Poets / Poems Out Loud

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

Tina Chang, author of Half-Lit Houses, teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. For more, go to TinaChang.com. more

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

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

David St. John has published nine collections of poetry, including The Face. He teaches at the University of Southern California and lives in Venice, California. more

Gerald Stern has won the National Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, the Ruth Lilly Prize, and the Wallace Stevens Award, among others, and… more

Cole Swensen’s most recent collection is The Glass Age. She teaches at the University of Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop and lives in Iowa City, Iowa. 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

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

Rita Dove, former U.S. Poet Laureate, is the recipient of many honors, among them the Pulitzer Prize, the National Humanities Medal, the Heinz Award, and… 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

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

David Baker, author of several volumes of poetry and criticism, is the Thomas B. Fordham Chair of Creative Writing at Denison University and Poetry Editor… 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

Stephen Dunn is the author of fourteen poetry collections, including New and Selected Poems, 1974-1994. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his collection Different… 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

Beth Ann Fennelly is the author of Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother and Tender Hooks, praised by Albert Goldbarth for its “deep… 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

Nina Cassian was born in 1924 in Galati, Romania, and has published more than fifty books. She is a poet, composer, journalist, film critic, and… more

Todd Boss’s debut collection of poetry, Yellowrocket features poems that have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The New England Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review,… more

Nathaniel Bellows is the author of the novel On This Day. His poetry has appeared in such publications as the New York Times Book Review,… 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

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

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