In celebration of National Poetry Month, The Poetry Foundation asked alum Sy Hoahwah (2007) to contribute to its blog HARRIET. You can read "Careening Through the Birthplace of John Berryman to Get to a Reading in Chickasaw Nation" here.
Sy is the author of the collection Velroy and the Madischie Mafia. In 2013, he won an NEA fellowship.