Podcast appearances and mentions of Frank Bidart

Today's episode is an archival recording of poet Frank Bidart from the 2008 Tin House Writers Workshop. It begins with an introduction by the poet Brenda Shaughnessy, followed by an extended poetry reading by Frank Bidart. After the reading is a not-to-be-missed substantive and remarkable craft interview of Frank by Brenda. They look at how […] The post Tin House Live : Frank Bidart appeared first on Tin House.

As much as contemporary audiences relish a happily ever after, some of the greatest romances of all time are ones that have turned out badly. In this episode of Critics at Large, the staff writers Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz consider stories of “wretched love”—love that's star-crossed, unfulfilled, or somehow doomed by the taboos of the day. First, they react to listeners' favorite examples, from Tolstoy's “Anna Karenina” to “The Notebook” to the Joni Mitchell song “The Last Time I Saw Richard.” Then, the hosts discuss their own picks: the poet Frank Bidart's collection “Desire”; James Baldwin's novel “Giovanni's Room”; and “A Girl's Story,” by the Nobel Prize-winner Annie Ernaux. Why do we—and centuries' worth of artists—gravitate toward tales of thwarted desire? Perhaps it's because these moments unlock something that stays with us long after the sting of heartbreak has faded. “When you widen the lens, life goes on,” Schwartz says. Nevertheless, “there is a need for all of us to return to that moment because that was part of what made you who you were.”Read, watch, and listen with the critics:“Annie Ernaux Turns Memory Into Art,” by Alexandra Schwartz (The New Yorker)“Anna Karenina,” by Leo Tolstoy“Conversations with Friends,” by Sally Rooney“Desire,” by Frank Bidart“Eugene Onegin” (1879)“Giovanni's Room,” by James Baldwin“A Girl's Story,” by Annie Ernaux“Sense and Sensibility,” by Jane Austen“Sense and Sensibility” (1995)“Sylvia,” by Leonard MichaelsJoni Mitchell's “The Last Time I Saw Richard”“The Notebook” (2004)“Wuthering Heights,” by Emily Brontë“Wuthering Heights” (1939)Kate Bush's “Wuthering Heights”New episodes drop every Thursday. Follow Critics at Large wherever you get your podcasts.

Get on your spurs & chaps and join our country queens down at the poetry gay bar!Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Buy our books:     Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.      James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.Please consider buying your books from Bluestockings Cooperative, a feminist and queer indie bookselling cooperative.Watch Miranda Lambert calling out some selfie-takers and the ladies of The View talking about it. And watch her sing "Tin Man" here.Watch Jennifer L. Knox read "Crushing It" here.Maybe the most memorable Tammy Wynette reference is this one from Sordid Lives. "He looked just like Tammy....in the early years," one character says about her brother."Billy Collins is to good poetry what Kenny G is to Charlie Parker" reads this scathing pan of the poet. You can watch Richard Howard read from his poems here (~60 min).Anne Carson is in conversation with Lannan Foundation's Michael Silverblatt here (30 min).Terrance HayesRead B.H. Fairchild's "A Starlit Night" from 32 Poems here.Read "Chopin in Palma," the Susan Mitchell poem in Best American Poetry 2023 (first published in Harvard Review) here. Listen to Mark Doty talk all things Whitman (~50 min)You can watch Frank Bidart read his serial-killer poem "Herbert White" here (~8 min)Here's an amazing tribute to Lucille Clifton organized by SAG-AFTRA, with readings by Geena Davis, Tantoo Cardinal, Isabella Gomez, Mark St. Cyr, Candace Nicholas Lippman, Max Gail, Nicco Annan; Lynne Thompson;  Sidney Clifton; Madeline di Nonno; and  Rochelle Rose. (~70 min)Read Matthew Dickman's poem "Grief."Here's Susan Mitchell's CV.

