All Walt Whitman Award at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 2006 Today at Círculo de Poesía, we present the poetry of Anne Pierson Wiese. She is poet and graduated of the New York University at Writing Workshop. She has won some prizes through the years. In 2006, she won the Walt Whitman Prize…
All Walt Whitman Awards at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 2005 Today at Círculo de Poesía we present two poems by the 2005 Walt Whitman Award winner Mary Rose O’Reilley (1944). Able to play with theological and environmental themes, her poetry becomes both profoundly emotional and yet bitingly ironic. Spanish translations are by…
All Walt Whitman Award at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 2004 Today at Círculo de Poesía: Geri Doran. Born in 1966 in Montana, she has studies from Vassar College, Cambridge University, and Stanford University. Her book Resin was selected by poet Henri Cole for the Walt Whitman Awatd in 2004, because of what…
All Walt Whitman Laurates at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 2003 Today at Círculo de Poesía we present a poem of Tony Tost (1975), poet, critic and screenwriter. He is the founding editor of the online poetry magazine Fascicle. Tost writes for the A&E television series Longmire. In 2003 he deserved the Walt…
All Walt Whitman Laurates at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 2002 Today at Círculo de Poesía we present two poems by Suji Kwock Kim. The consciousness of the power and pain that comes with language is ever present in her discourse, where the barrier between body and word is often uncertain. Her work…
All Walt Whitman Laurates at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 2001 Today at Círculo de Poesía: poetry by John Canaday (1961) 2001 winner of the Walt Whitman Award for his book The Invisible World. He has PhD in English and teaches at Harvard Summer School, well acquainted with themes of science he has…
All Whitman Laureates at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 1994 Today at Círculo de Poesía we present two poems by Ben Doller (1973). Mixing the quotidian with the prophetic, Doller’s poetry strikes its reader in its almost visceral interconnections between microcosm and macrocosm. With a rhythm that is both clerical and easy to…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Judy Jordan (1961), grew up on a small farm near the border between the Carolinas, was the first member of her family to attend college. Her first poetry collection, Carolina Ghost Woods (2000), was selected by James Tate to receive the 1999 Walt Whitman Award and won the National Book…
Today at Círculo de Poesía, as part of our Pulitzer Prize dossier, we present poems by George Dillon (1906-1968). Nowadays a poet mostly remembered for being the lover of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dillon was the editor of Poetry Magazine while serving in the Signal Corps during World War II, eventually announcing the freedom of…
Today at Círculo de Poesía, we present a poem by Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982). A modernist poet and member of the “Lost Generation”, he lived in Paris during the Thirties, where he met Ezra Pound, H.D., F. Scott Fitzgerald and others. Upon his return to America, he crafted a powerful poetry that stems from both his…