Jonathan Holden: "Knowing"

The Poem of the Week is Jonathan Holden’s “Knowing,” which appeared in the Fall/Winter 2000-2001 issue (Volume II, Number 1) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Jonathan Holden is University Distinguished Professor and Poet-in-Residence at Kansas State University. He is the author of seventeen books, including poetry, criticism, a memoir, and a novel. Holden has won the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, the Juniper Prize, the AWP Award, two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, and several other awards and prizes.

Holden’s poems published in the Fall/Winter 2000-2001 issue of Valparaiso Poetry Review were included in his collection, Knowing: New and Selected Poems (University of Arkansas Press). That issue of VPR also includes an interview with Jonathan Holden by Chris Ellis and a personal essay by Holden, “William Stafford: Genius in Camouflage.”

Jonathan Holden’s two-year term as Kansas’s first Poet Laureate concludes at the end of this month. In honor of Holden’s tenure as state laureate, New Letters has posted an audio in which the poet answers questions and reads his work. This audio will be available until June 27, 2007.

Tuesday of each week “One Poet’s Notes” highlights work by a poet selected from the archives of Valparaiso Poetry Review. Please check the sidebar to view the list of poets and works that have been past “Poem of the Week” selections.