MAUREEN CAVANAUGH (Host): Welcome back. I'm Maureen Cavanaugh. You're listening to These Days on KPBS. Sometimes people have funny ideas about poetry. They think that the people who write it must live ...

Following her breakout Veil: New and Selected Poems (2001), Armantrout here consolidates her place as a preeminent poet of economy—in the senses of aesthetic ...

Rae Armantrout is a professor of writing and literature at the University of California, San Diego, and the author of several books of poetry, most recently Money Shot (2011) and Versed (2009), winner ...

For the last half century, the Pulitzer Prize–winning Armantrout (Itself) has stood as a quiet figurehead of American experimental poetry, and this formidable collection offers a look at her recent ...

DWANE BROWN: A writing and literature professor at the University of California San Diego has won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Rae Armantrout won for her collections of poems titled Versed.

On the latest Poetry Podcast, Rae Armantrout reads from Susan Wheeler’s poem “The Split,” in which the speaker bids farewell to a group of deceased acquaintances: ’Bye, motorcycle David. ’Bye, you ...

With the waning day peaking through the windows that look out onto Prescott Street, Rae Armantrout, one of the world’s most famous living postmodern poets, seated herself at a mahogany table and began ...

Rae Armantrout, a longtime UC San Diego literature professor, was named Thursday among 10 finalists for the 2018 National Book Award in poetry. She was selected for her collection “Wobble,” which is ...

This year’s winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry is Rae Armantrout for her book, “Versed.” The Pulitzer board called the collection, which also won the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award, ...

The only time I met the poet Rae Armantrout, a few years ago, I escorted her from her hotel to the lecture hall at the University of Chicago where she was to read. We chatted, and she mentioned that ...

What if I were turned on by seemingly innocent words such as “scumble,” “pinky” or “extrapolate?” What if I maneuvered conversation in the hope that others would pronounce these words? Perhaps the ...

In ‘Money Shot,’ Poet Armantrout Reacts to Financial Crisis in Verse Rae Armantrout's poetry finds its place at the intersection of the public and the private. Armantrout won the National Book Critics ...