Podcasts about poets prize

Bruce Weigl is the author of over twenty books of poetry, translations and essays, most recently Among Elms, in Ambush (BOA, 2021), On the Shores of Welcome Home (BOA, 2019), and The Abundance of Nothing (Northwestern University Press, 2012), which was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Weigl has won the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, the Poets Prize from the Academy of American Poets, the Robert Creeley Award, The Cleveland Arts Prize, The Tu Do Chien Kien Award from the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and the 2018 “Premiul Tudor Arghezi Prize” from the National Museum of Literature of Romania. Having fought in the American War in Vietnam (Quang Tri, 1967-1968), Bruce Weigl has been working to promote mutual understanding and reconciliation between Vietnam and the US via literature and cultural exchanges for over twenty years. He is the co-translator of four Vietnamese-English poetry collections and has received a Medal for Significant Contributions from the Vietnam Union of Literature and Arts Associations and the Vietnam Writers Association, who acknowledge his efforts and success in the promotion of Vietnamese literature to the world. He lives in Oberlin, Ohio, and in Hà Nội, Việt Nam. Find his most recent books here: https://www.boaeditions.org/collections/bruce-weigl In the second hour, we'll be joined by special guest Ernest Hilbert. Ernest was the guest on Rattlecast 112 and has a new book, Storm Swimmer, just published by UNT Press. He'll read a couple poems from the book, which you can find here: https://www.ernesthilbert.com/storm-swimmer/ As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins. For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Write a glosa set in the distant future. Next Week's Prompt: Write a parablistic prose poem. Include at least one animal. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.

It's easy to remember the voices of relatives we were close to. Joyce Sutphen is an American poet and currently a Professor of English at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter Minnesota. She has published four poetry collections, the first Straight Out of View, won the Barnard Women’s Poets Prize, and a subsequent collection won the Minnesota Book Award. She was named Minnesota’s Poet Laureate in 2011 and has received a McKnight Artist Fellowship and a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship.

Even though we always wish for improvements, our bodies have brought us to where we are. Joyce Sutphen is an American poet and currently a Professor of English at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter Minnesota. She has published four poetry collections, the first Straight Out of View, won the Barnard Women’s Poets Prize, and a subsequent collection won the Minnesota Book Award. She was named Minnesota’s Poet Laureate in 2011 and has received a McKnight Artist Fellowship and a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship.

Ned Balbo is the author of The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems, awarded the Poets’ Prize and the Donald Justice Prize. His fifth book, 3 Nights of the Perseids, was selected by Erica Dawson for the Richard Wilbur Award. A co-winner of the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize, he is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts translation fellowship. Balbo was recently a visiting faculty member in Iowa State University’s MFA program in creative writing and environment. He lives in Baltimore with his wife, poet-essayist Jane Satterfield. Learn more at https://nedbalbo.com.G.H. Mosson is the author of Family Snapshot as a Poem in Time (Finishing Line Press, 2019), as well as three prior books of poetry, Heart X-rays (PM Press, 2018, with Marcus Colasurdo), Questions of Fire (Plain  View, 2009), and Season of Flowers and Dust (Goose River, 2007). His poetry and literary criticism have appeared in Measure, Tampa Review, The Cincinnati Review, Smartish Pace, and Loch Raven Review, among other journals, and his poetry has been nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize. He also edited the anthology Poems Against War: Bending Towards Justice (Wasteland Press, 2010).  He holds an MA in writing from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, and a BA in English. Mr. Mosson is a father, writer, lawyer, and dreamer. He practices employee rights and disability rights law as well as general civil litigation.  He hails from NYC and lives in his second home-state of Maryland.Nomi Stone is a poet and an anthropologist, and the author of two poetry collections, Stranger’s Notebook (TriQuarterly, 2008) and Kill Class (Tupelo, 2019). Winner of a Pushcart Prize, Stone’s poems appear recently in Poetry, American Poetry Review, The New Republic, Bettering American Poetry, The Best American Poetry, Tin House, New England Review, and elsewhere. Her anthropological articles recently appear in Cultural Anthropology and American Ethnologist, and her ethnographic monographic, Pinelandia: Human Technology and American Empire, is currently a finalist for the University of California Press Atelier series for Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century. Kill Class is based on two years of fieldwork she conducted within war trainings in mock Middle Eastern villages erected by the US military across America. Stone has a PhD in anthropology from Columbia, an MPhil in Middle Eastern Studies from Oxford, and an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College and teaches at Princeton University.Read "Dark Horse" by Ned Balbo.Read "Letter by a French Soldier, 1916, Found at Verdun" by G.H. Mosson.Read "War Catalogues" by Nomi Stone.

