How a Poem Happens

Brian Barker’s first book of poems, The Animal Gospels , won the Tupelo Press Editors' Prize and was published in 2006. He teaches at th...

Christopher Buckley’s seventeenth collection of poetry, Rolling The Bones , won the 2009 Tampa Review Poetry Prize and will be published by ...

Maggie Anderson is the author of four books of poetry, including Windfall: New and Selected Poems , A Space Filled with Moving , and Cold Co...

Terrance Hayes' most recent poetry collection, Wind in a Box , was named one of the best 100 books of 2006 by Publishers Weekly . His ho...

Bruce Bond’s collections of poetry include Peal (Etruscan Press, 2009), Blind Rain (Finalist, TIL Best Book of Poetry Prize, LSU, 2008), Ci...

Rodney Jones, born in Alabama, is a professor of English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He has published eight books of poet...

Fady Joudah’s The Earth in the Attic won the Yale Series for Younger Poets in 2007. His translations of Mahmoud Darwish’s poetry are collec...