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2014 Featured Festival Poet: Jan Beatty
In her most recent collection, The Switching Yard, Jan Beatty writes: beauty always with blood behind it, nothing free. That one word, blood, carries so many associations and meanings: The life force...
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2014 Featured Festival Poet: Richard Blanco
Richard Blanco reading at the 2012 Dodge Poetry Festival Richard Blanco is the fifth inaugural poet of the United States. He read his now famous poem “One Today” after Barack Obama was re-elected in...
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2014 Featured Festival Poet: Sophie Cabot Black
“…to be in debt is to remain awake.” This last line of Sophie Cabot Black’s poem “Somewhere in New Jersey is the Center” has been rattling inside me since I read it. If you are initially drawn to the...
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2014 Featured Festival Poet: Eavan Boland
For those of you lucky enough to have heard poet Eavan Boland at the 2012 Festival, you already know what a powerful poet and reader she is, and what an engaging and eloquent speaker. If you’re...
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2014 Featured Festival Poet: Billy Collins
Billy Collins has said that a poem should be like a carnival ride: as soon as it is done, you want to get right back on and ride it again. So, click on the image below, and take a ride on a few of his...
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2014 Featured Festival Poet: Dave Caserio
Listen to Festival Poet Dave Caserio read “Forensic Love” with musician Parker Brown. His relishing of the sheer physicality of language is evident from the first through the last word of his poem....
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2014 Featured Festival Poet: Brendan Constantine
Photo courtesy of Indelible Ink on Flickr Commons Brendan Constantine reimagines the familiar and the mysterious, delicately balancing playfulness and poignancy, to create intriguing poems worth...
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2014 Featured Festival Poet: David Daniel
Image courtesy of Connotation Press David Daniel’s most singular creation is WAMFEST, the Words and Music Festival, which annually brings together writers and musicians to play, collaborate and have...
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2014 Featured Festival Poet: Natalie Diaz
It is easy to convey pity and lament about a situation of abject poverty, of substance abuse, of struggle. It is difficult to elevate these situations to a level of mythology, shining a compassionate...
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2014 Featured Festival Poet: Mark Doty
In Still Life with Oysters and Lemon, Mark Doty’s book-length meditation on art and poetry, he concludes that poems exist “as advocates of intimacy, as embodiments of paradox, as witnesses to earth,...
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2014 Featured Festival Poet: Sean Thomas Dougherty
“There are arias everywhere, my brother.” That might as well be Sean Thomas Dougherty’s mantra. Growing up in working class New Hampshire, laboring at blue collar jobs throughout his life in factories...
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2014 Featured Festival Poet: Rita Dove
Listen to Rita Dove read “American Smooth” at the 2010 Dodge Poetry Festival. IFRAME Embed for Youtube It’s widely known that poet Rita Dove is the youngest person, and the first African-American, to...
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2014 Featured Festival Poet: Camille Dungy
Photo by Ray Black, University of Georgia, courtesy of PoetryFoundation.org To get to know Camille Dungy, watch her read “before her heart, a mechanical aperture, closed” which starts at 7:50 here:...
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2014 Featured Festival Poet: Claudia Emerson
Watch the Cortland Review’s Poets in Person with Claudia Emerson and her husband, musician Kent Ippolito, for a delightful introduction to one of our 2014 Festival Poets. IFRAME Embed for Youtube The...
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2014 Featured Festival Poet: Kevin Goodan
Photo courtesy of Lewis-Clark State College Kevin Goodan’s poetry has roots planted firmly in the earth, and leaves reaching towards the sky. Raised on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana,...
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2014 Featured Festival Poet: Ona Gritz
Photo courtesy of MainStreetRag.com No corner of Ona Gritz’s house is closed to the public. When Gritz writes a poem, she invites readers to sit at her kitchen table, on her living room couch, at the...
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2014 Featured Festival Poet: Cathy Park Hong
Photo courtesy of Poetry Foundation For a small peek into Cathy Park Hong’s poetry, watch her read her poem “Ballad of O”: IFRAME Embed for Youtube If you hadn’t known ahead of time that the poem only...
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2014 Featured Festival Poet: Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Photo from rachelelizagriffiths.com Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet and photographer, with a keen ability to capture the essence of a subject’s character in both mediums. Griffiths is also a reader,...
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2014 Featured Festival Poet: Marie Howe
Marie Howe’s reading of her poem, “The Gate,” opens a portal into her poetry. IFRAME Embed for Youtube She has said that “Poetry, to me, is the story of the soul on earth, here and now. What it’s like...
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2014 Featured Festival Poet: Tung Hui Hu
Photo Courtesy of MinePoems.com Below is a video of Tung Hui Hu reading poems from his three books of poetry The Book of Motion, Mine, and Greenhouses, Lighthouses: IFRAME Embed for Youtube Hu’s soft...
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