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The Writer's Almanac is a daily podcast and newsletter of poetry and historical interest pieces, usually of literary significance. Begun as a radio program in 1993, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] it is hosted by Garrison Keillor and was produced and distributed by American Public Media through November 2017.
Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor (/ ˈ k iː l ər /; born August 7, 1942) is an American author, singer, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality.He created the Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) show A Prairie Home Companion (called Garrison Keillor's Radio Show in some international syndication), which he hosted from 1974 to 2016.
Several of his poems, including "One of the Locals", were read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac. [4] A chapter dedicated to Starck's poetry, “Clemens Starck: ‘poems in my head, a hammer in my hand,” is within Durable Goods: Appreciations of Oregon Poets, [5] written by Erik Muller and published by Mountains & Rivers Press in 2017.
Phillips' 2015 poetry collection, Elegy for a Broken Machine (Alfred A. Knopf), was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry.His poems have appeared in many magazines, including Poetry, Ploughshares, [4] The American Poetry Review, [5] Harvard Review, [6] DoubleTake, New England Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review, [7] and have been featured on Garrison Keillor's show The Writer's ...
An annual poetry contest, the Pat Schneider Poetry Contest, was established in her honor by Amherst Writers and Artists in 2011. [5] Schneider had four children, all of them published authors: Rebecca Schneider, Laurel Schneider , Paul Schneider and Bethany Schneider. [ 6 ]
Garrison Keillor selected Glose as the featured poet on The Writer's Almanac for July 1, 2017. [6] In 2024, Bill Glose was one of the poets chosen to represent the East Coast on World Poetry Day (March 21) during a 24-hour poetry reading that spanned the globe. [7] Glose has written extensively about his and other veterans' combat experiences.
Mehigan's poems have appeared in periodicals such as Poetry, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Ploughshares, and The New Republic. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] His poems have also been featured on Poetry Daily and The Writer's Almanac , [ 4 ] and have been published in the German journals Akzente , Krachkultur ...
He has also published four chapbooks of poetry and two teaching books, Secret Writing and Gonna Bake Me a Rainbow Poem. His work has been published in many magazines and literary journals, widely anthologized and included in the radio series, The Writer's Almanac. His most recent full-length book is titled Green Diver.