When Worlds Combine: The Evolution of a Television Series on Poetry
"The Language of Life With Bill Moyers" features 18 poets filmed at the 1994 Dodge Poetry Festival.
Department: Feature
Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself
In 1994 Nobel Lecture, the novelist speaks about power of art to heal individuals and countries.
Jane Kenyon (1947-1995)
A tribute in verse.
An Interview With Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder, the environmentalist poet, is also a Zen Buddhist, consummate Bohemian, and rural renaissance man.
Hellman/Hammett Grants Assist Persecuted Writers
The Free Expression Project provides money to writers silenced under oppressive governments.
A Conversation With James Laughlin
James Laughlin, writer and founder of New Directions—the nation's oldest independent literary press—talks about 60 years of publishing some of this century's greatest writers.
The Pushcart Press
In order to publish his own novel, Bill Henderson started a small press. Twenty-five years later he publishes writers rejected by commercial presses and offers the prestigious Pushcart Prize.
On Apprenticeship
Why don't writers, like other artists, understand the importance of being an apprentice?
A Month at Hawthornden Castle
History and rich scenery inspire Mesmer during a retreat at a Scottish Castle.
The New Machoism: An Interview With Thom Jones
Thom Jones, the author of The Pugilist at Rest, talks about boxing, mysticism, epilepsy, and how writing emanates from it all.
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