Ricky Ian Gordon is without a doubt one of our greatest living composers for the human voice. His songs have been performed and recorded by many star singers (including Renée Fleming and Audra McDonald); his musical theater works and operas have been heard on progressive stages across the country, and he's been consistently recognized for his unique musical style – which blends a lyric romanticism with dramatic modernism to brightly illuminate the texts and poems that inspire him. In his new opera Ellen West, Ricky sets the poem of that name by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Frank Bidart to effect a stunning portrayal of the woman who was the earliest documented case of anorexia nervosa (and who eventually committed suicide). The opera deals with loss and the devastating consequences of struggling with body image (both of which Ricky has experienced personally). It's a cathartic journey, and as Ricky tells us in this conversation, one that ultimately points to a direction of hope – a message that seems more and more important in today's world. Recorded at New York's PROTOTYPE Festival in January 2020, Ellen West features soprano Jennifer Zetlan in the title role, baritone Nathan Gunn in multiple roles, The Aeolus Quartet, bass player Evan Premo and pianist Djordje Nesic, conducted by Lidiya Yankovskaya. The album can be found here: https://www.brightshiny.ninja/ellen-wes Visit Ricky Ian Gordon's website at https://www.rickyiangordon.com/

In this episode conference director Matthew Biberman concludes his conversation with acclaimed war journalist and poet Tom Sleigh. Sleigh reads two poems ("Clearance" and the title piece) from his latest collection The King's Touch (Graywolf 2022). Other topics include surfing and dog sledding, as well as the tradition of the American long poem. While illuminating his own poems "Ending" and "Homage to Basho," Sleigh reminisces about fellow poets Seamus Heaney, Mark Strand, and Frank Bidart. For fans and practitioners of contemporary American poetry.

Is it REALLY good? Or is it merely tongue-in-the-butt good? Heart's official website is here. Listen to the vocals-only Heart cover version of "Alone" here. Ann Wilson sings lead; sister Nancy sings backup.Ann and Nancy's rift formed in 2016. You can read more about it here (CW: physical assault).You can see Frank Bidart read from Half-Light for the 92nd Y here (~30 min)

In this episode conference director Matthew Biberman talks with acclaimed war journalist and poet Tom Sleigh. The author of 11 books of poetry including The Kings Touch, Tom has enjoyed sustained critical praise since the appearance of first collection After One. He has also published translations, plays and two collections of his nonfiction prose, the most recent being The Land Between Two Rivers: Writing in an Age of Refugees. His mid-career turn to war journalism has garnered Sleigh a new audience while making him one America's essential poets for understanding our world today. He is also a Distinguished Professor in the MFA Program at Hunter College. Our conversation includes discussion of Frank Bidart, Thom Gunn and Robert Pinsky.

Aria Aber joins Kevin Young to read “Half Light,” by Frank Bidart, and her own poem “Dirt and Light.” Aber is a Whiting Award recipient, a current Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and the author of “Hard Damage,” which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry.

In our first podcast our exiting Conference director, Alan Golding, talks with our in-coming director, Matthew Biberman, offering advice along with cherished memories of several major American poets and scholars including Frank Bidart, Robert Creeley, Clayton Eshleman, Susan Howe, W. S. Merwin, Harryette Mullen, Marjorie Perloff, and Nathaniel Mackey.

In honor, celebration, and support of Pride Month, Sarah reads poetry by Regie Cabico, Alok Vaid-Menon, Frank Bidart, and Ocean Vuong. Instagram: @sar.pham

On this week's episode, Bob and Chris ask why so many poets refer to their poems as self portraits. Bob reads "Self Portrait, 1969" by Frank Bidart, Chris reads by "Elegy for the Self Portrait" by Adam Clay, and then the dudes talk about getting dunked on.

Keturah speaks with Ricky Ian Gordon about how he collaborates with multiple composers, as well as compositions for which he has written the libretto.The episode begins with clips from last season: Michael Korie discussing how Ricky helped convince him to collaborate on The Grapes of Wrath (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1180661/5613223), and Leonard Foglia talking about Ricky’s phrase “Boil it down to stock,” and how it helped him as a writer. (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1180661/5280550). We also hear mezzo-soprano, Frederica Von Stade talking about how meaningful it was to work on A Coffin in Egypt. (http://www.fredericavonstade.com/)List of Ricky’s works in order they are mentioned:Orpheus & Euridice (https://www.rickyiangordon.com/project/orpheus-euridice/)Green Sneakers (https://www.rickyiangordon.com/project/green-sneakers/)Sycamore Trees (https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2010-05-27-bs-ae-arts-sycamore-trees-20100527-story.html)Ellen West (https://www.brightshiny.ninja/ellen-west)My Life with Albertine (https://www.rickyiangordon.com/project/my-life-with-albertine/)Intimate Apparel (https://www.lct.org/explore/blog/lemon-ia-ricky-ian-gordon-crafting-intimate-apparel/)Garden of the Finzi-Continis (https://nycopera.com/shows/finzi/)The House Without A Christmas Tree (https://www.rickyiangordon.com/christmas-tree-wsj2017/)The Tibetan Book of the Dead (https://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/rochester/interview-ricky-ian-gordon/Content?oid=8573366)The Grapes of Wrath (https://www.rickyiangordon.com/project/the-grapes-of-wrath/)Rappahannock County (https://www.rickyiangordon.com/project/rappahannock-county/)A Coffin in Egypt (https://www.rickyiangordon.com/project/a-coffin-in-egypt/)27 (https://www.rickyiangordon.com/project/27/)Other people/places mentioned:UCross Artists’s Colony - https://www.ucrossfoundation.org/Richard Nelson - https://www.broadwayplaypub.com/play-authors/richard-nelson/Lynn Nottage - http://www.lynnnottage.com/Frank Bidart - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/frank-bidartAriel by Sylvia Plath - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395090.ArielBravo! Vail Valley Music Festival - https://www.bravovail.org/Godard’s Vivre Sa Vie - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056663/

