NEW YORK — Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain bike rider and self-described "modern hermit," will be the nation's 16th poet laureate. The Library of Congress announced today that the lifelong ...
It’s heartening when good things happen to good poets. The announcement today that Kay Ryan will become the next U. S. Poet Laureate almost restores one’s faith in the literary world–in which, so ...
U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan never wanted to be a poet. The image of puffy-shirted men in capes working in some dirty French garret put her off it. Perhaps that’s why she writes so economically, as if ...
<P> The U.S. poet laureate has never desired the exposure that follows a public life. In fact, Kay Ryan, 64, has spent much of her life carving out a quiet, and private, existence that slams the door ...
Kay Ryan, the former U.S. Poet Laureate, will add to her list of honors when she receives the National Humanities Medal this afternoon. The ceremony, in which President Obama will present National ...
Consider the poetics, and politics, of fungi with poems by Sylvia Plath and Kay Ryan. Poems by Sylvia Plath and Kay Ryan take the peripheral status of the fungal kingdom as an invitation to consider ...
On July 17, Kay Ryan became the 16th U.S. poet Laureate, one of the most coveted positions in American letters. Yet when Senator Spark Matsunaga, himself an amateur poet, pushed Congress to create the ...
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