Considering the pig, a single-minded bestiary.
An alphabetical list of poets who have considered the pig.
Sandra Beasley, United States, (b. 1980), poetry includes: THE VOW, PROHIBITION TOAST, THE TRUTH ABOUT BACON and THE CATALOGUE. Beasley is a poet and non-fiction writer. She is author of three poetry collections. She lives in Washington, D.C., where she serves on the Board for the Writer’s Center and is also a member of the Arts Club of Washington.
Jeanne Marie Beaumont, United States, (b.1954), poetry includes: A Lesson and Rite. Beaumont is a poet, educator and playwright with an MFA in Writing from Columbia University. She has published four books of poetry and has taught in the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine, at Rutgers University, at The Frost Place and currently at The Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan.
Airini Jane Beautrais, New Zealand, (b. 1982), poetry includes: Pigs, potatoes / Te Kumi, 1883. Beautrais is a poet who lives in Whanganui, New Zealand. In 2016 she completed a PhD in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington, NZ.
Henry Eric Beissel, Germany/Canada (b. 1929), poetry includes: The Boar and the Dromedar. Beissel is a poet, playwright, essayist, translator and editor. He was on the English faculty at Sir George Williams, now Concordia, University, in Montreal (1966-1996).
Marvin Bell, United States, (1937-2020), poetry includes: We Had Seen a Pig and That Swine Are Intelligent. Bell was a poet, educator and the first Poet Laureate of Iowa. Bell taught for forty years at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, retiring as the Flannery O’Connor Professor of Letters.
Poetic works by Hilaire Belloc in which pigs are the subject, inspiration, a significant component of the imagery, a thematic form or a symbol.
Sharon Berg, Canada (b. 1954), poetry includes: Personal Myths. Berg is a poet, publisher and educator. Berg’s poetry often explores relationships between men and women and the roles each assumes. She does this without dogmatism and combativeness, recognizing the need of both men and women to take risks, to be vulnerable without being naive and to be both radical and innocent.
Kenneth Otis Bernard, United States, (1930-2020), poetry includes: Sister Francetta and the Pig Baby. Bernard was a poet, author and playwright. He taught English at Long Island University (1959-1989), and was also a central figure in the experimental theater movement that began in the small performance spaces of Midtown and Downtown Manhattan in the 1960s. Bernard was the author of eleven books and at least four performed plays. He received Guggenheim, Rockefeller, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships and grants.
Celia Berrell, (b. 1950), England-born Australian writer and poet, poetry includes: AUTOPSY, PIGS IN PARADISE, RAVENOUS, PIG STEW, CROP CIRCLES, ALL ABOARD. Berrell, artfully combines science and rhyming verse. She is the creator and poet behind the Science Rhymes book and website, and a regular contributor to Australia’s CSIRO children’s science magazine Double Helix. She often refers to herself as “The Alien Queen of Science Poetry”.
Wendell Berry, United States, (b. 1934), poems include: For the Hog Killing. Berry is a novelist, essayist, writer and farmer on seventy-five acres in Henry County, Kentucky. He also speaks and writes on conservation and sustainable agriculture.