The Poet and The Poem

Howard Nemerov was Poet Laureate of the U.S .from 1963 -1964 and again from 1988-90. He was the recipient of the National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize, Bollingen Prize among other honors.

Francisco Aragón is the son of Nicaraguan immigrants. His books include, After Rubén (Red Hen Press 2020), Glow of Our Sweat, and Puerta de Sol. He's also the editor of, The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry.

Didi (Dulce) Menendez is a Cuban-born American publisher and digital artist. Her publications are scheduled to be archived on the moon by Dr. Samuel Peralta's payload the Peregrine Collection.

Henry Crawford, lawyer, software engineer, videographer, is author of two poetry collections, American Software 2017 Books and The Binary Planet, 2020.

John Doe co-founded LA punk band X, still an active member. Doe's a singer, songwriter, actor, poet, guitarist and bass player.

Novelist, poet, musician,Terrence Winch is the author of the young adult novel SEEING-EYE BOY and is a leading figure in the Irish music world.

Ocean Vuong is the author of the bestselling novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Penguin Press (2019), forthcoming in 30 languages. He received the MacArthur Genius Award.

Carolyn Forche is one of America's greatest living poets. She created the phrase, "poetry of witness," and here reads from her new memoir about witnessing the war in El Salvador.

Ned Balbo reads his poems in every form: pantoum, sonnet, ghazal, villanelle, blank verse.

The Poet and The Poem premieres PENGUIN Anthology, "Singing in The Dark: Poetry's Response To The Pandemic."

Mecca "Meccamorphosis" Verdell is the winner of the 2020 DC Poet Project, and her debut collection, Things to Unlearn, is forthcoming 2021 from Day Eight.

Literary historian/poet Kim Roberts is the editor of By Broad Potomac's Shore: Great Poems from the Early Days of our Nation's Capital (University of Virginia Press, 2020).

Maryland's Howard County Women's Hall of Fame honors Burke's poetry, fiction, op-ed columns, reviews, profiles and feature stories.

Barbara Quick is a California poet and author of historical novels.

New England Poetry Consultant to The Library of Congress 1981-1982, was renamed U.S. Poet Laureate in 1986.

This Illinois poet held three pulitzer prizes, two for poetry and one for the biography of Abraham Lincoln.

This Georgia poet was named US POET LAUREATE in 1966 - known for his sweeping poetic vision and and eccentric poetic styles.

Carolyn Joyner, a Washington, DC poet, examines life's themes in her work through the use of contemporary and traditional form.

Jeffrey LaMar Coleman is a poet and a scholar of African American music and poetry.

Poet Omowole Jesse N. Alexander holds a Master of Engineering degree in electrical engineering from Howard University.

In 1986 Congress designated the term U.S. Poet Laureate to all Poetry Consultants. Warren was the first to be designated. Also, Robert Penn Warren was the 3rd Laureate Poetry Consultant to The Library of Congress serving 1944-1945.

Lucille Clifton was a poet and educator; she was formerly Maryland's poet laureate.and holds the National Book Award for poetry.

Ann Bracken is a poet and activist for mental health and prison reform.

Pulitzer Prize Winner William Meredith was the 34th Poet Laureate of the United States, 1978-1980, whose formal and unadorned verse was compared to that of Robert Frost.

Robert L. Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He won the 2007 National Book Award and shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize.