The Poet and the Poem 2017-18 Series

Featured Emily Fragos

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Emily Fragos was a recipient of the Witter Bynner Poetry Prize from the Library of Congress, the Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, and the Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. She is the author of three acclaimed books of poetry, Saint Torch (2017), Hostage, and Little Savage, and the editor of seven poetry anthologies for The Everyman's Pocket Library: Music's Spell, Art & Artists, The Dance, The Great Cat, The Letters of Emily Dickinson, Poems of Gratitude, and Poems of Paris (forthcoming). She has also written numerous articles on music and dance and served as guest poetry editor for Guernica. Emily Fragos currently teaches at Columbia and NYU and lives in Manhattan.

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