Kay Ryan
Selected poem: Relief Acknowledged as one of the most original voices in the contemporary landscape, Kay Ryan has published several collections of poetry, including Erratic Facts (Grove Press, 2015) and The Best of It: New and Selected Poems (Grove Press, 2010), for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2011. View Artists’ Interpretations […]
Juan Felipe Herrera
Selected poem: Thich Nhat Hanh I Step With You Former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera’s numerous poetry collections include 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971-2007, and Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems (2008). View Artists’ Interpretations Thich Nhat Hanh I Step With You step breathestep breathe—peace flickers […]
Diane di Prima
Selected poem: To a Student Former Poet Laureate of San Francisco Diane Di Prima has authored more than thirty collections of poetry, including The Poetry Deal (City Lights Publishers, 2014) as well as plays, short stories, novels, nonfiction, and more, and her work has been translated into more than twenty languages. View Artists’ Interpretations To […]
Charif Shanahan
Selected poem: Love Poem Three Autumns Later Charif Shanahan is the author of Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing (SIU Press, 2017), winner of the 2015 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. He is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. View Artists’ Interpretations Love Poem Three Autumns Later […]
Brynn Saito
Selected poem: Traffic Brynn Saito is the author of two books of poetry, Power Made Us Swoon (2016) and The Palace of Contemplating Departure (2013), winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award from Red Hen Press and finalist for the Northern California Book Award. View Artists’ Interpretations Traffic Woman warrior when stuck in trafficsings love […]