Poet Diane Wakoski
September 14, 2001
Audio:
- Interview with Stephanie Mathson
- Program Introduction by Michael Rodriguez
- Readings Part 1
- Readings Part 2
- Readings Part 3
"Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it." --Diane Wakoski
An MSU Distinguished Professor of English, Diane Wakoski has published more than forty collections of poetry. Ms. Wakoski's body of work includes four books that constitute her series "The Archaeology of Movies and Books --Argonaut Rose (1998), The Emerald City of Las Vegas (1995), Jason the Sailor (1993), and Medea the Sorceress (1991) --all published by Black Sparrow Press. Among her many honors are a Fulbright fellowship, a Michigan Arts Foundation award, and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Michigan Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts. Her book, EMERALD ICE, selected poems 1962-1987, won the 1989 Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams award.