >
    Mark Doty
    MARK DOTY is the author of the nine collections of poetry, most recently Deep Lane (W.W. Norton, 2015) and Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins, 2008), which received the National Book Award. His collection, My ... Read more >
    Yona Harvey
    Yona Harvey is the author of the poetry collections You Don’t Have To Go To Mars for Love (Four Way Books), winner of the BelieverBook Award, and Hemming the Water (Four Way Books), winner of the Kate ... Read more >
    John Murillo
    John Murillo is the author of the poetry collections, Up Jump the Boogie (Cypher, 2010 & Four Way Books, 2020), finalist for both the Kate Tufts Discovery  and the Pen Open Book Awards, and Kontemporary American ... Read more >
    Matthew Olzmann
    Matthew Olzmann is the author of two collections of poems, Mezzanines, which was selected for the 2011 Kundiman Prize, and Contradictions in the Design. His third book, Constellation Route, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in January 2022. A recipient of fellowships from ... Read more >
    Diane Seuss
    Diane Seuss’s most recent collection is frank: sonnets (Graywolf Press 2021). Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, (Graywolf Press 2018) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles ... Read more >
    Nickole Brown
    Nickole Brown is the author of Sister and Fanny Says. She teaches as part of the Sewanee School of Letters Program and lives in Asheville, North Carolina, where she volunteers at several different animal sanctuaries. Since 2016, she’s been writing about ... Read more >
    Jessica Jacobs
    Jessica Jacobs is the author of Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going (Four Way Books), winner of the Devil’s Kitchen and Goldie Awards, and Pelvis with Distance (White Pine Press), a biography-in-poems of Georgia O’Keeffe, winner of the New Mexico Book Award. ... Read more >
    Angela Narciso Torres
    Angela Narciso Torres is the author of two full length poetry collections; Blood Orange (Willow Books Poetry Prize) and What Happens is Neither (Four Way Books); her chapbook, To the Bone, was published earlier this year by ... Read more >
    2021
    David Baker
    DAVID BAKER is the author of  Swift: New & Selected Poems (Norton 2019),  Scavenger Loop (Norton 2015) and Never-Ending Birds, which won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize. His five books of prose include Show ... Read more >
    Traci Brimhall
    TRACI BRIMHALL is the author of four poetry collections: Come the Slumberless from the Land of Nod (Copper Canyon); Saudade (Copper Canyon); Our Lady of the Ruins (W.W. Norton), winner of the Barnard Women Poets ... Read more >
    Eduardo C. Corral
    EDUARDO C. CORRAL  is the author of two books. Slow Lightning, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. Graywolf Press will publish his second book, Guillotine, in 2020. He’s the recipient of a ... Read more >
    Vievee Francis
    Vievee Francis is the author of three books of poetry: Blue-Tail Fly; Horse in the Dark, winner of the Cave Canem Northwestern University Poetry Prize for a second collection; and Forest Primeval, winner of the Hurston Wright Legacy Award ... Read more >
    Kevin Prufer
    KEVIN PRUFER is the author of seven books of poetry and the editor of numerous anthologies, the most recent of which are How He Loved Them (Four Way Books, 2018), Churches (Four Way Books, 2014), In a Beautiful ... Read more >
    Martha Rhodes
    Martha Rhodes holds a BA from the New School and an MFA from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College (1991), and has taught in the program since 2002. She is also on ... Read more >
    Tim Seibles
    Tim Seibles is the author of several poetry collections including Hurdy-Gurdy, Hammerlock, Buffalo Head Solos, and Fast Animal, which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award and winner of the Theodore Roethke Memorial ... Read more >
    The Parkington Sisters
    The Parkington Sisters are from Wellfleet Massachusetts, a town of crashing waves, gnarled pine trees, world famous oysters and the only town clock in the world that still rings ship’s time. The three sisters emerge ... Read more >
    Gregory Orr
    GREGORY ORR is the author of more than 10 collections of poetry and several volumes of essays, criticism, and memoir, Gregory Orr is a master of the short, personal lyric. His poetry has been widely ... Read more >
    Brian Turner
    BRIAN TURNER was born in Visalia, California. He received a BA from Fresno State in 1994 and an MFA from the University of Oregon in 1996. He is the author of the poetry collections Phantom ... Read more >
    2020
    David Kirby
    David Kirby’s collection The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007. Kirby is the author of Little Richard: The Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll, ... Read more >
    Reginald Gibbons
