Eryn Green, a doctoral candidate at the University of Denver, has been named the winner of the 2013 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, awarded by the Yale University Press.His prize-winning manuscript, “ERUV,” was selected by poet Carl Phillips,...
Elizabeth Alexander knows better than most what it’s like to make art for an unusually public and historic event: The poet and Yale professor wrote the celebratory poem for President Obama’s first inauguration, delivering it before a vast audience at the...