Poetry / Women Authors

Winner of the 2019 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize.

Alicia Suskin Ostriker’s passionate voice has long been acknowledged as a vital force in American poetry. From urgent spiritual quest to biting political satire, from elegy to comedy, from celebration of the city street and the world “as a paradise might be / if we had eyes to see,” to ...

Teetering Between Joy and Despair, Faith and Doubt, and the Disconnect Between Lived Experience and the Written Word

A Soundtrack of the Global Cultural Landscape from Nathalie Handal’s Unique Perspective

An Intimate Expression of a Poet’s Grief