Dana Gioia is a renowned poet and critic. His new book of poetry, his third, is Interrogations at Noon , exploring the epiphanies of love and marriage in forms ranging from rhymed couplets to free verse, skillfully written and deeply felt. Return of the Prodigals is Kurt Brown's new collection of poetry. Poems About Hotels, Motels, Restaurants and Bars . The founder of the Aspen Writers' Conference, he is also the editor of three collections of lectures from writers' conferences across America.
Few poets love the world.
It exists as a source of their complaint. In both thought and language, Brown is as precise as a surgeon. Joanna Klink reads from her first book of poetry, They Are Sleeping . She teaches at the University of Montana. John D'Agata reads from Halls of Fame , his new collection of lyric essays.