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Published: Tue Oct 15 1991
Diego Isaias Hernández Méndez, Convertiendse en Characoteles / Sorcerers Changing into Their Animal Forms (detail), 2013, oil on canvas. Arte Maya Tz’utujil Collection.
AGNI 34 Print Only

Barbara Helfgott Hyett is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Rift (Arkansas, 2008), for which she won The Boston Foundation’s Artist Fellowship Award. She is the co-founder of the Writer’s Room of Boston and the director of the POEMWORKS writing workshop. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Prairie Schooner, AGNI, and elsewhere. (updated 4/2016)

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