Prisco, Mark
Mark Prisco, New Zealand, (fl. 2015-present), poetry includes: death and after. Prisco is a poet and, as of October 2017, an honours student of English Literature at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand.
Archives: Pig Poets
An alphabetical list of poets who have considered the pig.
Pritchard, David
David Pritchard, New Zealand, (contemporary), poetry includes: POEM 1. Pritchard is a poet who lives and writes in New Zealand. His work has appeared in the ezines Trout and Southern Ocean Review.
Prooyen, Laura Van
Laura Beth Van Prooyen, United States, (b. 1970), poetry includes: Bless the Feral Hog. Van Prooyen is a poet, writer, editor and educator. Van Prooyen teaches in the low-residency MFA Creative Writing program at Miami University of Ohio.
Purpura, Lia
Lia Purpura, United States (b. 1964), poetry includes: To the Pig: An Oath. Purpura is a poet, essayist and educator. She is the recipient of four Pushcart Prizes. A graduate of Oberlin College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Purpura is currently Writer-in-Residence at University of Maryland, Baltimore County in Baltimore, Maryland.
Raab, Lawrence
Lawrence Raab, United States, (b.1946), poetry includes: FIVE PARABLES – (excerpt) 4. Legion of Demons. Raab is a poet and educator. He taught at various institutions including American University, the University of Michigan, and retired from Williams College. He is the author of nine collections of poems, two screenplays and a play.
Range, Melissa
Melissa Range, United States, (b. 1973), poetry includes: Pigs (see Swine). Range is a poet and educator. She is the author of Scriptorium (2016) and Horse and Rider (2010). She teaches creative writing and American literature at Lawrence University in Wisconsin.
Raz, Hilda
Hilda Raz, United States, (b. 1938), poetry includes: Diction. Raz is a poet, editor and educator. She was a professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln and held a variety of editorial positions at Prairie Schooner (1970-2010).
Reaney, James
James Crerar Reaney, Canadian (1926-2008), poetry includes: The Pig and White Grumphies, white snow… Reaney was a poet and playwright. He is considered one of Canada’s best-known poets and dramatists, enjoying literary success over a period of seven decades.
Redmond, Chris
Chris Redmond, England, (contemporary), poetry includes: LET THE PIG OUT. Redmond is a spoken word poet, writer and frontman of Tongue Fu – one of the UK’s leading spoken word shows.
Renard, Jules
France, (1864-1910) The Hog Peevish but intimate as if we had raised you in the house, you stick your snout everywhere, and use it as much as your feet to walk with. You conceal your tiny black-currant eyes under beet-leaf ears. You’re pot-bellied as a gooseberry. You have the same long hairs, the same light … Read more