Samuel Hazo, Pennsylvania
Samuel
Hazo, author of books of poetry, fiction, essays, and plays, is the director
of the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh, where he also is McAnulty
Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Duquesne University. His
latest books are The Holy Surprise of Right Now (poetry), The
Rest is Prose (essays), Stills (fiction), Feather (play),
As They Sail (poetry), and Spying for God (essays). His
translations include Denis de Rougemont’s The Growl of Deeper
Waters, Nadia Tueni’s Lebanon: Twenty Poems for One Love,
and Adonis’ The Pages of Day and Night. He has been a National
Book Award finalist and was chosen the first state poet of the commonwealth
of Pennsylvania by Governor Robert Casey in 1993, a position he still
holds.
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My view of the role of a state poet is that he or she should strive to make poetry an expected and readily accepted part of public discourse. To this end, poetry should be an essential part of academic exercises, public events, and newspaper op-ed pages.
— Sam Hazo
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