    Born and raised in Houston, Reginald Gibbons earned his BA in Spanish and Portuguese from Princeton University, and both his MA in English and creative writing and his PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University. ... Read more >
    Major Jackson
    Major Jackson is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently The Absurd Man (Norton: 2020) and Roll Deep (Norton: 2015), winner of the 2016 Vermont Book Award and hailed in the New York ... Read more >
    Ilya Kaminsky
    Ilya Kaminsky (born April 18, 1977 in Odessa, Soviet Union, now Ukraine) is a Russian-American poet, critic, translator and professor. He began to write poetry seriously as a teenager in Odessa, publishing a chapbook in ... Read more >
    Dana Levin
    Dana Levin’s most recent book of poetry is the remarkable Banana Palace (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). Her first book, In the Surgical Theatre, won the 1999 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize and went on to receive nearly every award ... Read more >
    Adrian Matejka
    Adrian Matejka was born in Nuremberg, Germany and grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is a graduate of Indiana University and the MFA program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is the author of The Devil’s ... Read more >
    Maggie Smith
    Maggie Smith is the author of three books of poetry: Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017); The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo Press, 2015); and Lamp of the Body (Red Hen Press, 2005).  Lamp of the Body won the 2003 Benjamin ... Read more >
    Joy Harjo
    Joy Harjo’s eight books of poetry include Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems, and She Had Some Horses. Harjo’s memoir Crazy Brave won several awards, including the PEN ... Read more >
    Patricia Smith
    PATRICIA SMITH is the author of eight books of poetry, including Incendiary Art, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the 2018 NAACP Image Award, and finalist ... Read more >
    2019
    Stuart Dischell
    STUART DISCHELL is the author of Good Hope Road, a National Poetry Series Selection (Viking 1993), Evenings & Avenues (Penguin 1996) Dig Safe (Penguin 2003) Backwards Days (Penguin 2007) and most recently, Children With Enemies ... Read more >
    Ellen Bass
    ELLEN BASS is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Her most recent book, Like A Beggar (Copper Canyon Press, 2014), was a finalist for The Paterson Poetry Prize, The Publishers Triangle Award, The Milt Kessler Poetry ... Read more >
    Aracelis Girmay
    ARACELIS GIRMAY is the author of three books of poems: The Black Maria (BOA, 2016), Teeth (Curbstone Press, 2007) and Kingdom Animalia (BOA, 2011), the winner of the Isabella Gardner Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle ... Read more >
    Campbell Mcgrath
    CAMPBELL McGRATH is the author of ten books of poetry, including XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century (Ecco Press, 2016), In The Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys (Ecco Press, 2012), Shannon (Ecco Press, 2009), and Seven Notebooks (Ecco Press, 2007). His third ... Read more >
    Gregory Pardlo
    GREGORY PARDLO’s collection Digest (Four Way Books) won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His other honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts; his ... Read more >
    Chase Twichell
    CHASE TWICHELL has published eight books of poetry, most recently Things as It Is (Copper Canyon, 2018). Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been: New & Selected Poems (Copper Canyon, 2010) won both the 2011 Kingsley Tufts Poetry ... Read more >
    Eleanor Wilner
    ELEANOR WILNER has published seven books of poems, most recently Tourist in Hell (2010, University of Chicago Press); The Girl with Bees in Her Hair and Reversing the Spell; New & Collected Poems (Copper Canyon). ... Read more >
    Tyehimba Jess
    TYEHIMBA JESS is the author of two books of poetry,  Leadbelly and Olio, winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, The Midland Society Author’s Award in Poetry, and an Outstanding Contribution to Publishing ... Read more >
    Sharon Olds
    SHARON OLDS is the author of eleven volumes of poetry. Her poetry, says Michael Ondaatje, is “pure fire in the hands,” and David Leavitt in the Voice Literary Supplement describes her work as “remarkable for ... Read more >
    2018
    Gabrielle Calvocoressi
    GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart and Apocalyptic Swing, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She is an Editor at Large at Los ... Read more >
    Beth Ann Fennelly
    BETH ANN FENNELLY, Poet Laureate of Mississippi, teaches poetry and nonfiction writing at the University of Mississippi. Her first book of poetry, Open House, won the 2001 Kenyon Review Prize and the Great Lakes College ... Read more >
    Ross Gay
