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Multi-award-winning American poet Beckian Fritz Goldberg talks to fellow poet and the festival’s director of academic programmes, Jem Poster, about her work. Goldberg is author of six volumes of poetry including the most recent, Reliquary Fever: New and Selected Poems. She is known as a fierce proponent of a free imagination.

Goldberg has received the Theodore Roethke Poetry Prize, The Gettysburg Review Annual Poetry Award, The University of Akron Press Poetry Prize, the Field Poetry Prize, and a Pushcart Prize. She is currently professor of English at Arizona State University. Goldberg also appears at the Poetry in the Making master class at the Rothermere American Institute.