On Thursday, Louise Glück was announced as the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. Glück, a former United States Poet Laureate, has contributed poems to The New Yorker for more than fifty ...
Do you pick a destination in order to have a reason to take a walk, or do you take a walk in order to get to a place you have in mind? Sometimes one, sometimes the other. Are the words a poet uses ...
On Dec. 7, newly-minted laureate Louise Glück delivered her Nobel acceptance speech outside of her Massachusetts home. In it, the poet expressed her lifelong interest in a kind of confessional poem, ...
Back in 2001, technical writer Annik Stahl read her favorite poem, “Lamentations” by Louise Glück, for the NewsHour in honor of the Thanksgiving holiday. You can find the full text of the poem below.
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Louise Glück, who just won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, is our great October poet. (Robert Frost may be a distant second.) Consider the lyric “All Hallows,” from her collection “The House on ...
Louise Glück, the witty, candid and uncompromising former U.S. poet laureate who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in literature and a Pulitzer Prize in 1993, has died. She was 80. Glück's death was confirmed ...
The Swedish Academy has chosen the American poet, citing her ‘unmistakable poetic voice’ The poet Louise Glück has become the first American woman to win the Nobel prize for literature in 27 years, ...