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Dear Editors,Together with Calista McRae, I am currently coediting a volume of John Berryman’s literary correspondence. The book is under contract to Harvard University Press, for publication in ...
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Letter from Poetry Magazine
By Myra SklarewDear Editor,I was amazed to find Robert Lax among your pages. It brought back a flood of memories. Robert was one of those remarkable students who gathered around Mark Van Doren. Robert Giroux, Thomas...Letter from Poetry Magazine
By Andrew EarlyDear Editor,I’ve been a reader of your fine magazine for many years, and I’m a poet myself. I take issue with the July/August edition for the commentary by Michael Robbins on the Norton anthology...Letter from Poetry Magazine
By Elizabeth T. Gray Jr.Dear Editor,Michael Robbins’s review of Paul Hoover’s Postmodern American Poetry [“Ripostes,” July/August 2013] lays out, with concision and humor, my frustrations with the either/or frame articulated, illustrated...Letter from Poetry Magazine
By David R. BoyceDear Editor,For the past while I have been leaving my copies of Poetry mostly unread, and planned on letting my subscription lapse.Then there was the May 2013 issue.On the back was a quote by Amiri Baraka....Letter from Poetry Magazine
By Elaine EdelmanDear Editor,I read the June issue of Poetry [“Landays”] straight through, sat looking out my window for a couple of hours, then got into bed and read it straight through again. The landays make me feel so ...Letter from Poetry Magazine
By Christopher DickeyDear Editor,Thank you, Joshua Mehigan, for your wonderful, and wonderfully honest, remembrance [“James Dickey,” July/August 2013]. You may be gratified to know that by 1996 my father was not drunk...Letter from Poetry Magazine
By David CharbonneauDear Editor,No doubt the editors of Poetry felt that Amiri Baraka’s eminent position in African-American poetry and the Black Arts Movement gives him the authority to review an anthology that clearly positions...Letter from Poetry Magazine
By Jacqueline Winter ThomasDear Editor,I was delighted to find Sheila P. Donahue’s essay in the March issue [“Hayden Carruth”]. Carruth is, I think, one of the best, most diverse, and most undervalued contemporary American...Letter from Poetry Magazine
By Amit MajmudarDear Editor,Joshua Mehigan’s anatomy of dullness [“Make Make It New New,” March 2013] is pretty accurate, in its details; what it lacks is perspective. Maybe reading “thousands of pages of new, unpublished...Letter from Poetry Magazine
By Timothy NanceDear Editor,I just finished reading Joshua Mehigan’s essay and I find myself wondering what to do now that I’ve discovered that poetry is dead. I still seem to be enjoying poetry — does this mean...Letter from Poetry Magazine
By Steven Michael AntieauDear Editor,Perhaps there are unseen depths to the statement, “Don’t write about being white” [“What It Is,” by Reginald Dwayne Betts, March 2013]. As it stands, however, it looks like a remarkably...Letter from Poetry Magazine
By Reginald Dwayne BettsThere has been a huge uproar about the line “Don’t write about being white” and so very little about my quotation of Louis Simpson:Don’t believe the reviewer who wrote: “I am not sure it is possible...Letter from Poetry Magazine
By Martha TreichlerDear Editor,Please tell Vanessa Place that only the gods use “do not” and “no more” [“No More,” March 2013]. Teachers use “do.” We should write the poems that come to us, even if we are old and, ...Letter from Poetry Magazine
By C.P. MangelDear Editor,
When I read “Devotions” by Bruce Snider in this month’s issue [March 2013], my heart simply stopped. I am pressing this poem into the hands of my dearest friends.Letter from Poetry Magazine
By Hillel LevinDear Editor,What a wonderful piece about a poet I have always loved [“Philip Levine,” by Mark Levine, March 2013]; not just because I shared some of his cultural background but because I wanted to...Letter from Poetry Magazine
By Mark EsrigDear Editor,I, for one, am glad to read what Michael Robbins wrote about Swinburne in “Mimic Motion” [February 2013]. Not that I entirely agree with him. Robbins’s point of view is for the most part...Letter from Poetry Magazine
By Sherry HorowitzDear Editor, It is true, as Ilya Kaminsky says [“Of Strangeness That Wakes Us,” January 2013], that wrecking language wakes us, but we cannot be satisfied with this as a means to an end. Poetry is...Letter from Poetry Magazine
By Thomas DefreitasDear Editor,Oh, where to begin? When Michael Robbins has written lines that sportswriters can quote a half-century after his death (“the Red Sox are not going gentle into that good night”), then ...Letter from Poetry Magazine
By Tim McGrathDear Editor,Regarding Michael Robbins’s dismissal of Dylan Thomas [“The Child That Sucketh Long,” January 2013]: Thomas was a very careless poet, except when he was a great one. Careless because ...