    ROSS GAY was born on August 1, 1974 in Youngstown, Ohio. He received a BA in English/Art from Lafayette College, an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, and a PhD in English from Temple University. ... Read more >
    Rodney Jones
    RODNEY JONES’s most recent book of poetry is Imaginary Logic (2011).  Salvation Blue, his eighth book of poetry, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, 2007. Previous collections include Kingdom of the Instant: Poems (2004); Elegy for the ... Read more >
    2017
    Tina Chang
    TINA CHANG was raised in New York City. She is the first female to be named Poet Laureate of Brooklyn and is the author of the collections of poetry Of Gods & Strangers (2011) and Half-Lit Houses (2004). She ... Read more >
    Lynn Emanuel
    LYNN EMANUEL is the author of five books of poetry: Hotel Fiesta, The Dig, Then, Suddenly—, Noose and Hook, and most recently, The Nerve of It:  New and Selected Poems.   Her work has been featured in the Pushcart Prize Anthology, ... Read more >
    Daisy Fried
    DAISY FRIED is the author of three books of poetry: Women’s Poetry: Poems and Advice (University of Pittsburgh, 2013), named by Library Journal one of the five best poetry books of 2013, My Brother is Getting Arrested Again (University of ... Read more >
    Terrance Hayes
    TERRANCE HAYES is a 2014 MacArthur Fellow.  Hayes’s poetry collections include American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (2018), a finalist for the National Book Award, How To Be Drawn (Penguin 2015), a finalist for the 2015 ... Read more >
    Dorianne Laux
    DORIANNE LAUX is the author of Only as the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems (W.W. Norton, 2019), a finalist of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, The Book of Men, (2012) winner of ... Read more >
    Carl Phillips
    CARL PHILLIPS is the author of thirteen books of poems, most recently Reconnaissance (FSG, 2015) and Silverchest (FSG, 2013).  Phillips has also published two books of prose, The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination, and ... Read more >
    2016
    Alan Shapiro
    ALAN SHAPIRO is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has published ten books of poetry, most recently, Old War (Houghton Mifflin, 2008). He has been the winner of the Kingsley ... Read more >
    Carl Dennis
    CARL DENNIS is the author of twelve poetry collections. The most recent is Another Reason (2014), as well as a collection of essays, Poetry as Persuasion. In 2000 he received the Ruth Lilly Prize for ... Read more >
    Denise Duhamel
    DENISE DUHAMEL’s most recent book of poetry Blowout (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other books include Ka-Ching! (Pittsburgh, 2009), Two and Two (Pittsburgh, 2005), ... Read more >
    Carol Frost
    CAROL FROST’s books include Pure, Love and Scorn, Honeycomb, winner of the Florida Book Awards Gold Medal, and Entwined: Three Lyric Sequences (2014). She has received awards and honors from The National Endowment for the ... Read more >
    Robert Hass
    ROBERT HASS is a poet of great eloquence, clarity, and force, whose work is rooted in the landscapes of his native Northern California. He brings the kind of energy in his poetry to his work ... Read more >
    Thomas Lux
    THOMAS LUX 1946-2017 Acclaimed poet and teacher, born in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1946 to working class parents, Thomas Lux attended Emerson College and the University of Iowa. He began publishing haunted, ironic poems that owed ... Read more >
    Tom Sleigh
    TOM SLEIGH‘s books include Station Zed, Army Cats, winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters John Updike Award, and Space Walk, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award. Far Side of the Earth won ... Read more >
    Mary Szybist
    MARY SZYBIST is most recently the author of Incarnadine, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Poetry.  She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the ... Read more >
    Kevin Young
    KEVIN YOUNG is the author of ten books of poetry and prose. His most recent poetry collections are Book of Hours, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels; ... Read more >
    2015
    Linda Gregerson
    LINDA GREGERSON grew up in Illinois and received a BA from Oberlin College.  She went on to earn an MA from Northwestern University, an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, and her PhD from ... Read more >
    Brenda Shaughnessy
    BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY was born in Okinawa, Japan and grew up in Southern California. She received her BA in Literature and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and she earned an MFA at Columbia ... Read more >
    Molly Peacock
    MOLLY PEACOCK‘s collections of poetry include The Second Blush: Poems (W. W. Norton & Co., 2008); Cornucopia (W. W. Norton & Co., 2002); Original Love (W. W. Norton & Co., 1995); Take Heart (Random House, 1989); Raw Heaven (Random House, 1984); and And Live Apart (The University ... Read more >