The Math Campers is Dan Chiasson's fifth book of poetry. He is the poetry critic for The New Yorker, a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, and teaches English at Wellesley College.  You can checkout The Math Campers at the Deerfield Public Library, and find Dan Chiasson on Twitter @dchiasso.  The Math Campers has a thrilling and unique structure. Imagining a reader who narrates her correspondence with a poet named Dan Chiasson, the book contains poetic scraps, drafts, and blank spaces, which only sometimes lead to more completed poems. This “making-of” structure coincides with Chiasson's continued investigations into his childhood and adolescence, as his sons enter adolescence themselves. Add a science fiction plot about a group of teen summer campers trying to stop time, and you have a collection both zany and elegiac that questions the nature of art.  We discuss where these ideas come from, and why poetry does what it does. You'll also hear Dan read some of his poems and reflect on the lineage of poets cited in this book, including T.S. Eliot, James Merrill, and Frank Bidart. We welcome your comments and feedback--please send to: podcast@deerfieldlibrary.org. More info at: http://deerfieldlibrary.org/podcast Follow us: Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube 

Ricky Ian Gordon is without a doubt one of our greatest living composers for the human voice. His songs have been performed and recorded by many star singers (including Renée Fleming and Audra McDonald); his musical theater works and operas have been heard on progressive stages across the country, and he's been consistently recognized for his unique musical style – which blends a lyric romanticism with dramatic modernism to brightly illuminate the texts and poems that inspire him.In his new opera Ellen West, Ricky sets the poem of that name by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Frank Bidart to effect a stunning portrayal of the woman who was the earliest documented case of anorexia nervosa (and who eventually committed suicide). The opera deals with loss and the devastating consequences of struggling with body image (both of which Ricky has experienced personally). It's a cathartic journey, and as Ricky tells us in this conversation, one that ultimately points to a direction of hope – a message that seems more and more important in today's world.Recorded at New York's PROTOTYPE Festival in January 2020, Ellen West features soprano Jennifer Zetlan in the title role, baritone Nathan Gunn in multiple roles, The Aeolus Quartet, bass player Evan Premo and pianist Djordje Nesic, conducted by Lidiya Yankovskaya. The album can be found here: https://www.brightshiny.ninja/ellen-wesVisit Ricky Ian Gordon's website at https://www.rickyiangordon.com/

Ricky Ian Gordon is without a doubt one of our greatest living composers for the human voice. His songs have been performed and recorded by many star singers (including Renée Fleming and Audra McDonald); his musical theater works and operas have been heard on progressive stages across the country, and he's been consistently recognized for his unique musical style – which blends a lyric romanticism with dramatic modernism to brightly illuminate the texts and poems that inspire him. In his new opera Ellen West, Ricky sets the poem of that name by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Frank Bidart to effect a stunning portrayal of the woman who was the earliest documented case of anorexia nervosa (and who eventually committed suicide). The opera deals with loss and the devastating consequences of struggling with body image (both of which Ricky has experienced personally). It's a cathartic journey, and as Ricky tells us in this conversation, one that ultimately points to a direction of hope – a message that seems more and more important in today's world. Recorded at New York's PROTOTYPE Festival in January 2020, Ellen West features soprano Jennifer Zetlan in the title role, baritone Nathan Gunn in multiple roles, The Aeolus Quartet, bass player Evan Premo and pianist Djordje Nesic, conducted by Lidiya Yankovskaya. The album can be found here: https://www.brightshiny.ninja/ellen-wes Visit Ricky Ian Gordon's website at https://www.rickyiangordon.com/

