poets, american

Draws on personal letters to chronicle the life of Jewish-American writer, feminist, and Zionist Emma Lazarus.

A biography of an African girl brought to New England as a slave in 1761 who became famous on both sides of the Atlantic as the first Black poet in America.

Poet Rhoda Janzen describes her life in the Mennonite church, hanging out with the Pentecostals, and her new love life.

Poet Nick Flynn describes his childhood in Massachusetts, which ended when his mother committed suicide; chronicles his years as a caseworker at a homeless shelter, where he met his absent father, a homeless, alcoholic con-man and would-be writer, for the first time; and reflects upon the parallels between their lives.

Interviews with twenty-one leading American Indian poets.

Contains the lives and works of seventy-five American ethnic poets including Maya Angelou, N. Scott Momaday, Rita Dove, Pat Mora and Derek Walcott.

A collection of interviews in which fifteen Latino and Latina poets discuss their work.

Presents interviews with twelve significant contemporary poets, including Seamus Heaney, Donald Hall, Rita Dove, and Bei Dao, about their lives and their craft.

Former United States poet laureate Donald Hall reflects on his life, discussing his childhood in Connecticut, the works that influenced him, his education, his success and failures as a writer and father, his friendships, and other related topics.