The MoE Green Poetry Dissicusion with Rafael F.J Alvarado & Chelsea Bayouth

Join Rafael And Chelsea as they talk to Marilyn Hacker Marilyn Hacker (b. 1942) was born in New York City, and being somewhat of a child prodigy, enrolled at New York University at the age of 15. After earning her B.A. Hacker began to send her poetry to literary journals. The response to her formalist/feminist poetry was positive, and in 1974 she published her first collection, Presentation Piece, a Lamont Poetry Selection and winner of the National Book Award. Her reputation continued to grow as she published other collections throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and in 1990 she started an influential stint as the editor for the Kenyon Review, publishing many poems from minority and marginalized writers. In 1994 she published Winter Numbers, a dark and powerful book about being a lesbian in America, AIDS, and her struggle with breast cancer. The book was honored with the prestigious Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the Lambda Literary Award. Her latest collection is Squares and Courtyards (2000), and since 1997 she has taught English at Hofstra University.