Nathaniel Mackey: Finding a different tempo

Poetry can offer a refuge from our fragmented, distractible times, says poet Nathaniel Mackey ( http://bit.ly/mackeysong ): “The arts are one of the ways we get close to sacred time in our day. “ Mackey is Reyonlds Price Professor of Creative Writing at Duke University and the winner of Yale University’s 2015 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry.

The “Taking Note” series profiles humanities professors at Duke University.

Mackey's poetry:

"Day After Day of the Dead"
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/...

"On Antiphon Island"
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/...

Mackey’s poetry is collected in several volumes, including:
“Splay Anthem,” copyright 2006, New Directions Publishing;
“Nod House,” copyright 2011, New Directions Publishing.
http://www.ndbooks.com/author/nathani...

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