Meet Albert Goldbarth — National Poetry Month Featured Poet for April 26th
Albert Goldbarth is an American poet known for his prolific production, his gregarious tone, his eclectic interests and his distinctive ‘talky’ style. He has been a Guggenheim fellow and won the National Book Critics Circle award in 1991 and 2001, the only poet to receive the honor two times. He also won the Mark Twain Award for Humorous Poetry, awarded by the Poetry Foundation, in 2008. He has published more than twenty-five collections of poetry, including The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems 1972–2007 (Graywolf Press, 2007); Saving Lives (2001) and Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology (1991), both of which won the National Book Critics Circle award for poetry (Goldbarth is the only poet to have received the award twice); Popular Culture (1990), which received the Ohio State University Press / The Journal Award; and Jan. 31 (1974), which was nominated in 1975 for the National Book Award. He is Adele Davis Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Wichita State University, where he has taught since 1987. He lives in Wichita, Kansas.
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The Earrings: The Poem as Prediction — Essay by Albert Goldbarth
Albert Golbarth Interviewed on NPR — in real audio format
Poems like little novels — “Saving Lives” review by David Kirby, of The Christian Science Monitor
America’s Funniest Bard Doesn’t Just Win Awards, He Also Collects Robots And Rocket Ships — Albert Goldbarth interviewed by Richard Siken
Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, October 20, 2005
Poems On-Line:
Sestina: As There Are Support Groups, There Are Support Words