    Maurice Manning
    MAURICE MANNING‘s first book of poems, Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions (Yale University Press, 2001) was chosen by W.S. Merwin for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Subsequent books include A Companion for Owls: ... Read more >
    Robert Wrigley
    ROBERT WRIGLEY  grew up in Collinsville, Illinois, a coal mining town. He earned his BA (with honors) in English Language and Literature at Southern Illinois University and his MFA in Poetry from the University of ... Read more >
    Thomas Lux
    THOMAS LUX 1946-2017 Acclaimed poet and teacher, born in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1946 to working class parents, Thomas Lux attended Emerson College and the University of Iowa. He began publishing haunted, ironic poems that owed ... Read more >
    2014
    Nick Flynn
    NICK FLYNN is the author of Some Ether‚ winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, Blind Huber, and The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands (Graywolf, 2011). He has written three memoirs, his most recent ... Read more >
    2013
    Lisa Russ Spaar
    LISA RUSS SPAAR is the author of several poetry collections, including Satin Cash, Blue Venus, and Glass Town, for which she received a Rona Jaffe Award for Emerging Women Writers in 2000, Vanitas, Rough (Persea, 2012), and most recently, Orexia (Persea, 2017). She ... Read more >
    Tracy K. Smith
    TRACY K. SMITH is the author of four books of poetry, including Wade in the Water (Graywolf Press, 2018), which is shortlisted for the 2018 T. S. Eliot Prize. and one memoir, Ordinary Light (2015), which was a ... Read more >
    Laura Kasischke
    LAURA KASISCHKE has published ten poetry collections, ten novels, and one short story collection.  Her most recent book of poetry, Where Now – New and Selected Poems (2017) and was published by Copper Canyon Press. Her ... Read more >
    Tony Hoagland
    Born on November 19, 1953, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, TONY HOAGLAND authored witty, poingnant poems that comment on contemporary American life and culture. His books of poetry include Unincorporated Personas in the Late Honda ... Read more >
    Jane Hirshfield
    JANE HIRSHFIELD is an award-winning poet, essayist, and translator. She is the author of several collections of verse, including The Beauty (2015), a finalist for the National Book Award, and Come, Thief (Knopf, 2011), as well as ... Read more >
    Thomas Lux
    THOMAS LUX 1946-2017 Acclaimed poet and teacher, born in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1946 to working class parents, Thomas Lux attended Emerson College and the University of Iowa. He began publishing haunted, ironic poems that owed ... Read more >
    B. H. Fairchild
    B.H. FAIRCHILD’s most recent book is The Blue Buick (W.W. Norton, 2014), and his poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Paris Review, Southern Review, Poetry, Sewanee Review, and many other journals and anthologies, including Best ... Read more >
    2012
    Kim Addonizio
    Kim Addonizio is the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose. Her most recent poetry collection is Now We’re Getting Somewhere (W.W. Norton). Her memoir-in-essays, Bukowski in a Sundress, was published by Penguin. She has received NEA ... Read more >
    Laure-Anne Bosselaar
    Laure-Anne Bosselaar is the author of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, Small Gods of Grief, winner of the Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry for 2001, and of A New Hunger, an ALA Notable Book. Four Way ... Read more >
    Gregory Orr
    GREGORY ORR is the author of more than 10 collections of poetry and several volumes of essays, criticism, and memoir, Gregory Orr is a master of the short, personal lyric. His poetry has been widely ... Read more >
    Charles Wright
    We were pleased to host Charles Wright at the 8th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. More biographical and publication information is available at https://poets.org/poet/charles-wright Read more >
    Chase Twichell
    CHASE TWICHELL has published eight books of poetry, most recently Things as It Is (Copper Canyon, 2018). Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been: New & Selected Poems (Copper Canyon, 2010) won both the 2011 Kingsley Tufts Poetry ... Read more >
    Jamaal May
    We were pleased to host Jamaal May at the 8th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. More biographical and publication information is available at https://poets.org/poet/jamaal-may   Read more >
    David Kirby
    David Kirby’s collection The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007. Kirby is the author of Little Richard: The Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll, ... Read more >
    Vanessa Hidary
    VANESSA HIDARY is an internationally acclaimed Spoken Word Artist, solo performer, author, actress, writer, director. Her nationally toured solo show, “Culture Bandit” chronicles Vanessa’s coming of age during the golden age of Hip-Hop. In 2011, Hidary ... Read more >
    Cornelius Eady
    CORNELIUS EADY has published seven volumes of poetry, including, most recently,  Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems (Penguin, 2008),  as well as  Brutal Imagination (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2001), which was a National Book Award finalist. His collection, Victims of the ... Read more >
    Kurt Brown
    KURT BROWN (1944-2013) authored several volumes of poetry including I’ve Come This Far to Say Hello  (Tiger Bark Press, 2014), Time-Bound (Tiger Bark Press, 2012),  No Other Paradise (Red Hen Press, 2010),  Future Ship (Red Hen Press, 2008), Fables from ... Read more >
    Eleanor Wilner
    ELEANOR WILNER has published seven books of poems, most recently Tourist in Hell (2010, University of Chicago Press); The Girl with Bees in Her Hair and Reversing the Spell; New & Collected Poems (Copper Canyon). ... Read more >
    Claudia Emerson
    CLAUDIA EMERSON (1957-2014) won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for her poetry collection, Late Wife (LSU Press, 2005). She also published the poetry collections:    Secure the Shadow (LSU Press, 2012),  Figure Studies (LSU, 2008),  Pinion: An Elegy (LSU Press, ... Read more >
    Thomas Lux
    THOMAS LUX 1946-2017 Acclaimed poet and teacher, born in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1946 to working class parents, Thomas Lux attended Emerson College and the University of Iowa. He began publishing haunted, ironic poems that owed ... Read more >
    Ginger Murchison
    GINGER MURCHISON together with Thomas Lux, founded POETRY at TECH, where she served as associate director five years and has been one of its McEver Visiting Chairs in Poetry since 2009. A three-time Pushcart nominee, she ... Read more >
    2011
    David Blair 1967-2011
    The Festival was pleased to welcome David Blair who performed at the Coffee House at the 7th Annual Festival in 2011. His performance was masterful and mesmerizing and his poems at home anywhere … stage ... Read more >
    C. D. Wright
    C.D. Wright (1949–2016 ) Arkansan, author of upwards of 20 books, professor for over three decades at Brown University, social activist, publisher, recipient of a Guggenheim, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Griffin Poetry Prize, ... Read more >
    Robert Pinsky
    Robert Pinsky is one of America’s foremost poet-critics. Often called the last of the “civic” or public poets, Pinsky’s criticism and verse reflect his concern for a contemporary poetic diction that nonetheless speaks of a ... Read more >
    Heather Mchugh
    We were pleased to host Heather McHugh at the 3rd and 7th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. More biographical and publication information is available at https://poets.org/poet/heather-mchugh Read more >
    Stuart Dischell
    STUART DISCHELL is the author of Good Hope Road, a National Poetry Series Selection (Viking 1993), Evenings & Avenues (Penguin 1996) Dig Safe (Penguin 2003) Backwards Days (Penguin 2007) and most recently, Children With Enemies ... Read more >
    Ellen Bryant Voigt
    ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT has published seven volumes of poetry—Claiming Kin (1976), The Forces of Plenty (1983), The Lotus Flowers (1987), Two Trees (1992), Kyrie (1995), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Shadow ... Read more >
    Vijay Seshadri
    VIJAY SESHADRI‘s collections of poems include James Laughlin Award winner The Long Meadow (Graywolf Press, 2005) and Wild Kingdom (1996). His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in AGNI, The American Scholar, Antaeus, Bomb, Boulevard, ... Read more >
    Jane Hirshfield
    JANE HIRSHFIELD is an award-winning poet, essayist, and translator. She is the author of several collections of verse, including The Beauty (2015), a finalist for the National Book Award, and Come, Thief (Knopf, 2011), as well as ... Read more >
    Thomas Lux
    THOMAS LUX 1946-2017 Acclaimed poet and teacher, born in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1946 to working class parents, Thomas Lux attended Emerson College and the University of Iowa. He began publishing haunted, ironic poems that owed ... Read more >
    Taylor Mali
    TAYLOR MALI is one of the few people in the world to have no job other than that of “poet.” Articulate, accessible, passionate, and downright funny, Mali studied drama in Oxford with members of The ... Read more >
    2010
    Ilya Kaminsky
    Ilya Kaminsky (born April 18, 1977 in Odessa, Soviet Union, now Ukraine) is a Russian-American poet, critic, translator and professor. He began to write poetry seriously as a teenager in Odessa, publishing a chapbook in ... Read more >
    David Wojahn
