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Profiles and interviews

04/28/06
X.J. Kennedy
Kennedy has cast a long shadow as poet, editor, teacher – and loving advocate of verse.

04/26/05
Jane Hirshfield
Hirshfield finds that writing, like gardening, needs a balance of 'deliberative labor' and 'allowing-to-arrive.'

03/31/05
John Barr
The president of the Poetry Foundation has to balance financial sense and artistic sensibility.

11/16/04
Ted Kooser
The poet laureate of the United States is a retired insurance man who puts a premium on verse.

08/25/04
Kay Ryan
Winner of a Guggenheim fellowship and the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Prize.

04/20/04
Christian Wiman
The $100 million question: Can the new editor of Poetry magazine make you appreciate poetry?

04/24/03
W.S. Merwin
Author of 20 books of poetry and a Pulitzer Prize winner.

04/25/02
Billy Collins
The US poet laureate talks about how to save poetry from itself.

11/07/02
Lucille Clifton
For decades she has been one of America's most celebrated poets.

10/25/01
Galway Kinnell
A Pulitzer Prize winner, and a man as gracious and sensitive in person as on the page.

10/26/00
Stanley Kunitz
A US poet laureate and one of poetry's most eloquent ambassadors.

04/20/94
Carolyn Forche
Carolyn Forche has received more acclaim and notoriety, witnessed more instances of cold brutality and generosity of spirit than one might expect in several lifetimes.

03/06/91
Martin Espada
Much has been made of the surprising duality of his poet/lawyer roles, but Espada sees no contradiction.
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