Poets / Poems Out Loud

Michael Matto is and associate professor of English at Adelphi University. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. more

Thomas McCarthy works as a librarian at Cork City Libraries, Ireland. His latest book is The Last Geraldine Officer (Anvil Press Poetry, London, 2009) and… more

Honor Moore is the author of three poetry collections, The Bishop’s Daughter, and other books. Her most recent publication is Poems… more

Paul Muldoon’s 11th collection of poetry, Maggot, is published bt Farrar, Straus and Giroux. more

Dennis O’Driscoll has published eight books of poetry, the most recent of which is Reality Check (Copper Canyon Press, 2008). His other publications include a… more

Meghan O’Rourke’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Best American Poetry, The New Republic, and Poetry, among others. Her reviews have appeared in the… more

Jay Parini, a poet and novelist, teaches at Middlebury College in Vermont. His latest book of poems was The Art of Subtraction: New and Selected… more

Cathy Park Hong is the author of Translating Mo’um and more

Linda Pastan is the author of twelve works of poetry, including The Last Uncle, Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems 1968-1998, and An Early Afterlife.… more

Molly Peacock has published five books of poetry, including Cornucopia: New and Selected Poems, and a memoir, Paradise, Piece by Piece. She has been the… more

Willie Perdomo is the author of Where a Nickel Costs a Dime and Smoking Lovely, which received a PEN America Beyond Margins Award. He has… more

Robert Pinsky was U.S. Poet Laureate from 1997 to 2000. The author of numerous collections, he is the poetry editor of Slate and the creator… more

Stanley Plumly’s many honors include the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. He… more

Aaron Poochigian’s most recent translations include Sappho’s Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments (Penguin Classics) and Aratus’ astronomical poem The Phaenomena (forthcoming, Johns Hopkins University… more

Elizabeth Powell was born in New York City and received a BA from the University for Wisconsin, and an MFA in Fiction Writing from Vermont… more

Lawrence Raab is the author of seven collections of poems including What We Don’t Know About Each Other, a winner of the National Poetry Series… more

Dahlia Ravikovitch, who died in 2005 at age sixty-nine, was one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Hebrew literature and the Israeli peace movement.… more

Sherod Santos received the Theodore Roethke Prize for the best book of poetry published in the preceding three years and an Academy Award in Literature… more

Philip Schultz is the author of seven collections of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Failure. He is the founder and director of the Writers Studio… more

Martha Serpas is the author of two poetry collections and is a native of Galliano, Louisiana. She has taught at the Yale Divinity School, the… more

Ravi Shankar, founding editor of Drunken Boat and author of Instrumentality, lives in Connecticut. more

Julie Sheehan is the author of three collections of poems, including Orient Point, winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize and Bar Book (June 2010).… more

Jake Silverstein is the editor of Texas Monthly and a contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine. He lives in Austin, Texas. Nothing Happened and Then It… more

David Slavitt has translated Ovid, Virgil, Aeschylus, and Aristophanes, as well as works in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Hebrew. He is co-editor of the… more