“Hard to Say” episode 33, “Brenda Hillman on Poetry and Politics”

In these excerpts from her craft talk at the 2009 Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Brenda Hillman discusses tensions between poetics and politics, the writings of Denise Levertov and Robert Duncan, and some of the unique approaches to political poetry that she used in writing her most recent collection, Practical Water (Wesleyan 2009). For more information on the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, visit their website.