Jamey Hecht, PhD, LMFT is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Los Angeles. He studied poetry with Allen Grossman, John Burt, and Frank Bidart at Brandeis University in the 1990’s. His first book of poems was Limousine, Midnight Blue (Red Hen Press, 2009), fifty 14-line elegies for President Kennedy. Dodo Feathers collects the best of Jamey Hecht’s poetry from the past thirty years (1989-2019). Order Dodo Feathers here: https://ipbooks.net/product/dodo-feathers-poems-1989-2019-by-jamey-hecht/ For more on Jamey Hecht, visit: http://poetrypoliticscollapse.blogspot.com/ And Blank Verse Trance: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGUpBdpJwoaqmQycXNjgidw ________ On the open mic: Nyumah Waggeh Kim Tedrow Michelle Parks

The podcast is back! Listen to Sharon read Frank Bidart poems, share what she's been up to over the last 4 months and talk about the power of not forcing things. She discusses how being still can be uncomfortable and yet why that's important. She shares how to drop in and listen to the voice within you (and not just the mental chatter) and lead and act from that space of wisdom. And finally, when you are just itching to sprint to action even if it doesn't feel right, she reminds you to just breathe. And see if you can't tilt into a deeper sense of presence over action.

David Gewanter is author of four books of poetry: Fort Necessity (Spring 2018), War Bird (2009), The Sleep of Reason (2003), and In the Belly (1997),all published by the University of Chicago Press; and co-editor, with Frank Bidart, of Robert Lowell: Collected Poems (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Faber & Faber, 2003; paperback, 2007). He earned a B.A. in Intellectual History from the University of Michigan, an M.A. and Ph.D. in English at U.C. Berkeley, and then ran writing programs at Harvard. Book awards include: the John C. Zacharis first book prize, Ploughshares (for In the Belly); finalist, James Laughlin Award, American Academy of Poets (for The Sleep of Reason); the Ambassador Book Award, English Speaking Union - US, and the Contemporary Poetry Review Book of the Yearо (for Robert Lowell: Collected Poems).

Today's poem is To The Republic by Frank Bidart.

Jake and Phil discuss America's greatest poets named Frank, with Frank O’Hara’s "Personism Manifesto" and Frank Bidart’s “Ellen West” Frank O’Hara, “Personism” http://opencourses.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/ENL9/Instructional%20Package/Texts//Readings/Week%203%3A%20Pop%20art%3A%20breaking%20down%20the%20boundaries%20between%20high%20and%20low/Frank%20O%27Hara%20Personism-2.pdf Reuben Brower, The Fields of Light https://books.google.com/books/about/Thefieldsof_light.html?id=AuhYAAAAMAAJ Kenneth Koch, “Fresh Air” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52929/fresh-air Daniel Clowes, Art School Confidential https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364955/ The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520201668/the-collected-poems-of-frank-ohara Steven Burt, “Okay I’ll Call You/Yes Call Me: Frank O’Hara’s Personism” https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/okay-ill-call-you-yes-call-me-frank-oharas-personism Frank O’Hara, “Meditations in an Emergency” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/26538/meditations-in-an-emergency Frank O’Hara, “Having a Coke With You” https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/having-coke-you Sloterdijk, Rules for the Human Zoo https://rekveld.home.xs4all.nl/tech/Sloterdijk_RulesForTheHumanZoo.pdf Frank O’Hara, “My Heart” https://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/poetryinmotion/atlas/newyork/my_heart/ Czeslaw Milosz, The Captive Mind https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/115135/the-captive-mind-by-czeslaw-milosz/9780679728566/ Geoffrey Hill, “Language, Suffering, and Silence” https://academic.oup.com/litimag/article/1/2/240/958441 Frank O’Hara, “Ave Maria” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42670/ave-maria Frank Bidart, “Ellen West” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48284/ellen-west Tom Sleigh, Interview with a Ghost https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/interview-ghost Frank Bidart, “Writing Ellen West” https://frame-tales.tumblr.com/post/67714978473/frank-bidart-writing-ellen-west Frank Bidart, Half-Light: Collected Poems https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374125950 De Maistre, as quoted in Isaiah Berlin’s Two Enemies of Enlightenment http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/lists/nachlass/maistre.pdf David Jones, Epoch and Artist https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571339501-epoch-and-artist.html Audio Clips: The Stranglers, No More Heroes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gfIgA-PYyQ John Ashberry reading a letter from O’Hara https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oacw2wX5nac Frank O’Hara reading Having a Coke With You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDLwivcpFe8 Style Wars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BdlXqBXm2o Pocahontas, Colors of the Wind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9MvdMqKvpU

