Poet, Playwright, and Host of “The Poet and the Poem”
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New US Poet Laureate
America’s 21st poet laureate: Juan Felipe Herrera
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Poetry Book Recommendations of 2014
From the Washington Independent Review of Books
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Summer Reading 2014
Top suggestions for your summer list
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Feature Poet: e. e. cummings
20th-century American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright
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Verses of Voyage: Summertime and Travel Poetics
Travel poetics belongs to the genre of travel writing
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Feature Poet: Pablo Neruda
20th-century Chilean poet
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Inaugural Poet 2013
Poetry read at presidential swearing-in ceremonies
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Feature Poets: Marilyn Nelson, Claudia Rankine and C. D. Wright
2013’s new chancellors of the Academy of American Poets
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Form, Function, and Verse
Storytelling Through Narrative Poetry
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Feature Poet: Natasha Trethewey
Her creations are personally and historically invigorating
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Congratulations to Southern Native Natasha Trethewey
Named the nation’s 19th US Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress
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Feature Poet: Anne Sexton
20th-century American poet
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National Poetry Month 2012
This celebratory month was inaugurated in 1996
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Free Verse at the Forefront of Poetic Style
"I would as soon play tennis without a net as write free verse," once quipped Robert Frost. Yet even a… Read More
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Mind Over Meter
Traditional vs. Contemporary Styles
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New Yorker Essayist Adam Gopnik Speaks at W. D. Snodgrass Symposium
What an honor it was not only to attend an event held in honor of one of American’s most influential… Read More
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Contemporary Poet W. D. Snodgrass Remembered at the University of Delaware
An Honorary Event Held in Memory of One of Today’s Most Influential Poets