Ned Balbo is the author of The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems, awarded the Poets’ Prize and the Donald Justice Prize. His fifth book, 3 Nights of the Perseids, was selected by Erica Dawson for the Richard Wilbur Award. A co-winner of the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize, he is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts translation fellowship. Balbo was recently a visiting faculty member in Iowa State University’s MFA program in creative writing and environment. He lives in Baltimore with his wife, poet-essayist Jane Satterfield. Learn more at https://nedbalbo.com.G.H. Mosson is the author of Family Snapshot as a Poem in Time (Finishing Line Press, 2019), as well as three prior books of poetry, Heart X-rays (PM Press, 2018, with Marcus Colasurdo), Questions of Fire (Plain  View, 2009), and Season of Flowers and Dust (Goose River, 2007). His poetry and literary criticism have appeared in Measure, Tampa Review, The Cincinnati Review, Smartish Pace, and Loch Raven Review, among other journals, and his poetry has been nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize. He also edited the anthology Poems Against War: Bending Towards Justice (Wasteland Press, 2010).  He holds an MA in writing from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, and a BA in English. Mr. Mosson is a father, writer, lawyer, and dreamer. He practices employee rights and disability rights law as well as general civil litigation.  He hails from NYC and lives in his second home-state of Maryland.Nomi Stone is a poet and an anthropologist, and the author of two poetry collections, Stranger’s Notebook (TriQuarterly, 2008) and Kill Class (Tupelo, 2019). Winner of a Pushcart Prize, Stone’s poems appear recently in Poetry, American Poetry Review, The New Republic, Bettering American Poetry, The Best American Poetry, Tin House, New England Review, and elsewhere. Her anthropological articles recently appear in Cultural Anthropology and American Ethnologist, and her ethnographic monographic, Pinelandia: Human Technology and American Empire, is currently a finalist for the University of California Press Atelier series for Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century. Kill Class is based on two years of fieldwork she conducted within war trainings in mock Middle Eastern villages erected by the US military across America. Stone has a PhD in anthropology from Columbia, an MPhil in Middle Eastern Studies from Oxford, and an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College and teaches at Princeton University.Read "Dark Horse" by Ned Balbo.Read "Letter by a French Soldier, 1916, Found at Verdun" by G.H. Mosson.Read "War Catalogues" by Nomi Stone.Recorded On: Wednesday, May 1, 2019

It's the birthday of Dana Gioia, whose 99 Poems: New & Selected (2016) won the 2018 Poets’ Prize, an award for the best book of verse by a living American poet.

Jeremy Nobel, MD, MPH Founder and President www.artandhealing.org jnobel@artandhealing.org Jeremy Nobel, MD, MPH As a practicing general internist for many years, Dr. Nobel experienced “the front lines” of health care and its delivery. Currently, through his faculty appointments at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Harvard Medical School, Dr. Nobel’s teaching, research, and community based projects address the design of healthcare delivery systems that improve quality, cost-effectiveness and access. His work has been the basis of significant improvements in preventative, acute, chronic, rehabilitative, and end of life medical care that focus on understanding what quality healthcare means from a patient perspective, and how best to deliver it. Dr. Nobel is also a recognized leader in the field of medical humanities, an interdisciplinary endeavor that draws on a diverse range of fields, including the creative arts, to inform medical education and practice. He is the founder and president of the Foundation for Art and Healing (www.artandhealing.org), an organization dedicated to exploring the important relationship between creative expression and health and well-being, and bringing those benefits to individuals and communities. The foundation is actively involved in creating a broader societal awareness that arts-based activities can improve health, while simultaneously developing and distributing innovative programs to the field, and promoting an active research agenda. Also a published poet, Dr. Nobel has received several awards for his poetry including the Bain-Swiggett Prize from Princeton University, and the American Academy of Poets Prize from the University of Pennsylvania. The mission of the Foundation for Art & Healing is to use its position as a “bridge” to create and expand general awareness about art and healing, to bring forward through research and related explorations critical knowledge about art and healing and the relationship between them, and to help make this knowledge available at the individual and community level.

In this podcast our Programme Manager, Jennifer Williams, talks to Robert Wrigley about his new collection and first book to be published in the UK, The Church of Omnivorous Light: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2013). They also touch on narrative in poetry, the infinite capacity of poetry to talk about love and wild horses on the southern plains of Idaho. Robert was at the SPL in November 2013 for a reading with John Burnside. From Bloodaxe (http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/personpage.asp?author=Robert+Wrigley) - His first book to be published in the UK, The Church of Omnivorous Light: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2013), draws on several collections published in the US, including Beautiful Country (2010);Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems (2006); Lives of the Animals (2003), winner of the Poets Prize; Reign of Snakes (1999), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award; and In the Bank of Beautiful Sins(1995), winner of the San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award and finalist for the Lenore Marshall Award from the Academy of American Poets. Wrigley has also won the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize, Poetry magazine’s Frederick Bock Prize, the Poetry Society of America’s Celia B. Wagner Award, Poetry Northwest’s Theodore Roethke Award, and six Pushcart Prizes. Read more about Robert: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/robert-wrigley Music by James Iremonger: www.jamesiremonger.co.uk

Soldier-poet Brian Turner reads from his first book of poems, Here, Bullet. Here, Bullet is this year's reading selection for all incoming freshman. It won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award and went on to be named a New York Times "Editor's Choice" selection for 2007, and win the 2007 Poets Prize, among others. Turner earned an MFA in Poetry from the University of Oregon and then served seven years in the US Army, including one year as an infantry team leader in Iraq with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division.

Soldier-poet Brian Turner reads from his first book of poems, Here, Bullet. Here, Bullet is this year's reading selection for all incoming freshman. It won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award and went on to be named a New York Times "Editor's Choice" selection for 2007, and win the 2007 Poets Prize, among others. Turner earned an MFA in Poetry from the University of Oregon and then served seven years in the US Army, including one year as an infantry team leader in Iraq with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division.