In which we told ourselves we were going to talk about inaugural poems and didn't. This inaugural episode of the Black Box Poetry Podcast was recorded in January 2017, just after the inauguration of President Trump. The original theme was "inauguration poems" which the team quickly reinterpreted as "occasional poetry" since we didn't feel that we had all that much to say about inauguration poetry itself. In this episode, we discuss "Curse" by Frank Bidart; "not an elegy for Mike Brown" by Danez Smith; and the classic, "Easter 1916" by W.B. Yeats. If you actually want to know something about inaugural poems, since we don't end up talking about them in this episode, you can read what Sean C. Hughes had to say about them in 2013 on Full Stop.

Frank Bidart reads from his work on April 23rd, 2015 in honor of National Poetry Month. The first poems are from Metaphysical Dog (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2013). Bidart finished by reading a few lyric poems from his forthcoming collection Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 (FSG 2016). This talk was held at Wellesley College's Tau Zeta Epsilon society house, and was sponsered by the Wellesley College English Department, The Wellesley Review, Tau Zeta Epsilon, and Zeta Alpha. Frank Bidart is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Wellesley and Professor of English.

Feb. 19, 2015. Ron Charles interviews Award-winning poet Frank Bidart, who reads his work and talks about his development as a poet. Speaker Biography: Frank Bidart is a poet and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner. Speaker Biography: Ron Charles is and Book World editor for the Washington Post. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6672

An informal conversation remembering the life and work of Elizabeth Bishop, with Lloyd Schwartz, Frank Bidart, Rosanna Warren, Gail Mazur, and Megan Marshall. Conducted at Harvard University in March 2012, and used by permission of the participants and the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard College Library. To see the event video, click here.

Frank Bidart, Wellesley CollegeVijay Seshadri, Sarah Lawrence CollegeKevin Young, Emory UniversitySally Dawidoff (moderator), American Social History ProjectThe Association of Writers and Writing Programs ConferenceWashington, DC, February 5, 2011In the first part of this two-part panel discussion, held at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, distinguished contemporary American writers Frank Bidart, Vijay Seshadri, and Kevin Young talk about writing about the Civil War 150 years after it began. Seshadri grew up an immigrant child of an immigrant father obsessed with the war; Young comes to the subject as a twenty-first-century African-American poet living in the South; and Bidart was spurred to write about Gettysburg by “the world created by the Bush administration.” Allen Tate and Robert Lowell’s seminal odes are also read and discussed. For all these writers, the war has become part of their Americanness.Part 1: Introduction by Sally DawidoffReadings:Ode to the Confederate Dead by Allen Tate (recording), read by the authorFor the Union Dead by Robert Lowell, read by Frank BidartThe Nature of the Chemical Bond (excerpt) by Vijay Seshadri, read by the authorFor the Confederate Dead by Kevin Young, read by the authorFor the Republic by Frank Bidart, read by the authorPart 2: DiscussionCreditsPermission to broadcast Frank Bidart’s reading of Robert Lowell’s poem “The Union Dead” granted by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.Permission to broadcast the recording of Allen Tate reading his poem “Ode to the Confederate Dead” granted by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC and by Universal Music Enterprises, a division of Universal Music Group Recordings, Inc.Permission to post Vijay Seshadri’s “The Nature of the Chemical Bond” granted by Graywolf Press.

