How a Poem Happens

Linda Pastan was born to a Jewish family in the Bronx in 1932. She graduated from Radcliffe College and received an M.A. from Brandeis Unive...

Charles Rafferty is the recipient of a 2009 NEA Fellowship in Creative Writing and is the author of four full-length collections of poetry: ...

Jim Daniels’ recent books include Revolt of the Crash Test Dummies , winner of the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize, Eastern Washington University Pre...

Carrie Jerrell's debut collection, After the Revival , received the 2008 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize and is forthcoming from Waywiser Pre...

Jeffrey Harrison is the author of four full-length books of poetry, most recently Incomplete Knowledge (Four Way Books, New York), which ma...

Maxine Kumin lives on a farm in central New Hampshire. She has published thirteen volumes of poetry, as well as novels, short stories, and e...

James Harms has published six books of poetry, most recently After West (2008) from Carnegie Mellon University Press. His second collection...