Memory -- and its limits -- play central and naturally opposed roles in a new book of poems, "Break the Glass" by state Poet Laureate Jean Valentine, who will appear at the New York State Writers' ...

Smith College will present a reading by acclaimed poet Jean Valentine at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, in Stoddard Hall Auditorium. Valentine will also give a talk, “Notes on Translating Tsvetaeva,” on ...

Jean Valentine has been named the winner of Yale’s 2017 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry. She is the 50th poet to be honored with the award and joins a list of past winners that includes Ezra Pound ...

These days, as Election Day draws near, the air feels electric with news headlines. Words from all sides spark and sputter around us. It’s times like these when we need a centering, a place where we ...

A former New York State Poet, she won the National Book Award and was a Pulitzer finalist for poems in which small details could accrue great power. By Katharine Q. Seelye Jean Valentine, a former New ...