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, ...

Poet and essayist Snyder, a Pulitzer and National Book Award winner, has been a committed environmentalist and student of East Asian thought for decades. For almost as long, he has lived in the Sierra ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...