Poetry at the GBF, Part 1

In honor of National Poetry Month, we thought we’d highlight the poets who will be talking about their work at this year’s festival.

This post is the first in a two-part post to do so. Our last two poets will be featured on Wednesday. If you’re familiar with either poets’ work, we encourage you to post in the comments with your favorite poem(s)…

Sarah Arvio is the author of “night thoughts: 70 dream poems & notes from an analysis,” which combines poetry, memoir and essay, and two books of poetry, “Visits from the Seventh” and “Sono: cantos.” She has won a number of awards and honors, including the Rome Prize, and Guggenheim and Bogliasco fellowships. For many years a translator for the United Nations in New York and Switzerland, she has also taught poetry at Princeton; she now lives in Maryland by the Chesapeake Bay.

Get a preview of Sarah’s work on the Boston Review website, where her work is featured after her 2008 win in the eleventh annual Boston Review poetry contest.

Poet Sally Keith is the author of “The Fact of the Matter” and two previous collections of poetry, “Design,” winner of the 2000 Colorado Prize for Poetry, and “Dwelling Song.” She has published poems in a variety of literary journals, including A Public Space, Black Clock, Gettysburg Review, Literary Imagination, and New England Review. Recipient of a Pushcart Prize and recent fellowships at Virginia Center for Creative Arts, UCROSS Foundation, and Fundación Valparaíso, Sally is a member of the M.F.A. faculty at George Mason University and lives in Washington, D.C.

Listen to Sally Keith read the poem “Providence,” from her latest book, “The Fact of the Matter.”