Poets / Poems Out Loud

Nick Flynn is the award-winning author of Some Ether, Blind Huber, The Ticking is the Bomb, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, and winner of… more

Greg Glazner’s books of poetry include From the Iron Chair, which won the Walt Whitman Award, and Singularity. Glazner has also won the Bess Hokin… more

Dana Goodyear is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she has worked since 1999 and the author of Honey and Junk, a collection… more

Rachel Hadas is a poet, professor, essayist, and translator. She is the Board of Governors Professor of English at the Newark campus of Rutgers University… more

Kimiko Hahn is the author of seven previous books of poetry, including The Narrow Road to the Interior. She has won an American Book Award,… more

Saskia Hamilton is the author of two volumes of poetry, As for Dream and Divide These. She is also the editor of The Letters of… more

Nathalie Handal is a New York-based poet, playwright, and writer. She performs and teaches worldwide. Learn more at NathalieHandal.com more

Joy Harjo is an internationally known poet, performer, writer, and saxophone player of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation. Her seven books of poetry have garnered many awards,… more

James Harpur has published four volumes of poetry with Anvil Press, including his latest, The Dark Age, winner of the 2009 Michael Hartnett Award. Anvil… more

Seamus Heaney (1939—2013) was an Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer and recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born at Mossbawn farmhouse between Castledawson… more

Jane Hirshfield is the author of six poetry collections, most recently After, named a “best book of 2006” by the Washington Post, the San Francisco… more

James Hoch’s poetry has appeared in Slate, Virginia Quarterly Review, New England Review, Ninth Letter, Pleiades, Black Warrior, Gettysburg, Five Fingers, and other magazines. His… more

Gail Holst-Warhaft is a poet and translator of modern and ancient Greek literature. She teaches Mediterranean literature at Cornell University. more

Major Jackson is based in South Burlington, Vermont, and is an associate professor of English at the University of Vermont and a core faculty member… more

A. Van Jordan is the author of Rise which won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award and selected for the Book of the Month Club from… more

Marcia Karp, who teaches at Boston University, has published her poems and translations in, among other journals, Partisan Review, The Republic of Letters, Literary Imagination,… more

Edmund Keeley taught English, Creative Writing, and Hellenic Studies at Princeton for forty years until his retirement as Charles Barnwell Straut Professor of English Emeritus.… more

X. J. Kennedy, between 1961 and 2008, has published eight books of verse, most recently In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems. more

John Kinsella has authored more than twenty poetry collections. He is the recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award for 2007, an honor bestowed upon an… more

Maxine Kumin lives on a horse farm in Warner, New Hampshire. She is the author of sixteen books of poetry, a memoir entitled Inside the… more

Nick Laird is the author of the novels Glover’s Mistake and Utterly Monkey. His debut poetry collection, To a Fault, was shortlisted for the… more

Dorianne Laux is the author of four books of poetry and co-author of The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry.… more

Li-Young Lee was born to Chinese parents in Indonesia. His work has received many honors, including three Pushcart Prizes, the Lannan Literary Award, and the… more

James Longenbach is a poet and critic whose work is often featured in publications such as The New Yorker, Paris Review, and Slate. He lives… more

Thomas Lynch’s stories, poems, and essays have appeared in Granta, The Atlantic, Harper’s, and elsewhere. The Undertaking was a finalist for the National Book Award;… more