    We were pleased to host David Wojahn at the 6th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. More biographical and publication information is available at https://poets.org/poet/david-wojahn Read more >
    Sidney Wade
    We were pleased to host Sidney Wade at the 6th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. More biographical and publication information is available at http://www.sidneywade.com Read more >
    Anis Mojgani
    We were pleased to host Anis Mojgani at the 6th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. More biographical and publication information is available at https://poets.org/poet/anis-mojgani Read more >
    Marie Howe
    Born in Rochester, New York, Marie Howe attended Sacred Heart Convent School and the University of Windsor. She earned an MFA from Columbia University, where she studied with Stanley Kunitz, whom she refers to as ... Read more >
    Jay Hopler
    JAY HOPLER is an American poet, born in Puerto Rico. He holds an M.F.A. in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a Ph.D. from Purdue University in American Studies. His work has appeared in American Poetry ... Read more >
    Andrea Gibson
    ANDREA GIBSON is a poet and activist, currently residing in Colorado. They are the author of four poetry collections and seven full-length albums of spoken word performances. Their most recent album, Hey Galaxy (Tender Loving Empire, 2018) ... Read more >
    Mary Cornish
    MARY CORNISH is the author of the poetry collection, Red Studio  (Oberlin College Press, 2006), winner of the 2006 FIELD Poetry Prize. A graduate of the Sarah Lawrence MFA program, and a former Wallace Stegner fellow, ... Read more >
    Stephen Dobyns
    STEPHEN DOBYNS has published many books of poems and 20 novels. He has earned a Melville Cane Award, the National Poetry Series, and the Lamont Poetry Prize of The Academy of American Poets. His renowned book ... Read more >
    Thomas Lux
    THOMAS LUX 1946-2017 Acclaimed poet and teacher, born in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1946 to working class parents, Thomas Lux attended Emerson College and the University of Iowa. He began publishing haunted, ironic poems that owed ... Read more >
    Kevin Young
    KEVIN YOUNG is the author of ten books of poetry and prose. His most recent poetry collections are Book of Hours, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels; ... Read more >
    Carolyn Forché
    CAROLYN FORCHÉ is a poet, translator, essayist and human rights activist. She is the author of four books of poetry: Gathering The Tribes, winner of the Yale Younger Poets Award, The Country Between Us, The ... Read more >
    2009
    Gregory Orr
    GREGORY ORR is the author of more than 10 collections of poetry and several volumes of essays, criticism, and memoir, Gregory Orr is a master of the short, personal lyric. His poetry has been widely ... Read more >
    Gerald Stern
    We were pleased to host Gerald Stern at the 5th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. More biographical and publication information is available at https://poets.org/poet/gerald-stern Read more >
    Anne Marie Macari
    We were pleased to host Anne Marie Macari at the 5th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. More biographical and publication information is available at https://annemariemacari.com Read more >
    Michael Hettich
    MICHAEL HETTICH’s collection, Systems of Vanishing (University of Tampa Press, 2014) won the 2013 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry. His collection The Measured Breathing (Swan Scythe Press, 2011) won the 2011 Swan Scythe Press Award. Hettich is also the ... Read more >
    Kimiko Hahn
    KIMIKO HAHN is the author of nine collections of poetry, including Brain Fever (W.W. Norton, 2014); The Unbearable Heart (Kaya, 1996); and Earshot (Hanging Loose Press, 1992), awarded the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and an Association of ... Read more >
    Kelle Groom
    KELLE GROOM is the author of four poetry collections and the memoir, I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl  (Simon & Schuster, 2012),  a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, New York Times ... Read more >
    Martin Espada
    MARTÍN ESPADA is a prolific poet, essayist, and editor. Some titles among his many poetry collections include: Rebellion is the Circle of a Lover’s Hands (Curbstone Press, 1990), Alabanza (W.W. Norton, 2003), Crucifixion in the Plaza de ... Read more >
    Laura Kasischke
    LAURA KASISCHKE has published ten poetry collections, ten novels, and one short story collection.  Her most recent book of poetry, Where Now – New and Selected Poems (2017) and was published by Copper Canyon Press. Her ... Read more >
    Denise Duhamel
    DENISE DUHAMEL’s most recent book of poetry Blowout (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other books include Ka-Ching! (Pittsburgh, 2009), Two and Two (Pittsburgh, 2005), ... Read more >
    Thomas Lux
