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Matthew Zapruder

Matthew Zapruder is the author most recently of Father’s Day, and Why Poetry. He is editor at large at Wave Books, and teaches in the MFA in creative writing at Saint Mary’s College of California.

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The Making of a Poem

Constructing—and deconstructing—a new poem for the late Joanne Kyger.

former us poet laureate kay ryan distills a lifetime of thinking about—and writing—verse with the essays collected in synthesizing gravity

A Poet in Her Element

With the essays in Synthesizing Gravity, Kay Ryan pulls back the covers on her verse.