Americans' Favorite Poems by Favorite Poem Project (U. S.)

Todd Hearon is a prize-winning poet and dramatist, co-founder and artistic board member of The Bridge Theatre Company, Boston.

Twitter: “In Aeternum” by Sir Thomas Wyatt She blogs for the Huffington Post on literature and politics. She is the 2014 winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction by an American Woman. She is the author of the novels A Disobedient Girl (Atria/Simon & Schuster, 2009) and On Sal Mal Lane (Graywolf, 2013), both of which have been translated into multiple languages, and editor of the forthcoming anthology of American writers writing about Palestine, Extraordinary Rendition (OR Books). Ru Freeman is a Sri Lankan born speaker, activist, and writer whose work has appeared internationally. Robert Pinsky, the Favorite Poem Project and Tate Street selected a diverse group of readers from the writing conference-composed of editors, translators, educators, fiction writers, and poets-to participate at AWP 2015. These videos showcase individuals reading and speaking personally about their favorite poems. Tate Street filmed a new and more informal branch of the FPP’s online collection of short video documentaries. The FPP was created by Robert Pinsky during his time as Poet Laureate (1997-2000) of the United States to celebrate and document the role of poetry in the lives of Americans. At the 2015 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference this year, our team at were excited to kick off a new collaboration between Tate Street, Robert Pinsky, and the Favorite Poem Project ( ).

Americans' Favorite Poems by Favorite Poem Project (U. S.)