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Mark Strand,
U.S. Poet Laureate, 1990-91
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On May 26, 1990, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington
announced the appointment of Mark Strand as the 4th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Strand served one term as poet laureate, finishing his duties in spring 1991. As Strand's Contemporary Authors biography notes:
[Strand is] one of the premier contemporary American poets as well as an accomplished editor, translator and prose writer. . . . [His] hallmarks are precise language, surreal imagery, and the recurring theme of absence and negation.1
This guide compiles
links to resources on Mark Strand throughout the Library
of Congress Web site, as well as links to external Web sites
that include features on his life or selections
of his work. To suggest additions to this guide, please contact the Digital Reference Section.
Library of Congress Web Site
•Press Releases
•Video
•Print Resources
External
Web Sites
•Biographical Information, Poetry
•Interviews, Articles, and Conversations
•Audio Recordings
•Videos
•Articles and Essays by Mark Strand
•Resources for Study and Teaching
•Book Reviews
•Mark Strand in the News
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Press Releases
Official press release announcing Mark Strand's appointment
as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry (PDF, 304 KB)
Library of Congress Information Bulletin, June 18, 1990
Video
Poetry of Mark Strand and Charles Wright, April 24, 2008 (1:00:13)
Print Resources
Works by Mark Strand in the Library of Congress online
catalog can be found under the following author heading:
Strand, Mark, 1934-
Works about Mark Strand can be found in the Library of
Congress online catalog under
the following subject headings:
Strand, Mark, 1934---Criticism and interpretation.
Strand, Mark, 1934---Musical Settings.
Biographical Information, Poetry
Academy of American Poets
Biography of Mark Strand, samples of his poetry and translations,
and links to external resources.
Poetry Foundation
Biography of Mark Strand, bibliography of his writings, and links to more than one dozen online poems.
Interviews, Articles, and Conversations
"What is Missing"
Tablet Magazine, June 19, 2011
"Marking Mark Strand's Birthday"
One Poet's Notes, April 11, 2008
"Conversation: Mark Strand"
Interviewed by Michael O'Keefe, Post Road Magazine 13 (Spring/Summer 2007)
"Jennie Russell Interviews Mark Strand"
Interviewed by Jenni Russell, MiPOesias 19, no. 2 (2005)
"A Conversation with Mark Strand"
Interviewed by Ernie Hilbert, Random House, 2001
"In the Presence of America: An Interview with Mark Strand"
Interviewed by Katharine Coles, Weber Studies 9, no. 3 (Fall 1992)
"Mark Strand"
Interviewed by Grace Cavalieri, The Poet and the Poem (transcript), October 1990
"A Conversation (Interview with Mark Strand)"
Interviewed by Norman Klein, Ploughshares, Spring 1975
Audio Recordings
Radio Programs
Sleeping With One Eye Open
Weekend America, April 5, 2008
Poet Mark Strand at the City Library (55:29)
KCPW Radio, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 27, 2007
Pulitzer Prize Winner Mark Strand
KUOW, March 12, 2007
What it Was (04:16)
Chicago Public Radio (via reVerse Web site), April 12, 2005
Mark Steinberg and Mark Strand (06:59)
Houston Public Radio, KUHF, February 19, 2002
Mark Strand II (28:29)
Bookworm, KCRW, October 26, 2000
Mark Strand (27:48)
Bookworm, KCRW, September 14, 2000
Bill Moyers on Poetry (starts at 16:41)
The Diane Rehm Show, WAMU, October 5, 1999
The Pulitzer Poet (07:59)
Online NewsHour, PBS, April 15, 1999
Other Audio
Mark Strand: 2010 Key West Literary Seminar (33:53)
Recording from the Key West Literary Seminar, January 2010
Mark Strand Podcast (1:13:39)
Lighthouse Writers Workshop Podcast, May 19, 2008
Mark Strand Reading
George Mason University, September 23, 2007
Mark Strand
Poem Present, October 16 and 17, 2003
Lannan Readings & Conversations
Mark Strand with Michael Silverblatt, February 9, 2000
Mark Strand Reads "Somewhere Else"
Slate, September 18, 1996
A Conversation with Mark Strand (35:51)
Mark Strand with Jennifer Clarvoe, The Kenyon Review
Videos (includes television programs, readings, and animated poetry)
A Reading by Mark Strand (1:00:06)
Boston University, October 10, 2007
Mark Strand reads at the Erotikon Symopsium
University of Chicago, March 2001
Articles and Essays by Mark Strand
"Poetry in the World"
Blackbird 4, no.1 (Spring 2005)
Excerpt from The Weather of Words: Poetic Invention
Random House, 2001
Mark Strand on Poetry and Poetics--from Essays and Interviews
From the Modern American Poetry Web site
Resources for Study and Teaching
eNotes.com
Critical information on Strand from Thomson Gale's Poetry Criticism series.
Modern American Poetry
Excerpts of criticism about Strand's poetry, his writings about poetry, biographical information, and links to external resources.
Teachers' Domain: "Lines for Winter," by Mark Strand
Resources for teaching Mark Strand's poem "Lines for Winter "
Book Reviews
New Selected Poems (2007)
The New Yorker
The Oxonian Review of Books
Man and Camel (2006)
coldfront magazine
Northern Poetry Review
Virginia Quarterly Review
The Weather of Words: Poetic Invention (2001)
Oyster Boy Review
Valparaiso Poetry Review
Blizzard of One (1998)
The Iowa Review
Oyster Boy Review
• A review of several of Strand's publications appears in the Valparaiso Poetry Review.
Mark Strand in the News
Google
News search on Mark Strand
Blog entries on Mark Strand, via Technorati
1. Contemporary Authors Online, "Mark Strand," Gale, 2008. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI.: Gale, 2008. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC (accessed May 29, 2008).
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