    THOMAS LUX 1946-2017 Acclaimed poet and teacher, born in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1946 to working class parents, Thomas Lux attended Emerson College and the University of Iowa. He began publishing haunted, ironic poems that owed ... Read more >
    Taylor Mali
    TAYLOR MALI is one of the few people in the world to have no job other than that of “poet.” Articulate, accessible, passionate, and downright funny, Mali studied drama in Oxford with members of The ... Read more >
    2008
    Kim Addonizio
    Kim Addonizio is the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose. Her most recent poetry collection is Now We’re Getting Somewhere (W.W. Norton). Her memoir-in-essays, Bukowski in a Sundress, was published by Penguin. She has received NEA ... Read more >
    Major Jackson
    Major Jackson is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently The Absurd Man (Norton: 2020) and Roll Deep (Norton: 2015), winner of the 2016 Vermont Book Award and hailed in the New York ... Read more >
    Campbell Mcgrath
    CAMPBELL McGRATH is the author of ten books of poetry, including XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century (Ecco Press, 2016), In The Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys (Ecco Press, 2012), Shannon (Ecco Press, 2009), and Seven Notebooks (Ecco Press, 2007). His third ... Read more >
    Sharon Olds
    SHARON OLDS is the author of eleven volumes of poetry. Her poetry, says Michael Ondaatje, is “pure fire in the hands,” and David Leavitt in the Voice Literary Supplement describes her work as “remarkable for ... Read more >
    Marty Mcconnell
    MARTY McCONNELL is the author of two poetry collections: winner of the 2017 Michael Waters Poetry Prize,  when they say you can’t go home again, what they mean is you were never there (Southern Indiana University Press, ... Read more >
    Spencer Reece
    Spencer Reece is a poet and priest. His first collection, The Clerk’s Tale, won the Bakeless Prize in 2003, and he followed it with the collection The Road to Emmaus (2014). He has received an NEA ... Read more >
    Malena Mörling
    We were pleased to host Malena Mörling at the 4th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. More biographical and publication information is available at https://poets.org/poet/malena-morling Read more >
    C. K. Williams
    We were pleased to host C.K. Williams at the 4th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. More biographical and publication information is available at https://poets.org/poet/c-k-williams Read more >
    Claudia Emerson
    CLAUDIA EMERSON (1957-2014) won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for her poetry collection, Late Wife (LSU Press, 2005). She also published the poetry collections:    Secure the Shadow (LSU Press, 2012),  Figure Studies (LSU, 2008),  Pinion: An Elegy (LSU Press, ... Read more >
    Lola Haskins
    LOLA HASKINS is an American poet and two-time National Endowment for the Arts fellow.  She is author of How Small, Confronting Morning (Jacar, 2016), Desire Lines (BOA Editions, 2004) and The Rim Benders (Anhiga Press, 2001), among ... Read more >
    Thomas Lux
    THOMAS LUX 1946-2017 Acclaimed poet and teacher, born in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1946 to working class parents, Thomas Lux attended Emerson College and the University of Iowa. He began publishing haunted, ironic poems that owed ... Read more >
    2007
    Mark Doty
    MARK DOTY is the author of the nine collections of poetry, most recently Deep Lane (W.W. Norton, 2015) and Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins, 2008), which received the National Book Award. His collection, My ... Read more >
    Quincy Troupe
    We were pleased to host Quincy Troupe at the 3rd Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. More biographical and publication information is available at https://www.quincytroupe.com Read more >
    Heather Mchugh
    We were pleased to host Heather McHugh at the 3rd and 7th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. More biographical and publication information is available at https://poets.org/poet/heather-mchugh Read more >
    David Kirby
    David Kirby’s collection The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007. Kirby is the author of Little Richard: The Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll, ... Read more >
    Barbara Hamby
    BARBARA HAMBY is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Bird Odyssey (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018). Her poetry collection, Delirium (University of North Texas Press, 1995) won the Vassar Miller Prize, the Norma Farber First ... Read more >
    Stephen Dunn
    STEPHEN DUNN (1938-2021), is the author of fifteen collections of poetry. His 2001 collection, Different Hours, won the Pulitzer Prize and an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His other ... Read more >
    Dorianne Laux
