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Leslie Leyland Fields — Reading
When you read Leslie Leyland Fields' creative nonfiction or poetry, the experience is not unlike being in a skiff: you lean in to the language, landing metaphors that have the same freshness and invigorating shock of the big fish in cold water.
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Margaret Gibson — Reading
To spend time in the poetry of Margaret Gibson is to be drawn into an especially vibrant kind of stillness.
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Daniel Tobin—Reading
Whether he is tackling a large-scale subject, like Bosch or St. Bartolomé de los Casas (the saint known as the “Protector of the Indians”), or penning a lyric, Tobin knows how to mix gravity with levity, the downward pressure of sin and suffering with the unbearable lightness of grace.
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Rodger Kamenetz — Reading
The poems of Rodger Kamenetz are full of jazz rhythm, ancient tragedy, and dark wit. They draw on Jewish song and prayer in a voice that is thoroughly modern—with an equanimity and a quiet humor that may come from his Buddhism and may come just from himself.
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Jeanne Murray Walker — Reading
With fluid, commonsensical language, she awakens in her reader a sense of wonder and delight in the fullness of the universe. For the month of July, hear Jeanne Murray Walker read her poetry aloud.
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