20190726 BOOKSTOCK CHARD DENIORD
Channel: Woodstock Community Television
Date: 2019-07-30

CHARD DENIORD Chard deNiord is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Interstate and The Double Truth (both from University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011 and 2019) and two books of interviews with American poets, Sad Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs (Marick Press, 2011) and I Would Lie To You If I Could (Pittsburgh, 2018). DeNiord is the eighth poet laureate of Vermont (2015–2019), a trustee of the Ruth Stone Trust, and a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Providence College. He lives in Westminster West, Vermont, with his wife, Liz. “In addition to reading a few poems about my experience interviewing fifteen of America’s most eminent contemporary poets I will read entertaining and poignant sections from those interviews focusing on the state of American poetry today, personal and poetic influences, the efficacy of poetry’s witness as transcendent news, the specific “hurts” that “inspired” my subjects to write poetry in the first place and the provenance and writing process of such seminal poems as Trethewey’s “Enlightenment,” Kinnell’s “When the Towers Fell,” Stone’s “Pokeberries,” Hirshfield’s “Come Thief,” and Forché’s “The Colonel.”