    DORIANNE LAUX is the author of Only as the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems (W.W. Norton, 2019), a finalist of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, The Book of Men, (2012) winner of ... Read more >
    Alan Shapiro
    ALAN SHAPIRO is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has published ten books of poetry, most recently, Old War (Houghton Mifflin, 2008). He has been the winner of the Kingsley ... Read more >
    Patricia Smith
    PATRICIA SMITH is the author of eight books of poetry, including Incendiary Art, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the 2018 NAACP Image Award, and finalist ... Read more >
    Ellen Bryant Voigt
    ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT has published seven volumes of poetry—Claiming Kin (1976), The Forces of Plenty (1983), The Lotus Flowers (1987), Two Trees (1992), Kyrie (1995), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Shadow ... Read more >
    Thomas Lux
    THOMAS LUX 1946-2017 Acclaimed poet and teacher, born in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1946 to working class parents, Thomas Lux attended Emerson College and the University of Iowa. He began publishing haunted, ironic poems that owed ... Read more >
    2006
    Laure-Anne Bosselaar
    Laure-Anne Bosselaar is the author of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, Small Gods of Grief, winner of the Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry for 2001, and of A New Hunger, an ALA Notable Book. Four Way ... Read more >
    Marilyn Nelson
    We were pleased to host Marilyn Nelson at the 2nd Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. An archive of her Festival Reading is available at: https://youtu.be/lroJ6Bl1woI More biographical and publication information is available at https://marilyn-nelson.com/   Read more >
    Galway Kinnell
    We were pleased to host Galway Kinnell at the 2nd Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. An archive of his Festival Reading is available at: https://youtu.be/zWDKQ4qrp8c More biographical and publication information is available at https://poets.org/poet/galway-kinnell   ... Read more >
    Kurt Brown
    KURT BROWN (1944-2013) authored several volumes of poetry including I’ve Come This Far to Say Hello  (Tiger Bark Press, 2014), Time-Bound (Tiger Bark Press, 2012),  No Other Paradise (Red Hen Press, 2010),  Future Ship (Red Hen Press, 2008), Fables from ... Read more >
    Sharon Olds
    SHARON OLDS is the author of eleven volumes of poetry. Her poetry, says Michael Ondaatje, is “pure fire in the hands,” and David Leavitt in the Voice Literary Supplement describes her work as “remarkable for ... Read more >
    Tony Hoagland
    Born on November 19, 1953, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, TONY HOAGLAND authored witty, poingnant poems that comment on contemporary American life and culture. His books of poetry include Unincorporated Personas in the Late Honda ... Read more >
    Jane Hirshfield
    JANE HIRSHFIELD is an award-winning poet, essayist, and translator. She is the author of several collections of verse, including The Beauty (2015), a finalist for the National Book Award, and Come, Thief (Knopf, 2011), as well as ... Read more >
    Thomas Lux
    THOMAS LUX 1946-2017 Acclaimed poet and teacher, born in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1946 to working class parents, Thomas Lux attended Emerson College and the University of Iowa. He began publishing haunted, ironic poems that owed ... Read more >
    2005
    Karin De Weille
    Karin de Weille  has taught literature at the University of Toronto, the New School, and John Jay College, where she was assistant professor, and creative writing at various venues: the Hugo House in Seattle, family ... Read more >
    Mary Cornish
    MARY CORNISH is the author of the poetry collection, Red Studio  (Oberlin College Press, 2006), winner of the 2006 FIELD Poetry Prize. A graduate of the Sarah Lawrence MFA program, and a former Wallace Stegner fellow, ... Read more >
    Sharon Olds
    SHARON OLDS is the author of eleven volumes of poetry. Her poetry, says Michael Ondaatje, is “pure fire in the hands,” and David Leavitt in the Voice Literary Supplement describes her work as “remarkable for ... Read more >
    Patricia Smith
    PATRICIA SMITH is the author of eight books of poetry, including Incendiary Art, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the 2018 NAACP Image Award, and finalist ... Read more >
    Billy Collins
    BILLY COLLINS is an American phenomenon. No poet since Robert Frost has managed to combine high critical acclaim with such broad popular appeal. His work has appeared in a variety of periodicals including The New ... Read more >
    Thomas Lux
    THOMAS LUX 1946-2017 Acclaimed poet and teacher, born in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1946 to working class parents, Thomas Lux attended Emerson College and the University of Iowa. He began publishing haunted, ironic poems that owed ... Read more >