Barbara Guest

Barbara Guest (1920–2006) was the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, including Fair Realism (1989), Defensive Rapture (1993), and Quill, Solitary Apparition (1996). In 2008, Wesleyan University Press published her Collected Poems.

By this author

Five pieces from 'The Confetti Trees'

To Kenneth

Homage

Barbara Guest reads from 'The Red Gaze'

Barbara Guest and Kathleen Fraser in conversation with Elisabeth Frost and Cynthia Hogue

LINEbreak: Barbara Guest in conversation with Charles Bernstein

Three poems by Barbara Guest

Typescript of two early poems by Barbara Guest

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Near/Miss launches

Charles Bernstein

New from University of Chicago Press: paper, cloth, e-book
Audible.com has also published an audiobook of my reading of the full work.

New writing through the Anthropocene

PennSound podcast #63: Allison Cobb and Brian Teare with Julia Bloch, Knar Gavin, and Aylin Malcolm

PennSound podcasts

Book covers for Brian Teare's Doomstead Days and Allison Cobb's Green-Wood.

Allison Cobb and Brian Teare joined Julia Bloch, Knar Gavin, and Aylin Malcolm in the Wexler Studio at the Kelly Writers House on April 2, 2019, following their lunchtime discussion with scholars and poets from Penn’s Poetry and Poetics and Anthropocene and Animal Studies reading groups. Our discussion ranged from human embeddedness in the nonhuman world to the relationship between poetic duration and historiography to the role of affect in poetry that seeks to reckon with the ever intensifying ecodisasters of our time.

June 17, 2019

Christie Williamson reads & explains a poem in Shetlandic

Al Filreis

During a visit to the Kelly Writers House — on his way from Glasgow to Managua — Shetland poet Christie Williamson took some time to read his poem "Da Burn" and responded to a few of our questions about it and the Shetlandic language. Click on the video screenshot below to watch the video. The text of the poem is also below.