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Contributors’ Notes
Hussain Ahmed is a Nigerian poet and environmentalist. His poems and translations are featured or forthcoming in
Poetry,
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Sara Backer’s first book of poetry,
Such Luck (Flowstone Press, 2019), follows two poetry chapbooks:
Scavenger Hunt (dancing girl press, 2018) and
Bicycle Lotus (Left Fork, 2015). Her honors include the 2019 Plough Poetry Prize competition, eight Pushcart nominations, and fellowships from the Norton Island and Djerassi Resident Artists Programs. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, lives in New Hampshire, and reads for the
Maine Review. Point,
Marianne Boruch’s tenth book of poetry is
The Anti-Grief (Copper Canyon Press, 2019). She has written three essay collections about poetry, most recently
CHICAGO â Roughly a year after controversy roiled the Poetry Foundation and led to resignations among its leadership, former city of Chicago cultural commissioner Michelle T. Boone has been named president.
Booneâs appointment may mark a turning point for the foundation, which has been criticized as insular and slow to respond to changing times. In addition to serving as commissioner for the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events under former Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Boone is wrapping up her tenure as chief program and civic engagement officer for Navy Pier.
Last spring, the Poetry Foundation came under fire for its initial response to protests in the wake of George Floydâs death as well as what some perceived as a slow response in providing financial aid to artists during the pandemic â despite having an endowment that was valued at $257 million in 2018. In June, then Poetry Foundation President Henry Bienen, a former Northwestern University president, re
The Broad Stage presents two United States poet laureates, both Pulitzer Prize winners, in Rita Dove and Tracy K. Smith: Poetry at the Crossroads, on Thursday, May 20 at 6pm PT, presented in partnership with esteemed Los Angeles based publisher Red Hen Press. It is moderated by interdisciplinary creative, activist and educator Amber Flame.
Rita Dove and Tracy K. Smith will share their thoughts on the crossroads of poetry that we now find ourselves in as a new generation of poets build on and elevate the form whose foundation is made of, in part, these two poets themselves.
Dr. Kate Gale, Co-Founder and Managing Editor of Red Hen Press, said, Poetry is entered through the doors of the imagination; we see what has been done and we see what can be. Rita Dove and Tracy K. Smith have redefined what we can imagine.