Frank Bidart, Wellesley CollegeVijay Seshadri, Sarah Lawrence CollegeKevin Young, Emory UniversitySally Dawidoff (moderator), American Social History ProjectThe Association of Writers and Writing Programs ConferenceWashington, DC, February 5, 2011In the second part of this two-part panel discussion, held at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, distinguished contemporary American writers Frank Bidart, Vijay Seshadri, and Kevin Young talk about writing about the Civil War 150 years after it began. Seshadri grew up an immigrant child of an immigrant father obsessed with the war; Young comes to the subject as a twenty-first-century African-American poet living in the South; and Bidart was spurred to write about Gettysburg by “the world created by the Bush administration.” Allen Tate and Robert Lowell’s seminal odes are also read and discussed. For all these writers, the war has become part of their Americanness.Part 1: Introduction by Sally DawidoffReadings:Ode to the Confederate Dead by Allen Tate (recording), read by the authorFor the Union Dead by Robert Lowell, read by Frank BidartThe Nature of the Chemical Bond (excerpt) by Vijay Seshadri, read by the authorFor the Confederate Dead by Kevin Young, read by the authorFor the Republic by Frank Bidart, read by the authorPart 2: DiscussionCreditsPermission to broadcast Frank Bidart’s reading of Robert Lowell’s poem “The Union Dead” granted by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.Permission to broadcast the recording of Allen Tate reading his poem “Ode to the Confederate Dead” granted by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC and by Universal Music Enterprises, a division of Universal Music Group Recordings, Inc.Permission to post Vijay Seshadri’s “The Nature of the Chemical Bond” granted by Graywolf Press.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Frank Bidart was educated at the University of California at Riverside and at Harvard University, where he was a student and friend of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. His first volume of poetry, Golden State (1973), was selected by poet Richard Howard for the Braziller Poetry series. Bidart's early books are collected in In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90 (1990). His recent volumes include Star Dust (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), Music Like Dirt (2002), and Desire (1997), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critic's Circle Award. He is also the co-editor of Robert Lowell's Collected Poems (2003). His honors include the Wallace Stevens Award, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation Writer's Award, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Shelley Award of the Poetry Society of America, and The Paris Review's first Bernard F. Conners Prize for "The War of Vaslav Nijinsky" in 1981. In 2007, he received the Bollingen Prize in American Poetry. Bidart was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2003. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has taught at Wellesley College since 1972.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Frank Bidart was educated at the University of California at Riverside and at Harvard University, where he was a student and friend of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. His first volume of poetry, Golden State (1973), was selected by poet Richard Howard for the Braziller Poetry series. Bidart's early books are collected in In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90 (1990). His recent volumes include Star Dust (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), Music Like Dirt (2002), and Desire (1997), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critic's Circle Award. He is also the co-editor of Robert Lowell's Collected Poems (2003). His honors include the Wallace Stevens Award, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation Writer's Award, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Shelley Award of the Poetry Society of America, and The Paris Review's first Bernard F. Conners Prize for "The War of Vaslav Nijinsky" in 1981. In 2007, he received the Bollingen Prize in American Poetry. Bidart was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2003. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has taught at Wellesley College since 1972.

Frank Bidart was educated at the University of California at Riverside and at Harvard University, where he was a student and friend of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. His first volume of poetry, Golden State (1973), was selected by poet Richard Howard for the Braziller Poetry series. Bidart's early books are collected in In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90 (1990). His recent volumes include Star Dust (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), Music Like Dirt (2002), and Desire (1997), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critic's Circle Award. He is also the co-editor of Robert Lowell's Collected Poems (2003). His honors include the Wallace Stevens Award, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation Writer's Award, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Shelley Award of the Poetry Society of America, and The Paris Review's first Bernard F. Conners Prize for "The War of Vaslav Nijinsky" in 1981. In 2007, he received the Bollingen Prize in American Poetry. Bidart was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2003. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has taught at Wellesley College since 1972.

Watching the Spring Festival: Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) For Frank Bidart, the act of reading poetry aloud involves the entire body... (Part I of this interview aired March 12.)

Watching the Spring Festival: Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) The word most frequently used to describe Frank Bidart's poetry is “intense.” (Part II of this interview airs on March 19.)

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Frank Bidart was educated at the University of California at Riverside and at Harvard University, where he was a student and friend of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. His first volume of poetry, Golden State (1973), was selected by poet Richard Howard for the Braziller Poetry series. Bidart's early books are collected in In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90 (1990). His recent volumes include Star Dust (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), Music Like Dirt (2002), and Desire (1997), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critic's Circle Award. He is also the co-editor of Robert Lowell's Collected Poems (2003). His honors include the Wallace Stevens Award, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation Writer's Award, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Shelley Award of the Poetry Society of America, and The Paris Review's first Bernard F. Conners Prize for "The War of Vaslav Nijinsky" in 1981. In 2007, he received the Bollingen Prize in American Poetry. Bidart was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2003. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has taught at Wellesley College since 1972.