I’ve known Amanda Gorman since she was sixteen. When Amanda Gorman was announced as the United States’ first Youth Poet Laureate and invited to read at the Inauguration, I was thrilled and not totally surprised. Amanda is someone I have known since she was 16 in a weekend poetry workshop…
2021 January
I just finished reading Nancy Lynee Woo’s book, Bearing the Juice of it All (Finishing Line Press), and I’m in love. Her language is visceral and gripping, her work honest and probing, her structure both sharp and layered. When she agreed to be on The Poetry Saloncast with me and…