Maxine Kumin's "Praise Be" Poetry Moment

Maxine Kumin described herself many ways -- a poet, a mother, a college instructor, "a hermit," -- but horse woman was always in her catalog. On her farm in New Hampshire, she raised a family and animals while writing her prize-winning poetry.
Kumin won the Pulitzer Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award, as well as serving as the poetry consultant for the Library of Congress and teaching at MIT, Princeton University, and Columbia University.
This poem centers on the birth of a long-awaited foal.
Chania Hudson reads an introduction to offer context and background on the poet and the poem.
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