Derek N. Otsuji and George Herbert

30/05/2023 6 min Temporada 3 Episodio 2
Derek N. Otsuji and George Herbert

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Derek N. Otsuji is the author of the book The Kitchen of Small Hours, which won the Crab Orchard Review Poetry Series Open Competition. He was also awarded the 2019 Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. His poems have appeared in The Southern Poetry Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Threepenny Review, The Bennington Review, Harpur Palate, Missouri Review Online, and many others. He is an associate professor of English at Honolulu Community College.      George Herbert was born in 1593 in Montgomery Castle, Wales. He attended Westminster School and then Trinity College, Cambridge. He was ordained as a priest and became the rector at Bemerton. He died in 1633 of consumption at the age of forty. Links: Read "Among the More Innocent Touristic Amusements of the Old Waikiki"Read "Two Boys One Fish Two Eyes" in RhinoRead "Virtue" by George Herbert" at The Poetry FoundationDerek N. OtsujiDerek N. Otsuji's website"How She Loves Music" in Pleiades.Two Poems at Terrain.orgVideo: "Interview with Derek Otsuji, Author of The Kitchen of Small Hours""Theatre of Shadows" at The Poetry FoundationGeorge HerbertBio and poems at the The Poetry FoundationBio and poems at Poets.org"George Herbert: British Poet" in BritannicaVideo: George Herbert - a Welsh-born poet, orator, and priestMentioned in this episode:KnoxCountyLibrary.orgThank you for listening and sharing this podcast. Explore life-changing resources and events, sign up for newsletters, follow us on social media, and more through our website, www.knoxcountylibrary.org.Rate & review on Podchaser