Two U.S. Poets Laureate: A Reading and Conversation

In Erratic Facts, Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, Kay Ryan examines enormous subjects — existence, consciousness, love, loss — in compact poems that have immensely powerful resonance. The first Hispanic to be named U.S. poet laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera, presents Portrait of Hispanic American Heroes, a visually stunning book that showcases twenty Hispanic and Latino American men and women who have made outstanding contributions to the arts, politics, science, humanitarianism and athletics. In conversation with Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundation fellow and award-winning poet, Campbell McGrath.

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