Big Bang Gala Sep 21, 2009
Poetry readings featuring U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan benefit California Poets in the Schools. $22. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Black and White Jul 1, 2009
Newsweek, July 13The remembers Michael Jackson as the "Peter Pan" of pop. Jackson, as a performer and as a black man, "surely knew that part of his own appeal to white audienceswho contributed substantially to the $50 million to $75 million a year he earned in his primelay initially in his precocious cuteness, and when he was a grown man, in his apparent lack of adult sexuality." profiles Poet Laureate Kay Ryan, who "has long had an ambivalent relationship with exposure." Though a... (Slate)
Down With Quiet Domesticity. Up With Crazy Love. Jun 20, 2009
Assessing Kay Ryan, our new poet laureate. Meghan O'Rourke | July 29, 2008. (Slate)
When Women Blew Up American Poetry Jun 3, 2009
Assessing Kay Ryan, our new poet laureate. . (Slate)
The Final Word Apr 8, 2009
U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan wrote the introduction and says being alone with a poem is quite the good thing. So I bit. (USA Today -- Life)
Poet Laureate Kay Ryan entertains Loyola with witty reading Mar 17, 2009
Media Credit: Jesse DeFlorio/GreyhoundPoet Laureate Kay Ryan gave a reading at Loyola on Wednesday. Kay Ryan wants to make sure that you're amused. (The Loyola Greyhound, MD)