C. K. Williams was the eleventh poet in the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series and read in 2009. C.K. Williams is known for his daring formal style, which combines everyday observations with long, Whitmanesque lines. He has authored ten books of poetry, including Collected Poems (2006); The Singing (2003), winner of the National Book Award; Repair (2003), winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award; and Flesh and Blood (1987), winner of the National Book...

Robert Pinsky was the twelfth poet in the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series and read in 2010. Former Poet Laureate of the United States, Robert Pinsky is the author of seven volumes of poetry, including Gulf Music (2007) and The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996, which received the Lenore Marshall Award and the Ambassador Book Award of the English Speaking Union. Pinsky's most recent book is Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud (2009)....

Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady were the sixteenth poets in the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series and read in 2011. Toi Derricotte has published four books of poems, most recently the award-winning collection, Tender. Her literary memoir, The Black Notebooks, won the 1998 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Non-Fiction and was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Cornelius Eady, a distinguished poet and playwright whose work is often evocative of blues and jazz,...

Matthew Dickman and Michael Dickman were the fifteenth poets in the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series and read in 2011. Matthew Dickman is the author of All-American Poem, winner of the 2009 Oregon Book Award for Poetry and the APR/Honnickman First Book Prize. His poems plum the ecstatic nature of life, where pop culture and sacred longing to hand in hand. Michael Dickman, author of The End of the West, writes poems that document the bright desires and all-too-common...

Eamon Grennan was the thirteenth poet in the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series and read in 2010. Grennan's books include Matter of Fact (2008); The Quick of It (2005); Still Life with Waterfall (2001), the recipient of the Lenore Marshall Award for Poetry from the American Academy of Poets; and Relations: New and Selected Poems (1998). His Out of Sight: New and Selected Poems is forthcoming later this year. Grennan's Leopardi: Selected Poems (1997) earned the 1997 PEN Award for...

Li-Young Lee was the tenth poet in the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series and read in 2009. Award-winning poet Li-Young Lee is the author of five critically acclaimed books, most recently Behind My Eyes (2008). His earlier poetry collections are Book of My Nights (2001); Rose (1986), winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University; The City in which I Love You (1991), the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection; and the memoir The Winged Seed (1995) which received an...

Campbell McGrath was the ninth poet to read in the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series and read in 2009. Campbell McGrath is a prize-winning and popular poet whose work explores the cultural and natural landscapes of the United States. McGrath's awards include the Kingsley Tufts Prize, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and a 1999 MacArthur "Genius Grant." McGrath's latest poetry collection is Seven Notebooks (2008); his previous collections include Florida Poems (2002), Spring...