by wordsonawire_evsmg3 | Sep 26, 2020 | podcast
Tracy K. Smith September 25, 2020 Daniel talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Tracy K. Smith. She has written her first memoir, Ordinary Light, and she talks about why she waited many years to write about the death of her mother. She also explains why the memoir...
by wordsonawire_evsmg3 | Feb 21, 2017 | podcast
Ocean Vuong February 19, 2017 Ocean Vuong is a poetry phenomena. His books “Night Sky with Exit Wounds” and “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” are best sellers. Vuong joins host Daniel Chacón to discuss his book, his upcoming writing projects and his creative process....
by wordsonawire_evsmg3 | Feb 26, 2016 | podcast
Juan Felipe Herrera February 21, 2016 Juan Felipe Herrera is the Poet Laureate of the United States. Before that he was Poet Laureate of California. And before that he was a Fresno poet who was inspiring the dreams and imaginations of thousands of children, their...
by wordsonawire_evsmg3 | Jun 1, 2014 | podcast
Edward Hirsch June 1, 2014 Daniel talks with poet & critic, Edward Hirsch, about his latest book, A Poet’s Glossary, which is not so much a book of definitions as it is an exploration of the history of the terms and how those terms interrelate to each other....
by wordsonawire_evsmg3 | Dec 2, 2012 | podcast
Kim Addonizio August 4, 2013 Daniel & Ben talk to poet Kim Addonizio, author of “Lucifer at the Starlite.” She talks about her love of teaching poetry, and why she deliberately chose not to pursue an academic career at a university. Addonizio also talks about...
