Forrest Gander

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Walking the Fault Line January 29, 2025

In the summer of 1790, William Wordsworth set off on a walking tour of nearly 3,000 miles across revolutionary France, over the Swiss Alps into Italy, then north through Germany before boarding a boat up the Rhine back to England, where he arrived la...

On Cultivating Openness November 18, 2024

Poet and translator Forrest Gander on walking the San Andreas Fault, translation as a giving up of ego, and deepening your ability to create complex work....

5 Books on Poetry Pulitzer Winner Forrest Gander's List April 19, 2019

When asked what he likes most about poetry, Forrest Gander, who won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry on Monday for Be With — a collection honoring his late wife and fellow poet C.D. Wright — talks about its universality across culture and time, but ...

Richard Powers and Forrest Gander Win Pulitzer Prizes April 17, 2019

The 2019 Pulitzer Prizes were announced in New York on Monday afternoon, with novelist Richard Powers taking the fiction award for "The Overstory," his ecological novel warning of an upcoming environmental catastrophe.Powers' novel, also a finalist f...