The Beat

Adelaide Crapsey is best known as the inventor of the American cinquain . She was born in 1878 in Brooklyn, NY, and she grew up in Rochester. In 1903, she began to show symptoms of tuberculosis which would eventually take her life in 1914. In spite of her illness, Crapsey attended the American Academy’s School of Classical Study in Rome, and then eventually returned to the U.S. to teach at Smith C...

Amy Wright is the author of three books of poetry and six chapbooks. Wright’s essays have appeared in  The Georgia Review, Fourth Genre, Ninth Letter, Brevity , and elsewhere. She has been awarded two Peter Taylor Fellowships to the Kenyon Review Writer’s Workshop, an Individual Artist Grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission, and a fellowship to Virginia Center for the Creative Art...

Prince Bush is an MFA student at Western Kentucky University. His poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including The Cincinnati Review, Cream City Review, Poet Lore, Pleiades, Puerto del Sol, and others. He was a 2019 Fellow at Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets and an Erastus Milo Cravath Presidential Scholar at Fisk University.  "Lithium" first appeared in Pleiades; "On Truth" f...

David Baker is the author and editor of 18 books, including 12 books of poetry. His most recent book is  Swift: New and Selected Poems , published by W. W. Norton.  Baker teaches at Denison University and he frequently serves on the faculty of the MFA program for writers at Warren Wilson College. He is the Poetry Editor of  The Kenyon Review....

Tyler Mills’ poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, The Guardian, The New Republic, and others. She’s published two books and has two chapbooks forthcoming. Mills teaches for Sarah Lawrence College’s Writing Institute and she edits The Account, an online literary magazine. Look for Tyler Mills’ books in our online catalog or call us at the Reference Desk at Lawson McGhee Library....

Cintia Santana’s work has appeared in the Best New Poets 2020  anthology, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review,  and many other literary journals. She was awarded fellowships from CantoMundo, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. She teaches literary translation, as well as poetry and fiction workshops in Spanish, at Stanford University. &nb...

Maurice Manning has published seven books of poetry. His first book,  Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions , won the Yale Younger Poets Award, and his fourth,  The Common Man , was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.  Be sure to look for books by Manning in our online catalog. Links: Read "One View of Time" by Maurice Manning Bio and poems at the Poetry Foundation The Grinnin'...

Subscribe to this feed for an upcoming poetry podcast produced by Knox County Public Library. It’s called The Beat. David Orr, a poetry columnist for the New York Times Book Review , describes a common idea that some people have about poetry—that understanding it "is like solving a calculus problem while being zapped with a cattle prod." Or maybe worse, we hear people give (again quoting David Orr...