Poets / Poems Out Loud

Nicholas Carr is the author of The Shallows, The Big Switch, and Does IT Matter? He has written for the New York Times, The Atlantic,… more

Michael Burkard is the author of nine collections of poetry. He has received a Whiting Writers’ Award, the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di… 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

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

Jerome Charyn has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and has received the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His… more

E. E. Cummings (1894–1962) was among the most influential, widely read, and revered modernist poets. His many awards included an Academy of American Poets Fellowship,… 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

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

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 Spires is the author of six volumes of poetry including The Wave-Maker and Now the Green Blade Rises. Her many honors include a Whiting… more

Peter Constantine’s most recent translations are Sophocles’ Theban Trilogy, The Essential Writings of Machiavelli, and The Bird is a Raven by Benjamin Lebert, which was… 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

Karen Van Dyck is the Kimon A. Doukas Professor of Modern Greek Literature in the Classics Department at Columbia University where she directs the Program… 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

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

Rosanna Warren, the author of four collections of poetry, has received awards from the Academy of Arts and Letters and has won the Lamont Poetry… more

Martín Espada has published fifteen books as a poet, editor, and translator. His many honors include an American Book Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Espada… 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

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

Sandra Beasley’s first poetry collection, Theories of Falling, won the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize judged by Marie Howe. Beasley lives in Washington, DC, and… 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

Lisa Williams is the author of The Hammered Dulcimer and Woman Reading to the Sea. Her poetry has appeared in The New Republic, Poetry, and… more

John Dufresne has written seven books, including, most recently, the novel Requiem, Mass., and two fiction writing guides. He lives in Dania Beach, Florida. For… more

Marilyn Chin was born in Hong Kong. She is an award-winning poet and the author of Rhapsody in Plain Yellow and Revenge of the Mooncake… more

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