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Sandra Simonds is an American poet, critic and novelist.The author of eight books of poetry, her poems have been included in Best American Poetry and have appeared in literary journals including Poetry, The New Yorker, The New York Times, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Granta, Boston Review, and Fence.
Part of the Lilly bequest was used to build the Poetry Foundation's building in Near North Side, Chicago. The building, designed by John Ronan, opened in 2011. It houses a poetry library, reading spaces, and free events, all open to the public, and provides office and editorial space for the Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine staff. [9]
During Polito's presidency, traffic at the Poetry Foundation website increased to over 30 million unique visitors annually. [20] In an interview, Polito reflected on his activities at the Poetry Foundation: All my work at the Poetry Foundation was rooted in a vision of the transformative power of poetry, whether in an individual life or a culture.
Elizabeth Acevedo is an American poet and author. [1] In September 2022, the Poetry Foundation named her the year's Young People's Poet Laureate. [2] Acevedo is the author of the young adult novels The Poet X, With the Fire on High, and Clap When You Land. The Poet X is a New York Times Bestseller, [3] National Book Award Winner, [3] and ...
Boyer is the winner of the 2018 Cy Twombly Award in Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and her book Garments Against Women won the 2016 Community of Literary Magazines and Presses Firecracker Award in poetry. She was also named "The Best Writer in Kansas City" by The Pitch. [16] In 2018, she also won the Whiting Award in ...
Jennifer Reeser (born 1968 in Lake Charles, Louisiana) is an American New Formalist poet of Native American descent. She is the author of several poetry collections, including An Alabaster Flask (2003), Winterproof (2005), Sonnets from the Dark Lady and Other Poems (2012), The Lalaurie Horror (2013), Indigenous (2019), and Strong Feather (2022).
Cairns's poems have appeared in journals including The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Image, and Poetry, and have been anthologized in Upholding Mystery (Oxford University Press, 1996), Best Spiritual Writing (Harper Collins, 1998 and 2000), and Best American Spiritual Writing (Houghton Mifflin, 2004, 2005, and 2006).
Kay Ryan (born September 21, 1945) [1] is an American poet and educator. She has published seven volumes of poetry and an anthology of selected and new poems. From 2008 to 2010 she was the sixteenth United States Poet Laureate. [2]