...program from the Academy of American Poets highlighting the work of John Ashbery, Louise Gluck, Anthony Hecht and W. S. Merwin will be presented. Following the program, refreshments will be served. Poets may bring poems in progress to share...

...part of the habitable world. Figuratively, it means the highest goal of human effort. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.S. Merwin, who judged the Yale contest, called McCombs' work "quiet, understated, delicate as a hand exploring a tunnel...