Gary Snyder, a 79-year-old poet with roots in the Beat scene, lives in the tranquility of the Sierra Nevada foothills. He doesn’t spend a lot of time in Silicon Valley, and he hasn’t heard about the ...

The University of Arizona Poetry Center attracted the largest crowd in recent memory for their evening reading on Thursday with Gary Snyder. The entire seminar room was filled with spectators, ...

Gary Snyder is the quintessential poet of Ecotopia, that fictional state of the Northwest mindset that runs from Northern California to British Columbia. Snyder's roots go deep in this forested land ...

In his first gathering of new poetry since the 1996 book-length poem Mountains and Rivers Without End, Snyder seeks a kind of fraught peace, which he cannot sustain; the book begins and ends in ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Preface / Gary Snyder -- Introduction / Tom Killion -- Singing the Seasons / Tom Killion with excerpts from the writings of John Muir -- Gary Snyder's High Sierra Journals / Gary Snyder -- Sketching, ...

Composed during some of Snyder’s most productive years, these previously uncollected and unpublished works by the Pulitzer Prize–winning Beat poet sing with history, politics, and place, offering new ...

Gary Snyder, who spent his formative years in the Seattle area, has won the 2008 Ruth Lilly Prize for his body of work. The Lilly Prize, with a stipend of $100,000, is one of the most lucrative prizes ...

My disdain for today’s poets and their poetry has never wavered and has rarely been challenged. Who among us defends modern offenders with their shopping list banalities, their coarse shoutings, their ...

The Nevada Theatre will host a special screening of "O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder" on Sunday, February 8 at 2 p.m., offering audiences a rare and intimate portrait of Pulitzer Prize–winning ...