Ed Sanders is reading at Saturday afternoon’s Featured Reading on Oct. 11. Ed Sanders was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He dropped out of the University of Missouri in 1958 and hitchhiked to New York City’s Greenwich Village. He wrote his first major poem, Poem from Jail, on toilet paper in his cell after being jailed for [...]

Watch Robert Pinsky reading at the 2008 Poetry Festival. United States Poet Laureate (1997–2000) Translator, Essayist, and Teacher Robert Pinsky’s first two terms as United States Poet Laureate were marked by such visible dynamism, and such national enthusiasm in response, that the Library of Congress appointed him to an unprecedented third term. Throughout his career, [...]

Watch Lucie Brock-Broido reading at the 2008 Poetry Festival. Lucie Brock-Broido was born and raised in Pittsburgh. She received her B.A. and her M.A. from Johns Hopkins University, and her M.F.A. from Columbia University. Her books of poetry include Trouble in Mind (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), The Master Letters (1995), and A Hunger (1988). In [...]

Watch Regie Gibson reading at the 2008 Poetry Festival. Poet, songwriter, author, workshop facilitator, and educator Regie Gibson has performed, taught, and lectured at schools, universities, theaters and various other venues on two continents and in seven countries, including The Art Institute of Chicago, Harvard University’s Longfellow Hall for the Cambridge Poetry Festival, and Chicago’s [...]